Sentences with phrase «cooler than scientists»

In particular, he references 2008, which was cooler than scientists expected, but still among the 10 warmest years since instrumental records began.

Not exact matches

They are much smaller, dimmer and cooler than stars like our Sun, and for a long time scientists searching for life on other worlds paid little attention to them; the general feeling was that they gave out so little heat and light, compared with the Sun, that they were unlikely to host habitable planets.

Yet in this latest study of Welsh streams, scientists demonstrate for the first time that trees offer much more than just a cooling influence.

By measuring the remaining difference — the 20,000 - year old ice deep in the West Antarctic ice sheet is about 1 degree Celsius cooler than the surface — the scientists were able to estimate the original temperature based on how fast pure ice warms up.

Global warming has been going on for so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average in 1985 in a shift that is altering perceptions of a «normal» climate, scientists said.

The cooler - than - usual temperatures are represented by the big blue blob on the world map below (that's Florida peeking out at the lower right of the blob), provided by atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, using NOAA data.

This gal thinks scientists are cooler than rock stars: Shirley Ann Jackson, recites Lia in an excited crescendo, «explores the invisible particles that make up everything in the universe, including you and me and your computer and Limburger cheese and the rings of Saturn and even giant squids!»

Scientists knew about the warming effects of greenhouse gases, but proponents of global cooling argued that greenhouse warming would be more than offset by Earth's orbital changes.

Most importantly, the supply of liquid helium — which cools the optics to 5 degrees above absolute zero — is being consumed more slowly than mission scientists dared hope.

When cooled to less than 0.4 kelvin, the boron - laden silicon permitted electrons to flow unimpeded, the scientists report in the Nov. 23 Nature.

Atmospheric scientist Junjie Liu of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and her colleagues report that the tropics of Asia, Africa and South America together released about 2.5 gigatons more carbon into the atmosphere in 2015 than they did in 2011, a cooler and wetter La Niña year.

The classification of these new sources of x-rays has allowed the scientists to revise their temperature estimates of the interstellar gas: according to study co-author Eric Gotthelf of Columbia University, the gas appears to be a mere 10 million degrees, 10 times cooler than previously thought.

«We grew teosinte in the conditions that it encountered 10,000 years ago during the early Holocene period: temperatures 2 - 3 degrees Celsius cooler than today's with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at around 260 parts per million,» said Dolores Piperno, senior scientist and curator of archaeobotany and South American archaeology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, who led the project.

Fascinatingly, the book from the mid-70s said that there was one climate scientist — Wally Broecker - who predicted that the greenhouse warming was on the verge of overtaking the aerosol cooling effects and that by the year 2000 the planet would be warmer than it had been in 1000 years.

And that cooler gas has much more mass than scientists previously estimated, Jessica Werk reported Jan. 7.

NIST scientists have devised a novel hybrid system for cooling superconducting nanowire single - photon detectors (SNSPD)-- essential tools for many kinds of cutting - edge research — that is far smaller than those previously...

By examining the cooling rate of rocks that formed more than 10 miles beneath the Earth's surface, scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences have found that water probably penetrates deep into the crust and upper mantle at mid-ocean spreading zones, the places where new crust is made.

It's really cool to learn, for example, that Soviet scientists amassed a team of more than 1,200 scientists to study adaptogens back in the 1940s because of the state's desire to dominate everything from the military to chess to ballet.

Research stations allow you to unlock a little bit more stuff by assigning some scientists to pottle around, but they are all upgrades of existing items rather than being new rooms or cool new.

This is a peer reviewed paper by respected scientists who are saying that aerosol forcing means that the majority of the warming caused by existing co2 emission has effectively been masked thus far, and that as aerosols remain in the atmosphere for far shorter a duration of time than co2, we will have already most likely crossed the 2 degree threshold that the G8 politicians have been discussing this week once the cooling effect of aerosols dissipate.

In AR5, the IPCC scientists thought it as likely as not that land use change actually caused warming rather than cooling.»

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man - made greenhouse gases.

By Gene J. Koprowski Contrary to the commonly held scientific conclusion that the Earth is getting warmer, a scientist who has written more than 150 peer - reviewed papers has unveiled evidence for his prediction that global cooling is coming soon.

«In regards to sea surface temperature, scientists have shown that across the board, data collected from buoys are cooler than ship - based data,» one of the study's co-authors wrote, adding, «Scientists have developed a method to correct the difference between ship and buoy measurements, and we are using this in our trend analysscientists have shown that across the board, data collected from buoys are cooler than ship - based data,» one of the study's co-authors wrote, adding, «Scientists have developed a method to correct the difference between ship and buoy measurements, and we are using this in our trend analysScientists have developed a method to correct the difference between ship and buoy measurements, and we are using this in our trend analysis.»

The scientists warned, however, that when the current cooling phase turns, the upward march of temperatures is likely to resume, perhaps at faster rates than before as greenhouse gas emission rates are higher.

This means that 19th century oceans were probably cooler than Challenger's measurements, and temperatures have therefore risen by more than the Scripps and Southampton scientists estimated.

Scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center have also reported that satellite measurements show that sea ice now covers about 2 percent more area around Antarctica than it did two decades ago, another suggestion of recent cooling.

