Sentences with phrase «climate warming scientists»

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Sumner said Trump is too quick to dismiss the evidence of global warming compiled by climate scientists.

Trump has falsely called climate change a «hoax» and said he will roll back measures aimed at stopping global warming, sparking concern among climate scientists.

He points to the fact that Smith is currently investigating the activities of federal climate scientists whose research last year undermined claims by Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus&climate scientists whose research last year undermined claims by Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus&Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus».

In a warming climate, scientists see increasing potential for epic deluges like the one that swamped Houston and last year's devastating rains around Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

While this is bad news for the planet, it's good news for climate change scientists who have — for the last two decades — puzzled over warming trends in ocean surface temperatures for nearly 20 years.

Trump and several of his cabinet members deny the consensus among climate scientists that carbon dioxide from human activity is the primary cause of global warming.

Rating agencies behaved no differently than climate - change scientists who base their doomsday forecasts of man - made global warming on extrapolation of historical data.

In a recent analysis of climate events from last year, 2016, scientists determined three events — record - breaking global heat, a heat wave over Asia, and a «blob» of unusually warm water in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate change.

These are the types of storms climate scientists to expect to see more of in a warmer world.

Some have stated that unless major reforms are implemented ecologically, that by 2037, the earth may be unable to sustain life as we now have, with climate change now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&climate change now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely».

Unfortunately, there are examples of at least one study, which claims 97 percent of climate scientists agree global warming is happening and is manmade, which may have done a not - so - great job of reaching such a conclusion.

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.

As for pundits the Merson types are like climate scientists who deny global warming is anthropgenic, not because they really believe it but because it gets them exposure in the media which they wouldn't get if they simply went along with the crowd.

Maeve Vallely Bartlett; State Sen. Jamie Eldridge, vice chair of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change; Wayne Klockner, state director of The Nature Conservancy; and Ken Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Nor would you get information on global warming from a climate scientist because they are «bias» in favor of anthropic global warming.

Climate scientists tell us that to keep the rise of global temperature above the pre-industrial level at below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in order to avoid runaway global warming, the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent per year starting in 2020.

In a video posted on his official Assembly website, Hanna is seen debating a bill on the floor and decrying a «conspiracy» by scientists who engage in climate research to «suppress» research conducted by those who challenge the existence of global warming.

Janeway said without significant intervention to curb global warming, climate scientists report that by 2100, the Adirondack Park's climate will resemble present - day Richmond, Virginia.

Still, the prominent climate scientist James Hansen, who gained fame after sounding the alarm over global warming in the 1980s, criticized Sanders and said shutting down the plant would increase the need for more fracked gas.

Climate scientists tell us that we have at best 15 years to convert to carbon - free energy sources if we are to stop runaway global warming.

Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.

Now, scientists are trying to get a better handle on peatlands and the effects of agriculture, development and a climate that's shifting toward warmer and drier.

While more than 95 percent of the world's climate scientists attribute global warming to human causes, only about half of U.S. adults agree.

«Our results indicate that a wide range of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades as a result of climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Climate Change.

The otter likely lived near and foraged in a shallow lake or wetland in a warm, humid climate, say the scientists.

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Despite all these variables, scientists from Svante Arrhenius to those on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have noted that doubling preindustrial concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere from 280 parts per million (ppm) would likely result in a world with average temperatures roughly 3 degrees C warmer.

New research could explain why the Arctic was much warmer during a period millions of years ago that scientists say most closely resembles Earth's climate today

«We're glad the governor went to global warming school, but he didn't learn the lessons from it,» said David Pringle, campaign director of the New Jersey Environmental Federation, about the governor's recent meetings with climate scientists.

With Arctic temperatures warming twice as fast as the global average, scientists estimate thawing permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere through the end of the century with significant climate impacts.

KATHARINE HAYHOE is an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, where she studies climate modeling and the regional impacts of global warming.

Gerald Meehl, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who was also an author on the paper, said this research expanded on past work, including his own research, that pointed to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation as a factor in a warming slowdown by finding a mechanism behind how the Pacific Ocean was able to store enough heat to produce a pause in surface warming.

'' [E] missions of black carbon are the second strongest contribution to current global warming, after carbon dioxide emissions,» wrote Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a prominent climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Greg Carmichael, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Iowa, in the April 2008 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.

In the interest of our future world, scientists must seek to understand the complexities of linked natural events and field observations that are revealed in the geologic record of past warmer climates.

Climate scientists have long warned that global warming will lead to more heatwaves, droughts and floods.

But while the IPCC bungled its numbers, climate's influence on Himalayan glaciers is still a looming concern for many scientists and governments, which worry about how warming will affect the region's water cycle.

Climate's influence on Himalayan glaciers is still a looming concern for many scientists and governments, which worry about how warming will affect the region's water cycle

Deforestation is likely to warm the climate even more than originally thought, scientists warn.

Although scientists aren't sure exactly how warming temperatures will manifest under climate change, Morgan said that «chances are good as it gets warmer we'll get more dry years in the future.»

But those early temperatures are now a tool unto themselves, helping scientists tease out when humans might have started to warm Earth's climate — and suggesting that the warming may be greater than first thought.

Some climate experts argue that the finding undermines the main criticism of scientists who contend that greenhouse gases are not warming the planet.

The research could help scientists design specific groups of bacteria and fungi to encourage the migration of trees threatened by warming climates.

«We had very high rates of Zika transmission where it was very warm and very dry,» said co-author Madeleine Thomson, a senior research scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University.

One of the most significant findings is that high percentages of Americans — or roughly a third — say that they could easily change their minds about global warming, said Tom Bowman, president of the consulting firm Bowman Global Change, who has examined how climate scientists communicate to the public.

But climate scientists worry that global warming will endanger vineyards, as the increase in very hot days takes a toll on delicate grapes.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

Now, with the frozen soil disturbed by the process of laying down the rail and a warming climate on the plateau, some scientists question whether the $ 4 - billion rail line will survive as is or require major reconstruction.

However, in their wake, hurricanes set up large - amplitude waves that mingle warm surface water with colder deep water, says climate scientist Matthew Huber of Purdue University.

Roy Spencer, a climate scientist at the University of Alabama who argued from the skeptical side, agrees that human contributed carbon dioxide lessens the planet's ability to shed heat, meaning that warming is likely.

Although the dairy industry wants a free pass for carbon emissions, some scientists are looking for ways to help it cope with a warming climate