Sentences with phrase «atmospheric scientist who»

But there's a problem: Any atmospheric scientist who is worth his or her salt knows that atmospheric carbon dioxide (search) is not increasing at that rate and has not been doing so for decades.

«We have a vested interest in creating panic because money will then flow to climate scientists», says Professor John Christy, University of Alabama atmospheric scientist who also contributed to the IPCC.

Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist who is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University.

Michael MacCracken, an atmospheric scientist who helped assemble the attendees and is the chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institute, forwarded a note summarizing the conclusions: Read more...

Michael MacCracken, an atmospheric scientist who helped assemble the attendees and is the chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institute, forwarded a note summarizing the conclusions:

One group had to defend Susan Solomon, the much lauded atmospheric scientist who, while a co-leader of the 2007 science assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, staunchly refused to provide her personal view of the implications of global warming research despite the prodding of reporters.

A reply has come in from Drew T. Shindell, the NASA atmospheric scientist who was a leader of the team that wrote a new World Meteorological Organization / United Nations Environment Program report on the merits of cting to curb black carbon and ozone.

(I've had some very long discussions about these subtleties with Susan Solomon, the federal atmospheric scientist who was co-leader of the group that wrote the science summary for the 2007 report.

See postscripts I'm saddened to have to mark the death on Saturday of Ralph J. Cicerone, a brilliant atmospheric scientist who skillfully shifted into academic leadership as chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, but really hit his stride through a decade, just ended in June, as president of the National Academy of Sciences.

«Controlling black carbon may be the only way of preventing the loss of the Arctic completely,» said Mark Jacobson, an atmospheric scientist who researches air pollution and climate change at Stanford University.

Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist who is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University.

«One thing we can say for sure: We don't say «one can't attribute any single event to climate change» any more,» Adam Sobel, an atmospheric scientist who wasn't involved with the BAMS report, said in an email.

Climate Science Day is not a junket for the atmospheric scientist who works as a contract employee at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; it is more like science version of speed — dating.

And Judith Curry, an atmospheric scientist who is often critical of dominant scientific views of climate change, is being probed by Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D - Ariz.)

Doherty was part of a team of UW atmospheric scientists who spent the winter of 2013 driving across northwestern U.S. states and some Canadian provinces to get a firsthand look at the continent's snow.

HenryP I have a short powerpoint presentation that I have shared with a small group of mostly retired atmospheric scientists who meet once a month here in Las Cruces to have fun hashing over some of these issues.

And yet I personally know a dozen or more atmospheric scientists who would not buck the «consensus» because they wanted to continue their careers.

... But the AMS, which is a scientific society comprised of about 12,000 atmospheric scientists who mainly specialize in weather and have disparate views of climate science, erred in honoring such a lightning rod of controversy, despite the tremendous value his research has been to the scientific community.

Not exact matches

And seriously, who cares what computer scientists, statisticians, philosophers and atmospheric scientists think...

That information can then be plugged into atmospheric models to calculate cumulative emissions across larger areas, says Steve Wofsy, an atmospheric scientist at Harvard who is working on the project.

«I'm pleased [the new] results show that what we'd previously theorized,» says Nilton Renno, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who was not involved in the new work.

Even as the importance of biological ice nucleation was being recognized by agricultural scientists, it still wasn't embraced by atmospheric scientists, who stuck by the traditional view that soot, or sea salt, or some as - yet - unidentified mineral in dust was seeding ice in clouds.

And while the scientists who conducted the study are still investigating the atmospheric mechanisms behind this change, the trend seems consistent with a warming climate.

Ronald Cohen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, Berkeley who was not part of the research, calls the new study «provocative,» and says it shows agricultural fertilizer contributes a significant fraction of total NOx emissions in California.

«We are developing a system at the ALS that can simulate all material loads and stresses over the course of the atmospheric entry process,» said Harold Barnard, a scientist at Berkeley Lab's ALS who is spearheading the Lab's X-ray work with NASA.

«Scientists have talked about Arctic melting and albedo decrease for nearly 50 years,» said Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps who has previously conducted similar research on the global dimming effects of aerosols.

Rodney Weber, an atmospheric scientist, is being questioned by Rep. Lamar Smith (R - Texas), who wants to know why Weber's climate - change - related research deserved a federal grant in 2012.

