Sentences with phrase «known climate scientists»

This «blog comment debate» by three well - known climate scientists on «Climate Dialogue» was very informative for me.

With hundreds of well - known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts... it is clear that the science is NOT settled.

A different approach might be to take known climate scientists (or skeptics) already in my list, and search to see if they also signed the Oregon Petition.

And remember, this is not the result of all of the known problems with the ground based climate records... these three teams, all comprised of well - known climate scientists, are using the same temperature records, and they can't even agree on what the average temperature of the earth is.

You yourself have now sent a Lindzen letter to the WSJ, you say, but other well - known climate scientists among your colleagues could submit op - ed queries, and for that matter you still could too.

An apparent mismatch between the modeled estimate and the heat that could be accounted for on Earth, led to well - known climate scientist, Kevin Trenberth to lament that it was a travesty.

Perhaps someone who knows the climate scientists who participated could inquire.

from «deniers» who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best - known climate scientist.

Guardian: Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best - known climate scientist.

I know climate scientists do things differently to other physical scientists but they shouldn't.

Yeah, I know climate scientists do this sort of crap all the time, but that does not excuse or explain it.

Well known climate scientist Micheal Mann called the curriculum «so amoral its difficult to put in to words»

As far as I know climate scientists do not infer anything very much at all from cloud cover analysis (which paradoxically is another of Spencer's complaints!).

Considering that the last report was described by one IPCC lead author (no less a luminary than Canada's «best - known climate scientist») as a «barrage of intergalactic ballistic missiles» one can hardly wait to see how much deeper into the apparently bottomless hyperbole pool they will be diving.

I don't know any climate scientists who winced at it.

I thought I was done with sunspots... but as the well - known climate scientist Michael Corleone once remarked, «Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in».

For example, the municipal department that instigated the repaving Chicago's roads with materials more permeable to water did so because they knew climate scientists had found that the city will get increasingly wetter and more humid as global warming proceeds.

Not exact matches

Understanding the climate is a fantastically complicated problem, about which I know only as much as the average scientist, which is to say: not....

Trump's likely pick to fill the role of a top scientist at the USDA — Sam Clovis, best known for hosting a conservative talk show in Iowa — is a climate change skeptic with no background in science.

«I don't blame the climate scientists for not knowing.

The What We Know initiative supports improved climate change communication between scientists, policymakers, and the public.

Scicchitano described the warning as a scientific product based on work climate scientists did on the ocean - atmospheric phenomenon known as La Niña, finding that it would affect rainfall most severely in the Horn of Africa.

Tebaldi and co-author Pierre Friedlingstein, of the University of Exeter, analyzed when scientists would be able to detect the difference between a scenario known as RCP 2.6, where greenhouse gas emissions are curbed quickly, versus two other scenarios outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.

Although no single fire, no matter how severe, can be concretely linked to global climate change, the climatic conditions seen in Colorado this year fit the kind of pattern scientists expect to see in the future.

For some time now, scientists have known that climate influences soil chemistry — and, in particular, soil pH, a measure of acidity or alkalinity.

«We now have an independent measurement of these emission sources that does not rely on what was known or thought known,» said Chris McLinden, an atmospheric scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Toronto and lead author of the study published this week in Nature Geosciences.

The degree to which humans are dominating nature in shaping the climate, they assert, can not be known using the tools scientists presently have at their command.

In a recent paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these, known as climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate change.

«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.

Scientists knew the most important things about how the climate could change during the 21st century.

«I think scientists have seriously underestimated the importance of explaining what we know about climate change and climate variability in ways that are understandable to most people,» Lubchenco told reporters in a wide - ranging interview to mark her first anniversary on the job.

New administrator and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco hopes to explain what scientists do and do not know via the government agency's new climate service

That is because the assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University is a member of a small group of earth scientists who are pioneering in the use of mineral cave deposits, collectively known as speleothems, as proxies for the prehistoric climate.

So when people question the scientific consensus on issues such as climate change, vaccine effectiveness or the safety of genetically modified organisms (SN: 2/6/16, p. 22), it's no surprise that one of the first inclinations of journalists and scientists has been to think, hey, these doubters just don't know the facts.

«I knew just from basic physics that there would be a point at which heat and humidity would become intolerable, and it didn't seem that anyone had looked at that from a climate change perspective,» says Steven Sherwood, an atmospheric scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

«All you can see is the water vapor, but you don't know where it comes from,» says Rong Fu, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Climate change and the resulting loss of sea ice during the summer have opened new hunting territory for the killer whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic, but scientists knew very little about these animals until they tapped into the traditional knowledge of Inuit hunters who shared unique firsthand descriptions of orca hunting tactics.

While some may see evidence of rapid glacier thinning in the past and again today as evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is nearing a collapse driven by human - caused climate change, Steig said at this point, scientists just don't know whether that is the case.

Although scientists know that the tools for reconstructing past climates at polar latitudes are far from perfect, he says, pinning down the relationship between isotope ratios and temperature is essential.

Sime adds that scientists still know too little about what happened in Antarctica during warm climates similar to ours.

Even a decade ago, many scientists argued that research could not confidently tie any specific weather events to climate change, which the committee reports today is no longer true today.

Scientists still do not fully know the precise reasons for the extinction of many species; it probably took place due to a combination of climate change and hunting by humans.

When the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites began measuring gravity signals around the world in 2002, scientists knew they would have to separate mass flow beneath the earth's crust from changes in the mass of the overlying ice sheet.

And then afterwards, you know, I think they had another journalist come up and make comments, but then they brought up the M.I.T. climate scientist Kerry Emanuel.

Rodney Weber, an atmospheric scientist, is being questioned by Rep. Lamar Smith (R - Texas), who wants to know why Weber's climate - change - related research deserved a federal grant in 2012.

As for the paper's conclusion that removing atmospheric carbon is necessary in order to achieve the 2 ˚C target, climate scientist Richard Moss of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, says that's a nearly impossible goal «with what we know about today.»

Scientists know that a warming climate can be expected to gradually sap oceans of oxygen, leaving fish, crabs, squid, sea stars, and other marine life struggling to breathe.

Climate scientists know that the intensity of extreme precipitation events is on the rise because there's more water vapor in the atmosphere caused by higher global and sea temperatures.

By studying the relationship between CO2 levels and climate change during a warmer period in Earth's history, the scientists have been able to estimate how the climate will respond to increasing levels of carbon dioxide, a parameter known as «climate sensitivity».

No one yet knows the extent to which methane and NF3 will impact global temperatures, but NASA climate scientist Ralph Kahn says one thing is certain: «We know it's more than just CO2 that matters.»