Sentences with phrase «sceptics claiming»

If memory serves, there were some examples, after the paper was published, of sceptics claiming that had been miscategorised, Again a handful, a flea - bite on the mountain of evidence collected.

Most sceptics claim that todays temperatures lie within these variations — as indicated by Steve's reconstruction.

Sceptics claim the case has not been made for the role of ICT for learners, but the benefits have become much clearer over the past five years and increasingly hard to deny.

Sometimes it builds up at their summits but is lost at their snouts, and this can be can misleading, as the climate sceptics claim.

In the early 1990s, a group of sceptics claimed that Roger Revelle, one of the first climate scientists, had changed his mind about global warming and no longer believed it was a serious problem.

Briefly again, pro-AGW theory proponents urge erring on the side of the caution, whereas sceptics claim the precautionary principle is a glorified version of Pascal's Wager.

I have a dialog on another blog about AGW, And oneof the sceptics claims that there is not enough CO2 being added to the atmosphere to make a difference.

Professor Jones has been in the spotlight since he stepped down as director of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit after the leaking of emails that sceptics claim show scientists were manipulating data.

20 November: Guardian: Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists by Leo Hickman and James Randerson «It does look incriminating on the surface, but there are lots of single sentences that taken out of context can appear incriminating,» said Bob Ward, director of policy and communications at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics.

This is the common sceptic claim that «the prediction is that CO2 is a major driver is refuted by the ice core data which shows it isn't, therefore, CO2 is not a major driver of climate change»

Up to now I've never heard a sceptic claiming LIA being less cold than most reconstructions show.

In July 2009 Watts objected to a YouTube video critiquing his sceptic claims, claiming copyright infringement, and had it taken down.

This was not quite the «nail in the coffin» for global warming that some sceptics claimed.

The caveat «sceptics claimed» does little to counteract the false impression conveyed here.

The former revelation suggested some researchers were involved in massaging the truth, sceptics claimed, while the latter exposed deficiencies in the way the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — authors of the report — go about their business.

Vocational courses gain support, but sceptics claim university graduates retain edge.

While Bitcoin sceptics claim that Bitcoin is only used for speculation and has no actual uses, a New York preschool has shown that Bitcoin can be a convenient and successful method of payment.

Not exact matches

Sceptics have to resort to claiming that all people in the ancient world were credulous and simple, or to concur that the real Jesus must have been a conjuring con - artist.

The claims of sceptics such as Sheffield University professor Philip R Davies, who dismisses the biblical King David as «about as historical as King Arthur», have attracted plenty of attention and publicity through popular media.

The most ambitious sceptics have tried to eliminate Jesus altogether by claiming that he never existed.

Liberal Democrat energy secretary Ed Davey claimed «ignorant» climate change sceptic Conservatives are contributing to «extreme weather events» in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research earlier.

When I call myself a sceptic, I mean that I take a scientific approach to the evaluation of claims.

However, Bellamy has become a prominent global warming sceptic and has made a number of notable claims in the media.

The fear and horror these diseases cause is a fading memory, and despite the fact that vaccines work, the sceptics are gaining ground, their claims given credence by a handful of Hollywood stars and now by US president Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, climate sceptics have dubbed the affair «polarbeargate» and claim Monnett's work is discredited.

Climate sceptics immediately claimed it contains an admission that much of global warming is a result of the sun's variability, not greenhouse gas emissions.

His vertical line, full of portent (but not «portentous», as sceptics might claim) speaks of creation, God — and the human urge to draw a line.

I like this little dig at the denier - sceptic - contrarians who appear to be tree ring obsessed: «It is intriguing to note that the removal of tree - ring data from the proxy dataset yields less, rather than greater, peak cooling during the 16th — 19th centuries for both CPS and EIV methods... contradicting the claim... that tree - ring data are prone to yielding a warm - biased «Little Ice Age» relative to reconstructions using other high - resolution climate proxy indicators.»

Some sceptics are even using their press - releases about «2007 likely to be warmest year», «2009 in top 5 warmest years», to claim that global warming is being exaggerated.

I've noticed that claims about the wamring of Mars, Neptune and Pluto are never challenged by sceptics or contrarians.

I'm also interested in alternative points of view, but if sceptics cant back their big, sweeping claims up with substance, how do you expect people to react?

re 64 «I've noticed that claims about the wamring of Mars, Neptune and Pluto are never challenged by sceptics or contrarians.

And then he claims that «the increase in heat waves was largely balanced by a decrease in cold waves,» which is a popular climate sceptics argument but demonstrably false.

I think it would be really nice for all those sceptics that claim that models are just «garbage in», garbage out» to look at these two graphs.

These articles illustrate once again how «climate sceptics» are not interested in an understanding of science, but in confusing the public with misleading claims.

In spite of his rather mild (in comparison to many sceptics» claims) position, Lomborg was the subject of more vitriol from the alarmist propaganda machine than perhaps any other climate - sceptic / denier / realist figure.

One of the biggest debates between sceptics and their counterparts is in fact the role played by feedback mechanisms — a response in part to claims by environmentalists such as Mark Lynas in «Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet» that a relatively small increase in CO2 could cause «runaway climate change» by triggering (unknown and possibly non-existent) feedback mechanisms to form.

The claim, which Mann himself uses in the NYT, for example, that 97 % of scientists agree that «climate change is real» and that «we must respond to the dangers of a warming planet» isn't borne out by a reading of the survey, which was itself imprecise about its own definitions, and captures the perspectives Mann has himself dismissed as «anti-science»: sceptics are part of the putative ’97 per cent».

There is a lot of room for the sceptics between this position and H1: AGW (it obviously narrows as the confidence levels reduce, but so does what is being claimed on either side).

There is no hope at all of separating them — the posters above, such as Monty, who claimed to separate the issues and challenge sceptics with science, all then claimed «consensus» when challenged with contrary peer - reviewed papers.

Similarly, and as discussed here, Matthew England's recent discovery of the «missing heat» — right or wrong — in the oceans followed years of his somewhat angry criticisms of climate sceptics rightly pointing out the missing heat, leading to their claims, rightly or wrongly that climate science had erred.

Curry calls Mann's bluff — he should make plain what is the scientific claim which is in dispute, but which shouldn't be, and which are the claims in general that sceptics seemingly deny.

And those falsely claiming to be scientists should be challenged by sceptics and the public made aware of their bogus claims.

And in spite of claims that bloggers are the agents of this hostility, Academics can be found making statements — such as the idea that influential climate sceptics ought to face the death penalty — which don't exactly serve to cool the atmosphere, much less shed any light on the matters of debate.

Key to his argument that the sceptics are wrong is a page on the expedition's website, which seems to claim that the mission anticipated the «fast ice» which came to surround them:

If you think «all» sceptics share the same views and make the same claims, I'm afraid you are the deluded one.

Claims made by sceptics that the effects of the current ENO as it enters a negative episode, since last year, yielded temperature anomalies much lower than in recent years (in fact, very much average at near zero), have been waved away by alarmists claiming that they are the result of «natural variability».

The scientists also put paid to claims that global warming has «stopped» because global temperatures in the past 15 years have not continued the strong upward march of the preceding years, which is a key argument put forward by sceptics to cast doubt on climate science.

There was a spike in 1998, after which temperatures were lower — but still warmer than previous decades — that led some climate sceptics to claim that the world was cooling.

I have sometimes tried to point out to sociologists who claim that sceptics suffer from motivated reasoning that the same might apply to them.