Sentences with phrase «held skeptical views»

He has long held skeptical views on the severity of global warming, and has been a featured witness of Republicans resisting steps to cut greenhouse gases.

Wagner attributes the error of the S & B paper passing peer - review to the ìnadvertent selection of three reviewers who «probably «hold skeptical views similar to those of S & B. By saying this, and saying the paper did n`t pass technical muster, his saying that the 3 reviewers were either incompetent or corrupt or both incompetent.

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Changing the views of many skeptical young Koreans could depend on whether Lee and others implicated in the scandal are in fact held accountable for any criminal wrongdoing in a trial that some have deemed to be a test for rule of law [6] in South Korea, or whether they will continue to enjoy the status of being untouchable.

But the newly obtained documents show that Dr. Carlin's highly skeptical views on global warming, which have been known for more than a decade within the small unit where he works, have been repeatedly challenged by scientists inside and outside the E.P.A.; that he holds a doctorate in economics, not in atmospheric science or climatology; that he has never been assigned to work on climate change; and that his comments on the endangerment finding were a product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship, as he acknowledged Thursday in an interview.

The fact may be that individuals can be skeptical and hold different or similar political views in relation to the mainstream of climate science (environmentalism) and it's adherents has nothing to do with the overarching institutional structure and political persuasion of environmentalism as a social movement.