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These phrases had been deliberately taken out of context and "spun" by sceptics keen to derail the Copenhagen climate conference, he said.

The core of the sceptics' case was that we've been experiencing global cooling, but that claim was never justified by the science.

What good can it do, sceptics ask, to parachute a slum kid into a glamorous world of air travel and swish hotels, just for a week?

Yet the sceptics do not seem to have engaged with the statistical verdict.

Some journalists, trying to be fair and balanced, report the views of climate change sceptics as a counterweight to climate change stories.

Some sceptics regarded this as a bit of a joke.

It will be interesting to see if such sceptics are willing to be equally sceptical about ancient data when they support their point of view.

Mr Armstrong and Ms Huffington will have to work overtime to show sceptics that this particular corporate marriage makes sense.

It is not just the economy that seems to outstrip all the sceptics, but diplomacy as well.

Sceptics had not expected it to live so long, so its rude health is something of a triumph.

In the next two months Serbia will have to convince sceptics like Germany that it is committed to a lasting settlement with Kosovo.

Some sceptics argue that this increase is mainly due to a rise in inflation.

As if to prove the sceptics right, the crisis itself was not triggered by global imbalances.

Sceptics had wrongly assumed that the court would somehow find ways to kick the ruling into the long grass.

Blair sold involvement in the Iraq war to many sceptics in Britain on the grounds that this would gain him leverage in Washington.

With the children's version of the disorder, much debate is sparked by sceptics who say it is diagnosed too often.

He said "sceptics" who doubted his climate record should compile their own dataset from material publicly available in the US.

Until recently many sceptics (including The Economist) doubted that wisps of cloud could be auctioned like this.

We have been here before, say sceptics, only to see fresh capital fizzle as bad assets ate through balance-sheets.

But sceptics suggested there would be thousands of videos, rather than just two, if the object really had remained in the skies for hours.

Sceptics add that many practices have to be seen in a cultural context of gift giving as part of building a relationship.

Yet the sceptics' aim is not to help deal with the problem but to extract concessions.

For in their heart of hearts, even the sceptics who say they think the result from OPERA must be a mistake hope that it is not.

In Australia, sceptics within the party led to the ousting of the leader of the opposition over new climate laws.

Sceptics argue that the dangers are being talked up by those eager to be hired to help.

The sceptics' response to all this, of course, is that it is too early to tell.

And while sceptics may frown at the collaboration, Orsola argues that anything that gets ethical fashion into the mainstream can only help.

The leak came as climate change sceptics stepped up their campaign ahead of the Copenhagen summit that begins in less than a fortnight.

Meanwhile sceptics of the company advance the opposite critique.

To the chagrin of old-school sceptics, nation-building is now an integral part of American strategy.

Sceptics are starting to ask: will it all end in tears?

Despite high levels of violent crime, unhappy construction workers and a shaky economy, South Africa will prove sceptics wrong.

Global warming "sceptics" lined up to dismiss the "alarmist" findings.

Climate change sceptics claimed they showed scientists manipulating and suppressing data to back up a theory of man-made climate change.

Sceptics scoff that codes like this are often ignored.

Mr Gopinath, one of many sceptics about the merger, says it is "like tying together two legs of an elephant. "

But sceptics note that rich, single-minded Finland is over budget and behind schedule with its new nuclear-power plant.

However, the movement has tried to reassure sceptics by describing the new party as a civil not a theocratic one.

Mr Obama acknowledged that his nuclear-free vision may not be realised in his lifetime. Sceptics would add his children's lifetime too.

Some of the sceptics may have scientific backgrounds but they are not in the mainstream of contemporary climate research.

Twelve years without a new record would, the sceptics reckon, be rather a large lull in what is supposed to be a rising trend.

One official newspaper called his speech one of "extraordinary importance" , but sceptics abound.

Sceptics agree with his premise, but scoff that innovation and autocracy do not mix.

