Sentences with phrase «evidence about a changing climate»

«We often hear people claim that a big snowstorm is evidence that the climate is not warming, but these results make it clear that such storms do not provide much evidence about a changing climate,» says Broccoli, who did not contribute to the study.

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alfonse, perhaps you can explain what is logical about believing in a god for which there is no evidence and what is logical about not believing in climate change for which there is a mountain of supporting evidence.

There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these issues, and climate changes caused by too much fossil fuel emissions.

«Given the overwhelming evidence that Exxon Mobil knew the facts about climate change but chose to mislead the public and their investors through a massive campaign of climate denial, we strongly support NYS lawmakers taking action to hold them accountable, «Lipton said.

Rustad, a scientist with USDA Forest Service, is concerned about evidence suggesting climate change will bring severe ice storms more often.

When compared to other religious groups, Evangelicals have often been more wary of science as evidenced in debates about evolution, stem cell research, and climate change.

«We want to find ways to confront an erosion of evidence,» AAAS CEO and Science Executive Publisher Rush Holt told the fellows, referring to skepticism about the reality of human - caused climate change, «and that's why we turned to you.»

«The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming,» the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its report on the matter in December 2007.

... There is very clear evidence that governments are right to be very worried about climate change.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) periodically releases Assessment Reports in order to inform policymakers and the public about the latest scientific evidence on climate Climate Change (IPCC) periodically releases Assessment Reports in order to inform policymakers and the public about the latest scientific evidence on climate cChange (IPCC) periodically releases Assessment Reports in order to inform policymakers and the public about the latest scientific evidence on climate climate changechange.

In particular, it will be more careful about ensuring that it lays out the evidence for any assertion it makes about the likelihood of any effect of climate change, said Chris Field, a U.S. scientist and a leader of the panel's 2014 report.

«New evidence about the Gulf of Mexico's past: Geologists find clues to historic climate change, origin of Wilcox Formation.»

One of the senior scientists there (extremely conservative senior scientist who got after me occasionally about being too bold), publicly used the phrase, «this [human caused climate change evidence] is alarming to me.»

In 1996, when climate research was more certain about the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change than during the time of Shaw's memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit: «Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.»

There is other evidence that changes in the Asian monsoon occurred about the time of the 1976 — 1977 climate shift (Wang, 2001) along with changes in ENSO (Huang et al., 2003; Qian et al., 2003), and declines in land precipitation are evident in southern Asia and, to some extent, in Southeast Asia (see Figure 3.14).

One thing that struck me, however, was that although the evidence of climate change is overwhelming in «Chasing Ice,» there's very little about slowing or stopping the planet from warming.

A documentary about the popular science advocate and his campaign to defend evolution and climate change and evidence - based thinking in general.

The HGSE Green Program is a partnership between HGSE and the Harvard Office for Sustainability (OFS) and was created in the wake of the overwhelming scientific evidence about climate change.

Andrew's other publications have examined the contributions of the livestock sector to climate change, vegetarian companion animal diets, the animal welfare standards of veterinarians, and the latest evidence about animal cognitive and related abilities, and the resultant moral implications.

«There is medium evidence and high agreement that long - term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change... The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados... The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses.»

Kevin is one the clearest most specific most prolific public outreach communicators in the arena talking about the seriousness and the lack of action to make evidence based changes to address the climate change energy use problems.

There's been a lot of noise about extreme weather the past few months, and it frustrates me, because I think that too much jumping up and down about it does a disservice to the science, and to future expectations of immediate, in - your - face evidence of climate change.

Does The Silurian Hypothesis help to educate or inform the public or journalists about the overwhelming evidence of climate change, it's causes and solutions?

There is all sorts of evidence for and against natural climate change at various stages of history (and prehistory) that bears discussing, but we rarely ever get to it because everyone is banging on about the hockey stick being inaccurate or accurate (depending on your point of view).

