Sentences with phrase «between sceptics»

Peter Davies: «The quarrelling should be done with the AGWers not between sceptics.

Yet nonetheless, the survey results simply do not suggest that a big difference exists between sceptics and warmists.

If answered honestly, they can not distinguish between sceptics and believers.

If Hansen accepts that, there is no major argument between we sceptics and the AGW advocates.

One of the biggest debates between sceptics and their counterparts is in fact the role played by feedback mechanisms — a response in part to claims by environmentalists such as Mark Lynas in «Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet» that a relatively small increase in CO2 could cause «runaway climate change» by triggering (unknown and possibly non-existent) feedback mechanisms to form.

But likewise it is difficult to draw the line between sceptics and «warmers».

I find it disappointing that the press are still concentrating on the battle between sceptics and scientists, especially since the oil companies have conceded that point.

Not exact matches

Sceptics would argue that the language barrier between the players and the manager played a part in the dismal World Cup campaign.

Given the ongoing conflict between the bleeding hearts and the fatigued sceptics, it is not yet clear what the overall impact of social media on substantive issues will be.

Reviving tensions between the two coalition parties after Mr Cameron vetoed a treaty to help rescue the euro at this month's Brussels summit, Mr Huhne warned the isolationist approach favoured by Tory sceptics would be disastrous for British jobs and trade and foreign investment in this country.

We feature a small number of dissenting voices in our coverage, not because we seek to be impartial between «scientific fact and sceptic fiction», as Bob Ward suggests, but because reflecting the different sides of an ongoing debate is very much in the public interest.

To blur the lines between what we know and what we believe, Hill focuses on a story of a sceptic and a spiritualist.

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There is no such clash between modern physics and climate science; rather, AGW sceptics (even those few who may still deserve that title rather than «denialist») are in the position of Darwin's opponents in biology and geology — desperately hopping from one will - o» - the - wisp objection to another, without any sign of an overarching theory.

I think public debates on television etc between climate scientists and climate sceptics are a VERY bad idea.

Anyway, since I'm feeling a little ranty today about the warmist scientists, I was pleased to notice a nice little exchange on Australian breakfast telly — via Daily Bayonet if you're interested — between a warmist Mark Diesendorf, and a sceptic Stewart Franks: -

In Naomi Oreskes» work attempting to identify relationships between the «tobacco lobby» and climate sceptics, she proposed that key individuals were «Merchants of Doubt», and employed the same strategy — «the tobacco strategy».

There is a lot of room for the sceptics between this position and H1: AGW (it obviously narrows as the confidence levels reduce, but so does what is being claimed on either side).

If you look at the whole argument... If you look at the historical difference between [sceptics vs scientists] The sceptics have said initially there's no warming, then they've said it's not down to man, and now they do seem, you do seem to be coming more into line with the international body of thinking over what is going to happen in the future.

The problem with sceptics is that you haven't been able to distinguish between scientific arguments and political arguments.

If you widen the gap between H1: AGW and H1: ~ AGW then as you infer there is more room for the sceptic.

In this second exchange (1st here) between Adam Corner (Talking Climate blog) and Geoff Chambers --(a regular and prominent commenter at several climate sceptic blogs), they continue to discuss research on the psychology of scepticism.

This cross-Atlantic cooperation highlights the growing network between British and American euro - climate sceptics.

I also note that the split between true believers and arch sceptics is almost completely between those who work in academia and those who don't.

CLIMATE sceptics have been consistently pointing to data rather than superstition, politics and emotion in order to examine the contentious relationship between human CO2 emissions and global warming climate change.

Now clearly that is where the major disagreement between the «sceptics» and the «warmists» lies.

Since Guardian CiF has banned most sceptics, discussion is between population doomsters, climate doomsters, peak oilies, etc..

I've often argued long and hard with skydragon - type climate sceptics myself, explaining that there's no essential conflict between accepting the core physics of the basic convective greenhouse effect and rejecting the forecasts of global climate doom.

