Sentences with phrase «made dire predictions»

In the late 1960s, Paul Ehrlich famously made dire predictions of doom, based on his attempts to model the biosphere and our relation to it, which failed to materialise.

The IMF and World Bank officials made dire predictions about the crisis, which derives mainly from food crop land being switched to biofuels.

And speaking of respect, I reserve the right to offer a bit to Mr. Camping if he proceeds to apologize to the world and dismantle his awful Family Radio network broadcasting empire that's been foisting this baloney on the public since the LAST time he incorrectly made these dire predictions.

This leads him to his key point: «Let us make no mistake; the data we now have at hand should serve as a dire warning: Unless we act decisively, many of today's converts will be one - generation Jews — Jews with non-Jewish parents and non-Jewish children,» But Sarna concludes on a note that most Jews would find more hopeful: «Learned Jews and non-Jews have been making dire predictions about the future (or end) of the Jewish people for literally thousands of years — long before William Wirt and long after him — and, as we have seen, their predictions have proved consistently wrong.

She doesn't hesitate to make dire predictions about what the future holds for your children («You feed him chemicals?

That said, the scientific case is not helped at all when exaggerations are made by some of the «green» movement, or by people who claim they understand the climate science and then make dire predictions, probably well beyond the 90 % confidence limits derived from the actual climate modelling.

They also need to take an aggressive role in calling out other scientists who make dire predictions but don't really understand the science of global warming or the uncertainties.

He has been doing this for over two decades, unlike the computer modelers who are making their dire predictions based on their own theoretical climate scenarios.

Scientists should look to trends before making dire predictions about extreme weather, but the trends show no link to climate change.

On a very simple level, climate alarmism is all about making dire predictions of what'll happen in the future.

«The climate models making dire predictions of warming in the 21st century are the same models that predicted too much warming in the early 21st century, and can't explain the warming from 1910 - 1945 or the mid-century grand hiatus,» Dr. Judith Curry writes in a Wednesday op - ed published in The Financial Post.

In the current cryptocurrency market, it is easy to make dire predictions on the likes of Bitcoin, which is struggling to make it back from its drop.

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These are just the latest in many dire predictions about the results of climate change if humanity doesn't start making some major changes to our consumption habits.

Burnham's comments suggest a shift from his previous position, coming weeks after he criticised Blair for making «dire predictions» about what would happen to the party under a Corbyn leadership.

That was the dire prediction made in the 1980s.

All the dregs are at it, making dire 100 - year predictions based on silly climate models that have been proven to be wrong time and again.

All the dregs are at it, making dire 100 - year predictions based on silly climate models that have been proven to be wrong -LSB-...]

Although the public presentation of charter school research today is nearly as contentious as it was when the AFT report made waves in 2004, beneath the radar screen is a growing convergence on a set of findings that fit neither the rosy predictions of the early advocates nor the dire fears of the early critics:

While libraries have done well for themselves despite the dire predictions of doom following the digital revolution — largely by reinventing themselves as providers of other community needs while still making books their focus — there have been some highly ominous predictions for libraries in the current political climate.

True — for now — but what the science shows is validation for a model that makes more dire predictions for the future and with increasing costs associated with delays to action.

«Could turn the climate change world upside down» The rise in skeptical scientists are responding not only to an increase in dire «predictions» of climate change, but also a steady stream of peer - reviewed studies, analyses, real world data, and inconvenient developments have further cast doubts on the claims of man - made global warming fear activists.

Back in the past when all those dire predictions about the coming doom of CAGW were made — if those scientists (I use the term loosely in their case) had then the data we have now — WOULD THOSE PREDICTIONS HAVE EVERpredictions about the coming doom of CAGW were made — if those scientists (I use the term loosely in their case) had then the data we have now — WOULD THOSE PREDICTIONS HAVE EVER BEEN Mmade — if those scientists (I use the term loosely in their case) had then the data we have now — WOULD THOSE PREDICTIONS HAVE EVERPREDICTIONS HAVE EVER BEEN MADEMADE?

Now, with their new identification, they figured that in order to qualify their position in life and increase their newly discovered self - importance, they absolutely had to make crassly dire predictions, and over-inflated prognostications.

None of the dire predictions over the past 50 years have come close to resulting in the prediction made.

Over at AEI's Enterprise Blog, Mark J. Perry has a weird post about how all the dire predictions that environmentalists were making back in the 1970s never panned out.

Dire predictions like that do more than grab the attention of the media; they can shake consumer confidence and help make such predictions self - fulfilling as home buyers stay on the sidelines, pressuring sellers to lower prices — in effect fueling a downward spiral.