Sentences with phrase «on climate scientists which»

All of this abuse excludes the public attacks on climate scientists which have been made, and continue to be made, by some newspaper columnists and many bloggers who see action on climate change as an affront on freedom or a socialist plot.

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Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

An example was Climate Dialogue, which published contributions from scientists with differing views on topics such as climate sensiClimate Dialogue, which published contributions from scientists with differing views on topics such as climate sensiclimate sensitivity.

In reference to a report by a German scientist which showed dissent among scientists who worked on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Mr Tyrie commented:

But while the IPCC bungled its numbers, climate's influence on Himalayan glaciers is still a looming concern for many scientists and governments, which worry about how warming will affect the region's water cycle.

Climate's influence on Himalayan glaciers is still a looming concern for many scientists and governments, which worry about how warming will affect the region's water cycle

The scientists relied on data from the pair of GRACE satellites — NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment orbiters launched in 2002 — that measure subtle changes in Earth's gravitational field, which are often the result of shifting water, whether on the surface or deep beneath it.

Despite countless findings to the contrary, a large portion of the population doesn't believe that scientists agree on the existence of human - caused climate change, which affects their willingness to seek a solution to the problem, according to a 2011 study in Nature Climate climate change, which affects their willingness to seek a solution to the problem, according to a 2011 study in Nature Climate Climate Change.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

NOAA expects its global data for June, which will be released on July 21, to be «in the same ballpark» as the NASA and JMA rankings, Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist with ERT, Inc., and a NOAA contractor who helps write the monthly reports, said in an email.

E-mailed comments from top climate scientist Kevin Trenberth on today's Muir Russell report, which mostly exonerated climate experts from allegations of scientific malfeasance:

«The goal we're all chasing as climate scientists is a way of reversing the impacts of harmful gases on our atmosphere — this technology, which could see those harmful gases not only removed but converted into renewable fuels for use in poorer countries is the Holy Grail of climate science.»

But the two men's estimates of soot's impact are about twice as high as the consensus reached by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2007 report, which many scientists (including Shindell) still endorse.

The reason: the world's oceans and forests, which scientists were counting on to help hold off catastrophic rises in carbon dioxide, are already so full of CO2 that they are losing their ability to absorb this climate change culprit.

Scientists working in eastern Antarctica believe they have found the world's oldest ice sheet which, they say, could provide information on future climate change.

«Communicating the reality of climate change to the public is hampered by the large natural variability of weather and climate,» the Goddard scientists wrote in the draft, which was circulated by Hansen Friday evening and posted on the ClimateProgress.org blog shortly after.

But the AGU believes that a broader solution is needed, which is why the statement calls on members to become more involved not only in researching the problem but also spreading the word about the urgency of controlling climate change, something many scientists have been loathe to do in the past, Killeen admits.

Scientists at the helm of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have spent weeks on the defensive after e-mails uncovered by hackers revealed private messages in which they criticized papers relevant to their 2007 report.

The study also finds that Tea Party supporters with higher levels of education are less likely to trust scientists or accept scientific consensus on topics like evolution or climate change, which runs opposite to the positive effect education has on trust in science among Independents and Democrats.

He calls on Congress to take 5 % to 10 % of the funds that the United States gives to IPCC (which have averaged about $ 3 million annually over the last decade) and dedicate it to «a group of well - credentialed scientists to produce an assessment that expresses legitimate, alternative hypotheses that have been (in their view) marginalized, misrepresented or ignored in previous IPCC reports (and thus EPA and National Climate Assessments).

He also said he would listen to scientists from the United States Geological Survey, which is a part of DOI, on climate issues.

This view is at least congruent with his belief that human - caused climate change is a hoax, which puts him at odds with pretty much every climate scientist on the planet and the majority of the U.S. public.

The results from the study tell scientists how the climate of the North Atlantic region, which includes the U.S., varies on long time scales.

In a letter sent to Senate leaders on 24 February and released earlier this week by the Massachusetts - based Woods Hole Research Center, 65 scientists warned that «this well - intentioned legislation, which claims to address climate change, would in fact promote deforestation in the U.S. and elsewhere and make climate change much worse.»

Among the most serious threats to ocean wildlife is climate change, which according to the scientists is degrading marine wildlife habitats and has a greater impact on these animals than it does on terrestrial fauna.

