Sentences with phrase «much credibility on»

Boykoff observed that in the mind of the public, local weather forecasters — many of whom do not have a science degree — have as much credibility on climate issues as experts.

And I said, «Okay, sorry, but you don't have much credibility on that point.»

Not exact matches

Much of the effectiveness of Canadian monetary policy depends on the Bank of Canada's credibility: managing expectations for the future is at least as important as setting short - term interest rates.

As a result, much of Canada's monetary policy framework is focused on establishing and maintaining the credibility of the Bank of Canada.

I think I have way more credibility than the $ 75,000 a year earning researcher who has never made much more than $ 75,000 because I've made crap working at McDonald's and large sums working on Wall St.

You may not like the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, you may not agree with their tenets, you may even feel you are such an expert on what makes someone a Christian and have the right to make the judgement on who is and who isn't, but spouting off inaccurate claims indicates no credibility, and inasmuch as Jesus said «thou shalt not bear false witness» I guess it doesn't leave you looking much like a Christian.

1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

READ MORE ABOUT DAIRY FOOD TRENDS: Highlighting the Healthy Halo of Dairy Foods Processors are keeping it real by leveraging dairy's whole - food credibility Dairy Processors Focus on Clean Ingredients, New Organic Products The clean label trend (which is dominating the conversation in the food industry) isn't so much a trend anymore, but a «movement.»

There's a lot of things that don't make sense, for example: Wenger has so much credibility that even the loan for The Emirates was only given to the club on guaranteeing the bank that Wenger would still be the manager for at least another 4 years.

Quite honestly, the story doesn't seem to have much credibility, it seems to be a case of the media getting wind of Arbeloa's unhappy situation in Madrid and trying to sell a story based on that.

I will understand you wanting Walcot out but your credibility on assessing players is tainted by too much fantasy.

Cutting corners on design can cost you much more in credibility than you save in pennies.

In other words, it is pretty much only Labour voters who think that the party retains credibility on the economy.

Mecca said the DEC has lost credibility and faces too much political pressure from the Cuomo administration to expand the plaza on the American side and reconfigure roads leading to and from the bridge.

Paladino doesn't have to put on much of a show to lend credibility to his campaign slogan, «I'm mad as hell.»

Just announcing «from now on, there will be no more bailouts» does not have much credibility.

«Voters should remember this fact as they weigh how much credibility to give the UFT's rhetoric on improving public schools: When given seven years to show New York how to craft a great school, it didn't even come close.»

Yet for Labour, if this wake - up call on credibility is to prove truly significant, it should transform much more than the party's headline economic commitments.

«If these reports are true, the previous government's rush to ban mephedrone never had any serious scientific credibility - it looks much more like a decision based on a short - term electoral calculation.

On the other hand, GAPS was developed by a medical doctor with a masters in Nutrition who has years of hands - on clinical experience dealing with autoimmune compromised patients which adds much credibility to this approacOn the other hand, GAPS was developed by a medical doctor with a masters in Nutrition who has years of hands - on clinical experience dealing with autoimmune compromised patients which adds much credibility to this approacon clinical experience dealing with autoimmune compromised patients which adds much credibility to this approach.

Blamed for everything from headaches, to abnormal weight loss / gain, to constipation / diarrhea, to menstrual irregularity, to leaky gut / bowel inflammation, to anemia... and basically everything including cancer and the deaths of kittens (ok, maybe not), gluten has really gotten a bad rap in the past several years, probably very much in part due to the publishing of the book Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis, the landmark study on Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS) by Dr. Peter Gibson, and the explosion of social media in the past decade that has given an unprecedented voice to people who otherwise would have no credibility with which to garner attention towards themselves.

It's pretty sad when, out of two actors playing the same person (albeit at different ages), the one with much less experience and no expectations does a better job than the star, who wants his credibility to hinge on this film.

Plus, some of the tweaks to the traditional tale, like having Ella meet but not recognize the prince, introduce credibility issues of their own: she finally works it out only after going to the Ball and dancing a whole dance with him while everyone else looks on, which doesn't so much suggest «blinded by love,» as «tragically slow on the uptake.»

Credibility is difficult to sustain to the very end, but thanks to the interesting actors, especially Swank and Elba (Sometimes in April), we have the proper vessels to relate to, much in the same fashion as we could Mulder and Scully on TV's «The X-Files».

Richardson put on more than a few pounds for the role of Patty Bauman, and her personal sacrifice lends that much more credibility as one of Jeff's primary supporters.

