More recently, he has endorsed the now common usage of " global warming " as synonymous with global anthropogenic climate change, referring to recent " measurements that transformed global warming from a vague theoretical speculation into a precise observational science.

The most common speculation among believers is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving plesiosaurs.

Similarities between Sanskrit and European languages were first noted in the early 16th century and led to speculation of a common ancestor language from which all these descended.

Various viruses and TEs also share features in their genome structures and biochemical abilities, leading to speculation that they share a common ancestor.

The conflict would be on a global scale, with common speculation that it would likely be a nuclear war and devastating in nature.

A witness named Frithuric is recorded on a charter in the reign of Wulfhere's successor, Æthelred, making a grant to the monastery of Peterborough, and the alliteration common in Anglo-Saxon dynasties has led to speculation that the two men may have both come from a Middle Anglian dynasty, with Wulfhere perhaps having placed Frithuwold on the throne of Surrey.

It has to be said that this speculation depends on a knowledge of China that the teller of a folk tale ( as opposed to a geographic expert ) might well not possess, and that a deliberately exotic setting is in any case a common storytelling device.

Michael Frede, however, defends a different interpretation, according to which Sextus does allow beliefs, so long as they are not derived by reason, philosophy or speculation ; a skeptic may, for example, accept common opinions in the skeptic's society.

A common speculation is that Roark was inspired by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, a claim both Rand and Wright denied.

Advaita Vedanta was strongly influenced by Buddhism, which was itself ' reformed Brahmanism '. In Advaita Vedanta, anatman is a common via negativa ( neti neti, not this, not that ) teaching method, wherein nothing affirmative can be said of what is “ beyond speculation, beyond words, and concepts ” thereby eliminating all positive characteristics that might be thought to apply to the soul, or be attributed to it.

This fueled speculation about contact between the ancient Maya and Asia and the role of the mythical lost continent of Atlantis as a common link between ancient civilizations of the Old and New Worlds.

There is some speculation that Deborah Read was William's mother, and that because of his parents ' common law relationship, the circumstances of his birth were obscured so as not to be politically harmful to William.

Though he never made public statements to this effect, Benson's business ties to the city — and the availability of the Alamodome as a playing facility — made San Antonio the most common subject of speculation.

As a member of the " Conversazione Society ", better known as the Cambridge Apostles, a society established in 1820 for the purposes of discussion on social and literary questions by a few young men attracted to each other by a common taste for literature and speculation, he was associated with Charles Buller, Frederick Maurice, Richard Chenevix Trench, Monckton Milnes, Arthur Hallam and Alfred Tennyson.

Also beyond common speculation and myths, the engines are not chipped or modified specially for police use: they are complete factory spec but in ' exceptional cases ' the speed limiter ( 250 km / h ) may have been removed.

Fomenko ... provides no fair-minded review of the historical literature about a topic with which he deals, quotes only those sources that serve his purposes, uses evidence in ways that seem strange to professionally-trained historians and asserts the wildest speculation as if it has the same status as the information common to the conventional historical literature.

A merger of the CBOT and CME had been a matter of common speculation for many years before it actually came to pass.

There has been speculation regarding the specific Semitic subfamily of Afro-Asiatic languages, again with the Horn of Africa and Southwest Asia — specifically the Levant — being the most common proposals.

Modern scholars reject the Shakespearean attribution ; speculation, relying on common initials, has shone on Wentworth Smith and William Sly as possible alternatives.

One common speculation is that churches in the 1880s became fearful that they would lose all of their young members to these societies.

One of the most common accusations against domain name speculation is that it is simply cybersquatting.

Some common themes in the speculation are that Zeami could have been a spy, a Ji sect priest, or a Zen master.

In the T2 commentary, Cameron states that the Model 101s all look like Schwarzenegger, with a 102 looking like someone else, leading to speculation that the 101 refers to the physical appearance while the 800 refers to the endoskeleton common to many models.

Some form of public repression of facts or speculation not desirable to some people or even a majority of the population seems inevitable as societies need to create some common basis of facts to create a unified identity.

Although most extant species of Asteraceae are herbaceous, the examination of the basal members in the family suggests that the common ancestor of the family was an arborescent plant, a tree or shrub, perhaps adapted to dry conditions, radiating from South America.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

The present state of the evidence therefore suggests that their engravers and the Basilidians received the mystic name from a common source now unknown.

However, virtually all major works of Greek and Latin prose possessed such clausulae ; and some scholars have rejected the identification of Libanius ' Marcellinus with Ammianus, since Marcellinus was a very common name and the tone suggests Libanius was addressing a man much younger than himself ( Ammianus was his contemporary ).

Someone suggests that they all buy matching shirts and shoes ( common symbols ) and they do so ( influence ).

" Cuthwulf's relationship with Ceawlin is unknown, but the alliteration common to Anglo-Saxon royal families suggests Cuthwulf may be part of the West Saxon royal line.

DNA evidence suggests the bonobo and common chimpanzee species separated from each other less than one million years ago ( similar in relation between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ).

However, common sense suggests the non-existence of such things as fictional characters or places.

In common law systems that rely on testimony by witnesses, a leading question or suggestive interrogation is a question that suggests the particular answer or contains the information the examiner is looking to have confirmed.

Raymond E. Brown suggests that to make this claim and maintain consistency with scriptures, Mary's separate existence in the two common scenes with the Beloved Disciple were modifications hastily added later to give validity to the gospel in the late 2nd century.

" Patti Smith, in contrast, suggests in the documentary 25 Years of Punk that the hippies and the punk rockers were linked by a common anti-establishment mentality.

What they have in common is the ridicule with which their attempts are viewed, the imagery that suggests that they are motivated largely by animal passion, the childish behavior, and the reversion to the love-language of their youth.

Because they lack characteristics believed to be present in the common ancestor of other known eutherian mammals, some weak morphological evidence suggests that the Xenarthra are outside the Epitheria, which contains all other known eutherians today.

It is a common ethnic slur, usually directed at people of Sub-Saharan African descent and suggests that its target is extremely unsophisticated.

Although research suggests the likelihood of a genetic basis, there is no known genetic etiology and brain imaging techniques have not identified a clear common pathology.

Recent fMRI evidence suggests that the common property linking these stimuli, to which the striatum is reacting, is saliency under the conditions of presentation.

The most recent theory of the origins of Hippopotamidae suggests that hippos and whales shared a common semi-aquatic ancestor that branched off from other artiodactyls around.

Genetic evidence suggests that common hippos in Africa experienced a marked population expansion during or after the Pleistocene Epoch, attributed to an increase in water bodies at the end of the era.

That four large fires took place, all on the same day, all on the shores of Lake Michigan ( see Related Events ), suggests a common root cause.

Nevertheless, though the senatorial order came to hate and fear him, the evidence suggests that he remained popular with the army and the common people for much of his reign, not least because of his lavish shows of largesse ( recorded on his coinage ) and because he staged and took part in spectacular gladiatorial combats.

DNA evidence suggests the bonobo and common chimpanzee species effectively separated from each other fewer than one million years ago.

However, new research suggests the last common ancestor of all 40 existing species of felines lived more recently than about 11 million years ago.

The cetaceans diversified, and fossil evidence suggests porpoises and dolphins diverged from their last common ancestor around 15 Mya.

The most recent theory into the origins of hippopotamidae suggests that hippos and whales shared a common semi-aquatic ancestor that branched off from other artiodactyls around 60 million years ago.

This suggests that the majority of IS signs are not signs borrowed from a specific SL, as other studies found, but rather are common to many natural SLs.