Whereas 97.5 % of the (active)
climate research community thinks AGW is a real problem (Doran and Zimmerman, 2009), only 58 % (Gallup, 2009) of the general society shares this view.
Not exact matches
«I
think that this
research is going to have a long - term influence on how the
community evaluates air quality and
climate models, because the pH of particles is so important, yet mostly overlooked,» said Athanasios Nenes, a professor and Georgia Power Scholar in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and another co-author.
So please, if you
think that the whole
community (thousands) of scientists that work on
climate research are not doing a good job of auditing one another, you better come with a very good idea of who should audit their work.
You would
think researchers would welcome opportunities to balance that vast library of one - sided
research with an analysis of the natural causes of
climate change — so that they can evaluate the relative impact of human activities, more accurately predict future changes, and help ensure that
communities, states and nations can plan for, mitigate and adapt to those impacts.
Keynote speaker Phil Downing, head of environmental
research for Ipsos Mori, will be encouraging councils to «
think global» but «act local» and use the regional advice and support available to inspire their
communities to help tackle
climate change.
A problem with this article is that, when it refers for example to «the
climate research establishment», «the international
climate establishment» and «the
climate science
community», it's referring I
think to the West — more specifically to scientists in the US, Canada, Western Europe and Australia.
«But the lead author of the study... says that he is not convinced that it is just the changing
climate... «It could be partly due to this chaotic rainfall, but personally I don't
think it can explain such a dramatic decline in mosquitoes, to the extent we can say that the malaria mosquitoes are almost eradicated in these
communities... «What we should consider is that there may be a disease among the mosquitoes, a fungi or a virus, or they're may have been some environmental changes in the
communities that have resulted in a drop in the number of mosquitoes»... The
research team also found anecdotal evidence that their discovery was not an isolated case... «Other scientists are saying they can't test their drugs because there are no children left with malaria.»»
[Response: The problem with this paper is that it strongly implies that Hypothesis 2a is original, and that the rest of the
climate science
research community thinks that only 2b applies.