Sentences with phrase «earth system scientist»

«It's a true firestorm — extremely fast moving, generating its own weather conditions, and burning literally everything in its path,» Daniel Swain, a climate earth system scientist at Stanford University, said.

Warmer weather may increase the frequency of an unusual climatic condition called a rain - on - snow event, says earth system scientist Jaakko Putkonen of the University of Washington, Seattle.

The problem is that those who want to colonise and redefine the Anthropocene completely miss the central point being made by Earth system scientists like Paul Crutzen, Will Steffen and Jan Zalasiewicz.

Two new research papers in the journal Oceanography, including one by UCI Earth system scientist Mathieu Morlighem, use OMG observations to document how meltwater and ocean currents are interacting along Greenland's west coast and to improve seafloor maps used to predict future melting and sea level rise.

«The paper correctly highlights that other human stressors, not only the climate ones, are very important for long - term sustainability, including the need to reduce inequality», said Carlos Nobre (not a co-author), one of the world's leading Earth System scientists, who recently won the prestigious Volvo Environment Prize in Sustainability for his role in understanding and protecting the Amazon.

«Less spatially detailed models often struggle to simulate the jet stream's complex behavior,» said Dr. Jian Lu, PNNL Earth systems scientist, lead author of the paper.

If we listen to what Earth system scientists, including climate scientists, are telling us, the warming of the Earth due to human causes is a slowly unfolding catastrophe.

At the Press Club, he basically seemed to presume that his 2 years of inquiry made him into a qualified Earth system scientist — as some of our community has said, would he subject himself to a brain operation by someone who did the level of study and analysis he exhibited (or even to listen to their analysis).

The Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) community unifies early career researchers in an influential network and communication platform to promote local and global exchange across multiple disciplines related to Earth system sciences.

This is why Earth System scientists are telling us that, like tectonics, volcanism and fluctuations in solar radiation, humans have become a force of nature, so much so that, in the prophetic words of Will Steffen and his colleagues, the «human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system.»

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The impact of burning fossil fuels on the Earth's atmosphere has been so far - reaching that it is the principal factor, along with population growth, that has persuaded Earth system scientists to declare that the Earth has entered a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans.

«What we've done is quantify in terms of the numbers of deaths this tradeoff between economic development and environmental impact, some of which is hidden by international trade,» says Steven Davis, a co-author and earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine.

This is the first time anyone has examined regional climate change in the central United States by directly comparing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture, says Nathan Mueller, an earth systems scientist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who was not involved with this study.

«This kind of long - term time series is really essential to understanding global environmental change,» says Carrie Masiello, an Earth systems scientist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who was not involved in the study.

Geoengineering may still not look that attractive, but «we should be undertaking research on these technologies so they could be available if and when we need them,» says Shepherd, an Earth systems scientist.

The following are edited excerpts from extensive e-mails that I received from Robert Socolow, an energy expert at Princeton University who co-authored the original wedges paper, and Steven Davis, an earth systems scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who is the lead author of the new update.

«The WRI commentary is correct,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, which tracks greenhouse gas pollution.

«There is no doubt that the authors have made a significant step forward» in characterizing China's emissions, and the country's effort to improve the quality of its climate data «is very welcome,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra.

Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Canberra, calls the study «a very significant step» in understanding the health implications of international trade.

«Using satellite data, we continue to measure the evolution of the grounding line of these glaciers, which helps us determine their stability and how much mass the glacier is gaining or losing,» said the Earth system scientist.

«[This] study has important global implications, because we know early plants cooled the climate and increased the oxygen level in the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

For we have entered a new phase of the world, termed the Anthropocene by the world's Earth system scientists.

«International efforts all center on what we emit every year, but that misses the point,» said Steven Davis, an earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine, and the study's co-author.

This is the first time anyone has examined regional climate change in the central United States by directly comparing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture, says Nathan Mueller, an earth systems scientist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who was not involved with this study.

«Given the quantifiable impacts of climate change in India and other developing nations in the coming decades, both rich and poor countries should be ramping up our efforts to combat global climate change instead of turning our backs on commitments we have made to the international community,» said Steven J. Davis, an earth system scientist at the University of California Irvine and one of the partners in the Science Advances study.

The Earth system scientists are saying that something radically new has occurred on planet Earth, something that can be detected from the late 18th - century and which is due predominantly to a serious disruption to the global carbon cycle.

Earth system scientists will carry out complex climate projections on Mistral, as they have done on its predecessors.

«The WRI commentary is correct,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, which tracks greenhouse gas pollution.

Moreover, Earth System scientists have been telling us that it is no longer possible to isolate the climate system from the rest of the Earth system.

So profound has been the influence of humans that Earth system scientists have proposed that the Earth has entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.

«North Greenland glaciers are changing rapidly,» said Jeremie Mouginot, an earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who led the study.

Many of the transitions in the DO and Bond cycles were rapid and abrupt, and they are being studied intensely by paleoclimatologists and Earth system scientists to understand the driving mechanisms of such dramatic climatic variations.

However, orbital forcing is by itself insufficient to explain all of this variation, and Earth system scientists are focusing their attention on the interactions and feedbacks between the myriad components of the Earth system.

«Previous studies have used complex models with technologies and costs to show that the U.S. could affordably get around 80 percent of our electricity from solar and wind,» Steven Davis, an Earth systems scientist at the University of California, Irvine, and one of the lead authors of the study, told Digital Trends.