Sentences with phrase «by hundreds of scientists»

The report's language is far more constrained than that, reflecting a delicate consensus that was reached only after months of debate and several rounds of comments by hundreds of scientists and government climate experts, Dr. Trenberth said.

Out of more than a thousand emails dating back 13 years, this single sentence was seized on by some commentators as evidence that decades of climate research by hundreds of scientists is instead a global conspiracy.

The 800 - page report, authored and reviewed by hundreds of scientists, details how a changing climate is already impacting human health, agriculture and ecosystems across the U.S.

Pitted against Energy Secretary Ed Davey, Mr Carter described the findings of the most authoritative report ever undertaken into the science of climate change — put together by hundreds of scientists around the world — as «hocus - pocus science».

He adds that this represents a body of scientific work by hundreds of scientists going back to the 19th Century.

The IPCC is supported by hundreds of scientists, think tanks, and organizations around the world that assess and synthesize the most recent climate change - related science.

The research field he invented, structural DNA nanotechnology, is now the subject of research by hundreds of scientists in over 50 laboratories around the world.

After counting up tree species from 1170 research sites studied by hundreds of scientists, a team extrapolated the number likely to exist across the entire region.

This dramatic result marks the culmination of three years of data collection by hundreds of scientists at Brookhaven's colossal atom smasher, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).

This increased certainty is starkly reflected in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the fourth in a series of assessments of the state of knowledge on the topic, written and reviewed by hundreds of scientists worldwide.

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If that is why you disagree with me, I muct ask, why do those few pages mean more to you than the millions of pages produced by scientists over the past hundred + years?

All the international amity built up by a century of translated literatures, cooperating scientists, commercial relationships, and financial interdependence, melted away, and Europe fell apart into a hundred hostile nationalities.

Nearly every scientific society, representing hundreds of thousands of scientists, have issued statements rejecting intelligent design and a peti.tion supporting the teaching of evolutionary biology was endorsed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners.

When I read some information in the Bible that is evidence that the person knew about nature, but scientist didn't discover it for hundreds or thousands of years later, I have to ask myself, «How did that (Bibical) person know that without it being revealed to him by some higher power.

BRC, there is no evidence?!?! what an uneducated statement, there are hundreds / thousands of books and studies, research by thousands of scientists, some christians some not... evolution is REAL... it's a proven theory and i would put that against your ONE book that was written when everyone thought the earth was flat.

Nanoparticles in sunscreens, cosmetics and hundreds of other consumer products may pose risks to the environment by damaging beneficial microbes, scientists reported Tuesday.

Despite such glowing testimonials, some researchers worry about the potential for serious psychic damage if these compounds are used by hundreds of therapists on thousands of patients, instead of by a small cadre of dedicated scientists testing carefully screened volunteers in tightly controlled situations.

That's why he and hundreds of other scientists around the world have joined Earthtime, a 10 - year endeavor to nail down the sequence of past events on Earth by refining scientists» techniques for measuring deep time.

Sadly, these discussions were prompted by another tragedy: Recently we lost a friend and alumnus who was a phenomenal scientist, mentor, activist, writer, and drag performance artist who touched hundreds of lives.

Planned for launch by 2025, the mission is being financed in part by European partners and involves hundreds of scientists from 20 countries.

The America COMPETES Act will help them do that by devoting more federal funding to research and development efforts at universities, creating hundreds of new opportunities for young scientists.

But curbing those substances, scientists and activists say, could slow atmospheric warming 0.5 degrees Celsius by 2050 while also increasing crop yields and preventing hundreds of thousands of related deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

If global temperatures increase by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, as many scientists expect, so - called «hundred - year - floods» could occur every 20 years or so, putting untold numbers of people at risk.

By piling on one example after another of problems that have resisted the onslaughts of our very best minds, Maddox gives us a bracing affirmation that future scientists will have a lot more to do than to add footnotes to the work their predecessors did in their first three hundred years.

These summaries are approved line by line, by consensus by a group of hundreds of government representatives and scientists, working for days at a time and even through the night until they have agreed upon every word.

Scientists made the breakthrough by looking at hundreds of pelican spiders under a microscope.

A group of social scientists from the USA, Australia, UK, and Chile, led by Prof. Cinner, have pooled their experience, and lessons from hundreds of research and development projects, to highlight five keys ways to build up the adaptive capacity of people living in the coastal tropics.

