And, a Hockey Stick is now famous as a symbol of temperature data manipulated to
generate public alarm.
Not exact matches
I think it's a case of taking a wild hypothesis, building a highly speculative model from it,
generating some scary and dramatic predictions for the media, with the * specific * aim of raising
public alarm and getting some political action.
Perhaps...
public alarm will only be
generated by manifest change, or a threat of it, such as a rise in the sea level.»
In this environment, any argument that puts risk into statistical perspective — or criticises the
alarm generated by sensational copy, anti-nuclear activists and interventions from
public - health bureaucracies — looks like advocacy.