Sentences with phrase «for sceptics»

«I don't have a big objection to think tanks sponsoring things... I don't think there's enough support for sceptics or critics as it is,» says the Ontario - based retired mining consultant whose blog inspired a hacker to break into servers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and steal emails and data shared between the world's leading global warming scientists.

Even for a sceptic like me, who doesn't believe British abstract art ever rivalled the likes of Mark Rothko or Jackson Pollock, the union of this art with the seascapes is compelling.»

The IPCC is a favoured target for sceptics, who stirred a scandal in the run up to a UN climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009 by pointing out flaws in the panel's landmark Fourth Assessment Report.

Whether it is the PDO, or another natural oscillation (my money's on the AMO), which is holding global temperatures more or less constant its significance is not just as a weapon for sceptics in the future.

This is an ongoing process, and one which is not going well for the sceptics.

Tantalisingly, like many of the other evidences for Christianity, the lines of evidence that converge on the cloth allow many believers to be fully satisfied that it is authentic, while leaving enough doubt for sceptics to reject it.

Perhaps the best starting point for a sceptic is not to think in terms of trying to «believe in God».

Mehta may be as confused by Lewis» conversion story as Leah's, but the young mathematician's story is evidence that some roads to Christ involve profoundly intellectual journeys and that the moral argument continues to be a powerful reason for sceptics to embrace God.

Jeff Nichols conjures up supernaturalism for sceptics.

It may come as a bit of a surprise for sceptics and non-believers to learn that the UK is apparently the most haunted place in the world.

It has become a major annual fixture that every year swells the audience for modern art while simultaneously providing ammunition for sceptics to fulminate about its waste and absurdity.

But such negative politics bodes ill for the sceptic movement.

«This investigation is very good news for sceptics — not because it will denounce any significant flaws in the AGW imposture, but because it will not.

As per the Climate Action Plan — written in 1998 as a blueprint for sceptic industry action — the think tanks gathered together a group of hand - picked «independent» scientists who were «not usually published in the mainstream journals».

As it happens, it is very difficult for sceptics to challenge climate science, because those engaged in creating models of past and future climate do not cooperate with challenges to their methodology, and refuse to release their working.

Perhaps if climate scientists didn't put their names to statements which appeal to «balance» and «natural» rates of change, those arguments would be harder for the sceptics to have.

Buck your ideas up — it is really getting boring for us sceptics outside in the real world.

What I find troubling is that the likes of Carter (I refer to him at HT as «the great communicator» because he is extremely slick and plausible sounding — look him up on Youtube) provide a kind of intellectual cover for the sceptic politicians.

They are not traits reserved for sceptics.

For those sceptics who think this is still a fad, my bank is now responding to some of my feeds.

«I don't have a big objection to think tanks sponsoring things... I don't think there's enough support for sceptics or critics as it is.

There's no need for sceptics to «distort science» when scientists are perfectly capable of doing it all by themselves.

For the sceptic the answer is simple — less educated people are more likely to believe in superstitious nonsense.

For some sceptics, «Brussels» represents a socialist plot intended to undermine the dynamism of British economy.

This ideal is easier said than done: for some sceptics the definition of «collaboration» would seem to be «the suppression of mutual loathing in pursuit of government funding», when faced with the reality of forced collaboration or reluctant leadership.

For the sceptics, more the sense of mythical dominance of rationality leading to control of the present, and the direction of the future.

Brad Miller, chairman of the US House of Representatives oversight committee on science and technology, last year said Exxon's support for sceptics «appears to be an effort to distort public discussion».