Sentences with phrase «more dire predictions»

The authors included Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, a meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who for years has expressed skepticism about some of the more dire predictions of other climate scientists about the significance of human - caused warming.

That's 24 years of failure, yet the latest IPCC claims include even more dire predictions.

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.

More diseases, more warnings, more dire predictions... well you know that story, and we talk more about in in item # 3 in this newsletter!

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Not all hedge funds had a good day, though — even though the Dow and S&P 500 ended Wednesday up more than 1 % each, proving wrong the universally dire predictions for the market in the unexpected Trump victory scenario.

Professionals in B2B Sales must feel like they under assault from the constant dire predictions of outright dissolution in organizations as well as the constant pressure to squeeze more revenue out of the pipeline.

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.

During an interview with Don Weeks on 810 WGY AM, the governor used some strong language to pan borrowing, calling it even more dangerous than tax increases, which seems to validate the Republicans» dire predictions that hikes may indeed be in the offing.

The Dire predictions of more and more powerful hurricanes have been demonstrated to be false.

Despite all of the dire predictions of the death of print books and the even more ominous — but genuine — predictions on the death of brick and mortar bookstores, this report is actually a good sign that the dramatic drops in book buying are possible slowing.

And with dire predictions like those of Smashwords» CEO Mark Coker stating that there will be a «glut» of ebooks in 2013, authors have to be prepared to help their titles... [Read more...]

As flu season continues to wreak havoc and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issuing dire predictions about the number of flu - related deaths likely before the outbreak... more

The continued growth in movie streaming (read continued success of Netflix) and a more balanced view of the power of the «last milers» has moved sentiment away from last December's dire predictions.

But look: The predictions for the future would be more dire than before especially as the aerosol cooling would not be expected to keep up.

On the other hand, along with improved agricultural efficiency, this more favorable growing climate has allowed us to feed a rapidly growing global population despite Stanford scientist Paul Ehrlich's dire predictions we would experience mass starvation by the 1970s.

At first glance, the predictions are dire: an area of tropical forest the size of India gone by 2050, one - sixth of the world's carbon budget spent in the next 35 years, a world more prone to storms and natural disasters.

He is author of more than 160 peer - reviewed and edited publications, and has published books include Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming in 2008 and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines in 2012.

Dire predictions for Queensland were much more based on simple projections of decadal rainfall.

«Dire Predictions» by Mike and Lee Kump arrived in today's mail and I must say its a lot more user friendly than Hurst coefficients and autoregression analysis.It contains some startling graphs, i.e., page 33 showing the recent spike in three of the GHGs, and (so far) contains good summariess to use as responses to the usual skeptics arguments.

A dire prediction from the Dame Ellen MacArthur Foundation says there will be more plastic by weight than fish in the oceans by 2050; whether or not this turns out to be true, we do know that marine wildlife is suffering greatly from the effects of plastic pollution right now.

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.

It seems these dire predictions are no more than means to get attention by using a lot of statistics that do not do anything more than create a needless fear.