No critique, no expressed rationale, no intellectual basis, no legal requirement, no principled accounting for the abrupt and cavalier dismissal of the work of a large
number of leading scientists.
Within the last two years,
a number of leading scientists — including Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), British ecologist James Lovelock, and NASA scientist James Hansen — have all declared that humanity is about to pass or already has passed a «tipping point» in terms of global warming.
[1], [2] Rucker's strong belief in the «power of the market combined with the applications of safe technologies,» to «offer humanity practical solutions to many of the world's pressing concerns,» resulted in «
a number of leading scientists, academics, and policy leaders» joining Rucker in his CFACT efforts, according to CFACT's «About» page.
A number of leading scientists, for instance, Paul Crutzen, who had won a Nobel Prize for his work on atmospheric ozone chemistry, told Jim that he had put together just the sort of comprehensive and convincing presentation that was needed.
We believe that policymakers, the media, and the public should pay attention to scientific expert credibility and the well - vetted comprehensive assessment reports prepared by a large
number of the leading scientists — in particular the new IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, along with the National Academy of Sciences (4 - volume America's Climate Choices report) and the National Climate Assessment forthcoming from the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Not exact matches
As I've said, there have been a
number of research papers
of late,
led in large part by the work
of French
scientist Laurence Zitvogel, that are building a strong case for a central role for the microbiome in cancer treatment response.
A
number of world -
leading science and technology professionals, young
scientists and engineers, and innovation teams should be trained, with major breakthroughs in pioneering basic research and original innovations as their goal, Xi said.
In recent studies,
scientists reported that the
number of baths commonly given to babies is too high and can
lead to skin conditions like eczema.
The United States
leads China in private investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and in the
number and experience
of its
scientists.
«Colombia is now only second to Brazil in the
number of known Zika infections,» says study
lead author Matthew Aliota, a research
scientist in the UW - Madison School
of Veterinary Medicine (SVM).
Author, newspaper columnist, and television personality El - Naggar is also a geologist whom many Egyptians, including a
number of his fellow
scientists, regard as a
leading figure in their community.
It became common to staff projects with postdocs and technicians,
leading to an explosion in the
number of young
scientists employed on short - term contracts.
«Manufactured diamonds have a
number of physical properties that make them very interesting to researchers working with transistors,» said Yasuo Koide, a professor and senior
scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science
leading the research group.
His concerns about the 1991 paper are shared by a
number of leading climate
scientists.
Scientists found that culling older, larger prey fish can
lead to more small fish for predators to dine on, even though the overall
number of prey decline
Now, Wyss Institute researchers
led by Church have developed a new suite
of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the
number of cellular «switches and levers» that
scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.
Kingsbury pointed out that an increase in the
number of researchers handling select agents would «inevitably»
lead to an amplification
of the insider threat: the risk
of an attack masterminded by a
scientist working at a biocontainment facility.
«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large
numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said
lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research
scientist in the Department
of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey.
The causes
of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient
numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits
of the data; and funding pressures, which can
lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.
By identifying the tag
number of each condor and describing its behavior, citizen
scientists will help researchers understand condor social networks and other factors that may be related to
lead poisoning.
«Our findings suggest that e-learning can provide an efficient and scalable approach to training large
numbers of clinicians in new evidence - based treatments,» said Dr. Bradley D. Stein, the study's
lead author, a practicing psychiatrist and a senior
scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.
A large enough
number of such roofs could «completely offset warming due to urban expansion and even offset a percentage
of future greenhouse warming over large regional scales,» says sustainability
scientist Matei Georgescu at Arizona State University, who
lead the research.
The facts
of schizophrenia are so peculiar, in fact, that they have
led Torrey and a growing
number of other
scientists to abandon the traditional explanations
of the disease and embrace a startling alternative.
But new research
led by University
of Pennsylvania
scientists suggests that mutations in an X chromosome gene called TEX11 are responsible for a significant
number of cases
of infertility — an estimated 1 percent
of cases
of non-obstructive azoospermia.
Research
led by
scientists at the University
of Birmingham shows more precisely how G protein - coupled receptors, which are the key target
of a large
number of drugs, work.
In addition to Gruen, who
led the weak lensing working group, and Wechsler, whose group provided realistic simulations
of the survey critical to testing several aspects
of the cosmological analysis, a large
number of KIPAC
scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and alumni have made crucial contributions to DES — from building the instrument to developing theory and simulations and analyzing the data.
«Some family members with the same
number of repeats experience the onset
of symptoms at different ages,» shared Julia Kaye, PhD, a staff research
scientist at Gladstone who will help
lead the scientific efforts.
