Sentences with phrase «leading climate scientists know»

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«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.

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.

We know, based on the work and expertise of the vast majority of climate scientists and virtually every leading scientific organization in the world, that human - caused climate change is real and dangerous.

Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team led by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that gas escaping from drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made natural gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel, coal.

Steve, aside from the fact that Climatology is not a «debate», so there are not 2 sides, the comment section posts here are NOT «the blog», that consists of the lead articles by the group of scientists known as «Real Climate», for which see the Contributors link, the comments are from folks like you and me, generally non-scientists with varied opinions and sometimes clashing personalities.

If you're relatively familiar with the climate «debate», you will know that the rapid cooling period from the 1940's to the 1970's led to climate «experts» (climate scientists) declaring the end of life as we know it, in the form of the «Global Cooling» scare:

Truly, an arrogant attitude on his part — if I had been quicker, I would have borrowed from the quip by former VP candidate Lloyd Bentsen and said, «Mr. Crichton, I have known many leading climate scientists, and you are not one of them.»

curryja - When I hear a panel of the nation's leading neuro - scientists admit that they know so very little about the human mind and are not ashamed to express some humility about their lack of complete knowledge, and then I read how so many climatologists use such absolutist terms in what is going on with our climate, it stretches credulity.

«We know from basic physics that warmer temperatures will help to dry things out,» the study's lead author, Benjamin Cook, a climate scientist with Columbia University and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in a statement.

J. Felton and Ted: Your should know by now that anyone who is on message is a «leading climate scientist»; anyone who questions the message lacks appropriate expertise.

As scientists from the Caribbean call for urgent action on climate change, Trump nominates a known climate denier and coal lobbyist to help lead the EPA.

I also suggested that it is incomprehensible to me that a blog that has made the IPCC the object of scrutiny has «never heard of IIASA» when so many of their scientists are lead authors on IPCC reports, and dozens of their scientists have contributed as members of the research community, and their scientists are among the pioneers of climate science, and the person who is perhaps best know for his affiliation with IIASA is a close colleague of the blog owner.

As a question put to leading climate scientist Phil Jones it demonstrates that whoever composed that particular question knew that «statistically - significant «is a technical term requiring a technically correct answer, knew that the period was too short to allow an unequivocal answer, knew that the general public would equate «no statistically significant global warming» with no real warming.

Because the earth (mother earth, or Gaia, to all you tree hugger freaks) knows what we want, and what is best for us, and what is best is our nice Goldilocks climate that supports the inviolate and constitutionally protected right to cheap, atmosphere changing fossil fuels even though said usage essentially reverses 10s of millions of years of earth lower atmosphere affecting energy balances within a mere speck of time) and not you eco fools who want to harm the poor (something climate change would never do, bill gates and the world's leading scientists and thinkers and economists are fools to even think it — climate change will affect the wealthy) just to give the even more power over our individual lives.

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.

Meeting directly with leading scientists on climate change and its implications would send a strong signal that the page has been turned after eight years of denial and know - nothingness in the occupant of the Oval Office.

An elemental question begs to be corroborated in more than one way for sheer fairness: When the main pushers of the idea that the «reposition global warming» phrase insinuate it is proof of an industry - led disinformation effort employing crooked skeptic climate scientists — Naomi Oreskes saying it indicates a plot to supply «alternative facts,» Gelbspan saying it is a crime against humanity, and Al Gore implying it is a cynical oil company effort — are they truly oblivious to the necessity of corroborating whether or not that phrase and the memo subset it came from actually had widespread corrupting influence, or did they push this «evidence» with malice knowing it was worthless?

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.

The occurrences discussed in this article are five of some 60 known weather - related phenomenon, which can lead to what climate scientist James Hansen has termed the «Venus Syndrome,» where oceans would boil and the surface temperature of earth could reach 462 degrees Celsius.

I try to convince those, who do know better about the issue, that a lot of people really don't know better, and or are led by zealous belief and a confusing and often self selectively reinforcing world of misinformation out there and a lot of great rhetoric that has really discredited climate scientists, and it is still somewhat, sometimes, like arguing with a stone wall.

Chris Horner is a senior fellow at CEI and the lead lawyer at ATI, a close CEI affiliate known for its litigious harassment of climate scientist Michael Mann alongside Virginia attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who just worked with coal utility companies to kill Virginia's renewable energy law.

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate presents clear science and outstanding photos of the evidence gathered by leading scientists all over the world.

LONDON, 30 September, 2016 − A rise in world temperatures of 1.5 °C degrees can no longer be avoided, according to the world's leading climate scientists, who say that the majority of people have yet to wake up to the stark realities and dangers of climate change.

Among other things, the authors state that [1] «scientists do not know how large the greenhouse effect is, whether it will lead to a harmful amount of global warming, or (if it will) what should be done about it» (p. 560); [2] that «profound disagreements» about global warming exist within the scientific community (p. 560); [3] that so - called «activist scientists» say that the earth's climate is warming (p. 560); [4] that «science doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect Is, if it exists at all» (p. 569); [5] and that global warming is «enmeshed in scientific uncertainty» (p. 573).

On one side of the issue are some meteorologists and climate scientists who in their studies have found correlations between the vanishing Arctic sea ice and snow cover (collectively known as the cryosphere) and weather patterns that can lead to extreme weather events.

A group of retired NASA scientists and engineers led by Dr. Harold H. Doiron, a mechanical engineer who is best known for his work on eliminating unstable vibrations in liquid propellant rockets, has decided that these models simply can't be used to make rational decisions about earth's future climate.

If you want to know how climate change is going to affect us you really need to see what the weather is doing, a leading British climate scientist has told Climate News Nclimate change is going to affect us you really need to see what the weather is doing, a leading British climate scientist has told Climate News Nclimate scientist has told Climate News NClimate News Network.

I then say, «For an easy - to - read and up - to - the moment summary by the world's leading climate scientists, the «What We Know» booklet is excellent.»

«As we talk about policies that would make cool roofs an important climate mitigation measure all across the world, we want to know how things change in a country like India, which has more pollution,» said Surabi Menon, a climate scientist at Berkeley Lab who is one of the lead researchers on the project.

Mike Mann is admired by all real climate scientists, even those who may have same disagreements with him (there is no certainty in science, unlike in the world of denial propogandists [sic]-RRB--- and I know many of the leading players and follow the field closely.

ExxonMobil's funding of the climate denial industry is under investigation by attorney generals in the United States, but it's less well known that ExxonMobil scientists under Tillerson's reign as CEO were leading developers of geo - engineering technologies