Sentences with phrase «books as climate scientists»

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Critics seized on the correspondence as evidence scientists, including Mann, were cooking their books to emphasize society's role in climate disruption.

In his seminal book «Storms of Our Grandchildren» former NASA head scientist James Hansen predicted mega storms will sweep the Earth as climate change develops.

But even if climate scientists should see Crichton's book as a sign of progress or even as a back - handed compliment, I don't see how that should change the approach taken by this site.

For a different take on the climate challenge, watch Naomi Oreskes, the Harvard historian *, describe her research on scientists as sentinels and her new book of fictional future climate history, «The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future,» co-written with Erik M. Conway.

We laypersons, on the other hand, would strive to avoid the false negative... So in my books, as a layperson & not a scientist, it looks like climate change has contributed to food prices going off the charts, and the poor in many parts of the world becoming all that more desperate.

Montford's book portrays climate scientists as frauds and tells us we should deeply mistrust any product of the power hungry money machine that climate science is.

G&T managed to get their work out there; publishing it in Nature or Science would not have changed the fact that they're arguments just don't hold any water (they didn't do any new science, they just took what was already known, and then tried to use that to argue against what is already known — a search for logical inconsistency, which might have been worthwhile if they'd known what they were doing and if they'd gone after contrarian «theory»)-- unless it were edited, removing all the errors and non-sequitors, after which it would be no different than a physics book such as the kind a climate scientist would use...

His book, «The Two - Mile Time Machine,» is a fascinating account of how scientists have learned to use ice as a history book of climatic and atmospheric changes — and what Greenland has revealed about times when climate jogged abruptly.

As climate scientist Peter Kalmus writes in his soon - to - be-published book, Being the Change:

My talk, on Wednesday, was about the subject of my new book, Fool Me Twice: fighting the assault on science in America, and ways NASA scientists, particularly NASA climate scientists, can communicate complex science in the face of antiscience attacks, such as those by global warming deniers.

Likewise headlines such as ««U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming,» «Washington Post», July 9, 1971 (the scientist in question being a colleague of Dr. Hansen) or Holdren in 1971 predicting an ice age (http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=873), (although, to be fair, in the same book he simultaneously predicted global warming), or books from 1977 quoting the CIA: «The studies conclude that the world is entering a difficult period during which major climate change (further cooling) is likely to occuScientist Sees New Ice Age Coming,» «Washington Post», July 9, 1971 (the scientist in question being a colleague of Dr. Hansen) or Holdren in 1971 predicting an ice age (http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=873), (although, to be fair, in the same book he simultaneously predicted global warming), or books from 1977 quoting the CIA: «The studies conclude that the world is entering a difficult period during which major climate change (further cooling) is likely to occuscientist in question being a colleague of Dr. Hansen) or Holdren in 1971 predicting an ice age (http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=873), (although, to be fair, in the same book he simultaneously predicted global warming), or books from 1977 quoting the CIA: «The studies conclude that the world is entering a difficult period during which major climate change (further cooling) is likely to occur.»

As a climate scientist, I am quite familiar with the background facts that Prof Michael E. Mann (now at Penn State U) so shamelessly distorts in his new book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Frontclimate scientist, I am quite familiar with the background facts that Prof Michael E. Mann (now at Penn State U) so shamelessly distorts in his new book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the FrontClimate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines.

At a time when the U.S. and the world's nations are trying to put together an agreement to tackle climate change (for better or for worse), Steyn's book reminds everyone of Climategate, why the public doesn't trust climate scientists and aren't buying their «consensus»... I hope that everyone will learn that adversarial science as practiced in its pathological form by Michael Mann doesn't «pay» in the long run.

As a young scientist, Mann was very traditional: «I felt that scientists should take an entirely dispassionate view when discussing matters of science,» he wrote in a book called The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.

Yet in the global warming issue, we see instances where a major organization promoted the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a Nobel laureate when he is not, and another organization similarly promoting a prominent IPCC scientist as a Nobel laureate when he is not, and the long - term promotion of book author Ross Gelbspan as a Pulitzer winner when he is not, a problem first revealed long ago by Steve Milloy and expanded upon at this blog.

Climate Scientist Who Got It Right Predicts 20 More Years of Global Cooling — «For the next 20 years, I predict global cooling of about 3 / 10ths of a degree Fahrenheit, as opposed to the one - degree warming predicted by the IPCC,» said [Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook, professor emeritus of geology at Western Washington University and author of 150 scientific journal articles and 10 books, including «Evidence Based Climate Science,» which was published in 2011.

I use the word «authority» loosely here in the case of Hertsgaard, as he, like the UCS, is really nothing more than yet another person enslaved to the accusation against skeptic climate scientists most famously first seen in Ross Gelbspan's 1997 book.

One other item, another of the commenter Friends at Gelbspan's Facebook post is Desmogblog financier John Lefebvre, the person owning the private jet that Desmogblog co-founder James Hoggan was flying on when he declared — as I detailed here — that he (Hoggan) knew nothing about climate change but felt compelled to start Desmogblog in order to expose skeptic climate scientists, which he knew to be liars as a result of reading Gelbspan's 2004 «Boiling Point» book.

