Sentences with phrase «committee stuck by»

Not exact matches

Thus the size of the total short physical position continues to stir controversy, with Gold Fields Minerals Services sticking to its estimate of 4000 to 5000 tonnes notwithstanding the mountain of research by the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee and its associates suggesting an amount two to three times as large.

One sticking point for the committee was whether to include a possible extension of Willow Avenue west to Mokena Street on the concept plan, designed by Architectural Resource Corp. of Orland Park.

Panels include: OWS: How it Happened, Why It Sticks, What's Next, The REAL Committee to Save New York: Fighting Austerity By Taxing The Rich, Organizers» Perspectives on OWS, Wisconsin: The Real Story and Can It Happen Here?

Then after the petitions are filed in July, Larkin drops out, his replacement is named by his Vacancy Committee and the Democrats are stuck with its unknown candidate.

A matching bill was introduced by Assemblyman Peter Abbate (D - Brooklyn) and that also remained stuck in committee.

Rank - and - file members aren't completely on an equal footing — the oft - criticized practice of awarding committee chairs based on seniority over skill continued with Heastie's decision to stick with the longtime committee chairs appointed by Silver.

For the National Republican Congressional Committee, this started by sticking with its long - standing policy of publicly staying out of primaries.

(5) A program bill for SEIU 1199: A measure backed by powerful health workers union 1199 SEIU that would allow home health aides to perform services typically done by nurses is stuck in the Assembly's rules committee with no Senate sponsor.

He said sticking points relate to labor and environmental issues, and to a campaign finance provision pushed by his Republican counterpart, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, to lift certain spending limits by party committees.

The biggest sticking point appears to be a provision that would phase in the rezoning, a proposal opposed by business leaders on the committee.

It also includes sticking to international guidelines intended to minimise new debris, drawn up by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), which represents all the world's major space agencies.

I made these last week for a bake sale — the committee priced them 2 in a bag (I had bagged and tied with curling ribbon).50 cents each and they flew off the table — I kept my cost lower by using platic coffee stirrer sticks instead of regular sucker sticks (mine were red so they looked super cute with pink marshmallows!)

The administration stuck by the deal and negotiated hard with its allies on the appropriations committees, and this very large initial increase was agreed to.

Libraries A committee recommended Monday that Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, an anthology of comics about middle school edited by Ariel Schrag, should remain...

Mann's «hockey stick» has been comprehensively discredited as a fraud (by M+M, confirmed by the Wegman committee and the NAS panel).

John R. Christy testified (PDF) at a hearing hosted by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on the subject of «Questions Surrounding the «Hockey Stick» Temperature Studies: Implications for Climate Change Assessments Part II.»

Mann never mentions that a subsequent House Energy and Commerce Committee report chaired by Edward Wegman totally destroyed the credibility of the «hockey stick» and devastatingly ripped apart Mann's methodology as «bad mathematics».

On the matter of Dr. Jones» use of the phrase «trick» in an email referring to Michael Mann's Hockey Stick graph, the Committee concludes: «Critics of CRU have suggested that Professor Jones's use of the word «trick» is evidence that he was part of a conspiracy to hide evidence that did not fit his view that recent global warming is predominately caused by human activity.

He has stuck with his opinions despite recent criticisms of his work by IUCN Red List Standard and Petitions Committee member (and mathematical modeling expert) Resit Akçakaya.

For example, on page 19 of his brief below dated January 18, 2013, he cites the international panel chaired by the eminent scientist Lord Oxburgh, FRS as one of the bodies that «exonerated» him, whereas on page 235 of Mann's own book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, he states explicitly that «our own work did not fall within the remit of the committee, and the hockey stick was not mentioned in the report.&rStick and the Climate Wars, he states explicitly that «our own work did not fall within the remit of the committee, and the hockey stick was not mentioned in the report.&rstick was not mentioned in the report.»

-LSB-...] during the joint Committee Hearing chaired by Representative Barton on the «hockey stick.»

As we noted yesterday, in his fraudulent legal pleadings Mann claims to have been «exonerated» by Lord Oxburgh's committee, but in his book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars he says his work «did not fall within the remit of the committee».

Consider his recent Guardian column defending his «hockey stick» from the bad case of brewer's droop it's acquired over the last 15 years of non-warming: Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish professor named (unlike Mann) by Foreign Policy as one of the «Top 100 Global Thinkers», is dismissed as «career fossil fuel industry apologist Bjorn Lomborg»; Judith Curry, a member of the National Research Council's climate research committee, winner of awards from the American Meteorological Society, and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, is billed by Dr Mann as «serial climate disinformer Judith Curry...»

Further review by the national academy of science and multiple university reviews of the committee findings found that by and large, the Hockey Stick was not flawed enough for them to consider it inappropriate for use as a model to represent the climate variability for the time period specified.

As we know, the Mann «hockey stick» was comprehensively discredited by McIntyre + McKitrick, as confirmed by the Wegman committee and endorsed by a panel from NAS under oath before US Congress.

The NAS Hockey Stick panel, by contrast, was a mixture of in - field and out - of - field experts, and the committee did not bestow on the in - field experts the assumption that their methods were reliable.