Sentences with phrase «early climate science»

I really appreciate Tony going back to see what is good within the early Climate Science work, and what we can all agree to treat as honourable foundations.

Some earlier Climate Science Watch posts discussing the National Assessment include those of August 28 (Sen. Kerry calls for new National Climate Change Assessment), January 4 (Toward a Second U.S. National Climate Change Assessment), June 8, 2005 (Censorship and Secrecy: Politicizing the Climate Change Science Program), and June 2, 2005 (On Issues of Concern About the Governance and Direction of the Climate Change Science Program).

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Earlier this year, Cypress - Medicine Hat UCP MLA Drew Barnes helped fund a film promoting climate science skepticism.

In 2016, she received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in part for bringing ocean and climate change science into K - 12 classrooms.

While the documents show API learned of potential climate change risks as early as 1968 and had formed committees to examine smog pollution in the 1940s, Exxon CEO Lee Raymond said in November 1996 that climate science was unsettled.

McCarthy expressed hope that the report, coming from a trusted source — AAAS publishes the prestigious journal Science — and written by a group of esteemed American climate scientists, would get across the message that 97 percent of climate scientists are in agreement and that early action is needed on climate change.

Since then, he has received support from the Park Service, including a four - day training course on climate change science and communication earlier this year.

That difference became clear last week after the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 2016 spending bill that does not call for the steep cuts to climate and social science programs approved a week earlier by the House of Representatives.

By the early 1990s, the space agency was laying the groundwork for what would become the Earth Observing System, its main climate science contribution.

Since the early 1970s, this climatologist and science popularizer has been a fixture on TV news shows, on Capitol Hill, and on White House panels, where he weighs in on both the politics and science of climate change.

A report published earlier this month by the Washington - based Bipartisan Policy Center, for instance, called for greater federal leadership on climate - tweaking science.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aClimate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aclimate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

The work, published yesterday in Science, finds evidence that Earth's climate is more sensitive to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than some earlier studies had suggested.

And the environment committee, which plays a central role in writing climate and energy legislation, hasn't held a hearing on climate science since early 2009.

«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.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sent a strongly worded message to policymakers around the world early today: The new science of the past 6 years has only reinforced the already - confident conclusions of the 2007 IPCC assessment report.

«This is really the first time we've tried to put together a picture of how the early atmosphere, early climate and early continental evolution went hand in hand,» said Donald R. Lowe, a professor of geological and environmental science who wrote the paper with Michael M. Tice, a graduate student investigating early life.

Earlier this year, Frank Hailer of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, Germany, and colleagues estimated that polar bears diverged from brown bears 600,000 years ago — a result that itself pushed back the evolutionary record of polar bears by about 450,000 years (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.12Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.12science.1216424).

Democrats opposing Bridenstine said his outspoken divisiveness, earlier rejection of mainstream climate change science and lack of space experience made him unqualified.

In fact, typing a couple of phrases from Mr. Holder's comment into scroogle.org turned up about a dozen identical posts in late 2009 to early 2010 in response to articles about the UEA e-mail theft, at mostly obscure and varied websites (i.e., ones where the audience isn't likely to have much knowledge of climate science) rather than the most prominent climate websites.

Click here for Part II, an accounting of Exxon's early climate research; Part III, a review of Exxon's climate modeling efforts; Part IV, a dive into Exxon's Natuna gas field project; Part V, a look at Exxon's push for synfuels; Part VI, an accounting of Exxon's emphasis on climate science uncertainty.

This expands our nationwide - averaged heavy precipitation analysis from earlier this year, complementing the 2017 Climate Science

Much in the spirit of the Fraser Institute's damp squib we reported on last year, S. Fred Singer and his merry band of contrarian luminaries (financed by the notorious «Heartland Institute» we've commented on previously) served up a similarly dishonest «assessment» of the science of climate change earlier this year in the form of what they call the «NIPCC» report (the «N» presumably standing for «not the» or «nonsense»).

Early climate contrarian reactions to the retraction of Said, Wegman et al 2008 have grasped at straws, holding that this does not affect the findings of the paper and the earlier Wegman report alleging inadequate peer review in climate science.

• Produce and disseminate translated content about both science and innovation in multiple forms to spark new ideas and help build a climate in which innovators and early adopters will find support for their work and for constructive dissatisfaction with the status quo.

In early August the Government was seen to bow to this pressure by having the newly appointed Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Greg Hunt announce additional funding along with the replacement of 15 climate scienceScience, Greg Hunt announce additional funding along with the replacement of 15 climate sciencescience jobs.8

I am delighted to share with you that Superintendent Woods» letter to the governor mentions library media centers: These activities include but are not limited to: Advanced Placement, arts integration, computer science education, early childhood education, gifted education, health education and services, physical education, media and library services, out - of - school learning opportunities, school climate, STEM / STEAM, social studies / civics, technology integration, digital access, and world languages.

To prime the pump, I mentioned a couple of instances that I reported on Dot Earth, including a report estimating 300,000 deaths a year from global warming and contentious statements made about the predicted die - back of the Amazon rain forest at a climate - science summit in Copenhagen early last year.

