Sentences with phrase «atmosphere around science»

In that position, Cicerone had a remarkable — and all too rare — habit of listening, and of aiming to maintain a tone of civility, even as the atmosphere around science, and particularly climate science, grew heated and polarized through his time in Washington.

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According to Nikole Lewis, Webb's project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the telescope could perform the simultaneous detection of methane, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmospheres of some planets around red dwarf stars.
Aaron Kennedy, an assistant atmospheric sciences professor, recently encountered an atmosphere unlike anything he normally finds in his field work on the prevalence of extreme weather patterns around the world: the halls of Congress.
In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.
John Houghton, chairman of the IPCC's science working group, lends his personal support to the idea of stabilising CO2 in the atmosphere at twice preindustrial values, or around 1.2 trillion tonnes, by the end of the next century.
Science historians would point out that Professor Revelle did not prompt the first CO2 measurement in the atmosphere; what he prompted was the first sampling of air from locations around the world, and it was actually Harry Wexler, the head of the Weather Service at the time, who prompted and actually funded the start of the long - term monitoring program by David Keeling on Mauna Loa — so Revelle did play a very important role in stimulating observations (and in 1965 he chaired the panel on this issue that prepared a quite insightful appendix for the report of the President's Scientific Advisory Council), but Revelle was not the very first to urge CO2 be measured in the atmosphere.
The Greenhouse Effect is an impossible world with its Sun a cold Star of 6000 °C, around the temp of Earth's innards, but they have a good reason for this science fraud — to eliminate the direct radiant heat from our real millions of degrees hot real Star our Sun, so they can then pretend all real world measurements downwelling are from «the atmosphere backradiating by greenhouse gases», and not from the Sun.
For instance, US Senator James Imhofe of Kansas called climate change «the greatest hoax ever» (Johnson, 2011) To claim that climate change science is the greatest hoax ever is at minimum, if not a lie, reckless disregard for the truth given the number of prestigious scientific organizations that have publicly supported the consensus view, the undeniable science supporting the conclusion that if greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere some warming should be expected, the clear link between rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and increases in fossil fuel use around the world, as well undeniable increases in warming being that have been experienced at the global scale.
Around the same time, influential anthropologist and president of the American Medical Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Margaret Mead, gathered together like - minded anti-population hoaxsters at her 1975, North Carolina conference, «The Atmosphere: Endangered and Endangering».
The same is true of climate science — computer models build upon our understanding of how the atmosphere works, not the other way around.
The ensuing discussion was a simple proxy of some of the issues I was beginning to see raised in the discussions surrounding climate engineering proposals: controversy around the legality of intentionally changing the atmosphere (on any scale), suspicion of private interest in the name of the public good, confusion regarding the science behind it, unpredictability of the outcomes, or questionable logic of nature conservancy rules, to name a few.
Semenov notes that, «The WSBS location makes it an ideal place not only to study the northern marine environment for scientists and students from around the globe, but to enjoy the amazing nature, seascapes and sky panoramas... Our station is s wonderful place with its unique atmosphere of science mixed with wild nature.»
As a layman looking overall at the AGW picture, I've come to realise how clever the elements of scientific fraud are inbuilt into this «science» The biggest thing for jo public to get its head around is that the atmosphere dosn't act as a blanket if there was no water in it despite the compelling illusion that cloud cover at night keeps heat in.
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