Sentences with phrase «moves the goalposts back»
Professor Crowley's finding therefore moves the goalposts back at least 60 million years, which, given humans have only been on the planet for around a tenth of that time, is not an insignificant drop in the evolutionary ocean.
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One of the problems is that the goalposts are constantly being moved back and forth from «Skeptics don't deny climate changes, only the attribution,» to «Skeptics don't deny AGW, only the degree to which it is occurring,» even as there is an underlying attack on the very notion that there are any phenomena that can legitimately be attributed to «climate change.»
When you have to ignore so much data to assert we have danger, and when it does nt materialize you move the goalposts you should be back at the drawing board not on a bully pulpit claiming the science is settled.