Some scientists claim that sceptics about global warming get frozen out of the process. Some accuse it of alarmism.

Sceptics had predicted that after the first-quarter results the unusual conditions that powered FICC revenues would not last.

Sceptics prophesy that, come the next election, violence will flare up again and the power-sharing agreement will be worthless.

But do these revelations justify the sceptics' claims that this is "the final nail in the coffin" of global warming theory?

Sceptics point out that ads on Google command premium rates because its users are often looking to make a purchase.

Long enough, in other words, for sceptics to wonder when something useful will actually come of it.

Nonetheless, concludes Cyranoski, sceptics say real progress depends on a full reversal of the policy of ethnic favouritism.

Sceptics say this was a prize Ukraine won from America for giving up its supply of enriched uranium.

Conversely, sceptics wonder if the current good news may have more to do with weak accounting and regulatory forbearance.

He was politically encompassing, reaching out to sceptics and opponents.

Given the risks, we have to be quite sure the science is wrong before following the sceptics.

The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.

Sceptics argue that the pick-up simply reflects a temporary boost from rebuilding inventory, with no real increase in demand.

And for now, the global warming sceptics have found in the economic recession a powerful political pressure point for inaction.

Sceptics will highlight that the agreement does not specify numerical ceilings.

None of the e-mails seized on by sceptics shows manipulation of the science itself.

Sceptics, however, have noted the differences between the two leaders are merely stylistic.

With sceptics far outnumbering optimists at the time, it was destined to disintegrate and collapse, but the reality was very different.

Mr Najib will have to win big to convince the sceptics, at the very least restoring the BN's two-thirds majority.

In an effort to win over as many sceptics as possible, though, Mr Reid has circumscribed his public plan in several ways.

Sceptics might wonder whether, by keeping the winning piece, Sovereign has found an inexpensive way of building a collection.

Sceptics will say that even a deal that satisfies the markets will not restore confidence in the medium term.

Sceptics point to the last time executive pay fell by a significant margin.

Sceptics recall the last time people declared a golden age for private-equity investment in Brazil.

Better data more openly analysed: exactly what climate sceptics (for want of a better word[2]) say that they want and thus should welcome.

The only people satisfied are euro-sceptics and federalists.

Sceptics may wonder why GM, which is flirting with bankruptcy, is wasting time on such a crazy idea.

Sceptics may detect a whiff of wishful thinking in all this.

Like climate-change sceptics, China sceptics tend simply to ignore evidence that does not fit their world-view.

Climate change sceptics frequently point out that 1998 was the hottest year since measurements began.

First, it proved to internal sceptics that Intel really had become a consumer brand.

It will take more than a dubious target dubiously implemented to convince sceptics that Beijing is really serious about a clampdown.

While some areas of the economy do deserve closer monitoring, there is little to support the sceptics' views of an imminent crisis.

Sceptics argue that Germany's strong rebound merely follows a deeper drop in output during the recession than in most other economies.

The idea was put on hold when sceptics pointed to the tiny pool of teachers able to teach Chinese.

Sceptics need convincing that the benefits for consumers will outweigh any potential losses to producers.

Sceptics dismiss many emerging market innovations as incremental improvements.

Last week, Conservative MEPs hosted a conference of global warming sceptics at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Sceptics had warned that Texas would be last into the recession but last out.

Sceptics say that exporters have not capitalised on the falling pound by cutting their foreign prices.

Sceptics might conclude that in spite of the checks and balances, it is extremely difficult for a parent school to reproduce itself abroad.

Sceptics point to the fact that one of the film's co-producers and scriptwriters is an MP for Saakashvili's ruling party.

So the academic debate has shifted elsewhere, although the division between sceptics and advocates remains much the same.

The reassuringly smooth lines on the graphs produced by climate modellers may not, as the sceptics have argued, be how things turn out.

Some scientists hailed the study as a refutation of the claims made by climate sceptics during the Climategate saga.

