Sentences with phrase «influential climate study»

Two global - warming skeptics who questioned an influential climate study and prompted a congressional inquiry are now facing critics of their own, as a pair of new research papers take issue with their results.

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The report — «Power Surge: How the DoD Leverages Private Resources to Enhance Energy Security and Save Money on U.S. Military Bases» — is the third in a series of influential studies issued since 2011 by the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate.

In a study published Dec. 15 in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers from the University of Washington looked at the abstracts from more than 700 scientific papers about climate change to find out what makes a paper influential in its field.

Could BOEMRE or DOI's IG be a hotbed of climate change skeptics or a cabal of «drill baby drill» advocates out to punish Monnett for his influential polar bear study?

Farmers» assessments of private adaptive measures to climate change and influential factors: a study in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

Forest 2006, along with several other climate sensitivity studies, used simulations by the MIT 2D model of zonal surface and upper - air temperatures and global deep - ocean temperature, the upper - air data being least influential.

Lord Nicholas Stern, a professor at the London School of Economics and the author of an influential earlier study, said the new IPCC report was the «most important assessment of climate change ever prepared» and that it made plain that «further delays in tackling climate change would be dangerous and profoundly irrational».

The study identifies these contrarians as a «keystone species;» climate contrarians are more influential than their scant numbers and limited expertise would suggest, and exert an outsized media impact.

Every six years, the United Nations - sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases a massive and influential study detailing the state of Earth's cClimate Change (IPCC) releases a massive and influential study detailing the state of Earth's climateclimate.

«Of course there are gaps in our knowledge about Earth's climate system and its components, and yes, nothing has been made clear enough to the public,» says Gavin Schmidt, a climate modeller at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and one of the moderators and contributors to the influential RealClimate blog.

An interesting (and influential, at least in my case) paper on this topic is Agnotology as a teaching tool: Learning climate science by studying misinformation by Daniel Bedford, a professor at Weber State University, Utah.

December 29, 2014 Christopher Colford, «The Partnership that Spurred an Energy Revolution,» October 23, 2014 Walter Russell Mead, «Your Questions About the Shale Boom Answered,» October 5, 2014 Jim Manzi, «The New American System,» April 2014 Michael Levi, «Top Five Most Influential Energy and Climate Studies of 2012,» December 20, 2012 Brad Plumer, «Want A More Substantive Obama - Romney Debate On Energy and Climate?

By contrast, an influential climate science study that stoked the climate divestment campaign received 262 citations between April 2009 and February 2013.

Michael Mann, an influential climate researcher at Penn State University who was not involved in Snyder's research, told Mashable that «I regard the study as provocative and interesting, but the quantitative findings must be viewed rather skeptically until the analysis has been thoroughly vetted by the scientific community.»