Sentences with phrase «contrarian who»

A radical contrarian who would rather be right than be popular and would rather go to jail than vote?

Perhaps I'll simply take your own contributions as an example of a contrarian who appeals to ignorance.

Already he has named Myron Ebell, a noted climate contrarian who has called the Clean Power Plan illegal, to take on the Environmental Protection Agency.

A good example of a contrarian who propagates Fallacy Trenches # 3 and # 4 is Bjorn Lomborg, who has no credentialed expertise in climate (his degrees are in political science).

Or he is a natural - born contrarian who wants to play silly games.

The George C. Marshall Institute, for instance, which has received $ 630,000 from ExxonMobil, recently touted a book edited by Patrick Michaels, a long - time climate change contrarian who is affiliated with at least 11 organizations funded by ExxonMobil.

When confronted with a contrarian who argues that somehow global warming isn't taking place, I would point to the Arctic sea ice and glaciers — which have even lasted through the warm periods of the past two thousand years — and probably well before.

A deeply responsive contrarian who never aligned himself with any established aesthetic agenda or critical doctrine, Bishop rejected the certainty of Frank Stella's dictum, «What you see is what you see,» and its denial of contradiction and doubt, in favor of ambiguity, particularly regarding the relationship between surface and space, and between form and dispersion.

Arnott, founder of Research Associates, Inc., the giant Newport Beach - based money manager, is a quantitative investor as well as a contrarian who goes against the herd.

Caldeira: There was a climate contrarian who testified before the Senate last week.

Those leaders believe that the official, Steve Levy, a blunt - spoken fiscal hawk and contrarian who collected 96 percent of the vote in his last re-election bid, can tap into the public's anti-incumbent sentiment and frustration with Albany's overspending.

Of course, there will always be contrarians who disagree with the pre-draft consensus.

One must therefore conclude that those contrarians who have warmly welcomed Ruddiman's thesis have now come around to mainstream opinion.

Only for masochists, Liam Neeson completionists and contrarians who deliberately love films that everyone else hates.

They were inspiring contrarians who took pleasure in training and guiding younger artists.

In this piece, Broad attempts to discredit Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» by exaggerating the legitimate, but minor, criticisms of his treatment of the science by experts on climate science, and presenting specious or unsubstantiated criticisms by a small number of the usual, well - known contrarians who wouldn't agree even if Gore read aloud from the latest IPCC report.

I like this little dig at the denier - sceptic - contrarians who appear to be tree ring obsessed: «It is intriguing to note that the removal of tree - ring data from the proxy dataset yields less, rather than greater, peak cooling during the 16th — 19th centuries for both CPS and EIV methods... contradicting the claim... that tree - ring data are prone to yielding a warm - biased «Little Ice Age» relative to reconstructions using other high - resolution climate proxy indicators.»

There is also a group of contrarians who for whatever reasons (not necessarily financial) are wedded to the status quo, including big cars and houses, etc..

I can and do look up the technical papers whenever I have the time: it is a habit I developed while dealing with contrarians who were focused not so much on attacking climate science but evolutionary biology.

I had updated it with modern SST measurements, and in our abstract we pointed out that it had been misused by contrarians who had removed some of the data, replotted it, and mislabeled it to falsely claim that it was a global temperature record showing a cooling trend.

I've debated so many contrarians who fall back on this while Rome is metaphorically burning.

Unlike the IPCC, the NIPCC examines literature published exclusively by climate contrarians who are paid to contribute their findings to NIPCC reports, according to leaked internal documents of the Heartland Institute.

When it comes to climate science, the FBI seem to rely on apocryphal KGB sources, journalists, and contrarians who smear famous climate scientists.

The same can not be said for the climate contrarians who criticize the IPCC and mainstream climate science predictions.

Not only has the IPCC done remarkably well in projecting future global surface temperature changes thus far, but it has also performed far better than the few climate contrarians who have put their money where their mouth is with their own predictions.

