Sentences with phrase «producing exaggerated numbers»

This approach is routinely used by governments and industry to justify large projects, and is biased towards producing exaggerated numbers.

Not exact matches

The greatest outcry, however, came from survey organizations who produce the polls, social scientists who utilize poll findings to bolster arguments about the vitality of American religion, and a number of Roman Catholic researchers who argued that we exaggerated the overreporting in their constituency.

The reason for this is that a breed is produced from a select number of dogs, by people who want to exaggerate or retain certain features.

Hand pointed out that the statistical tool Mann used to integrate temperature data from a number of difference sources â $ «including tree - ring data and actual thermometer readings â $ «produced an «exaggerated» rise in temperatures over the 20th century, relative to pre-industrial temperatures.

18F implies almost two degrees a decade, a huge number considering the warming over the last decade has been close to zero and no decade has had warming of more than about 0.3 F. Further, I am sure the Sierra Club found someone who actually produced such a study, but the IPCC «consensus», which I think is exaggerated, calls for only about 4 - 6F increases in the next century.