Sentences with phrase «basis of actual evidence»

Because I recognize the true degree of our ignorance in addressing this supremely difficult problem, while at the same time as a mere citizen I weigh civilization and its benefits against draconian energy austerity on the basis of no actual evidence that global climate is in any way behaving unusually on a geological time scale.

Not exact matches

The Jesus stories may have been based on one of many Jewish messiah claimants, if the stories are based on the life of an actual individual, though there's not even any incontrovertible evidence that he even existed, if one searches for such evidence outside the Bible and doesn't rely on known forged material, such as the Testimonium Flavianum.

«Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law,» the spokesperson said.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't consider that sort of thing as a sound basis for deciding difficult questions when we have actual scriptural evidence to use instead.

I have reviewed all the actual evidence for the existence of any god that has been presented to me or that I have found and have formed the opinion, based on the available actual evidence, that the probability of any god existing is very small.

I have a lot of faith in science, not in the unscientific assumption that atheists make that reality is purely mechanistic, but in the procedures of testing hypotheses, questioning assumptions, measuring results, replicating experiments, and in general debating and persuading based on actual evidence.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

@Joxer: This is a belief blog, not a religious blog... we are here to help enlighten you with facts based on actual evidence not pseudo facts that are only based from a book of fairy tales.

As Christopher Norris has beautifully documented, the positivist fairy - tale of open - minded scientists accumulating measurable evidence, making conjectures based on that evidence, and then seeking to refute those conjectures does not well describe the actual way that scientists operate.

All you have to do, based on at least there being no actual evidence for any gods, is recognize / admit that the probability of there being any gods, especially a god that takes a personal interest in you and things going on here on Earth, is small.

«Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law.

Most of these will, of course, come to nothing and many of them will have no basis in truth in the first place, but when there is some sort of actual evidence to connect Arsenal with a player then the amount of transfer rumours about them will be huge.

We should analyse them rationally, objectively and based on the evidence of their actual performances and, yes, basically all of them!

Making it hurt: The strategy of risk The irony, of course, is that individuals and organizations so determined to convince women to breastfeed because of evidence - based claims about its health effects are themselves choosing a breastfeeding promotion approach that is not based on actual evidence.

Their mission is to get the evidence from national guidelines and medical literature into the hands of parents, professionals, and providers — to make VBAC accessible to more people based on actual facts, quality information, and current research, rather than conventional wisdom based on myths and misperceptions.

The proscription of terrorist organizations, including the application of criminal responsibility of its members, must be made on the basis of factual evidence of activities that are of a genuine terrorist nature as well as of the actual involvement of the individuals concerned.»

«Most of the archaeological evidence for movement is based on artifacts, but artifacts can be stolen or copied, so they are not a real good proxy for actual human movement,» says archaeologist Doug Price of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who tracks ancient migration by analyzing isotopes.

It is an actual, physical thing discovered indirectly but definitively based on multiple independent lines of evidence.

The U.S. EPA in fact has no list of «endocrine disruptors» at all — preferring to assess chemicals on a case - by - case basis; taking into account the entire body of toxicological evidence available; and factoring in actual human exposure levels.

I still think it will be a good experience, and I definitely feel like there is a higher possibility of me going on some actual dates through this site, but I haven't seen much evidence so far that I'm really going to find a guy who actually walks with Jesus and wants a relationship based on that.

Synopsis: In this film based on actual events, black activist Medgar Evers (James Pickens Jr.) is murdered in 1963, and much of the evidence points toward wh... [MORE]

The script by Jeremy Brock («The Last King of Scotland») is loosely based on a 2008 New Yorker story by David Grann about an actual case in which a Polish detective uncovered incriminating evidence in a true - crime novel.

The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) and several organizations that provide services to families and children across the state of Connecticut argue that the state's current education system perpetuates inadequate and unequal state aid for public schools, and that the broken ECS formula is not based on a rational, evidence - based assessment of the actual cost of education.

The real work kicks in when leaders try to navigate a confusing and still - developing field to select an evidence - based program that will translate the findings of researchers into actual results in the classroom.

Brian O'Leary at Magellan Media Partners spends a lot of time trying to put actual data to this question, and trying to convince publishers not to make a DRM call based on anecdotal evidence.

While I respect your stance, my main problem is that your arguments are almost entirely based on suppositions of what Amazon might do rather than what they have done or any actual numbers or evidence.

