Sentences with phrase «simplified dramatic statement»

I think the arctic melting by 2013 is a scary scenario, and a simplified dramatic statement.

Does it fit the description of a «scary scenario», and a «simplified dramatic statement»?

So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have... each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.

The rise of the grand narrative, as many readers will know, has been littered with deeply worrying statements, of which the following are perhaps some of the more notorious: «Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen» (Sir John Houghton); «To capture the public imagination we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have.

Choice 1: How much money do we want to spend today on reducing carbon dioxide emission without having a reasonable idea of: a) how much climate will change under business as usual, b) what the impacts of those changes will be, c) the cost of those impacts, d) how much it will cost to significantly change the future, e) whether that cost will exceed the benefits of reducing climate change, f) whether we can trust the scientists charged with developing answers to these questions, who have abandoned the ethic of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, with all the doubts, caveats, ifs, ands and buts; and who instead seek lots of publicity by telling scary stories, making simplified dramatic statements and making little mention of their doubts, g) whether other countries will negate our efforts, h) the meaning of the word hubris, when we think we are wise enough to predict what society will need a half - century or more in the future?

to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have..».

offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have..»

However, the SPMs aren't scientific documents, they are where «we make simplified dramatic statements and hide any doubts we might have».

Maybe Brook has the same attitude as Professor Stephen Schneider «To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have.

Not exact matches

So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.

Janković and Shultz even dare to reference the late Dr. Stephen Schneider's heartfelt rationalization for climate change advocacy by invoking his stated position that climate scientists must necessarily «offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have» so as to «capture the public's imagination» by «getting loads of media coverage» as a means to advance the cause.

So we [scientists] have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.»

They much prefer to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements in order to frighten people with catastrophe:

Whatever their reasons, many if not most leading alarmist scientists, like Jones, preferred the approach made notorious by the late Stephen Schneider to get public support: «We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.»

-- Sir John Houghton, «We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.»

So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention about any doubts we might have... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.

``... we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have...» — Stephen Schneider, Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group II Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report

He said: «We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have».

So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest

Schneider describes being «effective»: ``... we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have...»

At the end of the day he does urge this conduct: ``... we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have...» and says that each scientist must determine for himself how that is to be reconciled with telling «the whole truth.»

There is no disjoint between Schneider — `... we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts...» — and millions of other expressions of the same idea.