Sentences with phrase «highly skeptical»

The IRS is highly skeptical that people who have day jobs can put in enough hours in real estate to qualify as a real estate professional for tax purposes.

Some well - heeled and keen - eared music lovers have completely fallen for the charms of the Devialet amps and praised them for besting components exponentially more costly, while others remain highly skeptical: think the Apple - effect, only in stereo components not computers, phones, or tablets.

I remain highly skeptical of it.

Most people are still highly skeptical about self - driving cars, but if the government was at all nervous about the coming revolution in driverless technology, it didn't show.

Danmarks Radio also spoke to Niels Mosegaard, senior consultant of the DJØF union, who is also highly skeptical of Nordea's reasoning in this matter.

Highly skeptical individuals tend to be guarded and doubting of others» intentions.

I am highly skeptical of claims that every lawyer should be using social media for marketing.

Lawyers are autonomous and highly skeptical of others; they won't like hearing they're not the first to find this supposed failing.

If you presented me with a device you claimed produced more energy than it consumed I would be highly skeptical of it.

So, we're still highly skeptical of the product - especially about that claim of 1500 or 2500 charges... what exactly is that based on?

Is it «highly skeptical» for me to ask for scientific evidence that his model can inform the decision I have to make?

Beyond this common ground, we fall on different points of the spectrum between James's pragmatic approach, where he proposes giving decision makers information as our «best guess» about future outcomes nonetheless, and Lenny's highly skeptical position — namely, there's no hope in approximating the real world in any useful sense.

However, He gives no real references in the end, but, as a non-expert, I am highly skeptical about his conclusions, as he is not a scientist and has made some weird claims in the past, as has been discussed here I think.

However, I still remain highly skeptical as to how that would actually affect those reefs.

«I am highly skeptical of the hype and claims,» said Kevin Trenberth, who heads the Climate Analysis Section of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a university consortium.

We have discussed this announcement previously, and while it provides a glimmer of hope for injecting some new science and common sense into the government's social cost of carbon, we are highly skeptical of a positive outcome.

The public is highly skeptical and public support is dropping like a rock.

However, I remain highly skeptical that these are not simply routine natural climate fluctuations.

We are highly skeptical of the DEGREE of warming from CO2.

Over the past year, RenewEconomy has been highly skeptical about the Coalition's approach to clean energy and climate change policies.

The pH range is over one pH unit, so I am more than highly skeptical of anyone claiming to have measured a change of a few hundredths of the natural variability locally, and extrapolating to the «world's oceans.»

It was published in 2006 or 2007... Anyway, interesting to see I've got 3 responses varying from non-skeptical (Reazon), to highly skeptical (Ken), to moderately skeptical (Ferdinand).

If the problem is that we have too many power plants that dump greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere, I am highly skeptical that the way we are going to solve this problem is by building more power plants that dump greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere.

Yale's «Six Americas» report found that the highly skeptical are more informed about climate change science than those who report a high degree of concern about it (the latter of whom still regularly confuse climate with the ozone hole, etc.).

In the light of this I am highly skeptical of any push for alarm over global climate.

Personally, I'm highly skeptical of the whole paradigm behind «smoothing» and «averaging».

I'm highly skeptical that solar and volcanic «forcing» is really as important is unforced internal variability.

BBD - yes, I am highly skeptical of the conclusions reached based upon analysis of the output of a GCM that has been demonstrated to poorly forecast future rainfall patterns.

By your use of this term, you directly imply that I am a «denier», as I am highly skeptical of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (not just «anthropogenic global warming», which is plausible if not measurable, although there are honest grounds to doubt even this associated with the details of the Carbon Cycle that remain unresolved by model or experiment).

As you may have inferred from my response to his slides, we climate skeptics at Stanford, whose GCEP project has as noted above been fingered by Greenpeace as an ExxonMobil - funded climate - skeptic organization, are highly skeptical of the IPCC that Lindzen describes, and are deeply into denial of that sort of climate nonsense.

It would appear that the vigorous conservative campaign against climate - change advocates (especially Al Gore) has contributed to leaders of the Republican Party adopting a highly skeptical view of global warming.

I'm a phsycist - and I remember being highly skeptical about AGW when I first heard about it in the late 80's - reasoning that the ocean was such an enormous heat sink that any impact on atmospheric temperatures would be dwarfed by the impact on increased heat content in the ocean.

Actually both of these politicians have slid away from outright denial to a position wherein they see themselves as highly skeptical that any warming seen is related to human actions.

When you say things like this, it leaves me highly skeptical of your «authority».

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.

I remain highly skeptical that vat - grown meat will be as nutritious as even current agri - business - produced animals subjected to poisonous drugs and processing that amounts to wholesale torture.

[Response: SEPP is indeed highly skeptical, though slightly questionably an «organisation» — it is essentially the project of Fred Singer.

Anyways, I have found the first two parts of her series to be enjoyable even though I was highly skeptical at the outset (as I am with any mainstream presentation of the climate change science).

It's such a gift to developers (if it's funded of course) that I am highly skeptical of it for that reason.

So when they first announced Greenlight, even though I thought it was a good idea on the surface, I was highly skeptical.

That being said, I was highly skeptical of God of War: Ascension.

I think it was Epigramx who said it but «I can't hack you better hardware» While it would be cool to find some magical 30 fps lock that can be turned off I'm highly skeptical of that being the case.

I've saved a great deal of pain and folding money on being highly skeptical of the company that was my former secret lover.

I haven't played it personally, but I'm highly skeptical of everyone's interpretation of the game's quality.

I was highly skeptical of their «mistake» and after much arguing and debate they relented and refunded the extra interest they had charged over the year as a result.

I'm not sure such expertise exists at all — and given that the fund in question under - performed a vanilla bond index when managed by the so - called professionals, I'm highly skeptical that if such expertise does exist that a small firm like WS will suddenly possess it in - house... and Eric Kirzner has been there since the beginning, which I should stop ranting about in the footnote.

However, they were highly skeptical that we could successfully charge particles.

Experts in the fields of chemical engineering and material science were highly skeptical that we would be able to create oppositely - charged particles and place them into a microcapsule.

We remain highly skeptical of automated conversion processes, but it sounds interesting.

The 3 - cylinder engine is fine for commuting, but when it comes to how this engine would fare with a Countryman full of passengers and gear, we are highly skeptical.