But oceanographers and
paleoclimatologists do not have big budgets, and they have not been able to co-opt the naval ships of the NATO countries to tow additional instrument packages around and launch their telemetry buoys.
Not exact matches
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?
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).
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.
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.
So why
do you believe in what
paleoclimatologists say?
One scientist,
paleoclimatologist William Ruddiman, even argued that the rise of human agriculture had already produced enough greenhouse gases to counteract the gradual cooling that should have come during the past several thousand years; every previous cycle had begun a steady cooling soon after its peak, rather than leveling off as ours had
done.
Of course, as he kept pointing out, he's an atmosphere physicist, not a
paleoclimatologist, yet he doesn't appear to have made an effort to find one of the latter to collaborate with regarding past climate.
Similarly I don't think Steve M is under any obligation to redo
do the work that several
paleoclimatologists are already
doing.
Since when
did atmospheric researchers and
paleoclimatologists become disaster relief workers??
Many of the transitions in the
DO and Bond cycles were rapid and abrupt, and they are being studied intensely by
paleoclimatologists and Earth system scientists to understand the driving mechanisms of such dramatic climatic variations.