There's plenty of background here on the blog, including in my recent post on «Climate as News: From Front Page to Home Page» and an earlier one on «Filling the Science Communication Gap.»

Just one example from # 232: «I will quote a more substanial amount inoder for your quesry to be framed more accurately here:: being mindful of the early introductory statements and analogies upon which the PRINCIPLE is couched within, and which the essential point being made here:: «Bringing this back to «climate science» this principle equally applies to different blog / discussion boards online.»

In light of the hard - won scientific consensus developed by the IPCC, has the time not yet come to «center» our discussion on what we know of climate change, based upon good science, and talk about what we are going to do in order to address the human - driven predicament in which humanity finds itself in these early years of Century XXI?

@ 230 Steve — I will quote a more substanial amount inoder for your quesry to be framed more accurately here:: being mindful of the early introductory statements and analogies upon which the PRINCIPLE is couched within, and which the essential point being made here:: «Bringing this back to «climate science» this principle equally applies to different blog / discussion boards online.

«Our investigation found that during the fall of 2004 through early 2006, the NASA Headquarters Office of Public Affairs managed the topic of climate change in a manner that reduced, marginalized, or mischaracterized climate change science made available to the general public through those particular media over which the Office of Public Affairs had control (i.e., news releases and media access).

Earlier this week, Alex Abutu, a science and health writer in Nigeria, posted a query about African participants in the forthcoming science assessment by the climate panel on the Earth Journalism Network Google Groups listserv.

Regarding the recent paperback, «Earth Transformed,» by William F. Ruddiman, 2014, and mentioned by by John Mashey earlier in this thread, I've read enough of it to realize it's a great segue into climate science thinking.

Earlier this month, I taught a five - day mini-course in climate and communication at that university's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and met dozens of engaged students, including Kate Ziemba (@kateziem on Twitter).

I was very impressed early this year with former Representative Sherwood Boehlert's op - ed in the Washington Post on the need for the party to embrace science, including the science pointing to building risks from human - driven climate change.

However, there are plenty of science articles that are just interesting, reporting events and explorations in the Arctic and elsewhere that give a fascinating view into how early scientists were coming to an understanding about climate change and processes.

Some of the climate disengagement that Colbert alluded to was reflected earlier this week in a column on the NPR Web site by Robert Krulwich, the unconventional science communicator:

She's co-authored a recent paper — «The early bear gets the goose: climate change, polar bears and lesser snow geese in western Hudson Bay» — showing that bears in that region are foraging increasingly on shore, eating grasses and particularly relishing (apparently) snow geese and their eggs [UPDATE: Ms. Gormezano described grass (and kelp) foraging in my Science Times story but that's not in the paper; her co-author properly rejected the use of the word «relished»].

Richard P. Allan, Professor of Climate Science at University of Reading (https://theconversation.com/heat-accumulating-deep-in-the-atlantic-has-put-global-warming-on-hiatus-30805): «There seem to have been a dozen or so explanations for why the Earth's surface has warmed at a slower rate over the past 15 years compared to earlier decades.»

Raymond Pierrehumbert, a longtime climate scientist now at Oxford, stopped by The New York Times earlier this month for a long fruitful chat on climate change science and solutions and the hurdles — mostly internal and social (including political)-- that impede progress.

Given the total irrelevance of volcanic aerosols during the period in question, the only very modest effect of fossil fuel emissions and the many inconsistencies governing the data pertaining to solar irradiance, it seems clear that climate science has no meaningful explanation for the considerable warming trend we see in the earlier part of the 20th century — and if that's the case, then there is no reason to assume that the warming we see in the latter part of that century could not also be due to either some as yet unknown natural force, or perhaps simply random drift.

When Mr. Gore addressed a packed, cheering hall at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago earlier this month, his climate slide show contained a startling graph showing a ceiling - high spike in disasters in recent years.

He was a source of mine on the two - way relationship between climate and people from the early 1980s until three weeks ago, when he died of a pulmonary embolism on a flight from Stockholm to London — part of his 3 million miles of relentless (and ultimately fatal) journeying to study or communicate the science of climate change and its significance for society.

Thus, the media articles about 1970s climate science should read «Scientists warned of runaway deglaciation in the early 1970s», shouldn't they?

In case anyone wants to have a look back at my early work, here are links that will lead you to a few vintage pieces on humans and climate: Endless Summer: Living With the Greenhouse Effect, Discover Magazine cover story, October 1988; «Let's Be Sensible on Global Warming,» Christian Science Monitor, June 30, 1992; «The Big Thaw» (a look at Switzerland's retreating glaciers), Conde Nast Traveler, 1993.

John P. Holdren, the head of Harvard's Program on Science, Technology and Public Policy and a longtime advocate of prompt curbs in greenhouse gases, sent me a note about the reaction he received after the Boston Globe and International Herald Tribune published his opinion piece earlier this month asserting that «climate change skeptics are dangerously wrong.»

Is the climate science community backing away from earlier views of solar forcing in the early 20th century?

Case studies from across health science and practice are welcomed, including examples of climate services for integrated surveillance, disease forecasting, early warning systems, risk mapping, health service planning, risk communication, research, evaluation, infrastructure siting, etc..