Sentences with phrase «such smoking guns»

Five to seven years ago, climate scientists thought they had found two such smoking guns: one in ice core data going back 650,000 years, and one in Mann's hockey stick using temperature proxy data going back 1,000 years.

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Most games, this is kinda fun and isn't particularly hard; there are a lot of games with a «smoking gun» type incident, be it a great goal, a defensive failure, a referee being an idiot, or some such triggering event that causes a specific outcome.

«People are likely to react with little fear to certain types of objectively dangerous risk that evolution has not prepared them for, such as guns, hamburgers, automobiles, smoking, and unsafe sex, even when they recognize the threat at a cognitive level,» says Carnegie Mellon University researcher George Loewenstein, whose seminal 2001 paper, «Risk as Feelings,» (pdf) debunked theories that decision making in the face of risk or uncertainty relies largely on reason.

And if, García - Bellido says, any black hole in a LIGO merger proves to weigh less than our sun, this would be a «smoking gun» for primordial black holes, as such relatively minuscule black holes are thought impossible to form from stars.

In a quiet region, such hot temperatures clearly weren't due to a large explosive solar flare, and so are a smoking gun that something otherwise unobservable was heating up this area.

The cause of lumbar disk disease, or LDD, has been thought to be some combination of environmental factors such as work conditions or exercise habits, but a smoking gun has never been found.

Survey of data from NASA satellite failed to find any radiation «smoking gun» of such a civilization's existence, they report.

A narrow band of them in the high - energy spectrum would be a «smoking gun» for the presence of dark matter, says Michelson, but he thinks it's more likely that the dark matter emission would be mixed in with gamma rays from other energy sources in the universe and that scientists such as GLAST pioneer Elliott Bloom will have to work very hard to untangle the GLAST data to find it.

In the latter category, there are Pam (Jason Mantzoukas), a gun - toting shopkeeper who sells drugs to kids out of an ice cream truck, and Jason's cousin Nick (Adam Pally), a younger version of Dick who shows up on crutches during the movie's climax for no apparent reason (It might seem like a useless point to raise, but the screenplay somehow lacks logical consistency, such as when Jason scolds Dick for smoking the «gateway drug» of marijuana after the grandson smoked crack earlier).

Avoid writing argumentative essay about such old topics as gay rights for adoption, glass ceiling, smoking in public places, gun control, violence on television, internet pornography, stem cell research, cloning, freedom of speech, death penalty, etc..

While the game doesn't feature «87 bazillion guns» like Borderlands, its combat gets variation out of craftable traps and consumables such as smoke grenades, abilities and different types of arrows.

Typical gear such as darts, smoke bombs, and guns are at your disposal as well, but Syndicate's hand - to - hand combat is so satisfying that you likely won't find yourself using these unless you're up against enemies that are a higher level than you.

To a non-scientist such as my self, the Kirkby paper would appear to present the smoking gun to many climate puzzles, and of course I'm sure he'd like his CLOUD experiment to be the light that shines on many of the unanswered climate puzzles.

Our results show the occurrence of such seasonal extremes just prior to the onset of the CIE and may thus represent the smoking gun of a climatologically forced threshold in the carbon cycle that caused the PETM.

Such work received praise from no less than former Vice President Al Gore in a 2010 New Republic article, where Gore repeated the exact «smoking gun» leaked memo phrase which he said — in the companion book for his 2006 «An inconvenient Truth» movie — that Gelbspan discovered (Gore strangely doesn't name Gelbspan directly in his article, but that is another story).

The Commonwealth had created a new felony modeled on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an obscure 20th - century federal law.15 It criminalized unauthorized use of any computer, an admittedly vague framing that in its federal incarnation had been interpreted to include activities as far - reaching as violating a website's terms of service.16 The device scanned a passenger's online personas for signs of criminal activity, and when it couldn't find a smoking gun (such as pictures of contraband or discussion of criminal activity), the CFAA gave Baley additional bites at the apple.17 Lying about your height in a dating profile was often a violation of a site's terms.

Studies have shown that life satisfaction is negatively associated with adolescent problem behaviour: sexual risk - taking behaviours (Valois et al. 2002); substance abuse, such as cigarette smoking, chewing tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, regular alcohol use, binge drinking (Desousa et al. 2008; Piko et al. 2005; Zullig et al. 2001); and violence and aggression, such as carrying a gun or weapon, physical fighting, stealing or damaging property at school, and drinking and driving (MacDonald et al. 2005; Valois et al. 2001).