Sentences with phrase «make implausible»

Hansen argues that an, «overwhelming objection,» to Keystone XL is that, «exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate,» and mentions that, «the tar sands are estimated to contain (carbon) equivalent to about 200 ppm CO2.»

«An overwhelming objection is that the exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts... governments are acting as if they are oblivious to the fact that there is a limit on how much fossil fuel carbon we can put into the air.»

Dr. James Hansen (NASA): An overwhelming objection is that exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize the climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts.

An overwhelming objection is that exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts... [I] f emissions from coal are phased out over the next few decades and if unconventional fossil fuels including tar sands are left in the ground, it is conceivable to stabilize earth's climate.

Now none of these five elements should be surprising, but I have been somewhat surprised at how some books are missing one of these elements, have them underdeveloped or make them implausible.

So in speaking to the majority, this forces supporters of cutting taxes on high - earners to make implausible promises about the wonderful indirect effect benefits most people will get when taxes are cut on somebody else.

He exudes a kind of solid decency and equanimity that makes the implausible plausible.

In particular, we point out that this work used invalid modeling tools, contained modeling errors, and made implausible and inadequately supported assumptions.

Not exact matches

Every subsequent Congress and administration has relied on equally flawed, implausible assumptions and made similarly flawed decisions, right up to the present one.

The Fed does not have special information on where the economy is going and I find it highly implausible that its not acting would scare market participants if it explained its decision making.

It's difficult to get around this conclusion without making assumptions that are both implausible and inconsistent with all historical experience.

The Vanishing American Jew: in Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century by Alan M. Dershowitz Little, Brown, 395 pages, $ 24.95 In Chutzpah, his 1991 best - seller, Alan Dershowitz made the wildly implausible claim that American Jews still don't feel fully at home in this country and, as a....

Ottaviani's approach to theology was neatly summarized in the Latin motto of his cardinalatial coat of arms, Semper Idem [Always the Same], and his fierce defense of what he understood to be orthodoxy made him a not - implausible model for the character of Cardinal Leone in Morris West's novel The Shoes of the Fisherman.

This rather implausible result is made possible, Whitehead thinks, because we perceive in the modes both of causal efficacy and of presentational immediacy.

In short, nothing in history of human endeavor can make otherwise smart, functioning people believe the most implausible of supernatural absurdities the way religion can.

And it must undertake some response to the ways of thought that make the notion of revelation seem implausible or pointless to other contemporary theologians.

Such self - congratulation makes for smug, implausible, bad TV.

That verse suggests the creatues on - board the ark would have needed to eat, so food was brought on - board for them, which only makes the story even more implausible, since not only would the ark have needed to house all those animals for about a year according to the Priestly Source version, but also food for them as well.

I'm aware that young earth creationists, such as Ken Ham, try to make the story less implausible by stating that the story refers to «kinds» or «baramins».

It seems to me implausible that all these people, and so many more, who have made a negative judgment on the medieval idea of God, were less competent than those who now wish to return essentially to the medieval perspective.

The supine acceptance by many churches of no fault divorce makes the «I have become a Christian so it is all different now» defense appear implausible, even if it is actually true in specific cases.

I do know some of the arguments for why the flood is scientifically implausible, but I think there are alternative explanations for where all the water came from (and where it is today) that might make it more plausible.

The hop, step and jump boys were clearly too remarkable to miss but, the camera seemed to think, too implausible for attentive study; so they made their screen appearances (and disappearances) with the impromptu of interloping kangaroos.

Association spokesman Peter Stephenson said: «There is no evidence to support the assertions made by this study, which would appear to be implausible.

In a court hearing, Huntley's lawyer made some fantastical accusations about the capitol — that senators were carrying bags of cash up elevators, that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was dirty — but prosecutors noted many of Huntley's statements were «implausible.»

Making Latimer's account even more implausible, is the approach to the traffic light at Grand Boulevard when traveling West Bound on Wilmot Road.

