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Climate scientists are giving science a bad name, says a leading atmospheric physicist in an essay on the global warming debate.

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What a group of physicists think about climate change matters greatly because climate science is, after all, a branch of physics, and most atmospheric scientists are based in physics departments.

The Swiss National Science Foundation's National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Climate, which hosts atmospheric physicists, historians, biologists, and economists, runs the International NCCR Climate Summer School.

I gained unexpected influence: Who would have guessed that an atmospheric physicist would have the power to shut down one of the world's largest mining pits when ash falling from the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, threatened both workers and expensive equipment?

«It's dubious manipulation of data in order to suit his hypothesis,» says Joanna Haigh, an atmospheric physicist at Imperial College London.

«Given that atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans appear as coherent filaments of water vapor lasting for up to a week, and that Lagrangian coherent structures have turned out to explain the formation of other geophysical flows, we wondered whether Lagrangian coherent structures might somehow play a role in the formation of atmospheric rivers,» said study coauthor Vicente Perez - Munuzuri, a physicist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

«The cooling impact of sulfate was larger, and the way sulfate interacts with the atmosphere is more straightforward, so sulfate has received more attention,» explains Drew Shindell, an atmospheric physicist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.

Retreating sea ice in the Iceland and Greenland Seas may be changing the circulation of warm and cold water in the Atlantic Ocean, and could ultimately impact the climate in Europe, says a new study by an atmospheric physicist from the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) and his colleagues in Great Britain, Norway and the United States.

In October 2009 the atmospheric physicist from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) was on board the German research vessel «Sonne» to measure trace substances in the atmosphere in the tropical West PacifiIn October 2009 the atmospheric physicist from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) was on board the German research vessel «Sonne» to measure trace substances in the atmosphere in the tropical West Pacifiin the atmosphere in the tropical West Pacifiin the tropical West Pacific.

No previous mission has been able to tackle that question,» says David Brain, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Colorado in Boulder who is helping design Hope's instruments, a high - resolution camera and infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers.

To accomplish this, Miller has assembled a team that includes atmospheric scientists and physicists specialising in nondestructive testing techniques, geologists, forensic scientists, anthropologists and consultants from the Museum of London.

This underestimation is most dramatic at higher wind speeds, notes Jasper Kok, an atmospheric physicist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the work.

«Right now it's too early in the season to say anything definitive about how [the 2001] hole will come out,» atmospheric physicist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center observes.

Changes in the wind's intensity ripple this vast bubble «like a wind sock,» says atmospheric physicist Brian Anderson of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

«The possibilities are just so incredible,» says Austin, an atmospheric physicist and the founder of forecasting service WeatherExtreme in Incline Village, Nevada.

«The amount of visible radiation entering the lower atmosphere was increasing, which implies warming at the surface,» says atmospheric physicist Joanna Haigh of Imperial College London, who led the research, published in Nature on October 7.

«Novel plasma jet offshoot phenomenon explains blue atmospheric jets: Physicists identify mysterious right - angle side - jet occurring off the plasma arc in air at ambient pressure conditions.»

An international group of atmospheric chemists and physicist could now have solved another piece in the climate puzzle by means of laboratory experiments and global model simulations.

The wings could have become charged, producing extremely intense electric fields around them and initiating positron production, says Aleksandr Gurevich, an atmospheric physicist at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow.

Oxford University atmospheric physicist Raymond Pierrehumbert, who is among the scientists who believe cutting methane should be less of a priority than cutting carbon dioxide to tackle climate change, said the study is useful in evaluating methane capture systems at landfills.

They were Jorge Sarmiento, an oceanographer at Princeton University who constructs ocean - circulation models that calculate how much atmospheric carbon dioxide eventually goes into the world's oceans; Eileen Claussen, executive director of the Pew Center for Global Climate Change in Washington, D.C.; and David Keith, a physicist with the University of Calgary in Alberta who designs technological solutions to the global warming problem.

Roe and his U.W. co-author, atmospheric physicist Marcia Baker, argue in Science that, because of this inherent climate effect, certainty is a near impossibility, no matter what kind of improvements are made in understanding physical processes or the timescale of observations.

SEPP, in turn, was founded in 1990 by Dr. S. Fred Singer, an atmospheric physicist, and incorporated in 1992 following Dr. Singer's retirement from the University of Virginia.

Scientifically, the meteorologists, climatologists, and atmospheric physicists, who were responsible for «discovering» the human contribution to the terrestrial greenhouse effect, have been the most consistent champions of its importance, while the solar physics community, and especially those interested in solar - terrestrial relations, have increasingly stressed the possible importance of the long - term variations of the solar constant as the chief cause of climate change.

1988 prediction by Syukuro Manabe, NASA atmospheric physicist of what we now observe: Human caused warming will proceed most rapidly in the northern polar reaches.

One is to acknowledge that calculation of radiation transport through a partially opaque atmosphere is one of those problems that seems easy until you try to write down the equations, and then you find it's a monster — the great mathematical physicist S. Chandrasekhar spent years working on it and wrote a book full of equations on stellar atmospheres that I think hardly anyone in atmospheric physics even tries to read.

