Sentences with phrase «change science seems»

When it comes to climate change science it seems like each new week brings a fresh study showing how much crop yields are going to decline, how much less water many places are going to have, how quickly sea level rise is going to happen, how many more infectious diseases are going to spread, et cetera, et cetera.

But with the state of flux that climate change science seems to be in when it comes to hurricane frequency and intensity predictions, is there really a solid basis yet for doing this?

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I remember watching his science videos in elementary school but now whenever I see him on the news talking about science it seems like he is politicizing science (when it comes to climate change) and promoting evolution as the only option to the creation of the world to try and discredit the religious community.

no matter how much it may seem to make sense, many many peices are missing and as far as im concerned, science usually changes its mind every ten years or so, so ill wait this one out.

That balance has changed considerably in the past few years, as alternative avenues of stem - cell science have opened up and it increasingly seems like whatever therapeutic potential such cells may someday have could be explored and achieved without the destruction of embryos.

(Unlike his article on the classics in education, which was in part a strong dissent from the report of the Commission he had belonged to in 1921, the added philosophical material in Science and the Modern World seems to presuppose and supplement the Syllabus; the drastic changes that mark a departure by Whitehead from the basic outline of the enterprise don't appear until 1929).

Science has that built - in quality of being self - correcting — some people find that frustrating (to them it seems like scientists keep changing their minds), but it is one of the fundamental strengths of sScience has that built - in quality of being self - correcting — some people find that frustrating (to them it seems like scientists keep changing their minds), but it is one of the fundamental strengths of sciencescience.

Climate change is yet another science - based global challenge requiring the best efforts of scientists worldwide — a point that ExxonMobil seemed to acknowledge in a statement that described the historic Paris climate agreement as «an important step forward.»

It may be a bit early to say that there will be a rich harvest of career opportunities for women in science, but at the Athena dissemination conference held at Heriot - Watt University in Edinburgh last month it seemed that the seeds of change are starting to be sown.

Energy savings from behavioural change can be dismissed as advanced marketing techniques and may seem trivial compared with the esoteric materials science that is needed to harvest solar energy more efficiently.

Although that increase may seem like small change, it represents a vote of confidence for the Office of Science, Senator Lamar Alexander (R — TN), chair of the Senate energy and water subcommittee, said at the Senate subcommittee markup yesterday.

What are we to make of these changes, just when it seems the world needs science most?

CSIRO had no clear statement of its changed role, he said, and the science budget seemed to consist of unconnected responses to particular problems, rather than a concerted set of measures aimed at achieving clearly described objectives.

Even though 24 per cent of the genes» DNA had changed, the proteins the cells produced seemed identical to the originals (Science, doi.org/pb9).

Evolutionary science is thriving right now, he found, but changes in the funding landscape make the future seem murky, for evolutionary science and other basic - science fields.

And these crazy ideas have suggested mainly to a change in the nature of science, [the] most puzzling observation that has been made in the last decade is that the universe seems to be full of this, something called dark energy, empty space, it's full of energy.

«Climate change is predicted to occur earliest and most dramatically at the polar regions, and that's what the observations seem to be showing,» says Karl A. Erb, director of the National Science Foundation's office of polar programs.

They found four genetic changes that seemed to match well with social behaviour — including two in genes called GTF2I and GTF2IRD1 (Science Advances, doi.org/b9vc).

Combinatorial materials science seems poised to change the way chemists work.

Now, if by impacts, he means the impacts to ecosystems, etc., it seems unlikely that climate scientists jockeying for funding would be trying to change the topic of interest from climate science to these other fields (which I guess gets back to your point that funding self - interest would dictate continuing to emphasize uncertainty).

Going from the lab to Capitol Hill may seem like a strange career change, but this is the path taken by three Ph.D. s from Lewis - Burke Associates LLC., a science advocacy firm in Washington, D.C..

«Just when it seemed like we knew all the dangers of climate change, science has to go and throw us this curveball.

We hope to remind these students that while the feat may seem daunting, they arecapable of changing the statistics of women in science!

It presents a future in 2022 that seems unlikely not because we're not currently on the verge of some great ecological disaster, but because rough math suggests that the Heston character would've been born the year before the film's 1973 release and thus his declaration that he'd never seen a grapefruit (or grass, or cows) should worm its way into the audience consciousness as Soylent Green's statement that it's not serious, thoughtful science - fiction, but rather soapbox and screed timed to coincide with, in 1972, the first international conference on climate change.

