Sentences with phrase «sceptics in»

«A Greenpeace investigation has identified a little - known, privately owned US oil company as the paymaster of global warming sceptics in the US and Europe.

The task of the climate sceptics in the think tanks and PR companies hired by fossil fuel companies was to engage in «consciousness lowering activities», to «de-problematise» global warming by characterising it as a form of politically driven panicmongering.

Grimes, in other words, was picking a battle with the climate sceptics in his head.

If the science is settled it should be easy to end the argument by having an open debate on the subject and putting all the sceptics in their place.

However, one recent psychological study suggested a more ambiguous relationship between geoengineering and denial, suggesting that «it may simultaneously engage sceptics in the prospect of tackling climate change while lessening their inclination to engage in personal - level actions».

If you (and by «you» I mean sceptics in general) are so sure scientists are doing bad work that they need to be hauled before a congressional investigation then it should also be possible to show which part of their work is wrong.

It is almost as if they need to be the victims of death threats in order to portray climate sceptics in such a way.

Perhaps some more sceptics in Tung and Zhou — but I go further of course.

Do any of us still wonder why CAGW cult leaders refuse to debate sceptics in public?

Hi Mikel, Could you please be rude and illogical next time, it makes it easier for me to keep sceptics in a box!

In general sceptics in the blogosphere will listen to a new idea and make useful additions and criticisms.

There is a strong minority of open climate sceptics in the Conservative party, Yeo told Leo Hickman, editor of Carbon Brief.

Prior to this program being aired apparently both people at the BBC and Paul Nurse spoke to the Guardian with comments that gives every reason for me to think the program was intended all along to present sceptics in a bad light.

In opposition, the party's business advisory group on climate policy included two high - profile climate science sceptics in the form of business figures Hugh Morgan and Dick Warburton.

That requires an intellectual elite who are climate sceptics in the true sense, rather than busily applying blue facepaint and reaching for a placard.

Dr Iain Stewart investigates the counter attack that was launched by the global warming sceptics in the 1990s.

As we have seen with other UK academics and their departments — Lewandowsky and Cardiff University psychologists have been discussed here at length — the academic has turned his sights at the public in general and climate sceptics in particular.

Just as Lewandowsky couldn't take the perspectives of climate sceptics in good faith — he had to probe inside their minds, using a shoddy internet survey — Read does not take issue with the arguments actually offered by actual climate change - denying libertarians, he takes issue with his own fantasy libertarian, abandoning all the rigour and practice that the discipline he belongs to has established over the course of millennia, to score cheap rhetorical points.

«Of all the serious sceptics in Australia, we have helped and supported just about all of them in their work one way or another,» he says, listing some prominent figures on the local circuit.

Whether it is the PDO, or another natural oscillation (my money's on the AMO), which is holding global temperatures more or less constant its significance is not just as a weapon for sceptics in the future.

The new turbochargers leave the sceptics in their wake and find a new destination: unexplored levels of torque.

In this overheated environment do I detect the hand of global warming sceptics in business and the media at work, gleefully sowing the seeds of confusion?

Yes, based on the comments there are a lot of climate warming sceptics in the USA responding to this site.

On a wider point, there are EU sceptics in the Labour Party too and many LidDem voters (but not, I think, members) are highly EU sceptic.

Other sceptics in the past have been the Scottish secretary, Jim Murphy, and the health secretary, Andy Burnham.

Moreover, he knew that we might win and did not want the embarrassment of being forced by Europe to legislate equal marriage, which would have been used against him by Euro - sceptics in his own party — and by UKIP.

Despite a sense of inevitability, he believes with a sustained effort he can win over sceptics in Parliament when expansion is voted on in 14 months» time.

You've been hearing from sceptics in our Faith Explored segment for several months.

So, today's doubters need to be pressed hard as to why, if the alternative versions of Jesus (mystic, moral teacher, misguided healer) advanced over the last few centuries can be taken seriously, it never occurred to any sceptic in the ancient world to make these very obvious challenges.

just so that the sceptic in question can....

And this is what made me a sceptic in the first place: the turbo charging of the science towards global disaster.

There is only one climate sceptic in the world.

I went from a «believer» to an absolute sceptic in a short space of time, thoroughly confirmed by Climategate.

I know of no prominent sceptic in Australia or America who denies such realities.

Indeed, can you send me the name / details of any one prominent sceptic in Australia or the US who denies that the climate changes and / or shows no interest in measurement of the same?

I guess that makes him the most - cited sceptic in this important scientific resource.

But they are not where science is done - anyone with pretensions of being a sceptic in the real sense of the word should undertake the revelant studies, do research and publish papers which are subjected to review by one's peers.

Hi from a sceptic in NZ.Thanks to the team for their magnificent work.Just one request, could you put our NIWA on the right track to monitor our temps please?They seem to be struggling at the moment.

I'm a sceptic in the scientific sense (as everyone should be), and see myself as truthful, objective, and hopefully incisive.

Not exact matches

And in the meantime, some sceptics feel that Google will not - so - subtly be encouraging publishers to use its ad network and analytics, since they already work with AMP.

Sceptics, however, note that Amazon (AMZN) is also investing heavily in new content for its Amazon Prime Video service, and that it has far deeper pockets than Netflix will ever have, unless the latter gets acquired by someone like Apple or Disney.

Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights of climate activists — and other companies that resisted the need to change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded climate sceptics could be vulnerable.

In it, McKibben calls Justin Trudeau a «stunning hypocrite» on climate change whose actions make him a «brother» to climate sceptic Donald Trump.

Many sceptics believe we are in the middle of a new Bitcoin bubble while advocates say we are just beginning to see the rise starting.

For the sceptic the answer is simple — less educated people are more likely to believe in superstitious nonsense.

It is intriguing to note that the approach of sceptics has shifted in recent times from an attempt to demonstrate that historical research has shown that Jesus was not raised from the dead, to the idea that the historical question «is probably unanswerable».

A senior clergyman is reported as having said in a sermon that «the elevation of the Bible to close on divine status has done more damage to the Christian message than all the slings and arrows of the sceptics.

He lost his faith in a racist church and made a living out of being a doubter and a sceptic, but when... More

Space doesn't allow for the multiplicity of arguments that could be presented for belief in God, but if a sceptic were to ask me to sum up a few, I would offer the following three reasons.

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.