... It's very intriguing,» says Robert Oglesby, an earth and atmospheric scientist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, who wasn't involved in the new study.

The finding was provocative but there had been «lots of debates about whether it is genuine or merely an observational artifact,» says William Lau, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, who was not involved in the study.

«We should clearly be able to see large metropolitan «super-cities» like Los Angeles,» says Paul Wennberg, an atmospheric scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who helped to develop the network of ground - based monitoring stations that will be used to test the quality of OCO - 2's data.

«The atmospheric and oceanic CO2 increase is being driven by the burning of fossil fuels,» says Pieter Tans, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory, who leads the U.S. government effort to monitor global greenhouse gas levels.

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.

But some space scientists have long made use of arXiv, and a subset of the earth scientists who published in the journals of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) have already become accustomed to such openness, as EGU has posted studies online prior to review for more than 15 years, says Ulrich Pöschl, an atmospheric chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, who helped found the journals.

Bob Yokelson, a professor of atmospheric chemistry at the University of Montana has taken a leadership role in many aspects of the research and was in a group of about 20 scientists who selected the instruments to be installed on the large NASA plane.

«We grew teosinte in the conditions that it encountered 10,000 years ago during the early Holocene period: temperatures 2 - 3 degrees Celsius cooler than today's with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at around 260 parts per million,» said Dolores Piperno, senior scientist and curator of archaeobotany and South American archaeology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, who led the project.

Dr Alison Cook, who led the work at Swansea University, says: «Scientists know that ocean warming is affecting large glaciers elsewhere on the continent, but thought that atmospheric temperatures were the primary cause of all glacier changes on the Peninsula.

So I have a proposal for oceanographers and atmospheric scientists (and geologists, for that matter) who wish to do some spreading of recent scientific achievements.

The ISIS (In - Situ Iron Studies) Consortium is a group of institutions and scientists who are motivated to answer the unknowns regarding the role of iron in regulating the ocean's capacity to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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.»

April will be the first time in human history where levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide were higher than 400 parts per million for an entire month, one scientist who monitors the levels said.

A team of scientists led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory atmospheric researcher Dr. Susannah Burrows and collaborator Daniel McCoy, who studies clouds and climate at the University of Washington, reveal how tiny natural particles given off by marine organisms — airborne droplets and solid particles called aerosols — nearly double cloud droplet numbers in the summer, which boosts the amount of sunlight reflected back to space.

People who work in this field, called atmospheric scientists, use computers and math to model the properties of Earth's atmosphere that drive weather, climate and the movement of gases and pollutants through the air.

«We know rather little about how much methane comes from different sources and how these have been changing in response to industrial and agricultural activities or because of climate events like droughts,» says Hinrich Schaefer, an atmospheric scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, who collaborates with Petrenko.

Among atmospheric scientists, physicists, oceanographers and others who study Earth's energy balance there is virtually no debate on either the existence or the causes of global warming.

To understand if leaf uptake of atmospheric mercury is important on the global scale, Martin Jiskra and Jeroen Sonke, from the Géosciences Environnement Toulouse laboratory, teamed up with scientists who monitor atmospheric mercury and CO2 levels across our planet.

Finally, here's a brief video discussion of geo - engineering on The Wall Street Journal Web site, featuring Dale Jamieson and Alan Robock, an atmospheric scientist at Rutgers who's been modeling the climate consequences of human atmospheric meddling — from global warming to nuclear winter — for decades:

Dr. Schlesinger is an atmospheric scientist and engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign who for three decades has been studying human influence on climate and what to do about it.

Here's an excerpt and link, followed by some reactions from Hamburg and from Lawrence Cathles, an earth and atmospheric scientist at Cornell who has published work challenging Cathles and Ingraffea's conclusions on the climate impact of gas drilling.

The $ 200,000 Tyler Prize for 2009, one of the top awards for environmental achievement, will be shared by Richard Alley, who has spent decades probing the planet's ancient ice for climate clues, and Veerabhadran «Ram» Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist whose focus has been the substantial influence of sooty pollution on climate and health in South Asia.

But the planning goes back at least a year or two and the main organizers are Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, a Cambridge University economist, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, San Diego, focused on reducing sooty pollution and climate change, and Archbishop Roland Minnerath of Dijon, France, who is also a professor of history and ethics at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.