Sentences with phrase «debate about the reality»

Will.i.am argued that the ongoing debate about reality TV shows and their effect on the music industry «is just tabloid journalism trying to sell magazines to create some type of drama that's unnecessary.»

Space and time have seemed both continuous and discontinuous from Zeno's paradoxes up to current debates about the reality of electrons and photons: are they (continuous) waves or (discrete) particles?

As intended, the project has set off a healthy and robust debate about the realities of race, class, and gender privilege within the art world, culminating in the decision of the Yams Collective to withdraw from the Biennial.

I think people who realize there is no real debate about its reality consider AGW one of if not the single most important global challenge.

Even though there is overwhelming scientific consensus, they may have bought into the myth that there is a scientific debate about the reality of climate change.

«If there has to be a debate about the reality of climate change — and there doesn't — then there is only one mathematically fair way to do it,» Oliver says.

DEBATE about the reality of a two - decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way from the sceptical fringe to the mainstream.

Not exact matches

Without getting into a debate about the wisdom of protectionist tariffs (not that it would be a particularly long one), the reality is that these initial measures don't really affect China all that much.

Today's young women do want to talk about the realities and tensions that have emerged from the feminist debates of recent years.

That debate does not pit «realists» against «idealists,» but is, rather, a debate about the hard reality of religion in defining, more and more, the lines of conflict in politics among nations.

If the church did not maintain a voice in the contemporary debate about the nature of reality and the purpose of human life, it could not hold or attract the kind of leaders it needed for the future.

He said: «The reality is that if we debated this last week, the Government would have been unable to tell us exactly what it was going to do and the difficult reality would have been that we would have all been floundering around thinking very different things about what the Government had in mind.

While there is a place for a debate about what that ruling may or may not mean, our first step must be to open up to a reality outside our personal experience.

Indeed, when as a student I went from Cambridge to Madras, I found it refreshing to escape from debate about whether it was possible to speak of God, if there is a God, to discussions which presupposed mystical knowledge of God as a valid source of our knowledge of reality.

While the debates rage on about whether Noah is biblical enough, Heaven is For Real true enough, and God is Not Dead profitable enough, Philomena delivers a quiet, understated, and powerful portrayal of the actual human experience, where clear - cut lines between good and evil, heroes and villains, right and wrong might be good «story-wise» but don't reflect the reality most people of faith actually live in.

Debates can continue to rage about the morality of amassing free music, but the reality of the situation is that music is about the producer and consumer, and «the music industry» will not survive without a mutual respect and cooperative spirit between both parties.

But in reality I don't see the merits of opening the debate about them because you run the risk of further intimidating the victims, and may ending up regarding one type as more serious than another.

The People's Forum - Ghana has taken cognisance of the call by HE the President to engage the Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Hon Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo in a debate on issues and facts about the economy and we wish to take up the task of making this unprecedented battle of facts a reality.

Today is the day that an abstract debate about spreadsheets and numbers turns into stark reality for people's jobs and services.

Now police and crime commissioners are about to become a reality it is time we moved the debate on from questions of process and started to talk about what police and crime commissioners can do to deliver better policing and safer communities.

Glasman's rhetoric about democratic control of industry has been used to pay lip service to the notion that there is a policy debate happening inside the party when in reality Labour remains hopelessly committed to an agenda of austerity - lite.

In 1927, when he was 48, the world's leading physicists gathered at a conference in Brussels to debate an issue that remains contentious to this day: What does quantum mechanics have to say about reality?

A century - long debate about whether quantum mechanics described reality or masked a deeper layer, as Einstein suggested, has concluded — quantum reality won

Schwartz's conclusion — that today's reality may be tomorrow's discarded truth, and that ideas which run counter to received wisdom should not be dismissed out of hand — is particularly welcome, and a refreshing sentiment from a participant in the current debates about human evolution.

There's this debate going on right now about what to call augmented reality and what to call mixed reality.

While the world debates how to sanction the god that can turn their cities to rubble, in the kind of senate hearings that superhero movies now use to situate their scenarios in «reality,» an angrier - than - usual Batman stews about his alien rival's dangerous power.

