Sentences with phrase «scant evidence for»

Actually, by the time you approach 200ppmv for CO2, you have already reached the break point in the curve, beyond which additional CO2 has much less impact on the RF — and this is close to the glacial value — suggesting that CO2 changes do not drive the glacial cycles (CO2 changes are supposed to amplify T rise during deglaciation, but there is scant evidence for this and the assumption that it did also underlay the IPCC belief — and a great many references in academic papers give a T degrees C per ppmv CO2 without stating over which range of concentrations this is meant to apply.

And even if fears about «chemicals» polluting water sources have some foundation, there seems to be scant evidence for them.

There is no global warming on mars (or very scant evidence for it) which is another argument used by deniers to try and prove that the sun is the cause of GW.

As for the finding that salt intake favours boys, one theory is that salt alters the acidity of the vagina to favour male sperm, but Mathew says there is scant evidence for this.

Cox offers scant evidence for this claim, perhaps confident that any intelligent reader will reflexively dismiss reports of supernatural phenomena.

There is scant evidence for Christmas Truce events beyond a few isolated incidents on the Western Front.

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«The evidence for economic reform to date is scant and based on purported private statements rather than government pronouncements,» wrote Bruce Klingner, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former CIA official, in an October op - ed for the Los Angeles Times.

The improving outlook is one reason the stock market has risen so sharply this year, even if street - level evidence for a turnaround, like strong job growth and income gains, has been scant so far.

The actual evidence for evolution is scant, at best.

There is scant to no evidence for King David, let alone evidence of his god - favoredness.

The authors of the Handbook diligently review these reports and rightly conclude that the evidence for the negative claims is scant and that the claims usually reflect the investigators» preconceptions and closed - mindedness.

That idea has been circulating for some time but the evidence has been scant and contradictory.

In the letter, the attorneys write that» when constitutionally - protected contributions are trotted out as evidence of a bribery scheme — particularly when they have scant relevance to the alleged scheme — jurors are unlikely to consider them merely on the convoluted signaling theories the Government relies on for its assertion of probative value.»

«The court of trial must as a matter of law discharge him because it has no business scanting for evidence that is nowhere to be found.

But there has been scant fossil evidence for what happened to birds — the only dinosaurs to survive the extinction — in its aftermath.

The tiny arthropods have been surreptitiously sucking blood for more than 100 million years, but evidence of early ticks» preferred hosts has been scant.

But scant evidence bears out that traditional optimism, according to molecular biologist Adil Shamoo of the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore, co-author of the textbook Responsible Conduct of Research and the founder and, for nearly 2 decades, the editor of the journal Accountability in Research.

Research suggests that this form of punishment can cause severe psychiatric and neurological damage to inmates, and evidence for its effectiveness in reducing crime or recidivism is scant.

For developed nations, there is scant evidence that TIMSS rankings correlate with measures of prosperity or future success.

«Individual performance determines NIH award success, while the evidence for racial bias is scant,» says Wang, who this week moved from Virginia Tech to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

There was scant experimental evidence for this hypothesis until 1994, when John Dick and colleagues demonstrated that leukemia - initiating stem cells (LSCs) present in the blood of leukemia patients may induce acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) when transplanted into severe combined immunodeficient mice (2).

Even if there is scant scientific evidence for a procedure, does it matter if it gives someone hope and raison d'etre?

Other factors also suggest Mars once had a much thicker atmosphere, such as evidence of persistent presence of liquid water on the planet's surface long ago even though the atmosphere is too scant for liquid water to persist on the surface now.

There is scant robust evidence of what actually works whether it is how to observe colleagues, to provide meaningful feedback or to help change the practice of fellow teachers for the better.

Instead, school districts, eager to be perceived as plugged in and afraid of being penalized for low test scores, have bought into expensive drill - and - kill software — the kind that costs a fortune and displays a silly animation of fireworks or cheering crowds for every five correct answers — with only minimal improvements on test scores and scant evidence of long - term progress among students.

However, there is scant evidence this will be the case for the majority of schools in California (see my testimony at the May 7 State Board of Education meeting, here and here).

White Star Lines Captain Bruce Ismay, long despised for taking a seat in a lifeboat rather than going down with the ship (a scenario eerily relived in the recent sinking of the Costa Concordia), is casually labeled a «masochist» on rather scant evidence.

For the moment, there's scant evidence to support this at any level — in the basic data on storm patterns or in tallies of damage and deaths.

The need for a direct push on energy innovation is particularly acute given scant evidence, in Cancún treaty talks or elsewhere, that countries where nearly all of the growth in such emissions is coming in the next few decades are willing to restrain this flow for the sake of limiting long - term climate change.

Maybe Trenberth thought our observations lacked a few data points, for example at the time he wrote that email, the observational evidence for seawater temperatures below 700 meters was, shall we say scant.

Regrettably, there is scant evidence of loans being written off, despite some of these models having been around for some 18 months or so.

For now, scant evidence supports any claims about EOS performing better than bitcoin or Ethereum.

... In summary, Brunton takes apart the «stolen children» Report, Bringing Them Home, and shows that despite having been chaired by a former High Court judge, Sir Ronald Wilson, it has shown scant regard for evidence, balance and the credibility of witnesses.