He also relied on a book written by a prominent climate sceptic, which scientists have attacked as ignorant and misleading.

In his seminal book «Storms of Our Grandchildren» former NASA head scientist James Hansen predicted mega storms will sweep the Earth as climate change develops.

(Dr Pilkey went on to write a global warming book in 2011 in which there is no mistaking his enslavement to Naomi Oreskes» repetition of the «reposition global warming» phrase while apparently being unaware that Oreskes is enslaved to Ross Gelbspan for that phrase as an indictment of skeptic climate scientists» «conflicts of interest guilt.»)

They were mum when subsequent articles and books by Ross Gelbspan libelously labeled [skeptic] scientists as stooges of the fossil - fuel industry... [and] when [a European skeptic] was tarred by Bert Bolin, first head of the IPCC, as a tool of the coal industry for questioning climate alarmism.»

For example, on page 19 of his brief below dated January 18, 2013, he cites the international panel chaired by the eminent scientist Lord Oxburgh, FRS as one of the bodies that «exonerated» him, whereas on page 235 of Mann's own book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, he states explicitly that «our own work did not fall within the remit of the committee, and the hockey stick was not mentioned in the report.»

Naomi Oreskes accuses them as being «Merchants of Doubt» in her book of the same name, but neither she nor any other prominent accuser ranging from Al Gore to Ross Gelbspan ever offers a scintilla of evidence proving skeptic climate scientists are in any such conspiracy.

First, the setup for Ron's article: Back late 2009, in my efforts to figure out where the infamous «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase came from — the line spelled out in Al Gore's movie and in Ross Gelbspan's book «The Heat is On», which they portray as a sinister top - down industry directive that skeptic climate scientists are paid to follow — I ran across Naomi Oreskes» widely repeated Powerpoint presentation from 2008 where she said the leaked memo set containing that phrase was in the archives of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Environmental scientists worried that Lomborg's book had the appearance of legitimacy, and therefore would be used as evidence for those who opposed any action on climate change.

The book, How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming (Dawn Publications, 2008), written with photojournalist Gary Braasch, was finished during Cherry's tenure as the 2006 artist - in - residence at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and features many examples of young people and others involved in citizen science projects at Cornell and elsewhere.

Our book was designed to engage scientists, university students, climate change activists as well as the general public seeking to roll back denial and act.

Though the book covers much of the same ground, albeit at a lower reading level, as Al Gore's famous global warming presentation, it is never alarmist, and instead focuses on the grounded evidence for global climate change and the collective efforts of many different kinds of scientists.

As Bernie Lewin reminds us in one chapter of a fascinating new book of essays called Climate Change: The Facts (hereafter The Facts), as late as 1995 when the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with its last - minute additional claim of a «discernible human influence» on climate, Nature magazine warned scientists against overheating the debatAs Bernie Lewin reminds us in one chapter of a fascinating new book of essays called Climate Change: The Facts (hereafter The Facts), as late as 1995 when the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with its last - minute additional claim of a «discernible human influence» on climate, Nature magazine warned scientists against overheating the Climate Change: The Facts (hereafter The Facts), as late as 1995 when the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with its last - minute additional claim of a «discernible human influence» on climate, Nature magazine warned scientists against overheating the debatas late as 1995 when the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with its last - minute additional claim of a «discernible human influence» on climate, Nature magazine warned scientists against overheating the debatas 1995 when the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with its last - minute additional claim of a «discernible human influence» on climate, Nature magazine warned scientists against overheating the Climate Change (IPCC) came out with its last - minute additional claim of a «discernible human influence» on climate, Nature magazine warned scientists against overheating the climate, Nature magazine warned scientists against overheating the debate.

The 94 year - old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self - regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of global warming in his past book, that «it's just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer» and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources such as windfarms.

This book shines a fascinating light on this process by revealing how climate change has been transformed from a physical phenomenon, measurable and observable by scientists, into a social, cultural and political one... This book is so important because Mike Hulme can not be dismissed as a skeptic yet he is calling for a radical change in the way we discuss climate change.

Overall, the book is as full with conspiracy theories and insults against climate scientists as any blog you might find on the wilder shores of the internet.

My book traces my own career as a climate scientist and the evolving views of many scientists I have worked with.

# 36: The subtitle of Spencer's book suggests, that there is some «intelligence» that drives the climate and fools the scientists — in the same way as evolution is driven by some intelligent designer that fools the scientist with fossiles indicating that random mutations, change of environment and selection are drivers of evolution.

It also includes a specific response to many false points in Allegre's book (pdf document, 63 pages, in French) as well as a list of denigration against climate scientists (including their control on scientific journals distorting the peer review process!).

Within the main text of Oreskes» book, however, she only makes a brief mention of Gelbspan on page 246, lumping him in with others who themselves only cite him as their source when accusing skeptic climate scientists of industry corruption.

This book tells my story of becoming a scientist, and of struggling to reconcile this journey with my experience as a climate scientist.