Sentences with phrase «impression as a layman»

In a recent interview with The Scientist, David Gelernter offered a semi-skeptical view of human - driven global warming, describing it as his «impression as a layman, hearing, reading, looking around, and noticing how greatly the propensity is among scientists — and among many others — to overestimate mankind's capacity for changing the Earth.»

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Also, running your calculations with other, unrelated sets of tree - ring data might help to decide if my layman's impression (merely from looking at the «age effects» curve) that something is fishy with the 300 + year part of the present data is correct, or if very old trees generally show this kind of erratic growth pattern and my suspicions are thus unfounded and your «year effects» curve correct as - is.

What I think interesting as a layman and non-scientist is what the article was actually conveying to the general public at the time: an impression that there was consensus in 1975 that the climate was cooling, a period in which the communication of such things to the general public was chiefly limited to newspapers and newsmagazines.