Sentences with phrase «point for a sceptic»

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Perhaps; though the sceptic might still argue that here one is looking not at the impact of vows, but at those couples who have contrived to hold together through a certain level of psychological stability supported by sufficient conditions of external security.Let us allow the sceptic to press his point: can one really do more than hope for permanence in marriage?

In other words, it is not enough for sceptics to point to contradictory evidence, we must disprove the theory itself.

Could you point me in the direction of sources for the sceptics arguments and counterarguments so I can present a balanced and convincing account of this issue?

But even more interesting was that, in a discussion with one of our guests who had welcomed the news, I learned - to my astonishment - that he was Chair of a local «Environmental Network» - whose website asserts, for example, that there is a «widespread consensus» that more CO2 will make the Earth «too hot for us», that «we are approaching crisis point» and «disaster» and that the opinions of sceptics are derived from media promotion «by those who stand to lose financially if energy consumption is reduced».

Those who point out the problems of making arguments for policy on the back of PR stunts and junk science are labelled as «sceptics» or «deniers», motivated by profit, «ideology» or simple bad - mindedness rather than the desire for a sensible debate about our relationship with the natural environment and concern about development.

He made the point well that much of the argument about climate consists of the scientists having to refute claims made by sceptics based on minutiae without regard for the bigger picture (2008 being colder than 1998 despite the general warming trend, or corrections upwards to the temperature of a single Tasmanian weather station despite the fact overall there was no bias).

Fred S. Singer, a prominent sceptic, is listed by Exxonsecrets for having been, at some point in the past, a «consultant to several oil companies», and that the SEPP — the organisation he worked for «received multiple grants from ExxonMobil, including 1998 and 2000».

And climate sceptics think it is somehow cynical and disgusting for anyone to point this out http://t.co/UYs7m9am0L

I take your main point, but I would counsel you and all other fellow climate sceptics not to make the argument that CO2 is «a harmless gas that plants need for photosynthesis».

I feel a certain sympathy for Owen Paterson, he is hated and vilified by both sceptics and believers in equal quantities, along with anyone who points out that he is not entirely wrong or is not actually spawn of Satan.

Headlines blared: «Sceptics lose their last talking point [except for UAH and sondes (weather balloons)-RSB-.»

Jan 7 — Tallbloke posts that Gavin Schmdit won't be attending because «he didn't see the point in attending if the policy dimension was to be excluded and we are just going to discuss the science, because his side's science is right and all the sceptic's scientific arguments are just a smokescreen for their agenda.»

It is not good etiquette to quote from private correspondence, so I'll just say that he didn't see the point in attending if the policy dimension was to be excluded and we are just going to discuss the science, because his side's science is right and all the sceptic's scientific arguments are just a smokescreen for their agenda.

I'm waiting for Willis to get a reply on his frogs scoop and given the past history of enviro sceptics the overwhelming majority of thier points wind up as false leads.

The point was to allow for a maximum of «self - regulation» which has been largely successful, though there were sceptics from the early days.