Science requires arguments and evidence to be assessed on their actual content, not on the basis of who has given them a stamp of approval.

It has increasingly become clear to me that your claims about the evidence that was allegedly totally missing are not based on actual knowledge of the scientific literature about the topic.

Some of it is forensic - like evidence that shows that the «fingerprint» of the actual climate over the past 50 years or so does not match that of greenhouse warming, which is the basis of all computer models.

The vast majority of climate analysis based on actual empirical evidence show similar results, whether in a global or regional context.

Based on real world climate and the actual evidence, simulated predictions of future dangerous warming remain without any scientific substance.

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.

I'm afraid that much of the strength of the reaction to your questions was based on past experiences - I can not count how many times someone has commented here and on other climate blogs claiming despite the evidence that mismatches between specific projections and observed temperatures somehow invalidate all climate modeling, despite the projected emissions not matching actuals.

Since you agree with the words you quoted, you should be able to understand the actual bee in my bonnet here, which I'll restate: thus far this has been an evidence - based discussion about a specific issue, with a minimum of snark.

Where is the evidence than a calculation based on a hypothetical equilibrium is an accurate representation of anything on the actual Earth?

Anyone who's ever lived near a weather station close enough to see it on a regular basis probably has been providing anecdotal evidence of this for decades, but having an actual study to back it up has taken WAY too long.

Discussions of isotope ratios and uptake and emission of CO2 by all the various and sundry physical and biological processes are distractions to the simplest and most compelling line of evidence that the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations is primarily anthropogenic — to wit, comparing the expected concentration increase based on anthropogenic emission rates with the actual increase over a given period of time.

We are supposed to believe their declaration of a global climate catastrophe based on trivial changes in world temps, while ignoring the evidence that their claims lack actual data and that their cures are far worse than the potential problem.

Conclusion # 3: Since Conclusions # 1 and # 2 are derived from the actual empirical science evidence, policymakers at the national, state, and local levels have no rational basis to make large expenditures and impose unnecessary regulations in an attempt to stop what has now become a fact-less, irrational, anti-science belief of human - caused catastrophic global warming and climate change «tipping points.»

These expert claims were primarily based on simulations from climate models (and less so on the actual empirical evidence) which has become a sure fire methodology of producing bass - ackwards fake science.

Actual paleoclimate reconstructions aren't exercises in mathematical interpolation but are the results of models based on principles of physics — and thus extrapolate beyond the evidence, and if they are good models that incorporate enough of the physics, they do so skillfully.

That is, most people form their opinions on the basis of what they think the majority of their peers are saying, or what supposed opinion leaders think, or whatever but not by excluding everything except the actual evidence.

This evidence before the Court might help to refute the critique that the Court should have focused on the actual harm of communications metadata retention «and sought to avoid assertions based on theory or informal predictions of popular feeling».

The affidavit evidence must be specific, must be based on the personal knowledge of the affiant as much as possible and should specify that the actual or potential damage to the plaintiff is «very serious».

The policy reasons are obvious: in a world where we herald evidence - based policy - making, it is hard to explain how a decision can be made about the future of articling without examining what articling students actually do and without examining their actual working conditions.

I do think the idea of allowing something close to judicial notice in place of expert evidence could only have one of two effects: 1) The judge would have decide on a case - by - case basis whether he or she is qualified to advise himself / herself as to «law» generally, or 2) The judge would have to undertake a self - qualification analysis to determine whether he or she is sufficiently expert in the area of law in question to forego actual expert evidence.

D - Link denies these allegations and on Jan. 31 moved to dismiss the case on a variety of grounds, including the fact that there is no evidence of actual or likely consumer injury, and that liability can not be based on «unspecified and hypothetical» risk of future harm.

Independent, accountable, and transparent regulatory bodies, effective oversight of those bodies, the genuine engagement of citizens in the regulatory process, evidence - based research to fully assess the impact of regulation, and an approach to regulation that is proportionate and targeted to actual risks are essential for effective regulation.

Statutes of limitations, limiting the time in which a prisoner can seek a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, can not limit courts» ability to consider new evidence of actual innocence.

Courts have authority to consider new evidence of actual innocence without regard to the statutory one - year limitation period for newly discovered evidence, and that the standard for granting a new trial based upon newly discovered evidence should not be a strict «outcome - determinative» test, at least where the state relied at trial upon facts that turned out to be false.