Sentences with phrase «assertions about»

Thus, for the making of assertions about the shared world (the world in which we collect the data), priors are not all equal.

Factoids are often presented to us as numbers — which influence us to find them somehow truer or more believable — or are presented as impossibly simplistic assertions about complex topics.

The inevitable conclusion of this is that we are depending on the various climate codes to be nearly 100 % perfect in removing this warming shift, of being insensitive to it, for the assertions about global warming to be real.

Testable assertions about a social system?

A group of 12 scientists analyzed Ridley and Peiser's Wall Street Journal article, and found that it «contains numerous false statements, cherry - picked evidence, and misleading assertions about climate science.

In his speech, the President served up the usual red meat for climate partisans, restating the well - established fact that climate change has been incontrovertibly linked to human greenhouse gas emissions while offering dubious assertions about the link between warming and present day natural disasters.

Anyway, what makes you think anybody would believe unsubstantiated assertions about an honourable man (i.e. Lindzen) from an internet troll who hides behind anonymity?

And so Chapter 3 of the IPCC report contains a number or clear assertions about the ethical limitations of economic arguments.

Keep in mind, also, that the data are measured over a time period that largely predates the polarization related to global warming — so using that study as a way to confirm assertions about the impact of the climate wars on public trust in scientists is motivated reasoning in its purest form.

Even though I can't imagine gravity functioning as a Maxwell Demon, even though Caballero in section 2.17 both states and leaves as a student exercise the proof that the thermodynamic equilibrium state of a vertical column of gas is isothermal, there has been a lot of confusion and strange assertions about a gas arriving at a state because of bulk transport that sorts out temperature differences approximately adiabatically (neglecting conduction), but that is somehow thermodynamically stable without transport and with conduction in the end.

Many previous studies» assertions about increases in global cyclone intensity were made without taking into account the quality of the data and have been largely dismissed.

Several independent glacier experts who have followed the Kilimanjaro research said the new paper and Dr. Thompson's earlier assertions about melting were probably both right to some extent.

Citing a seven year old citation of what was then a seven year old citation of something to irrelevant to the paper in question, then making insupportable assertions about inevitability (which, ironic, as complex dynamical systems pretty much argue against the precept of predetermination), and ending with an implied causal relationship from the symptoms of Forcings to the Forcings themselves, served with a dollop of ad hom..

Our main disagreements with the Mann 98/99 papers are related to the assertions about warmth of individual decades and individual years.

Sen and Nussbaum is certainly a step up in the discourse, and could be six or seven topics for Dr. Curry's salon, given the number of people who persist in making assertions about development economics and the lesser developed world, generally without foundation.

Monckton made a number of assertions about CO2 warming, the benefits of elevated CO2, ocean acidification, temperature trends and climate sensitivity.

Of all the politicians in yesterday's hearing who are known climate change deniers, West Virginia Rep. David McKinley gets the tin foil hat award for his completely false assertions about climate change science.

Judith's hypothetical here, which seems to be key to her point of view, is based on three assertions about IPCC.

It says much for the competence or otherwise of the BBC that between the original filming commenced last summer, and the broadcast at the end of January, no one picked up on the Nurse / Bindschadler assertions about CO2 emissions and edited them out.

For instance our great leader Julia Gillard, (I dare not imply what his or her gender might be), but whatever; our great leader has made certain assertions about misogyny towards the opposition leader.

snip — you've made unsupported and inflammatory assertions about «our side».

The reply also confirms the accuracy of virtually all of my factual assertions about the likely change in pH, the natural variation in pH and other issues, including the involvement of a Greenpeace ship in a research project.

Global warming believers need only to counter dry recitations of skeptic science material with assertions about the numbers of «IPCC scientists», declare this to be the settled consensus opinion, then claim there is leaked memo evidence proving skeptics are paid industry money to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the public, in other words.

I'm more of a descriptivist, and I happen to believe that overly - presciptive assertions about political taxonomy are invariably self - serving and unscientifically subjective (perhaps you might read Kahan about «liberal» vs «conservative» w / r / t his world view matrix).

