Sentences with phrase «as paleoclimatologist»

As paleoclimatologist Michael Mann of Penn State University said of the New York article, overstating the severity of climate change could feed a «paralyzing narrative of doom and hopelessness.»

«As paleoclimatologists, we want to study Earth under conditions similar to those we have today, what we call «climate analogues,» which might tell us what to expect in the future,» he said.

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In the past decade, paleoclimatologists have reconstructed a record of climate change over the last millennium by consulting historical documents and examining indicators of temperature change like tree rings, as well as oxygen isotopes in ice cores and coral skeletons.

The preliminary results, analyzed by paleoclimatologist Pierre Sepulchre of the Climate and Environment Laboratory, suggest that with any channel deeper than 200 meters currents behave as though there's an entire ocean there.

Co-author Peter Clark, an OSU paleoclimatologist, said that because current carbon dioxide, or CO2, levels are as high as they were 3 million years ago, «we are already committed to a certain amount of sea level rise.»

The writer seems to respect Willie Soon as an authoritative paleoclimatologist.

Although globally averaged annual temperatures warmed about 1 deg F since the early 1900s (viewed as rapid by paleoclimatologists and geologists), regional climate station annual temperatures in northern Minnesota show warming by several degrees F since the early 1900s.

As related in USA Today, the investigation followed a formal complaint by paleoclimatologist Raymond Bradley, co-author of the seminal (and controversial) 1998 and 1999 «hockey stick» temperature reconstructions.

We discussed his new book, «The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines,» his experiences — good and bad — of being one of the leading paleoclimatologists and dealing with deniers of climate change, as well as talking about the science being done by Mann and his colleagues.

Paleoceanographers and paleoclimatologists collect, archive, and study marine materials, which serve as important sources of information on past climates.

This presentation not only summarized the M&M critique, but also laid out the case for lack of independence between paleoclimatologists, as well as lack of independence of reconstructions (overlapping proxies).

There is a reference in M&M to AR1 -LRB-.2) as being used for benchmarking by paleoclimatologists.

The question you should be asking, as as a great many geologists and paleoclimatologists long ago realized, was what were the ends of the last interglacials like?

Despite this lack of a solid theoretical framework, paleoclimatologists keep publishing article after article where they report correations between solar proxy periodicities and climate proxy periodicities, and the observational evidence is now so abundant as to obviate the lack of a theory or well defined mechanism.

While paleoclimatologists are attempting to update many important proxy records to the present, this is a costly, and labor - intensive activity, often requiring expensive field campaigns that involve traveling with heavy equipment to difficult - to - reach locations (such as high - elevation or remote polar sites).

One scientist, paleoclimatologist William Ruddiman, even argued that the rise of human agriculture had already produced enough greenhouse gases to counteract the gradual cooling that should have come during the past several thousand years; every previous cycle had begun a steady cooling soon after its peak, rather than leveling off as ours had done.

Of course, as he kept pointing out, he's an atmosphere physicist, not a paleoclimatologist, yet he doesn't appear to have made an effort to find one of the latter to collaborate with regarding past climate.

As Hank implies, no paleoclimatologist says that individual proxies response to «global temperatures».

The writer seems to respect Willie Soon as an authoritative paleoclimatologist.

Paleoclimatologist Hai Cheng of the University of Minnesota and his colleagues then compared this record with climatic transitions, such as the shift into and out of an Ice Age.