Not exact matches
Religion, on the
other hand, begins with the
conclusion, then works backwords to
justify itself.
The twenty - two named varieties grown during 1882 and 1883 at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station seem to belong to C. annuum L., and while we are not prepared to affirm that they all can be identified with one or the
other of the above named species, yet we think there is probable identification sufficient to
justify the
conclusion that no strongly marked sorts have appeared during the five centuries of European culture.
In
other words, the MOST important piece of information, the information we MUST have in order to draw
conclusions about safety is missing from the new paper and its absence is both inexplicable and impossible to
justify.
While there was a lot of interesting science in this paper (the new methodology, the range of results etc.) which fully
justified its appearance in Nature, we were quite critical of their basic
conclusion — that climate sensitivities significantly higher than the standard range (1.5 — 4.5 ºC) were plausible — because there is significant
other data, predominantly from paleo - climate, that pretty much rule those high numbers out (as we discussed again recently).
Take, for example, a standard that states students must be able to
justify conclusions, communicate findings to
others, and respond to
others» arguments.
On at least a couple of occasions it was pointed out that there are many
other independent lines of evidence
justifying the
conclusion that the global average temperature is rising, and that it is rising dramatically.
While there was a lot of interesting science in this paper (the new methodology, the range of results etc.) which fully
justified its appearance in Nature, we were quite critical of their basic
conclusion — that climate sensitivities significantly higher than the standard range (1.5 — 4.5 ºC) were plausible — because there is significant
other data, predominantly from paleo - climate, that pretty much rule those high numbers out (as we discussed again recently).
Some hope that our governor will veto this waste of money,
others hope that no one will step forward to conduct the «study» — the
conclusion has been defined, they just want scientists to
justify the
conclusion.
Because I gave an extreme example, it is difficult to
justify crossing against the light, but in some
other example, there might be a better argument to balance a
conclusion based on argument from ignorance.
We should be careful not to push the
conclusions beyond what we can securely
justify — and this is not much
other than a confirmation of the general
conclusions of the TAR.
There are many well - known observational issues concerning the detection of a «hot spot» so these
conclusions are not really
justified, but you're correct that theoretically the water vapor and lapse rate feedbacks are not independent of each
other.