Sentences with phrase «as a climate scientist in»

Imagine a man or woman being so arrogant, and selfish, that they'd take a job driving a CO2 belching truck, or dig for coal in a mine, or fish for salmon in the ocean, or fly a CO2 belching airliner, or flip beef patties that came from CH4 exhausting cows, or teaching a classroom of students all of whom belch CO2 and exhaust CH4 and whom will have offspring that produces even more of those evil gases, or working as a climate scientist in an office heated by CO2 belching FFs and occasionally traveling around the world by CO2 belching airliner — all the while using computers made from FFs and powered by CO2 belching FF power plants, or working as a Senator from Tennessee who was President of the USA for a few hours and who travels all over the world in CO2 belching airliners, or one of the millions of people who mine, process, manufacture and transport every product you have ever seen in your life and all the ones you haven't seen as well.

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As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objeClimate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objeclimate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).

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:

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

«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.»

Apparently there are two thoughts as to how devistation will come to us in the near future: Apocalyptic disaster brought forth by the grace of God, or climate data which has been continually compiled and interpreted by climate scientists since the 1960s.

He gives the example of «an article on climate change by a Nobel Prize - winning scientist looks pretty much as credible as an article written by a guy in his underwear in a basement, or worse.»

In his time with IRRI, Dr. Morell has been instrumental in shaping the institute's research and outreach agenda, including IRRI's leadership on climate change - ready rice, healthier rice varieties, farmer - friendly crop management and value chain practices as well as encouraging the next generation of rice scientistIn his time with IRRI, Dr. Morell has been instrumental in shaping the institute's research and outreach agenda, including IRRI's leadership on climate change - ready rice, healthier rice varieties, farmer - friendly crop management and value chain practices as well as encouraging the next generation of rice scientistin shaping the institute's research and outreach agenda, including IRRI's leadership on climate change - ready rice, healthier rice varieties, farmer - friendly crop management and value chain practices as well as encouraging the next generation of rice scientists.

Over the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half century.

As for pundits the Merson types are like climate scientists who deny global warming is anthropgenic, not because they really believe it but because it gets them exposure in the media which they wouldn't get if they simply went along with the crowd.

And in the United States, Hurricane Sandy's impact on lower Manhattan and the New Jersey shore has raised interest in the work of scientists who identify freak storms as an early warning of climate change.

In these cases museum scientists are working at transboundaries that are beyond politics but that can generally facilitate policy, such as with climate change and conservation issues.

On his way to the first of six meetings on Capitol Hill as part of his inaugural participation in Climate Science Day events that bring scientists to Congress each year to offer lawmakers and their staff assistance and scientific resources relating to climate science, Kennedy ran into a crowd waiting to watch Day Two of federal Judge Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation heClimate Science Day events that bring scientists to Congress each year to offer lawmakers and their staff assistance and scientific resources relating to climate science, Kennedy ran into a crowd waiting to watch Day Two of federal Judge Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation heclimate science, Kennedy ran into a crowd waiting to watch Day Two of federal Judge Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

«Our results indicate that a wide range of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades as a result of climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Climate Change.

Climate change is yet another science - based global challenge requiring the best efforts of scientists worldwide — a point that ExxonMobil seemed to acknowledge in a statement that described the historic Paris climate agreement as «an important step forward.Climate change is yet another science - based global challenge requiring the best efforts of scientists worldwide — a point that ExxonMobil seemed to acknowledge in a statement that described the historic Paris climate agreement as «an important step forward.climate agreement as «an important step forward.»

Scicchitano described the warning as a scientific product based on work climate scientists did on the ocean - atmospheric phenomenon known as La Niña, finding that it would affect rainfall most severely in the Horn of Africa.

Tebaldi and co-author Pierre Friedlingstein, of the University of Exeter, analyzed when scientists would be able to detect the difference between a scenario known as RCP 2.6, where greenhouse gas emissions are curbed quickly, versus two other scenarios outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.

Gerald Meehl, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who was also an author on the paper, said this research expanded on past work, including his own research, that pointed to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation as a factor in a warming slowdown by finding a mechanism behind how the Pacific Ocean was able to store enough heat to produce a pause in surface warming.

While being publicized in the mainstream media certainly makes researchers a target, being picked up in the skeptic blogosphere, which includes widely read blogs such asWatts Up With That, Climate Audit and Morano's Climate Depot, can also lead to scientists receiving email barrages, even when, as in Norgaard's case, the research has not received mainstream media attention.

When scientists use climate models for attribution studies, they first run simulations with estimates of only «natural» climate influences over the past 100 years, such as changes in solar output and major volcanic eruptions.

But if, as many climate scientists predict, hurricanes become more common or more severe, the added forest damage that will occur in the US and elsewhere could reduce that offset substantially.

