Sentences with phrase «well as rebuttals»

Skeptical Science provides its users with the basics of climate change science as well as rebuttals to some of the most common myths perpetuated by climate change deniers.

Not exact matches

The Washington Post blog was ultimately revised with an editor's note: «The post occasioned three rebuttals (here, here and here) as well as a response from the authors.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

Capital punishment's lack of demonstrated superiority as a deterrent (the evidence for its effectiveness being at best mixed), the capacity of society to protect itself equally well by permanently imprisoning those who are currently being executed (which is possible at limited marginal cost, especially when one takes into account the cost of the extended trial procedures and interminable appeals and reviews which usually accompany capital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital punishment.

As we and the good folks at CapCon take us down a video memory lane of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, here's his (only) LCA Show rebuttal video from 2007, which poked fun at this «steamroller» approach toward Albany.

Without that immediate, and highly plausible, rebuttal, plebgate snowballed into a full scale scandal spawning a resignation, the revelation of a fake eyewitness account, arrests, inquiries, a Channel 4 documentary, a Scotland Yard investigation and demonstrations at the Tory Party conference, and involved the DPP, the CPS, the IPCC, the Diplomatic Protection Group, ACPO and the Police Federation, as well as drawing in all the party leaders, the home secretary and countless MPs.

The taking of the key seats is also seen as a rebuttal of Corbyn's decision to appoint controversial political allies to the leader's office as well as a warning to Corbyn not to continue challenging existing party policy, such as nuclear defence.

Shermer's article is a shallow and tendentious treatment of a complex subject that does not take proper account of rebuttals to critical attacks on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, in which a comet strike more than 12,000 years ago caused the megafaunal extinction in North America, and misrepresents the state of the argument around my theory that this event wiped out an advanced human society as well.

Lomborg claims in his rebuttal that «Holdren could find little but a badly translated word and a necessary specification for nuclear energy production in this chapter».8 Actually, as my original critique indicated to the extent practical in the space available, and as Lomborgs rebuttal and this response make even plainer, his energy chapter is so permeated with misunderstandings, misreadings, misrepresentations, and blunders of other sorts that it can not be considered a positive contribution to public or policy - maker understanding, notwithstanding its managing to get right a few (already well known) truths about the subject.

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology on - line publication has published a rebuttal of Crichton and Will that goes beyond attacking their errors of fact and reasoning to condemn as well their failure to be scientists.

The sensible family haulers were well positioned to weather a financial drought as the rebuttal to a criticism that GM couldn't build a car that people actually wanted.

Amazon had previously been linked to a 10 - inch Kindle Fire, as well as a smartphone, but reports this week are now suggesting that the retailer is sticking to what it knows best, which is presumably a 7 - inch slate that will be priced aggressively - in other words: a direct rebuttal to Google's Nexus 7.

As far as critiquing peer reviewed work goes, if the work is really no good, does it deserve to have an inflated citation count by attracting a flood of peer reviewed rebuttalAs far as critiquing peer reviewed work goes, if the work is really no good, does it deserve to have an inflated citation count by attracting a flood of peer reviewed rebuttalas critiquing peer reviewed work goes, if the work is really no good, does it deserve to have an inflated citation count by attracting a flood of peer reviewed rebuttals?

pat - «Similarly many environmental activists believe that man's influence is a form of sin and nature (Gaea) will soon strike back...» You can phrase the position of a fictitious group any way you want of course, without rebuttal, because they don't really exist, though there are people who fit the description — especially if by «many» you mean more than three — but the more accurate reality is most of the human beings you would lump under the rubric «environmentalist» would more accurately be described as believing that short - sighted and greedy human attempts at total control and domination and complete disregard for the healthof the environment have gotten us out of balance with what was an interlocking web of balanced and dynamic systems, and would appear to have unbalanced many of those systems as well, including the still poorly understood cycles of climate; or weather, as we laymen call it.

Duarte touches on it well but why even quote the fictitious «97 %» propaganda talking point as having any rational foundation at all as rebuttal?

The IPCC's rebuttal that climate change can «amplify» the «well - documented drivers of conflicts such as poverty and economic shocks» is equally bogus.

Dagfinn, I think McKitrick's position is better described as «basically flawed», in that neither MM04 nor MM07 prove the purported point, whether or not he has a «marginally valid» point that the AR4 rebuttal was less than complete.

As to a rebuttal of the scary scary story you pose I think Max (manacker) has nailed it very well.

The logical error associated with using this statement to defend new fossil fuel infrastructure like fracking wells and bitumen sands pipelines (as well as new fossil fuel vehicles or power plants) is so obvious that it may seem unnecessary to state, but the quip is so popular among those trying to delay adequate action on climate change that it requires a quick rebuttal.

Yet a close examination of the computer code and ensuing research bears out the key contention of the firm rebuttals from East Anglia University, as well as CRU scientist Tim Osborn, namely that the specific adjustments in question were for private exploration only and never incorporated into CRU scientists» subsequent published research temperature reconstructions.

Furthermore, your own writing serves as a rebuttal of your «eyeballing is good enough» argument.

Some of the arguments you raised here were put forth in the skepticalscience article as well as a well thought out rebuttal on American Thinker toward the end of the comments (right above where you recently commented).

Note: this post has been incorporated into the new rebuttal to the myth «No long tail means climate sensitivity is low», as well as «global warming stopped in [insert date]» and «Trenberth can't account for the lack of warming».

Determine the procedure for writing the rebuttal as well as the submission process.

We are well - qualified to assist as consultants on trial strategy, and in performing review and rebuttal work on the reports of opposing experts.