Finally, with respect to your assertions about NOAA vs ARGO, unless you yourself provide evidence (*) to support your claim, no one has any obligation to accept it as correct.

Hi Charles, sorry if you think I'm being disrespectful but I have to defend myself against «some highly inaccurate and / or misleading assertions about latent heat, oranges and kettles».

Demeaning assertions about President Trump's level of science understanding abound in the establishment media and with entrenched politicos.

On the Corrected NASA GISTEMP Data thread, you made some highly inaccurate and / or misleading assertions about latent heat, oranges and kettles — to which I replied.

If peer review is required for all public utterances and assertions about the possible environmental and health effects of fracking, then let's strip all the non-peer review studies from the 1,537 - page planning document for fracking — the supplemental generic environmental impact statement (sGEIS)-- that is the science on which will rest Governor Cuomo's upcoming decision to permit or prohibit fracking.

Bryan Walsh of Time Magazine appears to agree in his post today on the issue that generated such discord here Sunday and Monday — assertions about the machinery behind «organized climate denial.»

Knowing this and the three laws of thermodynamics (in particular how it applies to energy partitioning within the complex subsystems) is sufficient to make large - scale assertions about the future of earth and its biota.

That some prominent Arctic scientists seem to agree with her only made it seem more incredible to me that her assertions about gas hydrates at the ESAS are not actually confirmed, but rather hypotheses.

That said, in a trivial and largely irrelevant way, your assertions about how much impact a reduction in aerosol concentrations can have have some truth to them.

Also, to pass the snicker test, skeptics (particularly Dietze) need to give up the pretense that linear impulse response is the be-all-end-all and stop making silly assertions about Bern and other models that confuse model structure with rough characterizations of behavior for purposes of discourse.

It's hilarious how he makes complex assertions about problems with the representation of the vertical mixing structure etc. in other models, based on what appears to be a 1st order box model.

Kennedy's most convincing points were on the economics of nuclear energy (an area the film avoids tackling), while Stone effectively challenged assertions about health risks.

I've questioned some of Mann's assertions about climate risks, and he once warned colleagues to be careful what they share with me.

It's titled «A brief history of knowledge about Antarctic temperatures,» and includes an amusing century - long time line of assertions about Antarctic temperatures that puts things in context.

One focus of these self - described climate skeptics, several said, is to reconcile their often divergent assertions about what is, and isn't, driving changes in temperature and other conditions around the planet.

Dr. Hansen rebuts its assertions about him in my 2004 story on the novel here.]

Baldessari is undoubtedly one of the leading figures Conceptual art has seen in the last half of a century — John focuses on the perception and interpretation of visual elements and text, while often employing irony to make playful assertions about how meanings are formed.

Like «Reflections in Black,» the selected advertising images are stripped of text, heightening viewers» awareness of cultural assertions about beauty, desire, virtue and ideal white femininity.

Many writers, critics and theorists made assertions about vanguard culture during the formative years of modernism, although the initial definitive statement on the avant - garde was the essay Avant - Garde and Kitsch by New York art critic Clement Greenberg, published in Partisan Review in 1939.

Twin Galaxies is only looking at the dispute claim assertions about score performances and either validating or refuting those claims specifically - it is not evaluating people.

Funny thing though, he would actually take what you said in your first two paragraphs as an attack on him... might even claim you're obsessed simply because you acknowledged his existence (he feels threatened by people smarter than him), and follow it up with goofy assertions about your character... be ready for it!

Which, considering Sakurai's previous assertions about guns, made it highly unlikely to even be a thing.

While I do take issue with some assertions about cat social behavior as outlined in the Merck Veterinary Manual, in this passage I completely agree:

This publication not only makes egregiously inhumane, inaccurate, and inflammatory assertions about cats, but it also promotes illegal animal cruelty by recommending shooting cats as an acceptable approach for feral cats.

And judging from the vitriol of so many commenters» judgmental assertions about indebted college graduates, things won't get better.

This would involve destroying records that could lead the trustee to property you haven't disclosed or simply not being able to back up assertions about your finances contained in your bankruptcy schedules.