Sentences with phrase «simply moved the goalposts»

Instead of acknowledging their science was wrong the UNEP, IPCC and national environment agencies simply moved the goalposts to climate change and more recently to climate crisis.

Instead, they did what all - official climate science has done since the IPCC was formed and simply moved the goalposts.

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Simply because everytime you reach a goalpost you move the success threshold a little further on and so your happiness gets pushed further away and over your horizon.

Owen Hathway, policy officer with the National Union of Teachers (NUT) Cymru, said it was «simply unacceptable to move the goalposts for boundary grades half way through the process, especially having not given any prior warning to teachers and pupils».