Sentences with phrase «unequivocal evidence of»

The rapid response team is taken directly from the spin machine of New Labour that gave us for example the «unequivocal evidence of WMD» in Iraq where the «threat was real imminent».

Few people have read paleo - climatology text books, are aware of the glacial / interglacial cycle, are aware that the paleoclimatic record has unequivocal evidence of cyclic gradual changes and cyclic abrupt climate events, are aware that the abrupt climate change events such as the abrupt termination of the last 22 interglacial periods lacks an explanation, are aware that all of the past interglacial periods are short (roughly 12,000 years) and that they have ended abruptly, and so on.

Could it be because that period is centered on the» 70's, when the RECORD (according to contemporaneous reporting) Arctic ice and unusual cold worldwide was being cited as unequivocal evidence of an impending ice age.

The uncertainty has dropped each time, and the spring, 2007 version of their reports cited unequivocal evidence of already existing climate change, devastating impacts mounting already, and some truly terrifying projections of where we are headed.

Studies published in the best economics and education journals have shown unequivocal evidence of excessive teaching to the test and drilling that produces inflated measures of students» growth in learning; cheating on tests that includes erasing incorrect answers or filling in missing responses; shifting of students out of classrooms or other efforts to exclude anticipated poor performers from testing, or alternatively, concentrating classroom teaching efforts on those students most likely to increase their test scores above a particular target, and other even more subtle strategies for increasing testing averages.

It provides unequivocal evidence of the positive impact of intensive sports coaching and mentoring on the lives of young people, and also supports our view that further high - quality research is needed to continue to inform policy in this area.»

There is unequivocal evidence of serious, adverse effects from over exposure to sunlight in terms of skin cancers and cataracts, but there is also accumulating evidence that sunlight exposure, acting via its role in vitamin D synthesis, can protect against certain diseases.

«For the very first time, we see unequivocal evidence of a cosmic mine that is forging more than 10,000 earth - masses of heavy elements, such as gold, platinum, and neodymium,» Kasliwal says.

But again, while a physical reaction that is probably an orgasm can be noted, unequivocal evidence of the sensation of orgasm among species less articulate than our own is impossible to come by.

If no unequivocal evidence of matriarchy has yet been discovered, neither is patriarchy anywhere absolute.

Not exact matches

Where this clashes with scientific evidence, the latter is always secondary to the former and his message, although often cloaked in scientific jargon, is simple and unequivocal; indeed one of his favourite lecture topics is «Why, as a Geologist, I Believe in Noah's Flood».

Despite the absence of a sanction, which can only be imposed on the basis of clear evidence, the Disciplinary Committee would like to restate FIFA's unequivocal, zero - tolerance stance against all forms of discrimination, as enshrined in the FIFA Statutes.

The evidence for «back to sleep» recommendations issued in the early 1990's was unequivocal; following the guidelines the rate of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) plummeted a dramatic 50 %.

The AAP continues to support the unequivocal evidence that breastfeeding protects against a variety of diseases and conditions in the infant such as:

A study done by several universities, The Influence of Media Violence on Youth, states, «Research on violent television and films, video games, and music reveals unequivocal evidence that media violence increases the likelihood of aggressive and violent behavior in both immediate and long - term contexts.»

In a letter to the prime minister, dated 22 March 2000, the chairman of the scrutiny committee, Lord Thomson of Monifieth, said it required «firm evidence of an unequivocal decision by Mr Ashcroft that he will have taken up residence in the UK on a permanent basis» before it could recommend his appointment.

This evidence was crucial because only vertebrates have two different shapes of melanosome, meaning that unlike previous researchers that thought that Tullimonstrum was an invertebrate (animal without a backbone), this is the first unequivocal evidence that Tullimonstrum is a member of the same group of animals as us, the vertebrates.»

In the House Energy and Commerce Committee, California Democrat Henry Waxman had proposed an amendment calling on Congress to at least acknowledge that «warming of the climate system is unequivocal,» just as abundant scientific evidence confirms.

Worries escalated in the 1970s when Brookhaven National Laboratory's Lewis Dahl claimed that he had «unequivocal» evidence that salt causes hypertension: he induced high blood pressure in rats by feeding them the human equivalent of 500 grams of sodium a day.

Therefore, the presence of shock features in quartz should not be taken as unequivocal evidence for an extraterrestrial impact.

That was the unequivocal evidence for the hypotheses postulated by Charles Lyell in his «Principles of Geology»: mountains such as the Andes had not been formed in one colossal upheaval, but grew, barely perceptibly, over the course of millions of years, as the result of countless small quakes, to which Darwin had just been a witness.

«The compelling results seen in this global study provide unequivocal evidence supporting the clinical utility of Oncotype DX to risk - stratify patients with early stage breast cancer, and indicate that the findings are generalizable to everyday clinical practice,» said lead author Joseph A. Sparano, MD, vice-chairman of medical oncology at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, and professor of medicine and of obstetrics, gynecology, women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Slingo, head of the Met Office, said the the main conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report — that evidence of climate change was «unequivocal» — «is definitely the case.»

«We have found unequivocal evidence that the earliest species on earth are still using a primitive form of the genetic code consisting of only half of the standard 64 codons,» he said.

