Sentences with phrase «on global warming research»

When a subject like this leaves the scientific, and enters the political sphere (and the highly profitable: close to $ 40 billion tax money has been spent since 1990 on global warming research), the opportunities and motives for skewing and distorting data, and selectively omitting contrary evidence, abound.

chided the president for spending «30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning,» calling it a «gross misallocation» of tax dollars.

Again, I'll update this post when Lewis offers an explanation of why his views on global warming research and risk have so starkly changed.

Not exact matches

Two years ago, Asness and an AQR colleague raised hackles with a research paper that argued that the global temperature trends over the last 125 years do not, on their own, support an alarmist view of global warming.

I think we would agree on alot... I strongly believe in my faith and think we still need a lot of research on global warming.

Here's a better idea for this so - called «governor» to consider: Take a look at the research done by your alma mater, Texas A&M, on global warming and the effect it will have on Texas (higher temps and greater stress on water through decreased rainfall and increased evaporation)... then stop poopooing the efforts to mitigate the effect humans are having on climate change.

In a video posted on his official Assembly website, Hanna is seen debating a bill on the floor and decrying a «conspiracy» by scientists who engage in climate research to «suppress» research conducted by those who challenge the existence of global warming.

A new study by a team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service, sheds light on another, less well - known aspect of how these ecosystems, and forests in particular, can protect our planet against global warming.

Many noted that even though Tillerson parts ways with Trump in saying that human - caused emissions at least play a role in driving warming, his refusal to discuss Exxon Mobil's role in obscuring climate research and his caution on U.S. leadership on global climate engagement helped fuel Democratic opposition to his confirmation.

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

Climate sceptics have gleefully blogged that the emails, now widely published on the internet, reveal extensive data manipulation and expose a conspiracy behind global warming research.

Three British investigations focused on the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, site of the stolen e-mails and a leading center for studying global warming.

Not to worry though, because what chance is there that our scientific study results could even be related to foreign relations, other than, you know, research on global warming or acid rain or fish populations or avian - flu transmission or mad - cow - disease transmission, or ozone depletion or....

► In other climate change news, Leigh Dayton wrote on Tuesday that in April, «the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth announced plans to set up an Australian Consensus Centre (ACC), chaired by [global warming skeptic Bjørn] Lomborg, that would conduct policy research on overseas aid, Australian prosperity, agriculture, and regional issues.

Proposals to reduce the effects of global warming by imitating volcanic eruptions could have a devastating effect on global regions prone to either tumultuous storms or prolonged drought, new research has shown.

If people without a scientific background learn how the scientific method works, they can better understand research on issues such as vaccine safety and global warming.

Leiserowitz's research has shown that there are six Americas, on a scale from «dismissive» to «alarmed» about global warming.

But since 2001 there has been less water vapor in a narrow, lower band of the stratosphere thanks to cooler temperatures in the tropopause, and that may just be holding back global warming at ground level, according to new research published online in Science on January 28.

Mann, now at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, was on the faculty of the University of Virginia until 2005, and Cuccinelli is investigating whether Mann had committed fraud in the course of applying for grants related to his global warming research.

New research shows that the current drought plaguing the American West is likely the beginning of a new trend brought on by global warming.

Previous research has shown that plants at the highest elevations on mountains (and in the polar regions) have been shifting to adjust to global warming.

But in the journal Science on Thursday, Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, surveys the current research and concludes «it is safe to say that global warming will not lead to the onset of a new ice age».

Their research, published in Nature Climate Change on June 29, is the first attempt to examine and document these changes in the air - sea heat exchange in the region — brought about by global warming — and to consider its possible impact on oceanic circulation, including the climatologically important Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

The researchers examined respondents» deference to science on a scale of 0 - 10 when it came to 14 policy issues, including child vaccinations, stem cell research, global warming, child obesity and diet, AIDS prevention, birth control education, legalizing drug use, gun control, regulation of nuclear power, animal testing, and teaching evolution in schools.

