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A leading climate scientist says claims that there has been a slowdown or hiatus in the rate at which global warming is happening are not supported by statistical evidence.
Not exact matches
Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University
scientist who helps
lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,»
said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent
climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:
«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for
climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of
climate change, even among
leading scientists and experts,»
said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of
climate change is clear, and warrants action.»
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«We are confident that deforestation and
climate change will, in the future,
lead to more frequent and severe floods and droughts,»
said Michael Coe, a senior
scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center.
«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,»
said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric
scientist at Columbia University's Center for
Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and
lead author of the study.
«We now have an independent measurement of these emission sources that does not rely on what was known or thought known,»
said Chris McLinden, an atmospheric
scientist with Environment and
Climate Change Canada in Toronto and
lead author of the study published this week in Nature Geosciences.
And by carefully measuring and modeling the resulting changes in atmospheric composition,
scientists could improve their estimate of how sensitive Earth's
climate is to CO2,
said lead author Joyce Penner, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on improving global
climate models and their ability to model the interplay between clouds and aerosol particles.
«That would
lead to a smaller eventual temperature rise,»
says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt at NASA.
«When we measure that a particular stand of mature forest is accumulating carbon, it is difficult to
say whether that might be due to recovery from some unrecognized disturbance long ago or whether it is due to more recent changes in
climate and CO2,» explained Woods Hole Research Center Senior
Scientist and Executive Director Eric Davidson,
lead author of the review, in an e-mail.
Some social
scientists say climate change could
lead to escalating violence, and a new study is trying to quantify this increase.
Since
climate change is already
leading to higher average temperatures overall, the finding that extremes are also more likely was not surprising,
said Sophie Lewis, a
climate scientist at the University of Melbourne and the
climate system science center and the
lead author on the paper.
«Two generations ago, people were interring waste in different areas of the world, and now
climate change is modifying those sites,»
said William Colgan, a
climate and glacier
scientist at York U and
lead author of the new study.
«Results from this study are based on current
climate projections, and it doesn't necessarily mean that lesser prairie - chickens will experience a population decline,»
said Blake Grisham, Texas Tech University
scientist and
lead author of the study.
Bill Hare, who
leads a group of top
climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.
climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based
Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.
Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report,
said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with
climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.
climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of
climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.
climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»
Dust will affect
climate and, at the same time,
climate change will affect dust,»
said lead author Hongbin Yu, an associate research
scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Similar frustrations, he
said,
led him and a group of other
climate experts to found the collective blog Realclimate.org several years ago, meant to bring timely and relevant
climate information direct from
scientists to the public.
«These species are not only icons of
climate change, but they are indicators of ecosystem health, and key resources for humans,»
said lead author Kristin Laidre, a polar
scientist with the UW Applied Physics Laboratory.
«The paper correctly highlights that other human stressors, not only the
climate ones, are very important for long - term sustainability, including the need to reduce inequality»,
said Carlos Nobre (not a co-author), one of the world's
leading Earth System
scientists, who recently won the prestigious Volvo Environment Prize in Sustainability for his role in understanding and protecting the Amazon.
«The penguins are the innocent bystanders experiencing feast or famine depending on what the Equatorial Undercurrent is doing from year to year,»
said Kristopher Karnauskas, a
climate scientist who performed the research while at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and
lead author of the new study recently accepted in Geophysical Research Letters, an American Geophysical Union journal.
Moving the chemical complexity of the ocean to the laboratory represented a major advance that will enable many new studies to be performed,»
said Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on
Climate and the Environment, who
led the team of more than 30
scientists involved in this project.
«This mixture shows the role that agroforestry can play in addressing both
climate mitigation and adaptation in primarily food - focused production systems of Africa» says Dr. Cheikh Mbow, Senior Scientist, Climate Change and Development at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and lead author of the a
climate mitigation and adaptation in primarily food - focused production systems of Africa»
says Dr. Cheikh Mbow, Senior
Scientist,
Climate Change and Development at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and lead author of the a
Climate Change and Development at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and
lead author of the article.
The methane hydrates with the highest
climate susceptibility are in upper continental margin slopes, like those that ring the Arctic Ocean, representing about 3.5 percent of the global methane hydrate inventory,
says Carolyn Ruppel, a
scientist who
leads the Gas Hydrates Project at the USGS.