2008 is set to be cooler globally than recent years say Met Office and University of East Anglia climate scientists, but is still forecast to be one of the top - ten warmest years.

Japanese researcher predicts cooler climate in Northern Hemisphere from 2015 — «A Japanese scientist who analyzed ocean temperatures stretching back more than five decades has predicted that the climate in the Northern Hemisphere may enter a cooling period around 2015.

Partners in research: Akbari worked with a team of of Berkeley Lab scientists and research associates, including Mohamad Sleiman, Hugo Destaillats, Sharon Chen, Thomas Kirchstetter, Haley Gilbert, Paul Berdahl and Ronnen Levinson, as well as the Cool Roof Rating Council (CRRC) and more than 40 industrial partners, to develop the protocol.

Other than a handful of alarmist Climategate related scientists, no reputable scientist rejects the real Antarctica empirical evidence of 30 + years of slight cooling.

Newman insists there are «credible» scientists who say the Earth is cooling rather than warming.

There was a recent study by German scientists (you'll have to google translate) that predicted global cooling and another little ice age rather than any form of global warming:

there seems to be a hot - button issue with respect to whether it was implied by IPCC and scientists that there would be no more than a «few» years of pauses, slowdowns, coolings etc..

Newman insists there are «credible» scientists who say the earth is cooling rather than warming.

Cooling causes more deaths than warming, so, climate scientists, please get your «Catastrophic cooling will cause destruction of humanity» funding requests in now to beat thCooling causes more deaths than warming, so, climate scientists, please get your «Catastrophic cooling will cause destruction of humanity» funding requests in now to beat thcooling will cause destruction of humanity» funding requests in now to beat the rush.

«Luetkemeyer's legislation would prohibit U.S. contributions to the IPCC, which is nothing more than a group of U.N. bureaucrats that supports man - made claims on global warming that many scientists disagree with... Meanwhile, our very own Environmental Protection Agency recently reported that we are undergoing a period of worldwide cooling.»

From these ratios, scientists can infer El Niño (warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific) and La Niña (cooler than average sea surface temperatures) conditions.

One scientist, paleoclimatologist William Ruddiman, even argued that the rise of human agriculture had already produced enough greenhouse gases to counteract the gradual cooling that should have come during the past several thousand years; every previous cycle had begun a steady cooling soon after its peak, rather than leveling off as ours had done.

«A Japanese scientist who analyzed ocean temperatures stretching back more than five decades has predicted that the climate in the Northern Hemisphere may enter a cooling period around 2015.

I think it is great that others are acknowledging the solar effects on climate, something which has been poo pooed since the global warming bandwagon got supercharged in the very early 1990s, a little more than a decade after the scientists fretted over dangerous cooling.

«Working with data pertaining to 7450 cardiovascular - related deaths that occurred within Budapest, Hungary, between 1995 and 2004 — where the deceased were «medico - legally autopsied» — Toro et al. looked for potential relationships between daily maximum, minimum and mean temperature, air humidity, air pressure, wind speed, global radiation and daily numbers of the heart - related deaths... scientists report and restate their primary finding numerous times throughout their paper, writing that (1) «both the maximum and the minimum daily temperatures tend to be lower when more death cases occur in a day,» (2) «on the days with four or more death cases, the daily maximum and minimum temperatures tend to be lower than on days without any cardiovascular death events,» (3) «the largest frequency of cardiovascular death cases was detected in cold and cooling weather conditions,» (4) «we found a significant negative relationship between temperature and cardiovascular mortality,» (5) «the analysis of 6 - hour change of air pressure suggests that more acute or chronic vascular death cases occur during increasing air pressure conditions (implying cold weather fronts),» (6) «we found a high frequency of cardiovascular death in cold weather,» (7) «a significant negative relationship was detected between daily maximum [and] minimum temperature [s] and the number of sudden cardiovascular death cases,» and (8) «a significant negative correlation was detected between daily mean temperature and cardiovascular mortality.»

«The cooling impact from increasing aerosols more than masked the warming impact from increasing greenhouse gases,» said John Fyfe, a senior scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada and a co-author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters.

Furthermore lets do what the scientists do on occasions like this; ignore everything other than radiation, i.e. adiabatic warming / cooling, Conduction, convection and advection etcetera.

Visitors who come across the «Plastic Century» art installation while searching for a sip of water at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco tomorrow may find their options less than appealing: Drink from a trash - filled water cooler or go thirsty.In a piece commissioned by the academy to mark World Oceans Day (and the 100th birthday of iconic marine scientist and explorer Jacques Cousteau), artist Sarah Kornfeld, marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, and futurists Stuart Candy and Jake Dunagan set out to show what a century of plastic has done to our environment — and specifically the world's seas.

Most scientists agree that warming is better than cooling and many believe CO2 provides important enhancements for forests and agriculture, even while also believing we should not be fouling our nest.

In the 1970s, a few scientists wondered whether the cooling effect from aerosols would be greater than the heating produced from greenhouse gases, and some popular publications ran articles about a new Ice Age.

Scientists say there was no new record set this year because summer temperatures were cooler than in the past two summers and because winds tended to disperse ice over a larger region.