Sentences with phrase «evidence on a new planet»
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Prior to 2007 scientists weren't sure what emissions reduction goal to shoot for, but new evidence led researchers to reach consensus on 350 ppm if we wished to have a planet, in the words of NASA climatologist James Hansen, «similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.»
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«CryoSat - 2 gives us a new pair of eyes on what is happening to Earth's ice,» says Robert Bindschadler, a glaciologist and chief scientist at NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory in Greenbelt, Md. «The changes in the cryosphere are providing the most unequivocal evidence that we are changing our planet in ways that should concern us all.»
The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.
New observations from the Venus Express spacecraft may be evidence of volcanoes erupting on the planet.
On May 3, 2007, team of astronomers (including Jean - Luc Margot; Stan Peale; Igor V. Holin; Raymond F. Jurgens; and Martin A. Slade) announced new evidence that Mercury has a partially molten core using new observations of fluctuations in Mercury's spin obtained with radar signals bounced off the planet from Earth (with the 305 - meter Arecibo, the 34 - meter Goldstone, and the 100 - meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank radio telescopes).