Sceptic comments that get through now tend to be from newcomers and get less support, and the discussion between true believers is frequently surreal, («we're all going to die from ocean acidification!»

Their attention is consumed by the conflict between climate scientists and sceptics.

[posted on behalf of Craig, whose comment blogger seems to be choking on...] QUOTE Just my 2c Anonymous: [i] Basic research could be conducted and published to establish a causal relationship [between c02 and temperature increase], but the lack of any initiative to do so indicates to me that it is well known that the results would argue counter to the claims [/ i] one could turn this around and ask what the bloody hell are the sceptic community doing?

I came across the correlation between increased brightness of Neptune, rising earth temperatures and solar output being used as a typical sceptic / contrarian argument to argue against the true cause of GW, and therefore we can all carry - on polluting, because it's all the sun's fault.

But, a number of prominent climate sceptics are clearly intelligent, well - informed and are familiar with the data, e.g., see this 2009 debate between Prof. S. Fred Singer (a sceptic) and Prof. Bob Watson (former chairman of the IPCC).

The use of climate sceptics has often resulted in an argument between science - based fact and belief - based opinion, the report by the cross-party Science and Technology Committee found.

Regarding solar, most sceptics are focused on the solar variation between the 11 - year cycles and not on the irradiance variation between minima and maxima of the single cycles.

However, one recent psychological study suggested a more ambiguous relationship between geoengineering and denial, suggesting that «it may simultaneously engage sceptics in the prospect of tackling climate change while lessening their inclination to engage in personal - level actions».

One clue which hasn't been explored, to my knowledge, is the fact that the whole debate between warmists and sceptics is almost entirely limited to the English - speaking world.

In other words, Polya has lost the plot, and the only way he can express his moral calculations is by referring to absolutes like «racist», just as others make equivalents between climate sceptics and holocaust deniers.

The close association between climate alarmists and the insurance industry is no less natural than that between «sceptics» and Exxon.

That's why I won't use the word «sceptic» to describe the people who deny the link between releasing warming gases and the planet getting warmer.

What these complaints seem to relate to is the existence of a mode of communication between climate sceptics, through which pointless and made up stories are passed, published, and, by repetition, the profile of these stories is raised in the public mind.

Andy Revkin ran a post about the statement on the New York Times «Dot Earth» blog, the responses to which constitute an epic online battle between some high - profile sceptics and warmers.

That «the US listened to sceptics» is interesting only to the extent that the contrast between the UK and US says something about the failure of UK democratic institutions to have such a debate!

Between 28 August and 22 September 2012 he published 13 articles attacking climate sceptics who had criticised LOG12.

Between the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, the on - air demolition of Martin Durkin and, most significantly, John Howard's self - proclaimed conversion from «sceptic» to «realist» on climate change, I had the impression that delusionism was finally a spent force within the government.

It is (as far as I can tell) named after Theodor Landscheidt, a solar scientist who worked on the relationship between planetary cycles and solar cycles has been basically ignored by the scientific community (he had an H - index of 3 — which is pretty poor) but taken up enthusiastically by global warming sceptics and astrologers.

If you don't think that not disclosing to the wider public of lay men and fellow scientists who do not read the entire literature of everything the «problems» so that any «sceptic» won't be given «fodder» is dishonest, we will have a communication problem between you and me.

If the scientific argument about the link between anthropogenic CO2 and climate change is only as good as Lewandowsky's claim that «Rejection of climate science [is] strongly associated with endorsement of a laissez - faire view of unregulated free markets», then perhaps climate sceptics should be taken more seriously.

It finds that news coverage of scepticism is mostly limited to the USA and the UK; that there is a strong correspondence between the political leaning of a newspaper and its willingness to quote or use uncontested sceptical voices in opinion pieces; and that the type of sceptics who question whether global temperatures are warming are almost exclusively found in the US and UK newspapers.