Sentences with phrase «reticent scientists»

You know how impressive public speakers, charming networkers, and gregarious celebrities seem to get so much more praise and admiration than quiet, bookish types; whimsical dreamers; or reticent scientists?

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«Until there is some degree of certainty in how they're going to apply this language, if I were a research scientist affected by this, I would be reticent right now,» he says.

Our tendency to question authority, even our own teachers, is a stength for American scientists — we are less reticent than Japanese or Germans, for example, to go against the consensus or are academic mentors.

The paper was was written by 17 prominent climate, ice and ocean scientists, led by James E. Hansen, the pioneering climatologist who since 2007 has argued that most of his peers have been too reticent in their projections of the possible pace of sea - level rise in a warming world.

Scientists are guarded and reticent by nature and training.

He's a somewhat reticent quantitative scientist who leveraged his undergraduate training in physics and applied math toward a Yale doctorate in geology and geophysics en route to co-directing the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State.

Climate scientists, who specialize in thinking about the Earth system as a whole, are often reticent to link any one weather event to global climate change.

Last year James Hansen wrote that climate scientists are naturally reticent — fearful of criticism, defunding and rejection by academic journals if they are seen to overstate their conclusions.

Already, scientists have become much less reticent in tying the likelihood and severity of certain extreme events directly to global warming, particularly heat waves.

This may in part be due to the fact that action on climate change is widely seen as a progressive goal, says Hulme, and being a generally progressive sort of bunch, social scientists might be reticent to impede proceedings, or to be seen to give succour to right - wing «denialists».

In fact, when the Washington Post asked Gore if he believes scientists «need to get more active in the debate, to stop being so reticent,» the former Vice President made this remarkable reply: «That's solely within their discretion.»

Hansen's an outlier, and proud of it, thinking himself more courageous than other scientists who, he says, are «reticent» to tell the public how bad things really are.