Not exact matches
He
agrees with
other scientists who think that the U.S. must begin a series of talks with the European Commission and the European Space Agency as well as with counterparts in India, China and Japan to find a way to develop an international
climate observing system.
As with perceptions of scientific consensus on
other topics, public perceptions that
scientists tend to
agree about
climate change tend to vary by education and age.
As you point out
other studies
agree with the MBH study so I would have thought what amounts to a sudden global
climate shift would be of major interest to
climate scientists everywhere yet one sees relatively little written about it.
James (comment # 177) I
agree with you that I would be making a very academic point if no
climate scientists were suggesting a general connection between hurricanes (and
other extreme weather events and
climate change).
If not, the only way you can suppose that
climate has always changed (which wasn't common knowledge until the last one hundred years) is by
agreeing with the research and opinion of many
climate scientists and
others, who have built up a picture of a constantly changing
climate over the history of this planet.
In the case of
climate change, those measurements after measurements by thousands of
scientists for over fifty years are adding up to an extremely compelling and robust argument because they all pretty much
agree with each
other: we can send people to the moon, and our excess CO2 is changing the
climate.
I
agree on very many issues with you, but I can not avoid the impression that the animosity in both ways between you and some of the
other climate scientists is due to unwillingness to understand, what the
other side is really saying.
Climate scientists agree that rising levels of carbon dioxide and
other greenhouse gases trap incoming heat near the surface of the Earth and are the key factors causing the rise in temperatures since 1880, but these gases are not the only factors that can impact global temperatures.
Or we might think of
climate scientists who are have criticisms of the work of
other climate scientists, but legitimately think it is important to note that they don't
agree with the basic, likely attribution of
climate change to ACO2.
This may mean that 97 % of
climate scientists agree on BS, 2 % are wrong in
other ways and only 1 % has any freaking clue at all.
Trouble is, Mack, there are lots of
other peer - reviewed
climate scientists who don't
agree with him, and my
climate science isn't good enough (yours seems to be — what exactly are your qualifications?)
Some
scientists criticized aspects of the new study, but
agreed that an initial focus on the
other greenhouse gases could achieve significant slowing of
climate warming, as long as carbon dioxide cuts were also made.
Indeed, of all the silly things that have been said about the
climate by political operatives and
others who can not accept the 150 - year old physics of greenhouse warming for ideological reasons, perhaps the silliest is the claim that
scientists do not
agree about those fundamental physics.
, asks well - known
scientist Art Robinson, who spearheaded The Petition Project which to date has gathered the signatures of 31,487
scientists who
agree that there is «no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or
other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's
climate.»
The study cites Spencer and Bast along with
other «manufacturers of doubt,» whose work to undermine the public understanding of this consensus has been stunningly successful — only 12 percent of Americans, their previous work found, know that more than 90 percent of
scientists agree on this — and has resulted in «cascading effects on public understanding that
climate change is happening, human caused, a serious threat, and in turn, support for
climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.»
I largely
agree, but would add that there are plenty of
other reasons for policymakers to keep
climate scientists at arm's length..
Over the last three years, I've had the opportunity to meet with
scientists who occupy different positions on the
climate spectrum: Some are out - and - out «skeptics»; some broadly agree with the so - called «consensus» but dislike its intolerance; others define themselves as «lukewarmers» or have only relatively modest disagreements with Mann & Co - yet even that can not be tolerated by the Big Climate enf
climate spectrum: Some are out - and - out «skeptics»; some broadly
agree with the so - called «consensus» but dislike its intolerance;
others define themselves as «lukewarmers» or have only relatively modest disagreements with Mann & Co - yet even that can not be tolerated by the Big
Climate enf
Climate enforcers.
Within that group they determined how many
scientists really did
agree with the most important IPCC conclusion, namely that humans are causing significant
climate change — in
other words the key parts of WG I.
While
other scientists differ on pinpointing particular numbers and limits, many who study
climate change
agree that some kind of action is needed.
I completely
agree, and have said so on this blog, that Judith has to tread softly because she is a respected
climate scientist, and is still trying to reach out to those
other scientists who have been caught up in the paradigm paralysis she speaks of.
It is also telling that Richard Lindzen, a well known critic of
other climate scientists, happens to
agree with us on this.
To get past the political logjam, Wilhite and
other Nebraska
climate scientists are working to broker a compromise in which the University of Nebraska
agrees to underwrite a full
climate - impact study for the state.
In a poll of
scientists in different fields by Doran and Kendall Zimmerman (2009), 97 % of those who published at least half of their peer - reviewed research in the
climate field
agreed that human activity was significant in changing global temperature; at the
other extreme, only 47 % of economic geologists (typically employed by oil companies and the like) concurred.
Two
other important records from satellite instruments — one from MODIS and the
other from MISR — don't
agree well over land, so
scientists hope that data from
other other sensors like SeaWiFS might help resolve some of the discrepancies and reduce the overall uncertainty about aerosols in
climate models.