Sentences with phrase «few crackpots»
And, it is why all but a few crackpots or active deceivers in the physics community accept the greenhouse effect as reality.
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No one on either side of the fence, aside from a few crackpots, denies that the world is now warmer than it's been for a very long time — at least since the Medieval Warm Period and possibly earlier.
«Contrary to what a few crackpot physicists tell us, it's not because of a relatively small 2 million sq km area of less ice in September, but because of gigantic areas in the tropical Pacific.
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A great many intellectuals of the twentieth century, and many of the most distinguished, were drawn to Marxism; the few fascist intellectuals were virtually all second «rate crackpots.
New York's senators have better things to do than entertain the few right - wing crackpots in New York State.
But one act of mischief is as nothing to the subversion of the capacity of the world to deal with its crucual problems, and that just for the pleasure of skimming a few bucks form wealthy crackpots.
Only crackpots and a few of their followers dispute that increasing GHGs would increase the surface temperature.
In the article and subsequent aimiable exchange with Nordhaus, Dyson touted no fewer than three possible crackpot mega-schemes as contingency «low - cost backstops» against global warming: «carbon - eating trees» covering fully a quarter of Earth's vegetated land mass, «carbon - eating phytoplankton in the oceans», and «snow - dumping in East Antarctica» (via «a giant array of tethered kites or balloons so as to block the westerly flow on one side only.»)
The scenario painted in the film «The Day After Tomorrow» seems extremely unlikely, even to most climate change advocates, but one could easily make a far more convincing version, based not on the effects of climate change, but the efforts of some crackpot to «save the world» from same by implementing some well meaning scheme that could all too easily lead to a disaster far more immediate and possibly far more destructive than anything a few degrees of temperature rise could produce.