Now, I think it was in 1956 that atmospheric physicist and sometimes - weapons designer Gilbert Plass (who needed to know about IR to fire heat - seeking missiles up the tailpipes of jet fighter at high altitude) noted that CO2 in the upper troposphere could block the escape of IR to space: The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change, Gilbert Plass (1955)(abstract) In the full paper, available at the above link, Plass spells out the previous notion which his research overturnein 1956 that atmospheric physicist and sometimes - weapons designer Gilbert Plass (who needed to know about IR to fire heat - seeking missiles up the tailpipes of jet fighter at high altitude) noted that CO2 in the upper troposphere could block the escape of IR to space: The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change, Gilbert Plass (1955)(abstract) In the full paper, available at the above link, Plass spells out the previous notion which his research overturnein the upper troposphere could block the escape of IR to space: The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change, Gilbert Plass (1955)(abstract) In the full paper, available at the above link, Plass spells out the previous notion which his research overturneIn the full paper, available at the above link, Plass spells out the previous notion which his research overturned:

I have the feeling that in raising some of those arguments here he might well become unstuck when faced with correspondents whose day job is in climatology and atmospheric physics... pretty much like an atmospheric physicist would feel, I would imagine, in commenting on the merits of something like, say, â Polyclonal antibodies raised to phycocyanins contain components specific for the red - absorbing form of phytochromeâ Planta 176, 391â 398 (not that there appears to be much to argue about there, not that I'm qualified to express an opinion on it anyway).

I'm just a lowly atmospheric physicist, so naturally my opinion doesn't matter, but I would like for some of you experts to take a look at the following paper and tell me what the errors are in it.

Harris cites the work of PhD - level climate scientists and atmospheric physicists who've studied global warming for decades, and none of these skeptics deny climate science in any general sense of the word — that's another unsupportable talking point from believers of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

I'm a chemist, not a physicist or atmospheric scientist, so my interest was mainly in the thermodynamics of atmospheric science.

As a professional scientist, a physicist with 40 years experience in aerospace and extensive knowledge of atmospheric physics, I can tell you that, indeed, the science is settled, but not the way the AGW extremists would have you believe.

Any physicist or mechanical engineer with a background in thermodynamics realizes that we have more that enough Energy to account for Earths and the atmospheric temperatures without the «fairy tale» of the Greenhouse gas effect:.

I should also add (an after thought from my earlier post) that this explains why Professor Lindzen (an atmospheric physicist) is pissed at climatologists... they are distorting various science disciplines in order to make their own story (s) pliable.

I don't care what physicists say about CO2, historical & modern data says there is no correlation between atmospheric CO2 levels & temperature, except in that warming raises CO2 levels.

Mathematical physicist Enting (author of the Australian Mathematical Scences Institute book Twisted: The distorted mathematics of greenhouse denial) worked at Australia's leading science agency, the CSIRO, for 24 years in atmospheric research and modelling of the global carbon cycle.

In 1861, English physicist John Tyndall said that certain atmospheric gases, such as carbon monoxide and water vapor, warmed Earth's surface.

As I wrote at 2/20 6:07 am above the 1996 paper has been followed up, verified and published more recently by several other independent atmospheric thermodynamic physicist authors proving Fig. 1 in the top post thought experiment to be non-isothermal, isentropic at equilibrium (they do include for Willis» sake equations with = signs).

Ok — Dr. S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, and former director of the US Weather Satellite Service, in a Sept. 10, 2001 Letter to Editor, Wall Street Journal

The thought experiment of Fig. 1 in top post being isothermal at equilibrium is wrong & shown irrefutably (by many published atmospheric thermodynamic physicists cited) to be non-isothermal, isentropic in equilibrium by the correct algebraic steps to maximize entropy and reasonable experiments as posted above.

entropy, conserving total enthalpy / energy equilibrium of Fig. 1 is irrefutably proven non-isothermal, isentropic by published atmospheric thermodynamic physicists as early as 1996, again in 1998, 2004 and 2010 including experiments validating their results.

Independent atmospheric physicists verified Fig. 1 is non-isothermal, isentropic in equilibrium again in 1998, 2004 and 2010 by publishing their algebraic work steps and physical logic entirely consistent with all thermo laws that include confirming experiments.

Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish physicist, first suggested in 1896 that increases in atmospheric CO2 would lead to global temperature rises.

Singer, a leading scientific skeptic of anthropocentric global warming (AGW), is an atmospheric physicist, and founder of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), an organization that began challenging the published findings of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the 1990s.

If you asked an atmospheric physicist what would happen if the level of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere increased, they would tell you that you will get a warming.

Our group, called the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), was founded in 2003 by a distinguished atmospheric physicist, S. Fred Singer, and has produced five hefty reports to date, the latest being released today (March 31).

Conway's account of his collaboration with Oreskes on this «tobacco industry - connected climate scientists» matter doesn't offer a clearer picture of why atmospheric physicist Dr S Fred Singer was seemingly «the most dangerous man on the planet», it begs for deeper investigation of why and how this portrayal of him coalesced in the first place.

This author is asking me to believe that atmospheric physicists and oceanographers are sitting on 22 obvious errors in their theories.

The 430 - page report was coauthored and edited by three climate science researchers: Craig D. Idso, Ph.D., editor of the online magazine CO2 Science and author of several books and scholarly articles on the effects of carbon dioxide on plant and animal life; Robert M. Carter, Ph.D., a marine geologist and research professor at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia; and S. Fred Singer, Ph.D., a distinguished atmospheric physicist and first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service.

So why might it be that the New York Times is so enamored with Muller, a retired physicist with no training in atmospheric or climate science, when it comes to the matter of climate change?