Sentences with phrase «paleoclimatologist from»

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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Here's a good tweeted question from David Lea, a paleoclimatologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara:

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:

Paleoclimatologists determine the climate sensitivity from data from the Earth's history.

Proxies are used by paleoclimatologists and include ice cores, tree rings, lake sediments (varves), pollen counts, or anything that results from temperature or precipitation changes.

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.

Let me again introduce some sanity from actual paleoclimatologists under the auspices of the NAS.

We discussed his new book, «The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines,» his experiences — good and bad — of being one of the leading paleoclimatologists and dealing with deniers of climate change, as well as talking about the science being done by Mann and his colleagues.

But «big changes in less than a decade» is how paleoclimatologists typically characterize all of the abrupt warmings and coolings in the best ice cores, though the full time course from one stable state to another may take a few decades.

I am pretty sure that the paleoclimatologists who create the reconstructions have much valuable knowledge overlooked by the statisticians, who criticize their work for deviating from standard practices.

Paleoclimatologists are uncertain how our actions will alter the predicted outcomes formed from their research.

Using evidence garnered from samples of glacial cores and deep sea sediment, paleoclimatologists can find patterns in the natural changes of the past and use them to predict future changes.

``, paleoclimatologists use measurements from tree rings, ice sheets, rocks, and other natural phenomena to estimate past temperature...»