«We're doing this research for commonsense reasons — as a potential solution to the challenges posed by the exhaustion of fossil fuels and global warming,» says Hiroaki Suzuki of JAXA's Advanced Mission Research Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on theresearch for commonsense reasons — as a potential solution to the challenges posed by the exhaustion of fossil fuels and global warming,» says Hiroaki Suzuki of JAXA's Advanced Mission Research Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on theResearch Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on theresearch institutes working on the scheme.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

The research is of great interest on the international stage because present - day global warming is strongly tied to a shrinking ice cover in the Arctic Ocean.

The research also appears to solve one of the great unknowns of climate sensitivity, the role of cloud formation and whether this will have a positive or negative effect on global warming.

But the win was also a hopeful sign for scientists who have watched from the sidelines in disbelief as politicians cut science funding and distorted research on evolution, stem cells and global warming.

The cooling effect of aerosols can partly offset global warming on a short - term basis, but many are made of organic material that comes from sources that scientists don't fully understand, said Joost de Gouw, a research physicist at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., who is unaffiliated with the research physicist at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., who is unaffiliated with the Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., who is unaffiliated with the studies.

New research reveals that global warming also affects fish who depend on corals.

«So, working independently, several research teams have converged on almost identical results for warming over the past century at the global scale, but with periodic fine - tuning as additional information becomes available,» Holt and Field write.

Despite the ads» claims, an analysis by the Center of American Progress determined that ACCCE's companies spend relatively few dollars conducting research on carbon capture and storage, the most promising clean coal technology to reduce global warming pollution from coal - fired power plants.

This eight - month InsideClimate News investigation details Exxon's early research into global warming, based on hundreds of pages of internal documents and interviews with former employees and scientists.

The reconstruction produced by Dr. Mann and his colleagues was just one step in a long process of research, and it is not (as sometimes presented) a clinching argument for anthropogenic global warming, but rather one of many independent lines of research on global climate change.

Thinking laterally, I would say if you want to convince the skeptics that it isn't the sun causing recent global warming, do more research on the sun.

Soon is a leading skeptic of the widely accepted science surrounding climate change, In the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, a study titled «The Structure of Scientific Opinion on Climate Change» found that 97 percent of scientists surveyed believed global warming already is ongoing, with 84 percent of scientists surveyed believing human - produced greenhouse gases were the driving force behind the change.

«A much - discussed idea to offset global warming by injecting sulfate particles into the stratosphere would have a drastic impact on Earth's protective ozone layer, new research concludes.

Fact check: Actual scientific consensus on global warming (from real scientists that research and publish scrutinized reports) is getting stronger.

The arguments surrounding global warming have become so polarised that in my opinion there is no longer a genuine attempt to get to the truth through orignial research, but simply a process of point scoring by either side going on.

His research interests include studying the interactions between El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the monsoons of Asia; identifying possible effects on global climate of changing human factors, such as carbon dioxide, as well as natural factors, such as solar variability; and quantifying possible future changes of weather and climate extremes in a warmer climate.

His research explores the impact of global warming on the economy, including labor productivity, mortality rate, and agriculture yields, among other economic factors.

Further, I assume they all agree on anthropogenic global warming as per Oreskes» research.

On research for evidence of human - induced global warming, as published in Nature Geoscience:

Petrenko's most recent research focuses on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas second only to carbon dioxide in its contribution to human - driven global warming.

More research work is therefore required to improve the reliability of predictions of ice - sheet response on global warming.

The scientists who based their research on the information given by satellites stated that the changes result in the global scale warming, which is bout 30 percent larger than their previous version of the dataset, as Independent noted.

Our current research in this area focuses on understanding the paleoenvironmental implications of a radical change in sedimentary iron biogeochemistry in the mid-Atlantic U.S. during the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a severe global warming event that occurred 55 million years ago.

After a decade of frank internal discussions on global warming and conducting unbiased studies on it, Exxon changed direction in 1989 and spent more than 20 years discrediting the research its own scientists had once confirmed.