A new analysis by geophysicist Steven Ward and planetary scientist Erik Asphaug of the University of California, Santa Cruz, concludes that the biggest tsunami hazard arises from asteroids between 30 and a few hundred meters across, which may strike the ocean every 1000 to 100,000 years.

The sea is set to rise a metre or more by the end of this century, swamping much vital intrastructure and displacing hundreds of millions of people (New Scientist, 1 July 2009, p 28).

Scientists studying the Amazon Basin have revealed unprecedented detail of the size, age and species of trees across the region by comparing satellite maps with hundreds of field plots.

10 Meteorite impacts have been blamed for hundreds of injuries, but only one has been verified by scientists.

«[T] he high seas provide a range of ecosystem services, from driving weather systems and modulating the climate to the production of a high percentage of the oxygen we breathe,» states a letter signed by hundreds of marine scientists, including conservation icon Sylvia Earle, in support of the Law of the Sea approach.

The Iraqi Academic Conference, organized by the Iraqi embassy, brought together scientists, physicians, and other academics to discuss aiding their counterparts in Iraq, where sectarian violence has been blamed for the deaths of more than 300 professors and the departure of hundreds more.

This summer, two media fellowships run by AAAS sent scientists and interns into newsrooms where they wrote hundreds of science news articles.

The scientists carried out this procedure hundreds of times, breaking a record by monitoring four neurons simultaneously in each experiment.

Since the early 1990s, independent scientists in academic laboratories around the world have published hundreds of articles demonstrating how a broad selection of chemicals can interfere with the normal development of a baby at extremely low levels of exposure — in fact, levels similar to those experienced every day by people worldwide.

The hundreds of questions submitted by Redditors for the scientists «demonstrate that people want to participate in the conversation,» Ben - Yehuda said.

In a new study, published in Global Change Biology, scientists from the Universities of Bristol, James Cook University, and Melbourne University in Australia tested the response of the tropical rainforest fly Drosophila birchii to a changing climate by transplanting flies in hundreds of cages along mountain gradients in north - eastern Australia, and measuring their reproductive success at different elevations.

The project, overseen by Yolanda George, deputy director of AAAS Education and Human Resources, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), brought hundreds of educators, students, policy - makers, scientists, and others together for a series of regional and national meetings on transforming biology education.

Using new methods to analyze stone projectile points crafted by North America's earliest human inhabitants, Smithsonian scientists have found that these tools show evidence of a shift toward more experimentation in their production beginning about 12,500 years ago, following hundreds of years of consistent stone - tool production created using uniform techniques.

The new device rounds out a particle accelerator that has hundreds of times more heating power than the NDCX - I, which was operated by scientists in the mid-2000s.

Severinghaus discovered that xenon and krypton are well preserved in ice cores, which provides the temperature information that can then be used by scientists studying many other aspects of the earth's oceans and atmosphere over hundreds of thousands of years.

The scientists synthesized the sponges by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process during which the CNTs (multi-walled nanotubes with diameters in the range of 30 to 50nm and lengths of tens to hundreds of micrometers,) self - assembled into a porous, interconnected, three - dimensional framework.

Scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency, are concerned by a management announcement that may see hundreds of contract and casual employees let go in coming months.

LIGO has turned out to be the largest ever facility funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), costing many hundreds of millions of dollars and involving over 1000 scientists from across the globe.

«We now know what genes were gained by enterococci hundreds of millions of years ago, when they became resistant to drying out, and to disinfectants and antibiotics that attack their cell walls,» study leader Michael S. Gilmore, a senior scientist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and director of the Harvard Infectious Disease Institute, said in the statement.

By replacing a relatively large region of DNA, the technique allows the scientists to fix many gene mutations at once, which suggests the method might provide a way to treat hundreds of types of HBB - related diseases.

What's Next: The research showed that by varying the concentration of the reagent, scientists can determine the concentrations of hundreds of molecules in a complex mixture without knowing much about the molecules in advance, other than the fact that they possess a certain chemical group.

Scientists can now identify microbes by their DNA, and they've discovered that microbial communities are far more diverse than anyone ever imagined, including tens or even hundreds of thousands of different microbial species, all interacting with one another.

Previous research by Box using ice cores — long cylinders drilled out of the ice sheet that let scientists sample hundreds of years of ice layers — showed that in the past, snowfall has increased over the ice sheet as temperatures have risen.