Sentences with phrase «dire predictions by»

As for how adults consumed their books, device penetration is still on the rise, even among dedicated e-readers, another reading option that has been given dire predictions by industry watchers.

The unusually high percentage of school budgets that passed yesterday in spite of dire predictions by everyone from Gov. David Paterson on down has become fodder for the teachers union and its allies in the fight to restore $ 1.4 billion worth of education cuts proposed by the governor.

Not exact matches

An article by Ross L. Finney offered a dire prediction in early 1924: «Unless we shift our weight Western civilization will enjoy an illusive prosperity and greatness for a time, but will then stagger, stumble and eventually collapse» (January 24, 1924).

While libraries have done well for themselves despite the dire predictions of doom following the digital revolution — largely by reinventing themselves as providers of other community needs while still making books their focus — there have been some highly ominous predictions for libraries in the current political climate.

Unfortunately, in times of turmoil they're often drowned out by shriller voices that seem intent on scaring the bejeezus out of investors with dire pronouncements or titillating predictions of Armageddon.

I looked at your referenced PR material, but did not see much supported by peer - reviewed studies supporting your dire predictions.

I suspect the dire predictions of the world population reaching 9 billion by 2050 is wishful thinking.

c) Read at least one general book by a real climate scientist, ~ David Archer's «The Long Thaw», or Michael Mann & Lee Kump's «Dire Predictions»?

That said, the scientific case is not helped at all when exaggerations are made by some of the «green» movement, or by people who claim they understand the climate science and then make dire predictions, probably well beyond the 90 % confidence limits derived from the actual climate modelling.

These dire predictions were refuted by Breitbart contributor James Delingpole, who observed in a March 26 report that cited leaked reports from Working Group II of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report stating that a 2.5 degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures by the end of the century will cost the world economy between just 0.2 and 2 percent of its GDP.

This is dramatically worse than even the dire predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which predicts at least a 5 - degree Celsius increase by 2100 as its worst - case scenario.»

On the other hand, along with improved agricultural efficiency, this more favorable growing climate has allowed us to feed a rapidly growing global population despite Stanford scientist Paul Ehrlich's dire predictions we would experience mass starvation by the 1970s.

At first glance, the predictions are dire: an area of tropical forest the size of India gone by 2050, one - sixth of the world's carbon budget spent in the next 35 years, a world more prone to storms and natural disasters.

Stoknes explains why so many people have laissez - faire attitudes to dire predictions from the scientific community, and he reveals tactics employed by those wishing to conduct business as usual.

«Mann is author of two books, «The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines» (Columbia University Press, 2012), which will soon to be available inpaperback with an update and a new guest foreword by Bill Nye «The Science Guy», and «Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming» (DK Publishing, 2008).

Perhaps by then it will turn out to be only 0.1 C warming / decade and that would be a considerable change from the dire predictions of today.

Only slightly off - subject: the Guardian's environment editor John Vidal has just published dire predictions of future temperatures worse than Monbiot's worst wet dreams, issuing from an MIT Global Change (that's what they call themselves) thinktank, which is financed by ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Electricité de France, among others.

Driven by the hubris of scientists like Michael Mann whose careers are totally invested in the «dire predictions» of rising CO2, the normal scientific process of challenging a hypothesis was framed as an «attack on science».

SINCE Copenhagen the intensity of doom and gloom [D&G] has been ratcheted up with such anthropogenic global warming luminaries as Will Steffan and David Karoly declaring their previous predictions not dire enough and so have been superseded by much worse predictions.

I have just wasted two days commenting on Guardian environment, trying to get George to explain why it is ok for him to base his dire predictions of «the end of life as we know it» on research financed by Exxon, while we common mortals are frequently criticised for quoting sources funded by the same Exxon.

Paul Ehrlich's ideas and credibility are totally discredited by the failure of almost all his dire predictions.

Since you keep referring to this letter signed by these 49 ex-NASA folks, criticizing Jim Hansen's GISS» climate modeling methodology used to claim dire future predictions re global - warming - as «Naive & / or DisHonest, This seems to imply that some or most of these 49 are [Naive??? 49 ex-NASA vets are naive about the inner - working of NASA??

However, that dire prediction is tempered somewhat by the fact that most of the Parasitic Jaeger's offshore wintering grounds lie outside U.S. waters.

«Dire Predictions» by Mike and Lee Kump arrived in today's mail and I must say its a lot more user friendly than Hurst coefficients and autoregression analysis.It contains some startling graphs, i.e., page 33 showing the recent spike in three of the GHGs, and (so far) contains good summariess to use as responses to the usual skeptics arguments.

A dire prediction from the Dame Ellen MacArthur Foundation says there will be more plastic by weight than fish in the oceans by 2050; whether or not this turns out to be true, we do know that marine wildlife is suffering greatly from the effects of plastic pollution right now.

I've just been reading «Dire Predictions» by Mann and Kump and the «Hockey Stick Illusion by Montford».

That doesn't mean the Ethereum classic price predictions are dire by any stretch, but the cryptocurrency doesn't have the innovative spirit that may drive ETH to the number one cryptocurrency in the world.

Many prospective clients also indicate early on that they have had their resumes reviewed by The Ladders, and been dismayed at the obvious attempt to scare them into engaging their resume writing service through grossly exaggerated criticisms and prediction of dire job search results.

It seems these dire predictions are no more than means to get attention by using a lot of statistics that do not do anything more than create a needless fear.