Sentences with phrase «experience as a climate scientist»

This book tells my story of becoming a scientist, and of struggling to reconcile this journey with my experience as a climate scientist.

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Over the long term, however, scientists agree: As climate change messes with weather patterns, California will likely experience longer and more severe droughts in the coming decades, threatening the sustainability of the state's main water supply system.

IIASA's approach of merging interdisciplinary and international research ensures its scientists are well experienced to provide expertise in understanding problems such as climate change that also crosses national and disciplinary boundaries.

Steve McIntyre: «If you are not a climate scientist (or a realclimate reader), you would almost certainly believe, from your own experience, that cities are warmer than the surrounding countryside From that, itâ s easy to conclude that as cities become bigger and as towns become cities and villages become towns, that there is a widespread impact on urban records from changes in landscape, which have to be considered before you can back out what portion is due to increased GHG.

As an environmental scientist myself, with more than 10 years experience working with hydrological computer models, I am very wary of policy formulated on the output of models, especially with respect to a system as complex and poorly understood as the Earth's climate systeAs an environmental scientist myself, with more than 10 years experience working with hydrological computer models, I am very wary of policy formulated on the output of models, especially with respect to a system as complex and poorly understood as the Earth's climate systeas complex and poorly understood as the Earth's climate systeas the Earth's climate system.

These small alterations are taken into account in climate models, with the average of all models (i.e. an ensemble forecast, a term you should know well as a former meteorologist), scientists (like those at the IPCC) can arrive at a sensible estimate of what we are likely to experience in the future.

Michael Schlesinger, a climate scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, with decades of experience studying and teaching about global warming, read the post on psychoanalysts» exploration of the human response to climate change and responded with a query, as follows:

In 2004, Oreskes reframed the informal experience of climate consensus as a subject for formal knowledge — and that has helped climate scientists gain a much better self - understanding of what they're doing, through a succession of further studies.

As someone working in climate science (aka «climate scientist»), I can only confirm your observations / experiences first hand.

The lake was suffering from an algal bloom as a result of the unprecedented heat and drought that Oklahoma experienced that summer — an event that scientists have determined was tied to climate change.

When I sent him your question, Werner A. Kurz, a leading Canadian scientist, wrote back that while the beetle is indeed native to the region, «it has experienced an expansion in range northward and to higher elevations as climate warming has allowed the species to occupy areas that were previously too cold.»

I find allegations of dishonesty as a substitute for cogent arguments against climate research findings to be not only at odds with my personal experience of scientists» affection for truth but also extremely annoying.

«Of particular concern to some scientists is the possibility of catastrophic climate events as the result of changes in a complex and incompletely understood system that has moved outside the bounds of historical experience.

I had no interest in climate at that time, but as a scientist myself, I regarded such claims as utterly absurd and contrary to historical facts, normal experience and common sense.

That is likely due to the fact that the southeastern USA has been a «warming hole» 3 that experienced a slight cooling trend between 1895 and 2007 even after climate scientists questionably adjusted the data as discussed in «Unwarranted Temperature Adjustments: Conspiracy or Ignorance?»

At COP23, we spoke to Dr Bill Hare, who has experienced the UN climate talks as a scientist, negotiator and campaigner.

that experienced a slight cooling trend between 1895 and 2007 even after climate scientists questionably adjusted the data as discussed in ``

You seem to have missed the distinction michael; the piece by Dr Curry is an opinion piece based on her own experiences as a scientist, a climate scientist and as someone who as actively tried to further the discussion - unless i'm mistake Dr Curry has clearly stated that she still thinks there's merit in the theory, but has issue with the methods and presentation (though leaving an open mind for uncertainty natch #).

As a brilliant earth scientist — until 1998 he was head of the geology department at James Cook University in Australia — he understood perfectly well that on the geological scale our planet has experienced shifts in climate of a magnitude so vast as to make a mockery of the notion that humans can influence or control iAs a brilliant earth scientist — until 1998 he was head of the geology department at James Cook University in Australia — he understood perfectly well that on the geological scale our planet has experienced shifts in climate of a magnitude so vast as to make a mockery of the notion that humans can influence or control ias to make a mockery of the notion that humans can influence or control it.

Well; if a statement regarding atmospheric cooling is taking place, and we know from past experience (climate history) that if this cooling continues and the build up of ice continues in Antartica like it is; then it is possible that the planet may very well be headed back into an ice age - and when this «atmospheric cooling» trend is mentioned on the GISS [NASA] Webpage, and by one of the GISS scientists (Kate Marvel, a climatologist at GISS and the paper's lead author) then i would have to conclude that the are embracing the science revealing evidence that such mechanics are, taking place, and I view their statemnt as an endorsement and ot their recognition, of global cooling.

From our collective experience as physical and social scientists working at the intersection of climate change and society, we argue it is time for a shift in the objectives and implementation of climate change assessments — from making what amounts to a general case for «action,» to characterizing specific risks to help people develop, select, carry out, and monitor specific actions that ultimately have greater benefits than costs.

The Earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a slate - wiping of the evolutionary record it functioned as a resetting of the planetary clock, and many climate scientists will tell you they are the best analog for the ecological future we are diving headlong into.

By 2039, most of the U.S. could experience at least four seasons equally as intense as the hottest season ever recorded from 1951 - 1999, according to Stanford University climate scientists.

Many climate scientists and policymakers have targeted a 2 C temperature increase as the maximum threshold beyond which the planet is likely to experience serious environmental damage.

Yet the heat - induced disaster may come as little surprise to Russian climate scientists, who have warned for years that the country is experiencing rapid warming that will only accelerate over the course of the 21st century.

According to a 2014 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO), the region experienced nearly four times as many wildfires larger than 1,000 acres between 1987 and 2003 than between 1970 and 1986.

Hansen now starts off most public appearances by stating that he speaks as a private citizen, not a public employee, that his opinions are those of a climate scientist with more than 30 years» experience, not of a government policymaker.