The world could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age, a leading
atmospheric scientist predicts.
That, in turn, will help
atmospheric scientists predict storms and their effects more accurately.
The seven
atmospheric scientists predict a global warming of» almost unprecedented magnitude» in the next century.
Not exact matches
Along the East Coast, where the «green wave» of spring leaves sprouting from maples, oaks and poplars historically has rolled from Miami to Maine in 75 days,
atmospheric scientists with Princeton University
predict the wave could take just 59 days by the end of the century.
For example, in a simulated world where the
atmospheric CO2 levels were double today's values — a scenario many
scientists believe likely — models
predict that Earth will warm by more than 2 °C.
In addition,
atmospheric scientist Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, a scientific pioneer in the development of numerical weather prediction and former director of research at The Netherlands» Royal National Meteorological Institute, recently compared
scientists who promote computer models
predicting future climate doom to unlicensed «software engineers.»
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are applying
atmospheric science research capabilities to improve our understanding of long - term weather trends and better
predict extreme weather events like these — and it all starts with studying clouds.
RE # 25 & # 18, I forgot to mention in # 20 that the crop loss from increased pests (weeds & bugs), according to the scientific study I read (don't have the source with me right now), was not due to GW, but due to the excess
atmospheric CO2 — which the
scientists had
predicted would enhance crop growth.
If
scientists of the past had known that the temperature of every planet with a sufficient atmosphere rises along with
atmospheric pressure, and always exceeds its
predicted temperature, do you think they would have come up with a theory that attributed extra heating to the presence of certain trace gases that occupy less than 1 percent of the Earth's atmosphere?
In a comparison of 17 computer models of world climate, all
predict global warming will kick in over Antarctica, and most indicate temperatures in the interior of the continent will rise faster than in the rest of the world, said Dr. Benjamin D. Santer, an
atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
For decades, climate
scientists have
predicted that rising levels of
atmospheric greenhouse gases from the human combustion of fossil fuel could lead to global warming, and that warming would be accompanied by more frequent or more violent storms.
In addition,
atmospheric scientist Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, a scientific pioneer in the development of numerical weather prediction and former director of research at The Netherlands» Royal National Meteorological Institute, recently compared
scientists who promote computer models
predicting future climate doom to unlicensed «software engineers.»
Importantly, the
scientists recognize that «
atmospheric growth rates have deviated significantly from predictions of a linear model of
atmospheric CO2 concentrations and anthropogenic emissions since 2002,» underscoring the imprecision of computer models for
predicting climate change.
If, however, the carbon from these reserves were burned wantonly without the government applying any brakes,
scientists predicted an intolerable rise in
atmospheric temperatures, triggering potentially irreversible global damage to life on earth.»
And the failure of climate models to accurately
predict the slowdown was hiding in plain sight in a February editorial in the Wall Street Journal, penned by two
atmospheric scientists from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.