«Our study is the first to provide unequivocal evidence, based solely on a chemical «fingerprint», for the palaeoecological distribution of an economically and culturally important animal.

«CryoSat - 2 gives us a new pair of eyes on what is happening to Earth's ice,» says Robert Bindschadler, a glaciologist and chief scientist at NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory in Greenbelt, Md. «The changes in the cryosphere are providing the most unequivocal evidence that we are changing our planet in ways that should concern us all.»

His team already has provided unequivocal evidence that most wheat genes are present in physically small regions encompassing less than 10 percent of the genome.

According to some researchers, it has provided unequivocal evidence that neutron star mergers are a major source for almost half of all the elements heavier than iron.

A new paper, appearing in an upcoming issue of Nature Communications, reports unequivocal experimental evidence for tetrahedrally coordinated carbon in high pressure carbonates, obtained by combined experimental and theoretical studies carried out by a team of scientists including the Geophysical Laboratory's Zhenxian Liu (below).

Kind of a rolling the eyes «why are these people do silly, the evidence is unequivocal look here are loads of studies!

In «A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement,» published in 2002 by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Anne T. Henderson and Karen Mapp reviewed years of research on parent involvement, and their conclusions are unequivocal: When parents are involved in school, students of all backgrounds and income levels do better.

The research is clear and substantial, and the evidence is unequivocal: Students who enter first grade with a wealth of phonological awareness are more successful readers than those who do not.

As evidenced by this circumvention of an unequivocal classification, be it figuration or abstraction, narrative is similarly resisted.

In any event, there is unequivocal geologic evidence for parts of the GIS still in tact during the last interglacial, and Northern Hemisphere ice core records (see NEEM) now go back that far, which rules out ice - free conditions at the time in the NH.

A few things are unequivocal, perhaps (doubling from the present concentration of CO2 will take 140 years [give or take]; the idea that the changes in climate since 1880 have been in the aggregate beneficial; it takes more energy to vaporize a kg of water than to raise its temperature by 1K; ignoring the energy cost of water and latent heat transport [in the hydrologic cycle] leads to equilibrium calculations overestimating the climate sensitivity), but most are propositions that I think need more research, but can't be refuted on present evidence.

I have yet to see anyone provide definitive evidence — with no error bars — that the fingerprint of human - generated greenhouse gases (or other emissions or actions) is unequivocal.

Responding to the unequivocal scientific evidence that preventing the worst impacts of climate change will require Parties included in the Annex I to the Convention as a group to reduce emissions in a range of 25 ---- 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and that global emissions of greenhouse gases need to peak in the next 10 to 15 years and be reduced to very low levels, well below half of levels in 2000 by 2050,

With fourteen of the fifteen warmest years on record having occurred since the year 2000; with oceans both warming and acidifying; and with unequivocal scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels is the principal cause — what can we do to rapidly reduce emissions?

The scientific evidence for warming of the planet's climate system is unequivocal.

The unequivocal and indisputable climate research clearly demonstrates that climate change is constant; and when combined with historical accounts and anecdotal evidence, warmer climates tend to favor prosperity and peace outcomes while cooler periods provide more of the opposite.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report - Climate Change 2007 Released February 2, 2007, this report, written by over 2500 top scientists, is a comprehensive and rigorous picture of the knowledge of climate change that is «unequivocal» evidence that climate change is real and is happenning faster than expected.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says «scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.»

Suppose an individual believes something with his whole heart; suppose further that he has a commitment to this belief, that he has taken irrevocable actions because of it; finally, suppose that he is presented with evidence, unequivocal and undeniable evidence, that his belief is wrong: what will happen?

The entire framing of the IPCC was designed around identifying sufficient evidence so that the human - induced greenhouse warming could be declared unequivocal»

Stern, The Economics of Climate Change, 4 — 5, 11 — 16, 95, 193, 220 — 34, 637, 649 — 51; «Evidence of Human - Caused Global Warming is Now «Unequivocal,»» Science Daily, http://www.sciencedaily.com; Browne, «The Ethics of Climate Change,» 100; Spratt and Sutton, Climate Code Red, 30; Editors, «Climate Fatigue,» Scientific American 298, no. 6 (June 2008): 39; Ted Trainer, «A Short Critique of the Stern Review,» Real - World Economics Review, 45 (2008), http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue45/Trainer45.pdf, 54 — 58.

The accumulation of energy in the global ocean from the second half of the C20th onwards is held by many to be unequivocal evidence that the climate system is in radiative disequilibrium.

Do you yourself believe that a statement like» The entire framing of the IPCC was designed around identifying sufficient evidence so that the human - induced greenhouse warming could be declared unequivocal, and so providing the rationale for developing the political will to implement and enforce carbon stabilization targets» is self - evident and does not need any support to back it up?

In your original post you stated: «The entire framing of the IPCC was designed around identifying sufficient evidence so that the human - induced greenhouse warming could be declared unequivocal, and so providing the rationale for developing the political will to implement and enforce carbon stabilization targets.»

«But it's worth noting, because this provides unequivocal evidence that the sun is not the dominant driver of global warming.»

Even if you were to exclude every line of evidence which could possibly be disputed — the proxy records, the computer models, the complex science of clouds and ocean currents — the evidence for manmade global warming would still be unequivocal.