Sceptics say there is nothing uniquely addictive about the internet.

Sceptics retort that the calm of markets is an illusion caused by benign economic conditions and excess liquidity.

As things stand, we have the sceptics, the activists and in the middle, I suppose, the realists.

Even if it proves such sceptics wrong, it will have a bloody fight on its hands.

Sceptics are right that if China does not reciprocate, our domestic efforts will be for naught.

But the desire for a better surface temperature record is not unique to climate sceptics.

Western sceptics complain that they have "no dog in this fight" .

A few climate-change sceptics think the problem will right itself.

The sceptics will return to their doubts in remembrance when the truth ascends; and that will be for them their lesson.

Sceptics say that many of those granted residency are not true migrants, but hail from nearby.

People who denies man's impact on global warming are behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics.

Nevertheless, sceptics perform an invaluable service.

Some sceptics dismiss the various proposals as political posturing.

Or are we guilty of turning a blind eye to these things because we think they are on "our side" against the climate sceptics?

Moreover, sceptics say Russia's help for America is likely to prove highly conditional.

Many climate change sceptics have used the Antarctic cooling as evidence against global warming.

Sceptics will rightly point out that similar concerns have accompanied each new technology.

Sceptics have also questioned his ability to wrest power from the mandarins who have dictated Japan's postwar economic policy.

Out of smoke and mirrors, say some Western sceptics.

But if the G20 stays focused, and expectations are reasonable, even the sceptics may be impressed.

Sceptics argue that India's stronger English language skills and service culture will make it hard for China ever to catch up.

Sceptics doubt that pulling out of Iraq will be easy, however.

There were sceptics. The pilot programme cost $10m, not pocket change in a poor state.

For example, free access to data on carbon footprints might be a way for Mr Obama to counter environmental sceptics.

The sceptics say these came easily and Russia had its own reasons to co-operate.

The sceptics may be wrong to dismiss Germany's labour market as crippled by rigidity.

verging at times on religious hysteria: sceptics in the blogosphere jokingly call it the Jesus Tablet.

A study found that thinking analytically decreases religious belief in the most devout and sceptics alike.

There are two curious omissions in Sir Nicholas Stern's report on global warming. Both open it to flanking attacks from sceptics.

Mr Sarkozy, say the sceptics, will lose his reformist zeal once in power, drop his semi-professed liberalism, and ultimately se chiraquiser.

The first, which we may called the China sceptics, rejects out of hand the notion that China can ever become the world's dominant power.

Sceptics could well ask why the empire should rally to invade Europe just for Batu to take the profit.

Western valuation measures, sceptics were told, were irrelevant in the Tokyo market.

The intellectual climate has already moved decisively in favour of market-sceptics.

Before they know it, the sceptics may find themselves demanding England's rather than Britain'sdeparture from the European Union.

Doubtless some of the darker fears of sceptics will be realised.

The danger of the current situation is that both sceptics and federalists get their way as the EU splits between core and periphery.

Maybe the sceptics are right, and the stimulus money is being wasted on the modern-day equivalent of wall building.

But the sceptics might be right.

Some sceptics scoff at the lack of data proving a shift from New York to London.

Nevertheless, a chorus of pessimists and sceptics were predicting just that.

For some sceptics, this fact alone immediately invalidated the whole report.

Foreign fans, some of them sceptics when they arrived, have gone home as converts.

Sceptics argue the elevated risks involved offset the potential gains.

Sceptics point out that each mistake has tended to exaggerate the extent of climate change.

The Sceptics followed Pyrrhon , who held that not all knowledge was attainable.

Butthedesire for a better surface temperature record is not uniquetoclimate sceptics.

But no deals have yet been reached, leading sceptics to accuse Mr Martinelli of playing for time.

But G20 sceptics miss the point.

More generally, alpha sceptics often attribute eye-catching returns to "style bias" , such as favouring stocks with a high dividend yield.

