Sentences with phrase «on shaky science»

The word «uncontentious» in Revkin's article is a hyperlink to a 1998 NY Times article, alleging «Industry opponents of a treaty to fight global warming have drafted an ambitious proposal to spend millions of dollars to convince the public that the environmental accord is based on shaky science».

That the researcher responsible for the study is clearly not a «climate change denier» makes the IPCC's credibility gap all the more significant, and it raises new questions regarding the fundamental credibility of any claim coming from an organization which has relied on shaky science to back its demand for the power to take $ 76 trillion from the economies of the industrialized world and «redistribute» those funds for «green technologies» in the third world.

In response, the American Petroleum Institute (API) coordinated a plan to spend millions of dollars to convince the public that the climate accord was based on shaky science.

There is no justification for a war on outdoor cats — feral or otherwise — based on shaky science and an absence of ethical reasoning.

''... unless we have clear data, evangelical anti-salt campaigns are not just based on shaky science; they are ultimately unfair.

Climate Denialdom went ballistic over my recent video on the satellite temperature record, including John Christy, the Ned Flanders of climate denial — who spent half his recent congressional testimony sputtering about «well funded» video attacks on his shaky science record.

But unless we have clear data, evangelical antisalt campaigns are not just based on shaky science; they are ultimately unfair.

Not exact matches

Nonsense on Stilts by Massimo Pigliucci (University of Chicago Press) A tour of solid science, shaky science, and pseudoscience, this crash course in critical thinking by biologist and philosopher Pigliucci includes handy rules for evaluating the confused public discourse on climate change, evolution, and even UFOs.

Whether it is the content that you're shaky on, or the best ways to connect it to your student's lives, there are many dark scary corners for an elementary teacher teaching science.

Educators called on their members of Congress to implement research - based reforms and to avoid fad reforms that are backed by shaky science — or, in some cases, no science at all.

Linn in his October 7, 2015 essay for TheConversation.com, entitled «Australia's war on feral cats: shaky science, missing ethics,» never used the words «religion,» or «faith.»

We have some questionable «post modern» science built on shaky foundations that assumes we have a much greater knowledge of the historic record than we do, or assumes that the historic record - such as sea surface temperatures to 1850 - are a rock solid piece of science from which an edifice can be constructed.

The science is very, very shaky on their side.

The Swedish professor tells the BAZ that he became a skeptic of alarmist climate science early on because «the [UN] IPCC always depicted the facts on the subject falsely» and «grossly exaggerated the risks of sea level rise» and that the IPCC «excessively relied on shaky computer models instead of field research.»

The blogosphere emphasises this point, with behaviour at RC and (un) Skeptical Science enough to convince any unbiased commentator that you are on extremely tenuous and shaky grounds with your CAGW assertions.

Couple that with the inherent problems with computer models that the IPCC themselves acknowledge - but seem to be brushed aside - and the science is built on shakier foundations than many admit.

Blogs are focusing all the time on unreliable passing fads like some McLean paper or Salby podcast that imply the science is so shaky that it's being overturned every day.

The loquacious «Lord of the Lies» has a shaky grasp on climate science, as has been well documented in a thorough debunking by RealClimate.org of Monckton's fanciful and deceptive interpretations of IPCC global temperature projections.