Directed by disaster filmmaker extraordinaire Roland Emmerich, The Day After Tomorrow tells the story
of a paleoclimatologist played by Jake Gyllenhaal who's forced to lead a group of survivors when a superstorm floods, then freezes, New York City.
The detective story began at Cambridge University seven years ago, when Tjeerd van Andel and a team
of paleoclimatologists started combing through environmental and archaeological data to try to solve an old mystery: Why did Neanderthals vanish from Europe 28,000 years ago?
Steve, not trying to nitpick but although it is somewhat true what you said that mann is one of the few who provide adequate data and codes and such, I think that it really depends on the type
of paleoclimatologists.
Not exact matches
«When you measure the two
of them together, you can use the strontium - calcium ratio to take away the temperature and that gives you a clear rainfall signal,» explains
paleoclimatologist Nerilie Abrams
of the British Antarctic Survey.
As
paleoclimatologist Michael Mann
of Penn State University said
of the New York article, overstating the severity
of climate change could feed a «paralyzing narrative
of doom and hopelessness.»
Paleoclimatologists have probed ancient silt for grains
of crop pollen and charcoal from fires, for instance, in attempts to say definitively whether and when human beings were on the scene.
«This is a snapshot
of a hominin in a landscape that's really open,» agrees
paleoclimatologist Peter deMenocal
of Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, who has argued that climate change sparked intense periods
of speciation.
In order to understand Earth's recent temperature record, it's essential to understand the impacts from these natural cycles, says Byron Steinman, a
paleoclimatologist at the University
of Minnesota's Large Lakes Observatory in Duluth and lead author
of the new study.
«There is no convincing evidence that a sufficiently large reservoir
of old metabolic carbon existed in some mysterious location in the glacial ocean only to be ventilated during deglaciation,» argues
paleoclimatologist Lowell Stott
of the University
of Southern California, who was not involved in the study.
For James White, a
paleoclimatologist at the University
of Colorado, 400 ppm is «a mile marker you pass on the interstate while flying by at 60 mph.»
In contrast, the consensus view among
paleoclimatologists is that the Medieval Warming Period was a regional phenomenon, that the worldwide nature
of the Little Ice Age is open to question and that the late 20th century saw the most extreme global average temperatures.
One
of the researchers affected by the cuts is Romanian
paleoclimatologist Bogdan Onac
of the University
of South Florida in Tampa, who used his 2011 CNCS grant, worth $ 455,000, to rekindle research relationships with his home country.
That way, says
paleoclimatologist Julian Sachs
of the University
of Washington, Seattle, «we can establish very well the maximum and minimum temperature in each year the clam lived.»
In the past decade,
paleoclimatologists have reconstructed a record
of climate change over the last millennium by consulting historical documents and examining indicators
of temperature change like tree rings, as well as oxygen isotopes in ice cores and coral skeletons.
Modeler Bette Otto - Bliesner
of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder and
paleoclimatologist Jonathan Overpeck
of the University
of Arizona matched results from the Community Climate System Model and climate records preserved in ice cores, exposed coral reefs, fossilized pollen and the chemical makeup
of shells to determine the accuracy
of the computer simulation.
For
paleoclimatologist James White, adventures begin when a C - 130 transport plane drops him and his team in the middle
of Greenland's ice cap.
Instead, Columbia University climate scientist Kevin Anchukaitis and
paleoclimatologist Michael Evans
of the University
of Maryland, College Park, took samples the diameter
of a pencil from two trees in the region.
The preliminary results, analyzed by
paleoclimatologist Pierre Sepulchre
of the Climate and Environment Laboratory, suggest that with any channel deeper than 200 meters currents behave as though there's an entire ocean there.
Co-author Peter Clark, an OSU
paleoclimatologist, said that because current carbon dioxide, or CO2, levels are as high as they were 3 million years ago, «we are already committed to a certain amount
of sea level rise.»
«It is simply startling that a state government in the United States would... deny its citizens the opportunity to learn about the history and prehistory
of their own state,» says
paleoclimatologist Glen MacDonald
of the University
of California, Los Angeles.
«Beyond that we have to rely on indirect, or proxy, methods to reconstruct CO2,» said Miguel Martinez - Boti, a
paleoclimatologist at the University
of Southampton and the lead author
of the study, in an email.
The 20th century increases look unusual,» said Elizabeth Thomas, a
paleoclimatologist with the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and lead author
of the new study.
