Sentences with phrase «handful of leading scientists»
Through the generous support of Rob and Terry Ryan since 2006, the W. M. Keck Observatory each year hosts a handful of leading scientists and engineers in the field of astronomy to share the latest breakthroughs with a very interested audience.
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A handful of tiny teeth have led scientists to identify the most distant ancestor of today's kangaroos.
A handful of scientists who understand the hidden dangers of the Himalayas have taken the lead in arguing for realistic, undisguised assessments aimed at protecting the region's population, though only with limited success.
``... the disturbing story of nutrition science over the course of the last half - century looks something like this: scientists responding to the skyrocketing number of heart disease cases, which had gone from a mere handful in 1900 to being the leading cause of death by 1950, hypothesized that dietary fat, especially of the saturated kind (due to its effect on cholesterol), was to blame.
The findings came from the Climate Accountability Institute, an entity led by Richard Heede, whose company, Climate Mitigation Services, advises companies, municipalities and others on how to cut greenhouse gases, and Naomi Oreskes, the Harvard historian and co-author of «Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.»
«Now a panel of some 70 scientists, led by New York City - based Goddard Institute for Space Studies climatologist Drew Shindell, has reviewed the best available science and concludes that just a handful of measures could yield major benefits in the next fifty years.
Its ostensible purpose will be to «expose Congressional staff and journalists to leading scientists and economists in the nation's capital» and demonstrate that «global warming is not a crisis and that immediate action to reduce emissions is not necessary» — which it calls the emerging consensus view of (the handful of) scientists outside the IPCC.