Sentences with phrase «polar scientists who»

Although again I challenge you to name even five polar scientists who do not think human - caused global warming is the dominant cause of «the increasing summer retreats of sea ice.»

«The International Polar Foundation is once again proud to support the work of polar scientists who make the journey to Antarctica to help us better understand the the Earth and and its mechanisms.»

«The International Polar Foundation is proud to welcome polar scientists who make the journey to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, and to support their endeavours so that we may better understand the Earth and its mechanisms.»

Not exact matches

The vast polar structure — a plane of satellite galaxies at the poles of the Milky Way — is at the center of a tug - of - war between scientists who disagree about the existence of mysterious dark matter, the invisible substance that, according to some scientists, comprises 85 percent of the mass of the universe.

«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are intertwined with the fate of species such as ice seals, narwhals, walruses and polar bears.

Diving right in Ray, who was one of the first scientists to use scuba diving to study marine animals in polar environments, has not only observed the biological adaptations that mammals employ in cold ocean waters, but has also experienced prolonged immersion in those waters firsthand.

The paper draws a convincing connection between the intensification of the Amundsen Sea low - pressure system and increasing snow accumulation, said David Bromwich, a polar weather and climate scientist with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, who was not an author on the new paper.

Ray, who was one of the first scientists to use scuba diving to study marine animals in polar environments, has not only observed the biological adaptations that mammals employ in cold ocean waters, but has also experienced prolonged immersion in those waters firsthand.

«These chemicals enter the atmosphere at lower latitudes where they were used, and are then deposited down from the cold polar air, so Arctic animals are more highly exposed than animals in more temperate or equatorial regions,» University of Florida researcher Margaret James (who wasn't involved in the study) told New Scientist.

Updates below Alberto Behar, a polar researcher who combined a scientist's deep curiosity with an engineer's audacious inventiveness, died on Friday when the plane he was flying crashed shortly after he took off from a small airport near his longtime workplace, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

1:08 p.m. Updated Gavin A. Schmidt, a climate scientist at Hansen's research hub, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, directed my attention to an official reply to the climate complaints from Waleed Abdalati, NASA chief scientist, who also happens to be a polar climate researcher.

It isn't just «many polar scientists» who say this, it is pretty much «the overwhelming majority of climate scientists» — especially because he threw in two more hedges «probably are being driven in part.»

More recent trips caught footage of a pod of orcas teaching its young how to hunt, which digitally raced around the world of marine mammal scientists, participated in a penguin census, and logged polar bear and whale identification photos for researchers who track global populations of these animals.

[April 20, 7:22 a.m. Insert I think this work bolsters the view of scientists who've been calling for a conservation strategy for polar bears and other ice - dependent species focused on areas of the Arctic where sea ice is projected to endure well into this greenhouse - heated era.

Here's some input from Steven Amstrup, who became chief scientist for the conservation group Polar Bear International this year after decades spent studying polar bears for the United States Geological Survey.

In my piece weighing the merits of very different strategies for giving ice - dependent polar bears a chance in a warming world, I promised I'd post the views of some of the biologists, sea - ice researchers and climate scientists who've been tracking relevant questions.

But last year, Susan Solomon of MIT — who back in the 1980s became one of the world's most celebrated scientists for uncovering the chemistry of the polar stratospheric clouds — declared that she had detected the first «fingerprints» of the hole closing.

Scientists from NOAA, WHO, and the UK Met Office use much of the same raw temperature data, but with different baseline periods or slightly different methods to analyze Earth's polar regions and global temperatures.

We have to rely on accounts from unionized government scientists who get paid to study the polar environment.

If there is a 97 per cent, the real scientists within that number need to clean house and reclaim their science from the hucksters - and not put up with fake polar - bear scares and the political opportunists who peddle them to the world.

This summer school is aimed at postgraduate students and early career scientists who would like to obtain a solid grounding in polar climate system science, with a particular focus on the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice and their interactions.

This man is not a climate - model or computer - simulation jock; he is a field scientist who conducts his research in the polar extremes.

it's also fairly logical and rational, even for an ordinary person who isn't a scientist to understand that if polar bears need sea ice to hunt for seals and that sea ice disappears, then those polar bears are going to be in trouble

JS: And it's also fairly logical and rational, even for an ordinary person who isn't a scientist to understand that if polar bears need sea ice to hunt for seals and that sea ice disappears, then those polar bears are going to be in trouble.

Hang on... we've been told for years by apparent top climate scientists to expect less snowfalls, climate models predict warmer winters, ex-politicians claiming ice - free polar caps, hand - wringing news articles of children who would never experience snowfalls, on and on... but now we're expected to believe exactly the opposite because that's what's happening now.

Nearly all of the denier blogs say that, contrary to the opinions of many scientists who study them, polar bears are doing fine.

Many do care, however, including, as we have seen, New Scientist, who chose to make Willie Soon's alleged links to the oil industry the focal point of its coverage of his polar bear research last year.

The fact that polar ice is disappearing faster than predicted from the models along with permafrost decline and more besides seem to indicate to many climate scientists (who incidently appear profously in the Fred Pearce book — the last generation) that human induced climate change is happenning faster than can be explained by the primarily linear models.

And so, along with scientists who believe the bears are severely threatened, the producers also interviewed Mitch Taylor, a Canadian expert on polar bears who doesn't believe the bears are endangered (he says only two of the 19 polar bear populations are in decline; the program itself said half are in decline) and doesn't believe global warming is primarily human - caused or potentially catastrophic.

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