Sentences with phrase «of nasa»

James Hansen, the director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies who first warned the world about the dangers of climate change in the 1980s, has joined other scientists in submitting statements to be considered by a judge at the Information Rights Tribunal on Friday... James Hansen told the Guardian: «Our children and grandchildren will judge those who have misled the public, allowing fossil fuel emissions to continue almost unfettered, as guilty of crimes against humanity and nature... If successful, the FOI request may, by exposing one link in a devious manipulation of public opinion, start a process that allows the public to be aware of what is happening, what is at stake, and where the public interest lies.»»

Anthony del Genio of Nasa also tells me: «I know of no evidence for the statement that cyclical changes in water vapour are responsible for much of the 20th - century warming, unless there is a new paper of which I am not aware that makes such a claim.»

Some scientists, including Dr Gavin Schmidt, head of Nasa's climate division, have claimed that the recent highs were mainly the result of long - term global warming.

The study was done by Drew Shindell, formerly of Nasa, now professor of climate sciences at Duke University, and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Panel to the Climate and Clean Air Coalition.

So the researchers, Adam Frank from the University of Rochester, New York and Gavin Schmidt, director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, set out to calculate the future signature of long - vanished human society.

Dr Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, said in the New York Times:

«This is the latest in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades,» said Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

• James Hansen is director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

Some climate scientists, including James E. Hansen, former head of the nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, say we must also consider slower feedbacks such as changes in the continental ice sheets.

This year's conference had some big - name participants, from Ed Stone of Nasa's Voyager project, explaining a new milestone on the path to interstellar space, to the film - maker James Cameron, discussing his adventures in deep - sea submersibles.

To investigate the idea of a possible pre-historic intelligent civilisation, the duo, Professor Adam Frank, of the University of Rochester and Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), examined what evidence we, as humans, would leave behind if we were to become extinct.

any CH4 from these sources has not been included in any future GCSMs or IPPC long term projections afaik and confirmed by many such as Gavin S of nasa and the IPCC reports themselves.

Nine artworks from the US artist Tom Sachs (b1966), a series of Nasa - related sculptures, films and installations from his ongoing Space Program, take up two rooms.

Our team worked in close collaboration with NASA and Microsoft to deliver a compelling experience that engages users to participate in the entry and landing sequence of Nasa's Curiosity Rover, known as the «7 minutes of terror».

«Volcanic islands are some of the simplest landforms to make,» said Jim Garvin, first author of the study and chief scientist of Nasa's Goddard space flight centre.

The astronomer's initial interest in the subject was sparked after a conversation with fellow physicist Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

«The success of science collection at Jupiter is a testament to the dedication, creativity and technical abilities of the Nasa - Juno team,» said Rick Nybakken, project manager for Juno from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US.

said Chris McKay, planetary scientist of the Nasa Ames research centre.

Julio E Valdivia - Silva, SETI Researcher Associate of Nasa, who is leading the project's science team, added: «I am excited to put potatoes on Mars and even more so that we can use a simulated Martian terrain so close to the area where potatoes originated.»

Kelly is one half of nasa's Twins Study, an investigation into how life in microgravity affects physiology.

I would love to see a regular upload of Nasa Images to a site like Flickr and I think it would really interest 1000s of young people, imagine browsing away and seeing an Image from the space station of a shuttle docking with perhaps a note from one of the astronauts.

Some climate scientists, including James E. Hansen, former head of the nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, say we must also consider slower feedbacks such as changes in the continental ice sheets.

Before they're allowed to jiggle one of the jammed wires, they need to get a long sequence of approvals from the designers of the module, the space - suit manufacturers, and a slew of nasa officials.

The presidential election has 18 candidates with the notable ones being incumbent President Uhuru Kenyata of Jubilee Coalition and Raila Odinga of Nasa Coalition.

Additionally, teachers can click on the little red apple to find all of NASAs educational materials listed by subject area and students can find an interactive drawing board by clicking on the cup full of art supplies.