«Based on real life events» doesn't often mean much to this reviewer — too often those words are (ab) used in a cynical attempt to lend credibility to a story otherwise struggling to maintain it.

We can say everything we want about how much [credibility] we should invest in a one - time test, but some of the most poignant discussions I've had are with parents who didn't find out until their child was in the seventh or eighth grade that she or he was way behind — not reading up to par, not doing math up to par, and not prepared to take on high - school - level work.

«I want them to think through what they read online, to apply all the skills they learned in the class — evaluating source credibility, identifying logical fallacies, recognizing bias, basing written arguments on solid evidence — to social media platforms just as much as they do in their academic work.»

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

Amazon has certainly become a much more crowded space since then, and the sock puppeting that went on this summer (and news such as John Locke and other authors paying for reviews) has also made the credibility of Amazon.com reviews much lower IMHO.

However, while more on the tablet is awaited but what is needed even more is official confirmation that will lend some much needed credibility of the information in the first place.

I think after the recent publicity PETA's gotten (collecting animals from veterininarians with the promise of finding them homes, only to kill them a few minutes later), their credibility on any subject is pretty much non-existent.

You could have the best - qualified doctors and vet techs in the country, but if you haven't made that widely known, pet owners don't have much to go on by way of credibility.

I don't mean to focus so much on VIP Art Fair — but I think it will greatly increase the credibility of selling art online in general.

I do believe that even if we feel that it is better to err on the side of too much fear as is common between concerned scientist we do have to admit this error if we want to have credibility.

Whether you are gullible enough to accept the figures as accurate depends on how much credibility you put in the multitude of observational measurements taken by different methods over many decades by diverse groups of researchers that form a strong consilience of mutually supporting evidence for the validity of the estimates and the possible errors.

Since this has happened before (on very large issues, but even so, smaller issues than this), excuses won't have much credibility at that point.

For some of us, since 2008, bankers have got credibility issues of their own when speaking on Finance, much less Climate.

When anyone who is not much engaged in this debate sees that this is the level of argument that gets seized on and promulgated by the «sceptics» they will immediately understand where the balance of credibility lies.

You will have much more credibility if you keep your focus on these issues instead of throwing up the same old straw - man all the time.

2) More empirical data on how much difference poor siting has on the temperature results would add credibility to the complaints.

But how much longer can her credibility hold together, if even her own friends see her as someone who can't seem to get historical facts correct about her personal situation, combined with her claims of being attacked by US Senator James Inhofe being undercut by her own words, and her apparent failure to fact - check elemental details surrounding a core set of evidence she relies on to indict «corrupt skeptic climate scientists»?

If it were indeed false, it would entirely reasonably reduce his credibility on all matters, as it is a simple matter of common sense that if a man will lie to deceive his own vanity, how much easier it is to lie to others.

The climate wars at the big end of town fascinate me as, although I lean toward the inevitability of agw, it is clear the prominent personalities on that side of the debate have destroyed much goodwill and credibility with activism and attempts to hide uncertainty.

If you want to argue that criticizing a scientist's work on a blog destroys your credibility, how much of the «skeptic» canon are you left with?

I am beginning to get the impression that Mr. Shore, and too many others like him, are deliberately venting their untutored and ignorant malevolence here, over and over again, with less and less scientific credibility, not so much because they want to silence the likes of Professor Lindzen (they know that all their venom can not do that to so brave a man who has endured their snarling viciousness so imperturbably for so long) but because they and their political allies on the climate - extremist hard Left want to frighten off anyone else who dares to question the IPCC / RealClimate storyline so that they are deterred from saying anything publicly for fear of being mistreated and abused and hollered at and smeared in a similar fashion.

One thing that I've only just cottoned on to is how much more damaging the decision to strip the older data is to the credibility of the graph and it's authors (I'm way behind everybody else I realise).

Bishop Hill says - Louise Gray has adopted the role of recruiting sergeant for the Balcombe protest camp, offering up helpful advice on what aspirant participants should bring along: http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/8/7/environmentalist-journalist.html [That pretty much shreds Gray's credibility — Anthony] ============================================================= Lots of chatter about sea ice being higher than in many recent years: Danish Meteorological Institute: Arctic...

However, it is frustrating that we put too much store on CO2 causing the problem — if this mantra is wrong, then credibility will be lost and green energy may be put on the backburner (so to speak).