While I find his way forward somewhat implausible, given entrenched interests — Gibson had six years in Congress and didn't make all that much progress — this book offers unique perspective.

Despite the recordings she made, the federal government did not ultimately agree to a cooperation agreement with her because, according to prosecutors, she repeatedly «provided answers which were false, implausible and inconsistent» in meetings with them about her case.

It is not implausible that Preet's well - documented current investigation into the governor's office and various state contracts and key developers is additionally looking for links between these contracts and campaign donations made to the governor's campaign warchest.

Their leader, Nick Clegg has written this piece in the paper in which he makes the somewhat implausible claim that the «real choice» at the next election will be «between yellow and blue».

The «invisibility cloaks» being made in labs today can hide objects when viewed from a wide range of directions and in visible light — both considered implausible developments when the first working invisibility cloak was demonstrated just four years ago.

A representative of Yuri Melekhovets, the director of the Canadian lab, did not accept that the lab had made errors and said that it no longer uses the SNPs we highlighted as giving implausible results.

But such destruction of information also conflicts with the law of energy conservation, making this possibility implausible.

He told New Scientist that the difficulty of integrating the parts supplied by ITER's myriad partners made the current deadline of 2020 for «first plasma» implausible; 2022 or 2023 are more likely.

Even the most implausible business can make money if the cost of reaching new customers is zero.

But, as Hansen wrote in an additional assessment of his new analysis, «Environmentalists need to recognize that attempts to force all - renewable policies on all of the world will only assure that fossil fuels continue to reign for base - load electric power, making it unlikely that abundant affordable power will exist and implausible that fossil fuels will be phased out.»

Another characteristic that should raise questions in your mind about the veracity of the contacts you make on a free dating website is claiming implausible feats or characteristics for oneself.

Siegel makes excellent use of San Francisco locations, even if Harry makes a few implausible leaps across town from time to time.

It's kind of hard to know where to begin with what's wrong in Traffik, a movie where every scene takes about twice as long as it feels like it should, and the characters far too often make an escalating series of implausible and / or stupid decisions.

They carry the film through some implausible plot twists which left me somewhat confused, but somehow, the film always made sure the audience was following along.

Don't forget, Bea loves the creatures, which complicates things somewhat when a rather implausible romance blooms almost instantly between the two humans, which only serves to escalate the stakes on Peter's side — not that it makes much sense.

What makes this particularly funny is the way that Tambor, after saying something so implausible, subtly darts his eyes around the room to see if anyone believes him.

This one endearingly eccentric, familiar detail — nothing brings down the house quite like the peek - a-boo intrusion of a boom mike — helps make palatable such an implausible showdown and its comically dated mise - en - scène.

Ingrid Goes West will make you think twice when you next log into post the latest photo of yourself on whatever social media platform you frequent and thanks to standout performances from its two lead actresses, Spicer's impressive debut film overcomes some highly implausible plot developments to become a memorable and in many ways important musing on our growing dependency to be connected to an often fanciful online world.

A kid with an implausible dream, a neo-conservative Batman and Robin and a social network combine in unexpected ways to provide Kick - Ass [both the film and the character] with an eager - to - please rambunctiousness that makes it both infectious and scary.

Swinton is perhaps underused in a role that barely sees her speak; her character always retains a sense of mystery and is aloof, making her rock star persona - hinted to be eccentric in the vein of David Bowie - slightly implausible.

From Denmark, this morally complex drama is urgent and provocative even if the story is full of lapses that make it feel oddly implausible.

Though much is justifiably being made of the implausible film's sudden plausibility post-9 / 11, there's still a considerable gap between a jetliner and a blimp on the threat - meter — a fear chasm addressed in the film by a ratcheting of the histrionics to a ridiculous pitch.

, who somehow manages to make the world's most implausible living as a bicycle messenger for the world's most implausible courier service.

I submit that it's implausible for him to have written this (unless Logan made his own pilgrimage to the desert to discover his true self).