«If the Senate bill in its final form does not allow companies to use international offsets to achieve their targets, then the U.S. as a source of funding for REDD would die,» said Daniel Nepstad, a senior scientist with the Woods Hole Research Center, which is a member of Hurowitz's Tropical Forest and Climate Coalition, meaning other countries might have to fill that gap with their own funding and offset needs.

Synthesizing about 1000 scientific studies and reports, the scientists were now able to give a balanced report on the changes in all 14 ecosystem functions, including gas and climate regulation, water regulation and supply, moderation of extreme events, provision of food and raw materials, as well as medicinal resources.

Although scientists aren't sure exactly how warming temperatures will manifest under climate change, Morgan said that «chances are good as it gets warmer we'll get more dry years in the future.»

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.

But climate scientists worry that global warming will endanger vineyards, as the increase in very hot days takes a toll on delicate grapes.

Climatologist Lloyd Burckle of Columbia University in New York and tree - ring scientist Henri Grissino - Mayer of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, argue that local environmental conditions such as altitude and soil quality, along with climate, might help explain the awesome acoustics.

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.

Several of these are expected to «go dark» in the next two years, robbing scientists of critical data needed for monitoring climate change and verifying international agreements, just as a critical mass of global players is agreeing that such agreements are essential to the future health of the world's people and economies.

The scientist and futurist talks about self - regulating Gaia, climate change and peer review, as an exhibition featuring him opens April 9 in London

In a recent paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these, known as climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate changIn a recent paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these, known as climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate changin Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these, known as climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate changin Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these, known as climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate change.

Vegetation change underway in boreal forests as a result of climate change creates a feedback loop that prompts more warming, scientists say

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).

Without action to stave off climate change, some scientists believe that, at that rate, all of the year - round ice in the Arctic could be gone by as early as 2030.

Projects such as these illustrate the growing role that social scientists, including economists, sociologists, and political scientists, have begun to play in climate change.

«The AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute empowers the fellows to act as change agents within their institutions; each fellow will make it possible for many more scientists in their professional networks or home institutions to engage public audiences on climate change,» said Jeanne Braha, project director in public engagement at AAAS.

To refer to all those in disagreement as «skeptics» implies that the vast majority of climate scientists then are credulous.

Contributions from careful, sober - minded scientists can also help defuse controversy in fields that get headlines, such as climate change and embryonic stem cells.

Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling, Chair for Palaeoenviromental Research at FAU, who has also recently been appointed as lead author for the sixth World Climate Report, and Dr. Dieter Korn from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the scientists examined fossils in largely unresearched geological profiles in Iran.

«With the headcount constraints in today's economic climate, industry needs to hire leaders as well as technically excellent scientists,» says Scott Reines, newly retired vice president of pharmaceutical research and development at Johnson & Johnson, a pharmaceutical company based in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

In the report, an international team of climate scientists warns policy - makers that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at the extreme end of predictions made only in 2007, and that natural CO2 sinks such as oceans are becoming saturateIn the report, an international team of climate scientists warns policy - makers that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at the extreme end of predictions made only in 2007, and that natural CO2 sinks such as oceans are becoming saturatein the atmosphere are at the extreme end of predictions made only in 2007, and that natural CO2 sinks such as oceans are becoming saturatein 2007, and that natural CO2 sinks such as oceans are becoming saturated.

Choosing the right approach is vital as the scale of human impact on the planet becomes so large that scientists are calling this new epoch in Earth's history the Anthropocene (when human activity alters global climate and ecosystems).

That is because the assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University is a member of a small group of earth scientists who are pioneering in the use of mineral cave deposits, collectively known as speleothems, as proxies for the prehistoric climate.

In the past few years, climate scientists finally agreed that the world is indeed warming, humans are behind it, and natural processes are unlikely to rein it in - just as they had suspecteIn the past few years, climate scientists finally agreed that the world is indeed warming, humans are behind it, and natural processes are unlikely to rein it in - just as they had suspectein - just as they had suspected.

The NOAA cuts, at least as they are initially laid out by the administration, would be devastating to the agency's scientific research across multiple areas, said Erika Spanger - Siegfried, a senior analyst in the climate and energy program at the Union for Concerned Scientists.

As society faces more conflict over natural disasters, natural resource use and climate change, scientists increasingly find themselves in the spotlight, forced to communicate findings in ways they haven't in the past.

As world leaders meet this week and next at a historic climate change summit in Paris, a new study by Michigan State University environmental scientists suggests opponents of climate change appear to be winning the war of words.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

«What this study addresses is what's better described as a false pause, or slowdown,» rather than a hiatus in warming, says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

NOAA expects its global data for June, which will be released on July 21, to be «in the same ballpark» as the NASA and JMA rankings, Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist with ERT, Inc., and a NOAA contractor who helps write the monthly reports, said in an email.