Not exact matches

But the Austrian daredevil, who travelled to the edge of space before jumping back to Earth, has branded Nasa's aim to discover whether there is life on Mars a waste of money.

How many people at Nasa believe that if you left all of the parts: metal, plastic, computer chips, etc...

The current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still less than what most plants would prefer, and much less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.

As a result of these studies, the Navy recommends an upper limit of about 8000 ppm for cruises of ninety days, and nasa recommends an upper limit of 5000 ppm for missions of one thousand days, both assuming a total pressure of one atmosphere.

Nasa is interested in these organisms because they survive on very little energy, suggesting the exciting prospect of modes of life in other parts of the solar system.

However eccentric he was, and whatever one's view of the wisdom of such «small» missions (Beagle 2 cost a mere # 66m, compared with the $ 1.6 bn which Nasa spent on its Mars Reconnaissance Rover), Pillinger's enthusiasm to find out if there is evidence of alien life is a sign of the intellectual curiosity that lies at the heart of all good science.

Nasa has gone out of its way to make the food look more familiar, using green LEDs as well as more efficient red and blue ones in order to make the lettuce turn more green and less red than it otherwise would do.

Nasa sent a letter to the IEBC arguing that the date for the fresh election «should be a product of consultation with concerned parties and not a unilateral decision»

It's just not the kind we're used to, because, until only a few years ago, the thought that a commercial company (not the government, not nasa) would lay claim to the business of sending stuff into the solar system — well, it seemed nearly impossible.

... but before I leave... Mr. President, is it true that Peter Mac Manu (former NPP Chairman) was deported from Kenya where he was going to consult for the National Super Alliance (Nasa), Kenya's Opposition Coalition, on «control» of electoral data?

From Voices of NY Scott Stringer's Eid Celebration by Rahimon Nasa New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer hosted an Eid celebration in Queens where he honored prominent members of the Muslim community on July 23.

Rahimon Nasa is a Knight - CUNY Journalism Summer Fellow Posted with permission from Voices of NY

(Photo by Rahimon Nasa for Voices of NY)

From top left: NASA / ESA / SWRI / Cornell University / University of Maryland / STSci; NASA / JPL - Caltech / SETI Institute; nasa / jpl - caltech (5); NASA / ESA / M.

Among them was Bill Borucki, a space scientist who persuaded nasa to launch a telescope that looks for a 0.01 percent dip in brightness from faraway stars when planets pass in front of them.

Only after great deliberation at nasa did we decide that it was in the best interest of science to look really hard at those 400 stars that have interesting candidate planets.

This global biological recordbased on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the oceans food web.

The images at right of Earth's aurora borealis — the shimmering lights created by particles of solar wind crashing into the polar atmosphere — were taken on April 9 by the UltraViolet Imager, an instrument on board nasa's polar satellite.

nasa estimates it will cost up to $ 22 billion to develop the first versions of Orion and the SLS.

In the summer of 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took humanity's first steps onto the lunar surface during nasa's Apollo 11 mission.

In 2009 nasa launched the 1,433 - pound wise satellite, carrying a wide - field infrared telescope designed in part to detect such stunted stars; it has since turned up 100 of them within 20 light - years of Earth.

The initial discovery of this quasar (given the identity J1342 +0928) came to light thanks to the mining of three large area surveys: the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) that is being carried out with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundations Blanco 4 - m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, NASAs Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (ALLWISE), and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey.

In July nasa satellite images revealed a rapid thawing of the ice sheet that covers about 80 percent of Greenland.

According to new observations from NASAs Hubble Space Telescope of a star - forming region in a nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, intense radiation and powerful winds from massive, ultrabright baby stars have sculpted their environment, carving a large cavity in their natal nebula, N83B.

«A lot of what NOAA and Nasa do right now is focused on measuring the Earth's climate and atmospheric effects of climate change,» he tells Chemistry World.