Sentences with phrase «many arbitrary assumptions»

However, the modelers had to make many arbitrary assumptions about clouds and the like, and reputable scientists disputed the reliability of the results.

Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski — world - renowned expert on the ancient ice cores used in climate research — says the U.N. «based its global - warming hypothesis on arbitrary assumptions and these assumptions, it is now clear, are false.»

However, the modelers had to make many arbitrary assumptions about clouds and the like, and reputable scientists disputed the reliability of the results.

High climate sensitivity is derived from arbitrary assumptions of amplification by positive feedback.

Any attempt to model climate has to model all of it, not make arbitrary assumptions like: all change is due to human CO2 and everything else must average to zero.

Yet there's very little uncertainty in Pielke's claim that «global warming halted on this time period», which appears to be based on arbitrary assumptions, especially when you look at Von Schuckmann's paper.

Splitting R and L into components is uninformative considering it's impossible to measure or calculate the value of the components without making arbitrary assumptions.

The new HadSST3 dataset still contains some seemingly arbitrary assumptions.

All temperature reconstructions suffer from one VERY arbitrary assumption in relation to the measurement method of sea surface temperatures SST (buckets of various types, engine):

Not exact matches

Protestant ethics rests on arbitrary doctrinal assumptions....

Machiavelli fully endorses Livy's assumption that the fundamental question to ask, when thinking about political liberty, is about the distinction between freedom and servitude, and he further agrees that the arbitrary power wielded by the early kings of Rome left the citizen body living as slaves.

(«this concept» refers to the assumption that mortality rates should increase exponentially with age within populations)-- Again, the assumption of normality is not arbitrary and is the focus of almost half of the manuscript.

A new, 170 - page FairTest report on the first two years of «No Child Left Behind» (NCLB) implementation finds that educational quality and equity have been damaged because of the law's incorrect assumptions and arbitrary requirements.

The necessary changes should not be arbitrary or guessed based on opinions and assumptions of breeders and owners.

Combining the scientific with the arbitrary, at times juxtaposing the two in order to force the viewer to question their assumptions about rules in the natural and formulaic world, Abdul - Aziz is methodical in her explorations.

If that result is seen in multiple models and multiple simulations, it is likely to be a robust consequence of the underlying assumptions, or in other words, it probably isn't due to any of the relatively arbitrary choices that mark the differences between different models.

(pauses)(M1): Our models have been classified as «complex» (M2): Make that «very» (M1 & M2): That are built upon assumptions by default are arbitrary; So we get a lot of flack about our «dubious» hypotheses, (thinks) That others take to then promote their cataclysmic prophesies.

You are not even attempting to fit all the datasets you chose to the global temp record, you are trying to fit them to the residual of your arbitrary, a priori assumption.

Without this arbitrary and unjustified assumption, you would have to conclude that ice cores seriously under - estimate CO2 concentrations.

«scientists have assumed» «The climate models assume» «assumption that Natural CO2 is totally fixed and unchanging» «if you assume a long lifetime for atmospheric CO2 ″ «falsification of the basic assumption» «it requires assumptions that violate empirical knowledge» «assumed so that the ice cores and modern measurements fit together» «arbitrary and unjustified assumption»

As we now know, both definitions of the philosophical «scratch line» were not merely arbitrary, but rested on factually false assumptions....

The fact that all the models generally come up with similar solutions is a function of the initial assumptions and arbitrary «governors» on their equations to prevent run - away solutions, not a testament to their ability to accurately model real climate.

The idea that the faulty assumption is a single arbitrary time - frame, and that all time frames in an AR (1) model are mare equally valid is abstract, but that's physics.

Yet even as a measure of the human carbon footprint, the EF uses an arbitrary methodology that is highly sensitive to its authors» assumptions.

Thanks for the long and tedious explanation illustrating the often ignored fact that all Global Warming models / constructs / etc, still can not avoid arbitrary (human) assumption in order to make a statistical in the absence of defined and demonstrable causal mechanisms.

«law is completely arbitrary, irrational, nonsensical, whimsical, that that's no basis for making any reasonable guess as to anything that will happen based on anything that happened before, not even based on what the judge had for breakfast, not even based on the assumption you've bribed the judge with enough money that the fix will last.»

Nor do the second, third or fourth reasons survive close scrutiny... for they would be either arbitrary, or based on unwarranted assumptions...