Sentences with phrase «if climate change scientists»

If climate change scientists want policies enacted based on climate change science, they need public support.

Not exact matches

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

I think my question to those of you who couple atheism with evolution and climate change is: how can we as scientists even start trying to inform you about the details of what you are arguing against if you automatically presume everything we say is a blasphemous lie?

I think my question to those of you who couple evil atheism with evolution, the big bang, and climate change is: how can we as scientists even start trying to inform you about the details of what you are arguing against if you automatically presume everything we say is a blasphemous lie?

Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.

Scientists must seek a new, more energetic engagement with Americans if they are to overcome public skepticism on issues ranging from climate change to stem cell research, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner writes in a commentary in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

If the measure of President Obama's proposed power plant regulations is their impact on climate change, they would be doomed to failure, according to climate scientists.

Even if the near future doesn't unfold like the 2004 climate - gone - haywire film The Day After Tomorrow, scientists need to be able to produce accurate models of what abrupt change (more likely spanning hundreds or thousands or years, rather than days) would look like and why it might occur, explains Zhengyu Liu, lead author of the study and director of the University of Wisconsin — Madison's Center for Climate Reclimate - gone - haywire film The Day After Tomorrow, scientists need to be able to produce accurate models of what abrupt change (more likely spanning hundreds or thousands or years, rather than days) would look like and why it might occur, explains Zhengyu Liu, lead author of the study and director of the University of Wisconsin — Madison's Center for Climate ReClimate Research.

While many previous studies predicted a future increase in humus levels as a result of climate change, based on their current findings, the TUM scientists are critical of this assumption: If the input of organic matter stagnates, soil will lose some of its humus in the long term.

He'll believe in the brand of climate change that mainstream scientists warn of if temperatures rapidly rise for another 30 years, he said.

If early - career scientists «embark on careers in this field today, they [will] only find greater and greater excitement as they progress,» says Rajendra Pachauri, the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

If that's true in the Amazon, Saleska says, climate scientists will need to take into account practices like deforestation when predicting regional changes in weather patterns.

If the scientists at CLOUD are able to prove that cosmic rays can change Earth's cloud cover, would that force climate scientists to reevaluate their ideas about global warming?

If the melting of the polar ice caps injects great amounts of freshwater into the world's oceans, climate scientists fear that the influx could affect currents enough to drastically change the weather on land

Earlier this year scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., declared that Lake Mead could become dry by 2021 if the climate changes as expected and future water use is not curtailed.

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

The scientists then ran two separate climate models to learn how the rate of global warming might change if the 16 measures were deployed, with and without carbon dioxide controls.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

The scientists say these findings reinforce the need for assessing the risk of a wide - scale collapse of reef ecosystems, especially if global action on climate change fails to limit warming to 1.5?

Scientists aren't sure yet if there's a climate change connection, or whether things will continue to get worse.

If scientists conclude that the burning of fossil fuels is inducing unacceptable global climate change, then we have a limited number of alternatives to turn to: solar - based sources (photovoltaics, ocean, wind, etc.), nuclear fission and fusion.

That does not mean that scientists can say with certainty if an individual weather event is or is not due to climate change, notes Karl Braganza, manager of the BOM Climate Monitoring Sclimate change, notes Karl Braganza, manager of the BOM Climate Monitoring SClimate Monitoring Section.

But there are also many spurious signals in the data record which scientists must beware of treating as if they represented climate changes in the real world.»

Stute said the process could eventually be used for direct removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, something that may become necessary if climate change proves to be more catastrophic than scientists fear.

«The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans; longer, hotter heat waves; dangerous droughts and floods; and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict and hunger around the globe,» Obama added.

If getting sued over a little lightning has some scientists in a tizzy, imagine the risk for those who seek to change the climate in a major way.

If scientists could know more about Arctic climate of the past, they could better understand today's changes, and use that knowledge to improve projections for the future.

And he added that scientists still aren't sure if future climate change could eventually outpace the bogs» ability to adapt.

Rajendra Pachauri, the scientist who heads the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, cautioned: «If there's no action before 2012, that's too late.

Now, if by impacts, he means the impacts to ecosystems, etc., it seems unlikely that climate scientists jockeying for funding would be trying to change the topic of interest from climate science to these other fields (which I guess gets back to your point that funding self - interest would dictate continuing to emphasize uncertainty).

In a recent comment article in Nature, leading climate scientists identified achieving zero emissions from land - use changes and deforestation as one of six milestones that must be met within the next three years if we are to meet the goals set out in the Paris Agreement.

If you think climate change is bad now, two scientists estimate what it would be like without our protected forests.

Scientists often use computers to predict how climate will vary if certain conditions were to change.

As climate changes, these three scientists are enjoying some truly cool — if sometimes frigid — field work

NEWS: Scientists say many glaciers are melting faster than ever − and many will continue to do so even if climate change can be stabilised

He says scientists «now don't know if they have global warming» when there is absolutely zero doubt, even among scientists who are unconvinced climate change poses a major threat, that the planet is warming up.

If climate change exceeds the temperature target, scientists warn, there is a greater risk that the world's ice sheets will be destabilized, leading to sharply rising seas, and increasing climate extremes such as droughts, heat waves and floods, which could pose daunting challenges for food and water availability for growing populations.

Frigid weather like the two - week cold spell that began around Christmas is 15 times rarer than it was a century ago, according to a team of international scientists who does real - time analyses to see if extreme weather events are natural or more likely to happen because of climate change.

The framework used allows managers and scientists to determine which nesting grounds will be most vulnerable to climate change, which climatic process will cause the most impact to each nesting ground and how the vulnerability of nesting grounds will change if impacts from specific climatic factors are mitigated.

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Now, scientists have discovered that manmade GHGs and associated climate change are likely to have a severe adverse impact on human health as bad as — if not worse than — the hole in the ozone layer.

A updated register of national expert climate scientists from across the key and relevant disciplines would therefore seem necessary and urgent if the developing country media — the interface with the public — are to have a fighting chance of covering and getting published / broadcast climate change issues from their national perspective.

If politicians see that such a large group of voters supports learning about climate change, they might think twice about persecuting the scientists.

But even if climate scientists should see Crichton's book as a sign of progress or even as a back - handed compliment, I don't see how that should change the approach taken by this site.

This really is the problem: Mr. IAT is once again rebunking the denialist meme that AGW can't be a globally urgent problem if climate scientists don't voluntarily internalize the marginal climate - change cost of their private fossil carbon emissions.

The media has latched on to climate change and it is taught in schools, climate scientists have the ear of the most powerful people in the world (even if they don't seem to take what they are hearing very seriously).

A Climate Change State of the Union (World), if you will, where Obama gets on TV, tells the nation what is what in no uncertain terms and calls out the lies and liars before ceding the floor to a series of scientists to make this all very unambiguous to the nation.

If you want to be taken seriously as real scientists running a serious climate change blog, then do it right.

If you carefully read the WSJ op - ed, you'll see some fairly careful crafting of half - truths and phrases designed to elicit emotion: you're supposed to be astonished at the initial political reference, laughing at the ridiculousness of skating on the Thames, and then — lastly — outraged at the duplicitousness of those darned scientists — gosh, don't they know climate is always changing?!?