«From a regional perspective, the differences in projected future changes are minor when you look at how much each projection
says climate will change for the business - as - usual scenario,»
said Yueyang Jiang,
lead author and a postdoctoral
scientist at OSU.
The goal is to get models to the point where they can have skill in predicting features like drought or seasonal hurricane activity a few years ahead,
said climate scientist Doug Smith, who
leads the Met Office effort.
Proving that a cold
climate on early Mars
led to the features seen on the planet today is a «big question»,
said Bethany Ehlmann, a planetary
scientist at California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..
Some
leading climate scientists and economists
say this decoupling of emissions and economic growth has been in progress in the developed world for quite some time.
«This work was a foundational reference case for the recently released RCP4.5 model scenario, one of four scenarios that will be used by modeling groups around the globe to make realistic projections of future
climate change,»
said Dr. Steven J. Smith,
scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a partnership between PNNL and the University of Maryland, and
lead research author.
It will help researchers collaborate in studies of how to respond to
climate change,»
said Dr. Allison Thomson, PNNL
scientist and the
lead research author.
«This effort helped rescue the food security and livelihoods of more than 271,000 rural households and 1.6 million individuals in Ethiopia's Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, and SNNP regions, and strengthened seed systems to address future
climate, disease, and pest crises,»
said Bekele Abeyo, CIMMYT wheat
scientist who
led the seed relief initiative.
But Matthew Huber, a
climate scientist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, had several criticisms of the researchers» methods — issues that he
said could have
led them to overestimate the risk of heat stress on humans.
«When we look at the heat across the whole of Australia and the whole 12 months of 2013, we can
say that this was virtually impossible without
climate change,»
said David Karoly, a
climate scientist at the University of Melbourne who
led some of the research.
«It's always alarming to hear that things are going to get worse,»
said Paul Marshall, a private industry
scientist who previously
led high - profile research into
climate change's impacts on the Great Barrier Reef.
Until now, models have predicted something for the future... but it was something that seemed very distant,»
said Oltmanns, the
lead scientist behind the research, which was published this week in Nature
Climate Change.
««The arid lands of southwestern North America will imminently become even more arid as a result of human - induced
climate change just at the time that population growth is increasing demand for water, most of which is still used by agriculture,»
said Richard Seager, Senior Research
Scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the
lead authors of the study.
Chris Field, a
climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University who will
lead the writing of the next panel report on impacts from
climate change,
said he agreed that outliers should be accounted for.
«The scientific talent
leading these studies, the partnership with industry and access to their facilities, and the diverse research methods used, gives us the confidence that when the project concludes in late 2014, we'll be able to greatly increase our understanding of the
climate impacts of switching to natural gas from other fossil fuels, through this unprecedented collective research effort,»
said EDF Chief
Scientist Steve Hamburg.
«This assessment is an example of what federal
scientists can and should be doing when they are freed from political interference and allowed to actually do their jobs,»
said Kassie Siegel,
climate program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, the
lead plaintiff in the lawsuit.
«We may have underestimated the efficiency of the oceans as a storehouse for heat and energy,»
said study
lead author, Yair Rosenthal, a
climate scientist at Rutgers University.
«Our study shows that very high
climate sensitivities are virtually impossible, suggesting that we still have enough time to deal with the problem and reduce carbon emissions, which could avoid the most severe impacts,»
said Andreas Schmittner, a
climate scientist at Oregon State University and the study's
lead author.
Michael Oppenheimer, the Princeton
climate scientist who is one of two coordinating
lead authors for the opening chapter of the special report on
climate and disasters *,
said Dr. Pielke's name was not on the list he was given after the intergovernmental panel's administrative bureau and a steering committee did the winnowing.
CONSENSUS decision - making on
climate change has oversimplified the problem and how to solve it, and unduly politicised the process, a
leading US
climate scientist has
said.
Lead scientist, Dr Luke Trusel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, US,
said: «Our results illustrate just how rapidly melting in Antarctica can intensify in a warming
climate.
Colin Kelley, a
climate scientist at the University of California — Santa Barbara and the study's
lead author,
said long - term
climate trends made Syria's 2006 - 2010 drought two to three times more likely, and future trends point in the same direction.