Sceptics will point out that less than 4% of total UK trade is with China.

But sceptics point out that other countries, like Canada, have seen similar declines, even though their drinking-age is 18.

But sceptics point out that other countries, like Canada, have seen similar declines, even though their drinking-age is 18.

SCEPTICS have wondered how long America could use its control of the world's reserve currency as an excuse to rack up huge debts.

Sceptics in Damascus point out the other reforms announced by the government have amounted to little.

Sceptics will howl about the initial cost, but it will be transparent and far, far cheaper than the impact of serious climate change.

British Euro-sceptics should not rejoice.

Sceptics note that a large chunk of the increase is accounted for by short-term bills rather than new lending to finance spending.

Sceptics may question whether the School of Chinese Studies could enrol enough students.

Perhaps the mini-surge in Afghanistan can surprise the sceptics once again.

Sceptics point out that due process requires discretion.

dangerous because the failure to negotiate these repatriations will only intensify the fury of the sceptics.

Sceptics would rather the government concentrate on making teachers more accountable. But most admit the laptops are worth a try.

In some local matters, even right-wing climate sceptics and climate-conscious lefties concur.

These numbers will confirm the sceptics' worst fears.

Sceptics about China's economic miraclesee the Shanghai shuttle as an example of how badly state-directed banksallocate capital.

When they vet accounts, auditors see themselves as savvy sceptics.

Sceptics, however, abound.

Even genuine chon coffee, however, has its sceptics.

In 2011, against the sceptics, I point to three reasons for global optimism.

The success of the G20 since its first summit in Washington, DC, in November 2008 has surprised many sceptics.

The data showed China's refined copper consumption in 2006 rose 15. 4 per cent, confounding sceptics who forecasted a fall for the year.

There will always be China-sceptics who doubt the country's progress.

The sceptics' third complaint is that the West has entered this campaign without defining the mission.

One reason is that Fed officials, as much as their sceptics, were comforted by the lack of wage pressure.

Sceptics fret that PAYGO will do little to address the deficit because it has four big loopholes.

Sceptics point first to valuations.

Sceptics therefore doubt that the subsidy is a good use of public money.

So when sceptics tell me not to worry about climate change, I don't buy it.

I understand the fear of the sceptics.

Sceptics would add his children's lifetime too.

Sceptics say China is unlikely to mandate the use of new fuel technologies so early in the development of its car industry.

At the very least, they can use the ruling to rally the faithful and shame climate-change sceptics in next year's elections.

Sceptics will scoff for two reasons.

Mr Cohen has proved the sceptics wrong.

But, according to Donaldson's research, the sceptics are wrong.

I am just not sure what the German and the Finnish sceptics will say when they find out.

The scheme has many sceptics.

It is stories such as this that encourage African governments to ignore the sceptics and instead expand ties with Beijing.

The sceptics' second retort is that the West is guilty of hypocrisy.

I think the other sceptics felt the same. He was very convincing.

Sceptics are thin on the ground: only 8% think he will fail to score a point.

Sceptics think it loses money.

But not all sceptics are as confident.

There are alltoo many sceptics who think capitalism and consumerism are destroying theplanet, thanks to global warming and so forth.

The sceptics include Henry Blodget, the former analyst at Merrill Lynch, which was bought by Bank of America in 2008.

Sceptics say that is delirium.

Of course there are sceptics, but I have an 84 per cent identification rate.

Sceptics disinclined to study the evidence point to the failure of previous efforts and deplore additional public borrowing on principle.

Sceptics point to the behaviour of copper prices in the latter part of last year.

The sceptics and pessimists say the renewed talks are doomed because America, weaker now than ten years ago, hasn't come up with new ideas.

When the human genome project started, sceptics argued it would take centuries to scan an entire human genome using prevailing technologies;

Sceptics offer two counter-arguments: first, that the science underlying climate change is highly uncertain;

Evolution sceptics advance their cause under the guise of free inquiry