Sentences with phrase «climate scientists in question»

One simple example of this fact is that the Climate Scientists in question have mislead anyone susceptible, as to the use and meaning of peer review in real science.

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John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, says that climate scientists should be less hostile to doubters who question man - made global warming, and that public confidence in science depends on more openness to varied opinions.

Research scientists question whether the order will reduce international collaborations and remain troubled by confusion surrounding communications restrictions placed on employees of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture, two agencies that have played vital roles in the collection of scientific data on climate change.

«The bias is just so extreme» Others seriously questioned whether the world's community of climate scientists is caught in a cyclone of self - promotion, driven by the pressure to validate past findings and to receive federal grants.

It turns out that the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space - weather satellite with a controversial past, is answering those questions right now, says Stephen Kane, an exoplanet scientist at San Francisco State University in California.

«When confronted with the question whether or not global warming contributed to Sandy, many scientists would just throw their hands up and say, «We can not address the question of how hurricanes will behave in a future climate because the myriad factors affecting storm behaviors are too complex and impossible to simulate»,» Lau said.

At a tense debate in February at UCLA where Jacobson argued over the merits of supporting nuclear versus ramping up renewables, sharing the stage with nuclear supporters like Environmental Progress» Shellenberger and fellow Stanford climate scientist Ken Caldeira, the question - and - answer session with the audience devolved into a shouting match.

«With the potential negative effects of climate change, one key question we are trying to answer in the study of tropical ecology is how a tropical forest responds during a long - term drought,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois.

That is a question climate scientists have so far been unable to answer because of limited opportunities to take robust ocean - atmosphere measurements around the planet and because of inherent challenges in existing computer models.

Watch Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz — part scientist, part politician — as he deftly answers a question about mankind's role in climate change without stepping on political landmines.

For instance, in the case of Superstorm Sandy, which hit the Northeast coast in 2012, Gary Lackmann, a scientist at North Carolina State University, analyzed the question: Given the storm happened, did climate change make it worse?

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.

The repercussions of the findings, which were published Thursday in Science, could make it harder to hold warming to limits set during recent United Nations climate negotiations — but they're being received cautiously by other climate scientists, with questions raised over the results of the analysis.

Solutions: Smart talking and media mastery Surveys show that most people want more information about climate science, Schmidt said, so scientists should engage in public forums such as blogs, question - and - answer sessions and public talks, provided they are not simply stacked with angry debaters.

Or, as his co-chair climate scientist Qin Dahe of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, put it via a translator in answer to a question about consumption in China: «If every Chinese has two or three cars like in the U.S., it will be a disaster for China as well as for the world.»

One major question is how climate change may be intensifying westerly winds around Antarctica, and what those changes will do to southern polar clouds, says Andrew Vogelmann, an atmospheric scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.

Kevin Trenberth, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, gets asked the question so often about the connection between big rain events and climate change that he had this response via email: «Here we go again.»

As scientists continue their research on CCS, though, one of the biggest remaining questions is whether policymakers want to include it in their climate goals, Stute said.

Have they done it already, but funding scientists in the West who question climate change?

Proving that a cold climate on early Mars led to the features seen on the planet today is a «big question», said Bethany Ehlmann, a planetary scientist at California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

It was a small fraction of Exxon Research's annual $ 300 million budget, but the question the scientists tackled was one of the biggest uncertainties in climate science: how quickly could the deep oceans absorb atmospheric CO2?

(as a disclaimer, although I work on the cp.net project and am named on the Stainforth et al paper; I was not employed nor around at the time of the press release in question (not that they would have cared for my opinion anyway, as I'm a computer geek and not a climate scientist; --RRB-

In the Q&A, a group of University of Washington scientists, including atmospheric scientist and climate researcher J. Mike Wallace, weigh in with answers to questions fielded from the paper's readerIn the Q&A, a group of University of Washington scientists, including atmospheric scientist and climate researcher J. Mike Wallace, weigh in with answers to questions fielded from the paper's readerin with answers to questions fielded from the paper's readers.

Now the question is, can the real climate scientists come forward and present the truth about global warming, or are we in for more ridiculous predictions about an ice free arctic by 2013 and the extinction of polar bears?

However the spin stops there when the facts get in the way of the reality when a second a question is posed to this same Climate Scientist?

«In the past, a typical climate scientist's response to questions about climate change's role in any given extreme weather event was, «We can not attribute any single event to climate change.&raquIn the past, a typical climate scientist's response to questions about climate change's role in any given extreme weather event was, «We can not attribute any single event to climate change.&raquin any given extreme weather event was, «We can not attribute any single event to climate change.»

«We hope that other scientists will use these data to answer questions such as why, unlike humans, some plants do not deteriorate as they age, why some environments are better for agriculture than others, and how fast plant populations will move in response to climate change,» said Yvonne Buckley, professor of Zoology in Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences.