Honest contrarians who expect reasonable outsiders to give their contrarian view more than normal credence should point to strong outside indicators that correlate enough with contrarians tending more to be right.

One thing that is interesting is that certain contrarians who can't master the typical attacks against a scientific proposition, often end up resorting to philosophical skepticism.

funded an array of front organizations to create the appearance of a broad platform for a tight - knit group of vocal climate change contrarians who misrepresent peer - reviewed scientific findings

[Response: It's generally not the contrarians who drive better understandings of the science, because most of the contrarian points are completely irrelevant and are used as rhetorical, not scientific, points.

Scientists generally supporting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings on climate change see this correction of the UAH temperature analyses as a significant vindication of their findings on this issue and, as such, as a major rebuttal to climate contrarians who long had pointed to the differences in surface and upper atmosphere warming trends as supporting their viewpoints.

«It's generally not the contrarians who drive better understandings of the science, because most of the contrarian points are completely irrelevant and are used as rhetorical, not scientific, points.

On the other hand, he makes a very persuasive case, using distortions of the Schneider quote, that it is the contrarians who have chosen effectiveness over honesty.

Contrarians who cite her 1988 work blindly would do well to consider the views expressed in her final publications, including the revised edition.

Secondly there's a few contrarians who post many, many times.

And before the contrarians who claim science should be kept clean of policy & politics jump on this, I agree with you — I want science to strive after objectivity, let the GW loaded dice fall where they may.

Gavin Schmidt replied to Steven Mosher over at Real Climate with the following comment which is also applicable in this case: «It's generally not the contrarians who drive better understandings of the science, because most of the contrarian points are completely irrelevant and are used as rhetorical, not scientific, points.

Fundamentally, contrarians who have resisted the abundant evidence that supports warming should not be too quick to leap on evidence that only hints at the opposite.

Ultimately, the source of his delusion is not very interesting, but I think Cockburn's flameout (as he rambles incoherently about carbon isotopes, so pathetic) may illustrate that there are contrarians who are fundamentally sincere, rather than mercenary.

A. Climate contrarians B. Hypocrites C. Climate contrarians who are hypocrites D. Confused people

«side with contrarians who are ideologically driven and, often, financially corrupt?»

We wouldn't hesitate to strip the certification from a rogue engineer who decided to challenge the theory of gravity, why exactly would we rise to defend climatologists who refuse to read up on their area of «expertise» and choose instead to side with contrarians who are ideologically driven and, often, financially corrupt?

Climate contrarians who believe more CO2 will have a net benefit need to consider why greenhouses use air - conditioning.

Not exact matches

Having a contrarian viewpoint seems sexy and is definitely in vogue, but holding that contrarian viewpoint every day and sticking to it in the face of people who think you're crazy is pretty hard.

Almost every company has its critics (and by critics, I mean those pains in the rear who only like to whine and be contrarian purely for the sake of it).

For Thiel, a contrarian by nature who later became a hedge fund manager, startup founder, and venture capitalist — all posts requiring an ability to reject herd mentalities, shun market bubbles, and seize overlooked opportunities — Girard's analysis of man's unconscious compulsion to imitate his fellow man was compelling.

So, as someone who's been branded a contrarian, someone who's been known to rock more than a few boats when it comes to the way we think about money and the role it plays in our daily lives, I propose an alternate course... a financial road less traveled.

«He's a contrarian thinker who challenges the status quo a lot and makes his employees challenge the status quo in order to be more innovative,» says Brendan Calder, a professor at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

When you hire bright, entrepreneurial - minded employees who take initiative, are curious, and have a contrarian mindset, «you've got the makings of a great workforce.»

We are value - add partners helping entrepreneurs who take contrarian approaches to create impactful solutions to big, interesting problems.

«At this point,» says Jared Dillian, a former Wall Street trader and contrarian analyst who predicted Canada's looming economic crash early on, «you'd have to live under a rock to not realize what's going on.