By studying sediment cores from the deep Pacific near the Philippines,
paleoclimatologist Lowell Stott
of the University
of Southern California in Los Angeles and his colleagues revealed that the temperatures
of the deepest seas rose by around 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) at least 1,000 years before sea - surface temperatures.
Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among
paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession
of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap
of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).
And at least one
of these common passages on tree ring proxies closely follows a classic text by noted
paleoclimatologist Raymond Bradley, but with a key alteration not found in the original.
This expected large sea - level rise does
of course not surprise us
paleoclimatologists, given that in earlier warm periods
of Earth's history sea level has been many meters higher than now due to the diminished continental ice cover (see the recent review by Dutton et al. 2015 in Science).
Authors
of the study, in addition to Bird and Wilson, are IUPUI assistant professor
of earth sciences William P. Gilhooly III, former IUPUI graduate student Lucas Stamps, and University
of Minnesota Duluth
paleoclimatologist and paleolimnologist Byron A. Steinman.
After undertaking many computer simulations lasting 30 theoretical years
of 365 days (with the GENESIS2 model), however, astronomer Darren Williams,
paleoclimatologist David Pollard, and their colleagues at Pennsylvania State University at Erie have come to believe that Earth could support life even in highly elliptical orbits (0.3 > e > 0.7).
An ice age is brought on by the effects
of global warming and
paleoclimatologist Jack Hall struggles through the masses fleeing south for warmer climate on his way north to reunite with his son.
Here's a good tweeted question from David Lea, a
paleoclimatologist at the University
of California, Santa Barbara:
I should have said that the
paleoclimatologists who study sea floor sediments are pretty confident that the high lattitude arctic ocean has not been ice free for many hundreds
of thousands
of years.
After finishing my post on the inevitability
of substantial long - term sea - level rise from Antarctic ice loss, I sent this question to Curt Stager, a
paleoclimatologist and author
of «Deep Future,» Kim Stanley Robinson, the novelist focused on «cli fi» before that term was conceived, and the astrobiologist David Grinspoon:
This May, three
of us were at a conference
of almost one thousand
paleoclimatologists in Zaragoza (see photo below).
Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among
paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession
of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap
of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).
It's a remarkable feat
of double - think to trust the paleoclimate data but not the
Paleoclimatologists who produce it!
While we are pleased that some
of our observations, in particular, about verification statistics and non-robustness, have attracted academic interest (e.g. from Bürger), it was not our intent to develop methodological innovations or tell
paleoclimatologists how to do their job.
The second and final phase
of Penn State University's investigation
of allegations
of research misconduct against
paleoclimatologist Michael Mann has just been completed.
The second link deals with statistic problems encountered by dendro's except
of course
paleoclimatologists.
Let me again introduce some sanity from actual
paleoclimatologists under the auspices
of the NAS.
Like other
paleoclimatologists, he also is finding that the warming trend that began in the 20th century is more pronounced in the Arctic than it is in the rest
of the globe.
There is a huge disconnect between
paleoclimatologists and solar physicists regarding the effect
of solar variability on climate.
Paleoclimatologists see it very clearly in climate proxies, while solar physicists reject it on the basis
of a lack
of mechanism.
The natural world has recorded its own stories in tree rings, lake sediments, ice, cave deposits, and fossils, and
paleoclimatologists can put that information together to assemble thousands
of years
of climate history.
We should prepare now for dangerous global cooling (By
Paleoclimatologist Tim Patterson, professor in the department
of Earth Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa)-- Excerpt: Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle
of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth.
Peter Clark, an OSU
paleoclimatologist and co-author
of the Science paper, says that many previous temperature reconstructions were regional and not placed in a global context.
In summary, Mr. Frank actually becomes an arm waving
paleoclimatologist (people who he really loathes) when he says that foram δ18O is a direct function
of salinity (PSU).
Zorita is a Spanish
paleoclimatologist who is currently is the head
of the Department
of Paleoclimate at the GKSS Research Centre in Germany.
As related in USA Today, the investigation followed a formal complaint by
paleoclimatologist Raymond Bradley, co-author
of the seminal (and controversial) 1998 and 1999 «hockey stick» temperature reconstructions.
«leading
paleoclimatologists, Al Gore and U. N. have perpetrated misinformation on the world at large, which may in the end cost all
of us trillions
of dollars.
Michael Mann, a
paleoclimatologist, has been the subject
of lawsuits, congressional investigations and an anthrax scare.