Sentences with phrase «meet know about climate»

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Extraordinarily, Jordan also recalled long meetings about the BBC's coverage of climate change with politicians Peter Lilley and Nigel Lawson, both known for their scepticism.

7:22 p.m. Updates below Quite a few professional climate skeptics have been crowing in the last few days about a 20 - percent downward shift in the short - term forecast for global temperature (through 2017) from Britain's weather and climate agency, best know as the Met Office.

A small upturn, or even one year of warming, is enough to start the now well known clamoring about the disastrous impacts of climate change, yet any movement in a downward direction is always met with cries of derision, or claims that even that is really due to climate change.

Larry organized the meeting around all of us getting to know each other and our concerns about climate change.

ATMOSPHERIC and other climate - change scientists need to meet regularly to discuss and debate what is known and what remains to be discovered about climate change.

And while the general principles of CO2 fertilisation are known, there is still much to learn about how these processes will act in future as the world continues to warm, said Prof Richard Betts, head of climate impacts research at the Met Office Hadley Centre, in a guest post for Carbon Brief.

In fact, the need for the meeting and the programme indicates how little they know about weather and climate.

The statement about most expert climate scientists is unproblematic and true, as just about anyone who reads the literature or goes to the meetings should know — even if they are unaware of the convergent findings from research measuring the degree of agreement through widely different methods by Cook, Anderegg, Doran, Oreskes and others; or of the statements by every major organization of scientists.

«I know at Durban [a previous negotiations meeting], Canada spoke very strongly about the importance of climate change and thereafter refused to endorse the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

If I attempt to put myself in the position of a robot from Mars who doesn't know anything about the climate change debate except that it seems important to humans, I don't believe I could conclude that anyone was «taken to the cleaners» in this exchange (assuming a robot from Mars knows what that expression means:) I think I'd have to conclude that both participants were framing the issue in different ways and so there wasn't a meeting of minds, nor any change of the needle by either one on the attitudes of the other, nor likely much to help inform locals who were just as mystified by the debate as I was.

Anyone who knows this could have made the same «prediction», and it says absolutely nothing about the Met Office's ability to make statements about climate change which are consistent with reality.