Sentences with phrase «of contrarian positions»

This survey also found that the media exposure of contrarian positions is higher in the media, contributing to the consensus gap.

Some Democrats and environmentalists distrust the Oakland, Calif. - based institute because of its contrarian positions.

Fran Barlow: «It's hard to escape the conclusion that much of the contrarian position simply reflects the desire to fight what they see as a culture war against anything that smacks of human (as opposed to «market») control over policy.»

Quotes me:» It's hard to escape the conclusion that much of the contrarian position simply reflects the desire to fight what they see as a culture war against anything that smacks of human (as opposed to «market») control over policy.»

«It's hard to escape the conclusion that much of the contrarian position simply reflects the desire to fight what they see as a culture war against anything that smacks of human (as opposed to «market») control over policy.»

Not exact matches

That is just not the function of a dealer: Dealers are the buyers and sellers of first resort, not of last resort, and their function is not to take huge contrarian risks on long - term fundamental positions.

A contrarian strategy means the fund's managers view periods of market volatility as an opportunity to build positions that they think have good long - term value potential.

This negative positioning is supportive of a dollar bounce, says Jon, not a continuance of the downtrend, from a contrarian point of view.

While the Wall Street Journal and most market analysts are forecasting a 2007 continuation of the 2006 record bull market, I am taking a contrarian position, predicting 2007 will usher in a strong bear market that will soon begin reflecting the realities of the economic recession we entered roughly 11 months ago, in February 2006.

Those on both sides of the debate now claim to be taking contrarian positions.

The Spurs were in the position of contrarian favorites again, and despite losing Tony Parker, this time they crushed Houston 121 - 96.

Rather, the contrarian position was to ask what side had overcommitted relative to their ability to carry the positions, and the ability of others to get financing to buy them out.

Those naysayers were an inadequate reason to take a contrarian position; many of them didn't have a dog in the fight, aside from intellectual bragging rights.

I like equal weighting because it forces you to be contrarian and buy more of a declining position when the value metrics are still attractive.

The lesson that these observations holds for investors is to know yourself and your tolerance for risk or you are likely to be the «other side of the trade,» sacrificing return because it was too painful to hold a contrarian position through a market cycle.

Holding any contrarian position, whether it is part of a dedicated value strategy or a component in a contra - traded rebalancing strategy, such as RAFI, is very difficult for many investors.

This amounts to a success of the economic interests behind the contrarian position, as the public is left with a far more equivocal view of the situation than the science actually indicates.

As Lars comments, «One thing that it demonstrates quite clearly is how difficult it has become to effectively parody the stance of contrarians like Crichton, as their position is itself an incisive parody of real science».

Why is this such a ridiculous position in the mind of skeptics, contrarians, the media, and our government?

In any case, as one of those rare contrarian climate scientists, Spencer is in a good position to present the best arguments against the global warming consensus.

So, since it is so important for the diversity of scientific thought (as well as the cold hard scrutiny of all ostensibly scientific thought — but despite the clamor for diversity and challenge, this leading site, for laying out the myriad errors of climate change skepticism arguments, is nevertheless, among many other similar ones, decried, denigrated, and dismissed as unworthy and worse)-- what, exactly, is the «contrarian» position?

Thus the climate contrarian position receives nearly as much media coverage as the mainstream position, even though the contrarians comprise less than 3 % of climate experts.

This over-representation of the climate contrarian position in the mainstream media for the sake of false balance is undoubtedly the main reason why such a large percentage of the populace is unaware of the climate consensus.

Intentionally or not, readers were misled, and the good name of the New Statesman has been used all over the internet by climate contrarians seeking to support their entrenched positions.

There is a silver lining in this cloud of obfuscation - climate contrarians appear to be retreating more and more away from the «it's not happening» and «it's not us» myths, toward the «it's not bad» fallback position.

For the case of climate change, Thagard and Findlay (2011) showed that the contrarian position, exemplified by the opinion that global warming is a natural fluctuation, is incoherent in comparison to the mainstream scientific position.

Hence, since Dr Curry also mentioned in yet another recent piece that it was good that the «contrarian» position was getting some mileage, the question, on the topic of understanding «both cases,» what exactly that contrarian position was

That the award is intended to show group solidarity with his position as the Serengeti target of the contrarians as much as acknowledgement for the quality of his early work on climate reconstructions that have been largely confirmed by subsequent research.

Yes, there are still a handful of scientists who like to take slightly contrarian positions, which allows them to be quoted in media stories.

Any scientific study's result, or statement by a researcher, that does not fit a contrarian's personal, flexible definition of CAGW can therefore be adopted as ostensibly supporting their view and refuting the mainstream, even when such results are actually consistent with the mainstream position on climate -LSB-...].

For those who are determined to maintain a contrarian position on AGW, there are other much better grounds on which to base that position (maybe climate sensitivity is low, or maybe the impacts of GW will be on balance positive, or maybe the impacts will be negative but the costs of mitigation would be higher than the benefits).

Eventually, the climate realists raised upward of $ 10,000 in «realist» bets, and contrarians raised something around half of that for the «contrarian» position.

In this post we will examine the claims made by Giaever in his talk, and show that his contrarian climate opinions come from a position of extreme ignorance on the subject, as Giaever admits.

In any case, it is simply an effort to reconcile the rapid rates of warming in the Arctic with the output of the most recent group of global climate models — everyone agrees that global warming is real, except for a very large number of editors and reporters with the U.S. press, who continue to advocate for the positions held by a small number of fossil fuel funded contrarians and insist on giving them «equal time» — a luxury denied to renewable energy experts.

There have been a number of contrarians claiming that they are part of the 97 % consensus, which they believe is limited to the position that humans are causing some global warming.

But to get back to it, «climate contrarians» acknowledge the net beneficial value of CO2, and thus, are not conflicted If climate scientists were to also acknowledge this, they would do themselves a world of good in terms of credibility and be better positioned to counter accusations of hypocrisy.

SPENCER: Roy Spencer, a contrarian with a university position and a NASA medal, but also with a track record of bad mistakes, co-published a defective paper in a non-climate journal (HERE) in July 2011, claiming that some predictions of climate models are wrong.

And certainly contrarian positions are useful in leadership team discussions, especially when it seems only one side of the argument has been heard.