«The result reverses understanding of solar cycle climate effects,» which had been that the sun generally warms the climate on the way up from minimum to maximum and generally cools the climate on the way down from maximum to minimum, explains atmospheric scientist Piers Forster of the University of Leeds in England.

The following March, twenty - five scientists from the Arctic countries met in Stockholm and created the International Arctic Science Committee, which has gone on to coordinate international Arctic research, for example, the influential Arctic Climate Impact Assessment in 2004.

With news hard to come by in Copenhagen, the AP covers Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change head Rajendra Pachauri's vegetarianism, which the scientist says is carbon friendly.»

Researchers including Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and Gavin Schmidt of NASA, say that Heartland was one of the groups that attacked scientists based on the stolen emails, which were purloined from the University of East Anglia's climate research unit.

Scientists have generally believed that more phytoplankton, which thrive on CO2 while alive, would be good for the climate.

[Response: A similar conclusion to the one cited by Gavin above was reached independently by a panel of scientists (of which I was a member) convened to report on these issues by the National Academy of Sciences last year, resulting in the NAS report «Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties (2005)».

Conflicting research on the heating and cooling of Earth has led to a global temperature conundrum, which climate scientists plan to address this fall.

Dr. Elizabeth Mcleod (Reef Resilience Science Lead and Climate Adaptation Scientist, Asia Pacific) was instrumental in developing TNC's Reef Resilience toolkit and trainings which have trained nearly 1,500 reef managers in more than 75 countries on the best practices for addressing threats to coral reefs.

RICHLAND, Wash. — More than 20 scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have contributed to the global efforts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which recently received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize in equal parts with former Vice President Al Gore.

It is also equipped with phytotrons and greenhouses that enable the simulation of various climate scenarios, which helps researchers and scientists examine and predict the impacts of climate change on plant growth.

Writing in Nature Climate Change, two scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) say the melting of quite a small volume of ice on the East Antarctic shore could ultimately trigger a discharge of ice into the ocean which would result in unstoppable sea - level rise for thousands of years ahead.

Climate scientists» work is based on scientific knowledge and relationships, which must be respected, but we must take account, as in any area of science, the uncertainties in scientific data.

And now in desperation (which he won't admit of course) he resorts to videos on a scientific blog run by peer reviewed climate scientists?

Over the last few decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the Great Barrier Reef, which has lost more than a quarter of its corals in the last three decades, due to bleaching brought on by climate change, storms and coral - munching starfish — and quite possibly even sunscreen.

I asked him to elaborate and provide a few examples in which people described unfounded links between extreme events and global warming, and also whether he thought scientists and scientific institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were beyond reproach.

If different groups of scientists have a public bet running on this, this will signal to the public that this forecast is not a widely supported consensus of the climate science community, in contrast to the IPCC reports (about which we are in complete agreement with Keenlyside and his colleagues).

The use of incentives and investment to spur intensified research on nonpolluting energy choices is not going reduce GHG emissions by 80 % by 2050, which is what the vast majority of scientists say is needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change on human health and the environment.

«But he is not a climate scientist, which is why he has not published any scientific papers on causes of global warming.

I don't bet on which year is the warmest either, but if I had to choose between a working, publishing climate scientist named Gavin Schmidt and some guy on the Internet «nymed WB, my money would be on Gavin.

I think that the vast majority of lay readers who read the headlines and the text of stories on climate sensitivity do not know this and they simply presume that the scientists concerned are talking about their absolute best estimates of the possible temperature increases which may be faced.

The outcome will depend on how an atmospheric tussle plays out — one well captured nicely in the title of a post by Brenda Ekwurzel, senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists: «El Niño vs. the Arctic: Which Will Dominate This Year's Winter Weather?»

The best recent representation of Sachs's views is the paper he and others co-authored with James E. Hansen, the longtime NASA climate scientist who now has a climate policy position at Columbia, in which they build on Hansen's longstanding call for a rising price on carbon.

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This is a big departure from the work of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over the last 20 years, in which scientists have periodically laid out «what if» scenarios for emissions, warming, impacts and responses, but avoided defining how much warming is too much.

Not surprisingly, Joe Romm, «America's fiercest climate blogger,» has assaulted my piece examining ways in which scientists might make scientific information on issues like global warming more impactful.