Sentences with phrase «leading climate scientists such»

Leading climate scientists such as Michael Oppenheimer and Robert Watson, environmentalists from Exxpose Exxon, Greenpeace and other organizations join with a former Exxon executive, US government whistle - blower Rick Piltz, and leading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest company out of balance.

For years, Hansen's group at GISS, as well as other leading climate scientists such as Mann and Briffa (creators of historical temperature reconstructions) have flaunted the rules of science by holding the details of their methodologies and algorithm's secret, making full scrutiny impossible.

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While being publicized in the mainstream media certainly makes researchers a target, being picked up in the skeptic blogosphere, which includes widely read blogs such asWatts Up With That, Climate Audit and Morano's Climate Depot, can also lead to scientists receiving email barrages, even when, as in Norgaard's case, the research has not received mainstream media attention.

The research, led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and partners, has important implications for the long - term survival of coral reefs worldwide, which have been in worldwide decline from multiple stressors such as climate change and ocean pollution.

If climate change exceeds the temperature target, scientists warn, there is a greater risk that the world's ice sheets will be destabilized, leading to sharply rising seas, and increasing climate extremes such as droughts, heat waves and floods, which could pose daunting challenges for food and water availability for growing populations.

Given what the world's leading climate scientists have been telling us for some time now, George Bush and his apologists will not have even such a threadbare excuse as that.

Two years after James E. Hansen, the leading climate scientist at NASA, and other agency employees described a pattern of distortion and suppression of climate science by political appointees, the agency's inspector general has concluded that such activities occurred and were «inconsistent» with the law that established the space program 50 years ago.

Researchers such as James Hansen, a leading climate scientist at NASA, believe that global warming is accelerating and may be approaching a tipping point, a point at which climate change acquires a momentum that makes it irreversible.

These are particularly problematic in the context of climate change, where speaking up, from whatever perspective and position, can lead to being shouted down, but where speaking up is increasingly demanded of scientists in particular by people in high office, such as the UK's Chief Scientific Advisor Sir Mark Walport.

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.

«Changes in the atmosphere, specifically atmospheric pressure around the world, and the motions of the winds that may be related to such climate signals as El Niño are strong enough that their effect is observed in the Earth's rotation signal,» said David A. Salstein, an atmospheric scientist from Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., of Lexington, Mass., who led a recent study.

It has also been strongly embraced by some leading climate scientists, such as former NASA researcher James Hansen, and such advocacy groups as Citizens» Climateclimate scientists, such as former NASA researcher James Hansen, and such advocacy groups as Citizens» ClimateClimate Lobby.

However, from a recent report leading scientists in the world are now convinced that human activities such as fossil fuel burning is another contributing factor causing climate change.

Claims such as «2,500 of the world's leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate are disingenuous», the paper states unambiguously, adding that «they rendered the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism...».»

Signatories include leading climate and environmental scientists such as the Climate Council's Tim Flannery, Will Steffen, and Lesley Hughes, as well as reef scientists Ove Hoegh - Guldberg and Charlieclimate and environmental scientists such as the Climate Council's Tim Flannery, Will Steffen, and Lesley Hughes, as well as reef scientists Ove Hoegh - Guldberg and CharlieClimate Council's Tim Flannery, Will Steffen, and Lesley Hughes, as well as reef scientists Ove Hoegh - Guldberg and Charlie Veron.

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.

Although mainstream media reports, including newspapers such as the New York Times, have linked coffee production with climate change, the scientists said they found «no evidence» for this, leading them to «reject the climate change hypothesis.»

NOAA has led the world in collecting and disseminating global temperature data and maintains the longest dataset of such data — so the release of new data is always highly anticipated by climate scientists.

The memo notes that such an effort has strong allies in Washington in the form of will receive help from people like Sen. James Inhofe (R - OK), who has called global warming «the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people» and Rep. Joe Barton (R - TX) who has been leading a witch hunt against Dr. Michael Mann, one of the country's pre-eminent climate scientists.

«But the lead author of the study... says that he is not convinced that it is just the changing climate... «It could be partly due to this chaotic rainfall, but personally I don't think it can explain such a dramatic decline in mosquitoes, to the extent we can say that the malaria mosquitoes are almost eradicated in these communities... «What we should consider is that there may be a disease among the mosquitoes, a fungi or a virus, or they're may have been some environmental changes in the communities that have resulted in a drop in the number of mosquitoes»... The research team also found anecdotal evidence that their discovery was not an isolated case... «Other scientists are saying they can't test their drugs because there are no children left with malaria.»»

Leading scientists have issued urgent warnings that future warming must be limited to no more than 1 ° C (1.8 ° F) above year 2000 levels, in order to avoid triggering climate feedbacks leading to even greater warming, and therefore catastrophic impacts such as 20 feet of sea level rise and extinction of a third of the world's sLeading scientists have issued urgent warnings that future warming must be limited to no more than 1 ° C (1.8 ° F) above year 2000 levels, in order to avoid triggering climate feedbacks leading to even greater warming, and therefore catastrophic impacts such as 20 feet of sea level rise and extinction of a third of the world's sleading to even greater warming, and therefore catastrophic impacts such as 20 feet of sea level rise and extinction of a third of the world's species.