We talk about how evidence of past abrupt climate change emerged and challenged climate scientists to reexamine smooth curves toward a warmer world.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureClimate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

A larger mystery than either missing carbon or the influence of clouds / water vapor on climate change models is why the physical and life science community and the (in theory) science - based climate change advocates have not taken the time to adequately consult the evidence or experts (albeit exceptions certainly do exist) on communication about environmental issues, risk, or environmental and health literacy.

We can not simply say it is everyone else's fault; we need to be very clear about what can be used as evidence for or against climate change.

There is ample evidence that society is unwilling to take the significant steps necessary to stop or reverse anthropogenic climate change, therefore we need to think about how people will live in a future, warmer world.

By making people care about and individually connect to climate change, it can motivate them to seek out the scientific evidence for themselves.»

Just as it is vital for climate scientists and communicators to base messages about climate change on rigorous empirical evidence from the physical sciences, statements on the use of emotion in communication strategies must also be firmly grounded in evidence from affective science.»

However, when you look at all the «big picture» evidence of the global system it is clear that there is nothing «natural» about it, in fact it appears that the planet is in early stages of an abrupt change of climate from our «normal» system to one that is much warmer and tropical like.

This site is about climate change, the evidence for it and the opposition to it, and I really feel we ought to stick with that.

Paleoclimate evidence and ongoing global changes imply that today's CO2, about 385 ppm, is already too high to maintain the climate to which humanity, wildlife, and the rest of the biosphere are adapted.

Concerning the «debate» highlighted by the above exchanges between Pielke and Holdren, the issue isnt about analogues to past droughts (which, by the way, the California resource managers were more interested in), but about the scientific evidence that California droughts have become more severe due to climate change.

Again, with reference to Tamsin and many others who we might say fall into her camp - where is the evidence that shows the putative blowback effect within the public debate about climate change that underlies her criticism of «activism?»

The disagreement arises from different assessments of the value and importance of particular classes of evidence as well as disagreement about the appropriate logical framework for linking and assessing the evidence — my reasoning is weighted heavily in favor of observational evidence and understanding of natural internal variability of the climate system, whereas the IPCC's reasoning is weighted heavily in favor of climate model simulations and external forcing of climate change.

It is exactly that social meaning that must be removed from the climate change question before people can answer it with what they know: that their well - being and the well - being of others they actually care about requires doing sensible things with the best available current evidence.

The fact that certain analytical conclusions about observed climate change, attribution to human causes, in particular the energy system and deforestation, projected greater climate change in the future, observed impacts of climate change on natural and human systems, and projected very disruptive consequences in the future given our current trajectory, is not due to «group think» but rather to a generally shared analysis based on evidence.

Tim Ball keeps changing what he says about climate change without giving any evidence for his contradictory arguments.

Such is the concern about ExxonMobil that earlier this year the Royal Society, considered Britain's leading scientific academy, wrote to it asking that it stop funding groups that have «misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence».

so... is there any claim left on the IPCC AR4 that is supported by any scientific evidence that climate change is going to be «the end of the world», or at least that we should be concerned about?

The company later led a decades - long campaign to create doubt about the scientific evidence for man - made climate change.

talks about his funny but fact - filled documentary, which follows actual left - wing scientists who examine the evidence, become climate change skeptics — and are then ostracized by their peers.»

Lesson 3 examines how scientists gather data about climate change and finally lesson 4 examines the evidence for and against global warming.

The lawsuits cite this as evidence that the GCC and its members had «admitted internally» that their public statements about the uncertainty of climate change were «invalid.»

On the contrary, he is one of a very small minority of nay - sayers who continue to dispute the facts and science about climate change in the face of compelling, overwhelming, and growing evidence.»

Climate and environmental scientists have frequently invoked the term Anthropocene to highlight the impact of humans on the planet, and even started to think about how and when to date the most significant evidence of change.

Yet, denial of this empirical scientific evidence remains widespread, preventing a rational debate about the real implications of the ongoing natural climate change.

It's their shared apprehension that opposing positions on climate change are, in effect, badges of membership in and loyalty to competing cultural groups; that is the cue or signal that motivates members of the public to process information about climate change risks in a manner that is more reliably geared to affirming the position that predominates in their group than to converging on the best available evidence.