To attribute short-term variation in temperatures to a single cause, whether human-generated gases or something else, is erroneous, he said.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who was elected in November, questioned, with no cause, whether Chuck Hagel, the defense secretary nominee, had taken money from terrorist states.
But when we are in the pitch of grief — or, for that matter, in the full sunshine of joy — what form, what blank, what cause, whether final, immediate, or underlying, could possibly answer that question to anyone's satisfaction?
Yet teaching remained his cause, whether by leading summer seminars at Columbia sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities for college and secondary school teachers, or by inspiring a host of graduate students to follow his trail into historical scholarship.
It's also because the fans who devote themselves so ardently to their cause, whether it be Star Wars, Star Trek or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, are likely to have once been among those bookish, introspective kids at school who spent all their time devouring comics rather than devoting themselves to pursuits involving the opposite (or same) sex.
It concludes that there is a huge reservoir of political activism and engagement that the parties have been too stodgy to tap into.But marching for a cause, whether it be opposition to the Iraq war or the ban on hunting, is about protest, emotion and the pleasures of self-righteous solidarity.
She also takes up individual causes, whether popular or not.
And meanwhile there's the time he devotes to good causes, whether raising money for Unicef or setting up academies for young footballers in poor communities.
Even so, with the Abu-Jamal case now entwined with the capital punishment issue, his supporters expect the pending court decision to galvanize both causes, whether a new execution date is set or a new trial is ordered.
"The investigation will work to determine the nature of the explosion and its causes, whether it was due to an air or missile or artillery strike and we will announce the results of the investigation soon".
Novelists, sociologists and psychologists examining the turbulent mass societies of the late 19th century concluded that human actions could not be reduced to single causes, whether religious and ideological faith, or the rationality of self-interest.