The issue of climate change figures prominently in Alexander Payne's wry science - fiction comedy «Downsizing,» though only at the end of a long and convoluted story that seems to be making itself up as it goes along.

The issue of climate change also figures prominently in Alexander Payne's wry science - fiction comedy «Downsizing,» though only at the end of a long and convoluted story that seems to be making itself up as it goes along.

While frequent updates might not seem so important for math textbooks, it's more obvious how this impacts something like science or social studies, where the materials should be more responsive to real - time, real - world changes.

In his breakthrough bestseller, The Power of Habit, New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg uses science to pull back the curtain on some of our most mystifying behaviors — and reveals how we can change them.When you get down to it, it seems like a lot of the time we're pretty oblivious about why we do the things we do!

Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change.

It seems that science and reason are revealing that story, in a very real way, changes people as if they'd «lived» the story themselves.

The works on show will explore ideas of the cyborg and the avatar raising questions of identity and individual and collective consciousness at a time of prolific social change and uncertainty when reality can often seem more like science fiction.

Often considered the «grandfather» of Op Art, French - Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely began creating mind - bending paintings as early as the 1930s, leveraging his studies of science, color, and optics to produce images that seemed to move, swell, or change forms.

If I read the some of the conclusions in the latest report on Abrupt Climate Change from the US Climate Change Science Program http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-4/final-report/default.htm, in particular Chapter 2, it would seem possible to come up with multiple feet of sea level rise due to the understanding of ice dynamics.

RE: «J Hansen does seem to have published peer reviewed science that we are facing a global emergency, and rapid climate change.

CRV9, re the meme that «temperature didn't seem to increase / change in last 10 ~ 15 years», see the post http://skepticalscience.com/john-nielsen-gammon-commentson-on-continued-global-warming.html at Skeptical Science, which shows that is simply not true when you allow for the natural variation of El Nino / La Nina and volcanic eruptions.

Through its actions, NCAR seems to be stating that physical science alone holds the key to coping with climate change, or even working to improve our resilience during typical seasonal fluctuations and weather events.

Here's my uneducated question — while I respect Gavin's comments about not abusing the science, it seems to me that many measurable indicators of climate change are (to the extent I can tell) occurring / progressing / worsening faster than predicted by most models, whether we're talking about atmospheric CO2 levels, arctic ice melting, glacial retreat, etc..

I read this website to become more acquainted with the science of climate change (I'm also attending Prof. Archer's Coursera class on climate change right now), and because this website seems trustworthy to me as someone who doesn't know enough about climate science to decide for myself who's right or wrong about this subject.

The I.P.C.C. continues to be dominated by natural scientists who may be well intentioned but seem not to be aware that there are equal level (i.e., academic, «scientific») studies of communication and that such a discipline, together with other social sciences, can give crucial contributions to understanding the current and future realities of climate change.

it seems that your conclusion:» the observed relationship between increased intensity of TCs and rising ocean temperatures appears to be robust» is in direct contradiction with your conclusion «our knowledge of likely future changes in hurricanes or tropical cyclones (TCs) remains an uncertain area of science».

Basically, the problem that the SGCR faced was that there does not seem to be an agency with the mission and expertise to be pushing for and guiding advancement of social sciences dealing with sustainability and long - term climate change.

This thread seems more about policy than the science of climate change.

Your questions are not new to anyone who has been paying attention, and you seem unable to find the ongoing science research and discussions of policy and economic issues related to climate change that engage your questions.

This means we're putting a man who has written an entire book calling climate change a hoax, who has used scripture to refute climate science, who truly seems to believe that environmental groups are a «political machine» dedicated to «misleading the American public regarding their purely politically partisan agenda under the guise of environmental protection» and who has insisted, with a straight face, that CO2 is not a «real pollutant,» in charge of solving climate change.

By way of further explanation... Warren's paper seems to suggest that a significant % of the public formulate their views about climate change based on what climate scientists do or don't say about uncertainties in the science.

Parts of the missions of the Department of Energy and the Corps of Engineers would seem to be inextricable from climate change and climate science.

The man - caused climate change deniers don't seem so good at debating science.

For his generally uninformed and limited discussion and understanding of climate change science, however, I very much regret to say that Dr. Happer seems clearly to have earned that designation.

accused Santer of making «unauthorized» changes to the IPCC reports to downplay doubts, make science seem firmer than it was

Nature and Science occasionally publish BS well below their normal standards, only when it comes to climate change issues, it seems to me.