To answer this question, the scientists compared actual measurements for the Arctic in November and December with two different «versions» of 13 different climate models.

My question is: do all climate scientists acknowledge some uncertainty in their position?

Those who ask genuine questions in search of real answers are always, in my experience, treated with patience and respect by the climate scientists who generously contribute their personal time to maintaining this site.

And before I start hearing again about how stupid my questions are and how little I understand about climate science, this is in fact a concern expressed by many of the climate scientists I've been reading and listening to.

[5:14 p.m. Updated As Stefan Rahmstorf, a German climate scientist, explained in an e-mail late today, that's very much an open question, with his modeling studies showing any cooling swamped by greenhouse - driven warming.]

And while it's easy to fill 100 «name here» slots on an ad questioning climate clarity, my guess is it'd be hard to find more than a handful of scientists working on the intertwined climate and energy challenges who would say that fossil - fueled business as usual is the best approach to getting humanity through its 21st - century growth spurt in great shape.

I'm simply questioning the validity of the hypothesis offered by so many climate scientists that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are a significant factor in global warming, to the extent that they must be drastically reduced.

Victor (243): I'm simply questioning the validity of the hypothesis offered by so many climate scientists that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are a significant factor in global warming, to the extent that they must be drastically reduced.

«A key question in the global climate debate is if the climate warms in the future, will the water cycle intensify and what will be the nature of that intensification,» said USGS scientist Thomas Huntington, who authored the study.

«I am writing in response to information provided recently by Professor Julia Slingo OBE, Chief Scientist, Meteorological Office, firstly in the report «Possibility and Impact of Rapid Climate Change in the Arctic» to the Environmental Audit Committee and subsequently in answering questions from the Committee on Wednesday 14 March 2012.

The prime climate question confronting societies around the world remains as Ralph Cicerone, an atmospheric scientist and the president of the National Academy of Sciences, framed it in 2007: «Does it take a crisis to get people to go along a new path or can they respond to a series of rational, incremental gains in knowledge?»

The climate scientist Simon Donner, who joined Gleick in signing a recent letter to The Wall Street Journal rebutting an op - ed article by other scientists questioning the seriousness of global warming, weighed in on the downside of lowering ethical thresholds in the name of a worthy mission:

In the past, a typical climate scientist's response to questions about climate change's role in any given extreme weather event was, «We can not attribute any single event to climate change.&raquIn the past, a typical climate scientist's response to questions about climate change's role in any given extreme weather event was, «We can not attribute any single event to climate change.&raquin any given extreme weather event was, «We can not attribute any single event to climate change.»

«10,566 Papers Across Many Fields Confirm Climate Change in 2017: Scientists Pursue Questions, but Core Narrative Is More Fruitful than Ever.»

It is rare for questions to flow in two directions between a scientist and a science journalist, but on an issue as fraught and complex as human - driven global warming — with both the physical climate and communications climate in flux — there's never been a more important moment for such a conversation.

«In the past five years, the dynamic of the global warming debate has shifted away from exaggerated acceptance of the worst possible implications of what a majority of climate scientists tell us, towards a more balanced and questioning approach.»

Andy, think long and hard about what you've said here and ask yourself how climate scientists can avoid to appear to be engaged in nefarious activities when subjected to quote - mining, selective publication of stolen e-mails, outright misrepresentation of public statements, organized FOI flooding meant to overwhelm a departments resources to respond (while asking for stuff the university in question has no right to release), etc etc..

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

Back in Washington, Representative F. James Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin, is using questions raised by the unauthorized release of documents and e-mail messages from a British climate center to try to get a batch of climate scientists pulled from any further involvement in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate center to try to get a batch of climate scientists pulled from any further involvement in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate scientists pulled from any further involvement in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

In my piece weighing the merits of very different strategies for giving ice - dependent polar bears a chance in a warming world, I promised I'd post the views of some of the biologists, sea - ice researchers and climate scientists who've been tracking relevant questionIn my piece weighing the merits of very different strategies for giving ice - dependent polar bears a chance in a warming world, I promised I'd post the views of some of the biologists, sea - ice researchers and climate scientists who've been tracking relevant questionin a warming world, I promised I'd post the views of some of the biologists, sea - ice researchers and climate scientists who've been tracking relevant questions.

Lisa Song and Jack Cushman spent months speaking to scientists active in climate research since the 1970s to determine if the questions Exxon investigated were valid.

The climate study isn't surprising, as past research has come away with similar findings: a study in 2010 questioned nearly 1,000 scientists and found that 97.5 percent agreed that climate change is being caused by human activities.

On the bright side, while he took some predictable pot - shots (thanks to Mansbridge's feeding of very convenient questions) at critics, notwithstanding all the press he's received in which he's dubbed as «world's leading authority on climate change», he admitted that he's «not a climate scientist».