Unfortunately, too much of our debate about pensions focuses on theory rather than reality.

As Washington continues to debate the issue, The Hechinger Report spoke with four DACA recipients about how this new reality affects their lives and education goals.

But so much of this debate is about the rhetoric rather than the reality - and head teachers have been bristling at the language of threats to send in teams of new leaders to «failing and coasting schools».

Revisions and approvals to state plans are going to be a big education story this fall, along with in - state debate about how to turn approved plans into reality.

The question is — is this debate really about attracting and retaining good teachers or is it about some political maneuvering where the «message» is more important than reality?

With the introduction of the US$ 79 kindle in September this year, there has been a lot of debate about the possibility of a free version of the Kindle becoming a reality at some point.

As artist Coco Fusco would rightly point out later, the ensuing debate brought to reality the Scanlan character's «castration fantasy about white male erasure» at the hands of a newly empowered group of younger, politically savvy artists and critics who read the works not from Scanlan's vantage point, but as women of color.

Anyone who thinks that there is any genuine «debate» about either the reality of anthropogenic global warming and consequent climate change, or the grave threat not only to human civilization but to all life on earth if unmitigated, «business as usual» anthropogenic global warming and consequent climate change are permitted to continue, is profoundly misinformed.

The perception that you may have of the «debate» in the media or politics is mostly due to the inevitable compression of news stories, combined with an apparent journalistic need to provide «balance» (see Chris Mooney's article on this), and well - funded campaigns by interests who are worried about what the reality of climate change might imply on the regulatory front.

One of the toughest realities attending debates over what to do, or not do, about the growing human influence on the climate system is that more science does not necessarily clarify society's, or individual's, responses.

Heh, on energy Obama is flailing, the Republicans are still debating in the House to silent microphones, and the electorate is getting steamed about a problem not being solved, because the Democrats are in denial about reality.

I was hoping that the book would be accessible to a pretty broad range of readers because I really wanted to use my personal story as sort of this reluctant and accidental public figure in the debate over climate change, to talk about the bigger issues, the reality of the problem, the threat that it represents, the need to have a good faith discussion about what to do about it.

If you want to move the debate forward, you have to focus on the ideology — Christianism, liberatarism, conservatism or what have you — that is making the reality of the physical world so repulsive that its devotees are attacking the people trying to tell them about the physical world.

A new paper details when just about anywhere on the world can expect to have inarguable proof that global warming isn't a debate topic but a reality.

The large gap between perception and reality of scientific agreement reflects the heated nature of political debates over policy on the issue, as well as the impact of efforts to raise skepticism about scientific consensus.

I think its about bias and lack of true dialogue in the AGW debate but the last string of digits don't seem to have any basis in reality.

If they would rouse themselves to come up with some solutions that work for them ideologically, we could have a productive debate about how to address the reality rather than getting bogged down in the right's denial of reality.

It makes a presumption about the debate that you want to have (that it is out of touch with reality), but it focuses on a debate that others are interested in.

At the very least, our nation's political and business leaders deserve to have a debate about her future that is grounded in reality.

The issue for me was that a cryosphere scientist was taking meaningless statistics at face value, though was taking a stand in a public disagreement superficially about a BBC programme, but in reality a broader debate about policy.

There is little point in restricting your thinking during a debate to those existing formulaic representations of reality about an impossible but interesting postulated atmosphere.

In fact there is no genuine scientific «debate» about the reality of anthropogenic global warming.

What you describe is exactly the outcome that Exxon - Mobil and other fossil fuel companies desire, and have achieved by their funding of right - wing propaganda mills, disguised as «think tanks», that spew a steady stream of fake, phony, pseudoscientific bunk and employ cranks and liars to create the completely false impression that there is a genuine «debate» about the reality of anthropogenic global warming.

With the reality of a rapidly degrading climate coming home to people around Australia in the form of ever more extreme weather, it's vital that we have the broadest possible debate about how fast and deep to cut the pollution that is driving it.