In a recent study,
scientists found that climate change will decrease the
number of seasonal flowers,
leading to an overall decrease in the
number of butterflies, who rely on flowers for a sustainable source
of energy - no destruction required.
The huge
number of free - floating planets at our current observational limit is giving me hope that we will discover a wealth
of smaller Earth - sized planets with the E-ELT,»
lead scientist Holger Drass from Germany's Astronomisches Institut said in the statement.
Results: The
number of days
of extreme fire risk in California might be six times the current
number by the end
of the century, according to a study
led by
scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
A team
of scientists led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory atmospheric researcher Dr. Susannah Burrows and collaborator Daniel McCoy, who studies clouds and climate at the University
of Washington, reveal how tiny natural particles given off by marine organisms — airborne droplets and solid particles called aerosols — nearly double cloud droplet
numbers in the summer, which boosts the amount
of sunlight reflected back to space.
Here's a biggie uncovered by
scientists led by Samuel L. Pfaff
of the Salk Institute: A small
number of human...
The projects were
led by a large
number of scientists from 11 Swedish universities and government agencies and have
led to many high - impact publications.
Their influential report
led to the appointment
of a science adviser to the Secretary
of State and a more than fifteen-fold increase in the
number of Ph.D.
scientists receiving fellowships to work in the State Department or USAID.
«The sophisticated gene analysis that
led to this finding was only possible because
of the large
number of ALS samples available,» said ALS Association chief
scientist Lucie Bruijn, PhD, in a press release.
``... the disturbing story
of nutrition science over the course
of the last half - century looks something like this:
scientists responding to the skyrocketing
number of heart disease cases, which had gone from a mere handful in 1900 to being the
leading cause
of death by 1950, hypothesized that dietary fat, especially
of the saturated kind (due to its effect on cholesterol), was to blame.
While the need for STEM experts is growing, the Office
of the Chief
Scientist reports that the
number of students studying STEM disciplines in senior secondary school has been declining in Australia,
leading to fewer students pursuing post-secondary study in STEM fields.
«Because all breeds are susceptible to genetic disease, rare breeds, such as the Drents, have fewer
numbers of available breeding dogs and are therefore more susceptible to inherited conditions simply because
of population constraints», said Lisa G Shaffer, PhD, CEO
of Paw Print Genetics and the
lead scientist on the study.
Sea Hero Quest VR was developed in partnership with a
number of world -
leading dementia
scientists, spatial navigation consultants and data security specialists.
But, I'm a bit confused: After all, aren't a large majority
of scientists, and a compelling
number of leading scientific organizations, and the national academies
of sciences
of many countries, telling us that we need to quickly transition to forms
of energy that don't spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?
For example, a
number of leading wind companies and other industry players are partners in the American Wind Wildlife Institute, which the Union
of Concerned
Scientists helped launch in 2008.
May sully the reputations
of a
number of working
scientists leads to a story on Examiner.com New York by a writer named Thomas Fuller, who refuses to go into detail because the e-mails are private and would almost certainly «prove embarrassing to those concerned, especially if... published in snippets and without context.»
I could point to many journal articles supporting my stance, or climate
scientists that share my opinion, or give you any
number of criticisms
of pro-CAGW arguments that you could then weigh yourself for validity (not that you've proven able or willing to do so,
leading me to «trust» you wouldn't want to do that here).
In a recent study,
scientists found that climate change will decrease the
number of seasonal flowers,
leading to an overall decrease in the
number of butterflies, who rely on flowers for a sustainable source
of energy - no destruction required.
He accuses the NYT
of playing down the seriousness
of global warming by ignoring: «the substantial
number of climate
scientists who believe that the consensus predictions are much too optimistic, including some
of the
leading scientists right here [at MIT] who have recently run what they call the most extensive modelling ever done and concluded that it's far worse than anticipated and that their own results are an understatement...» That would be the MIT Climate Research group financed by Exxon, Shell, BP and Total.
«There has never been a pause in global warming unless you try to create one by looking at an insufficiently large
number of data points,» said
lead author Stephan Lewandowsky, a social
scientist and professor
of psychology at the University
of Bristol in the U.K..
The
lead scientist was from the University
of Florida, while a large
number of other US universities, and institutions in Germany, France, Mexico, Australia and China were also involved.
Perhaps the kind
of RICO action Whitehouse has in mind is similar to the one proposed to President Obama a few months ago by a
number of key climate
scientists,
led by one Jagadish Shukla
of George Mason University.
Gerald Meehl, the
lead author and a senior
scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), explained, «If temperatures were not warming, the
number of record daily highs and lows being set each year would be approximately even.»
There are a
number of interesting presentations and videos to watch
of leading scientists discussing the issues at the meeting website.