Sentences with phrase «measure in any scientific way»

A cancer risk increase of that size is too small to actually measure in any scientific way, so it must remain a theoretical increase in risk.

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If you set about measuring a complicated structure like the pyramid of Cheops, he says, you will soon have dozens of measurements to play with; and if you have the patience to juggle them about in various ways, you are bound to come out with many figures that coincide with important historical dates or with scientific calculations.

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Even if we accept the dubious proposition that 200,000 studies provide a scientific basis for the authors» 13 nebulous standards of good teacher practice, we can't be sure that the ways in which the authors have chosen to measure these standards necessarily replicate those of the underlying studies.

Dorf's digital manipulations of photographs taken while working in Colorado at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory explore the concept of sublime landscapes and highlight the ways we measure and categorize our world through scientific means.

Victor complains of a so called «lack of scientific understanding», but shows his own massive lack of understanding when he calls basic statistics arcane, and appears to think the satellites measure the same thing in the same way as surface data like giss.

Most scientific studies track methane in one of two ways: either by measuring the gas in the atmosphere with instruments placed on tall towers or flown on aircraft, or by analyzing emissions directly at the source, such as at oil and gas wells.

In a classic Catch - 22, negotiators in a key advisory body that was expected to provide guidance on scientific and technical matters (the so - called «Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice ``, or SBSTA) said they couldn't offer any advice on the best way to measure and evaluate the amount of carbon captured by changes in land use practices until they had a better idea of what the overriding post-Kyoto policies might look likIn a classic Catch - 22, negotiators in a key advisory body that was expected to provide guidance on scientific and technical matters (the so - called «Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice ``, or SBSTA) said they couldn't offer any advice on the best way to measure and evaluate the amount of carbon captured by changes in land use practices until they had a better idea of what the overriding post-Kyoto policies might look likin a key advisory body that was expected to provide guidance on scientific and technical matters (the so - called «Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice ``, or SBSTA) said they couldn't offer any advice on the best way to measure and evaluate the amount of carbon captured by changes in land use practices until they had a better idea of what the overriding post-Kyoto policies might scientific and technical matters (the so - called «Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice ``, or SBSTA) said they couldn't offer any advice on the best way to measure and evaluate the amount of carbon captured by changes in land use practices until they had a better idea of what the overriding post-Kyoto policies might Scientific and Technological Advice ``, or SBSTA) said they couldn't offer any advice on the best way to measure and evaluate the amount of carbon captured by changes in land use practices until they had a better idea of what the overriding post-Kyoto policies might look likin land use practices until they had a better idea of what the overriding post-Kyoto policies might look like.

In addition to inherent scientific uncertainties slowing response, a variety of human and institutional barriers stand in the way of adaptation measures: long lead - times for rule changes; ideological resistance; a preoccupation with the near - term; false perceptions that climate impacts either won't be too painful or are off in the distant future; business - as - usual assumptions; and lack of national leadershiIn addition to inherent scientific uncertainties slowing response, a variety of human and institutional barriers stand in the way of adaptation measures: long lead - times for rule changes; ideological resistance; a preoccupation with the near - term; false perceptions that climate impacts either won't be too painful or are off in the distant future; business - as - usual assumptions; and lack of national leadershiin the way of adaptation measures: long lead - times for rule changes; ideological resistance; a preoccupation with the near - term; false perceptions that climate impacts either won't be too painful or are off in the distant future; business - as - usual assumptions; and lack of national leadershiin the distant future; business - as - usual assumptions; and lack of national leadership.

The talk gets a little out - there in the office too sometimes... Yesterday it was all about the scientific way to measure a flaccid penis.