Sentences with phrase «role as climate scientists»

In any case, it seems important for scientists to make clear that our political statements are in our roles as ordinary people, not in our role as climate scientists.

If I'd consider her role as a climate scientist, I'd put her as a defenseman, as John Nielsen - Gammon, because one builds an hockey team with the best defensemen your salary cap can buy.

Not exact matches

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

Projects such as these illustrate the growing role that social scientists, including economists, sociologists, and political scientists, have begun to play in climate change.

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

Watch Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz — part scientist, part politician — as he deftly answers a question about mankind's role in climate change without stepping on political landmines.

As the scientists reveal in their study published in Nature Climate Change, stored carbohydrates play a key role in the resilience of the individual plant.

Critics seized on the correspondence as evidence scientists, including Mann, were cooking their books to emphasize society's role in climate disruption.

Others called Gleick a hero for his deception, noting that no one has yet come forward to acknowledge a role in the 2009 theft of climate scientist emails in an incident now widely referred to as «Climategate.»

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is known as a greenhouse gas and plays an essential role in climate change; it is no wonder scientists have been looking for solutions to prevent its release in the environment.

Watch Video David L. Chandler MIT News Office Scientists agree that changes in land use such as deforestation, and not just greenhouse gas emissions, can play a significant role altering the world's climate systems.

PNNL scientists also have contributed intellectual frameworks that influenced IPCC assessments and the broader climate change community in areas as diverse as integrated assessment, technology's role in mitigation, carbon dioxide capture and storage, and social science contributions in addressing climate change challenges.

Just as there is consensus about the human role in climate change, the perception that our species is now piloting the planet has led scientists to declare a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene or the Human Age.

The role of SEPP is to act as chairman of NIPCC, the otherwise informal network of scientists under whose name the Climate Change Reconsidered series appears; coordinate efforts by the Center to identify and recruit scientists as lead authors, contributors, and reviewers; convene NIPCC meetings during the research and review stages to share research and debate areas of disagreement; and participate with Heartland in the release of the report as a spokesperson for the effort.

The findings underscore a strong, substantive role for both party / ideological factors and issue - concern as predictors of people's views across this set of some 25 beliefs related to climate change or people's views of climate scientists.

So paradoxically, the phenomenon you hold up as challenging a role for CO2 in climate, is actually understood by scientists to reinforce the idea that CO2 is important in climate.

Climate scientists have been examining different aspects of the drought, from the role that ocean conditions in far - flung places such as the tropical Pacific Ocean and even the Atlantic Ocean may have played in triggering it to how it falls into a broader historical context.

I was told by one semi-expert climate scientist (someone who was in the process of changing fields to climate science from a different numerical modeling field, as so possibly still catching up) that although globally aerosols played the most important role in this period, there was also around the same time period (maybe beginning slightly earlier?

However, there are some important caveats to the study, other scientists tell Carbon Brief, as natural climate variability also plays a «massive role» in the timing of European floods.

As he explains: «97 % of climate scientists agree that humans are causing global warming; however, less than half of Australians are aware of humanity's role in climate change, while half of the US Senate has voted that humans aren't causing global warming.

Oleg Sorokhtin of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Ocean Studies, and many other Russian scientists maintain that global climate depends predominantly on natural factors, such as solar activity, precession (wobbling) of the Earth's axis, changes in ocean currents, fluctuations in saltiness of ocean surface water, and some other factors, whereas industrial emissions do not play any significant role.

As scientists call for urgent reductions in greenhouse gases to stave off climate change, cities could play a vital role in cutting carbon dioxide while remaining the engines of the economy that they are in any industrialised society.

Economics has a role to play in determining the «best» way to mitigate and adapt, but it has no role to play in something like «restoring the scientific method» when the scientific method as practiced by climate scientists is not now and has never been in doubt.

«As an influential blogger on climate change, among other subjects, I'd really like Paul to meet you and chat to you about your views — how you see your role and that more generally the influence of the internet in changing the debate; your views on climate-gate and how that was handled by the media; the failings or otherwise of scientists in communicating the science.»

As a part of this study, UCS sent surveys to 1,600 climate scientists at seven federal agencies and departments, to gauge the extent to which politics was playing a role in scientists» research.

She cited as motivation for quitting her objection to «the kind of vehemence and aggressive attack strategy that Exxon has executed over the last year» toward state attorneys general with open investigations of ExxonMobil and over a dozen non-for-profit groups (such as the Union of Concerned Scientists) and individuals who have been in communication with them over the corporation's decades - long role as champion of climate denial.

Personally, I doubt Dan's «central role,» conclusion, as I think that the tribalism evident among some of the different groups speaking for climate scientists is a reflection of a preexisting dynamic more than that those groups are responsible for creating the landscape where the discussion about climate change has become one more of who you are than what you know.

In fall 2013, NextGen played an influential role in electing Democrat Terry McAuliffe as Virginia governor, spending an estimated $ 8 million to frame his Republican opponent Ken Cuccinelli as an elected official who «denies basic science» and who as state Attorney General «wasted taxpayer money» by investigating the research activities of climate scientists.

And so it is with climate science: the caveats, context and cautions scientists attach to their work are forgotten by excited journalists who report it and who furthermore forget their roles as critics of authority, be it political or scientific.

Ironically, just as climate change has made it on to the front page because the weight of evidence supporting a human role in recent warming, increased coverage may actually be leading people to think that scientists are more divided on the basic questions.

Described as a «climate scientist,» he has spent decades in administrative roles.

Although the situation suggests overt dishonesty, it is entirely possible, in today's scientific environment, that many scientists feel that it is the role of science to vindicate the greenhouse paradigm for climate change as well as the credibility of models.

As the latest UN climate change conference gets underway in Bonn, Germany, this week, Carbon Brief charts the journey of loss and damage through the international policy apparatus, and looks at the role that climate science (and scientists) can play in addressing it.

As James Hansen and three other notable climate scientists urged in an open letter earlier this month: «Renewables like wind and solar and biomass will certainly play roles in a future energy economy, but those energy sources can not scale up fast enough to deliver cheap and reliable power at the scale the global economy requires.

The best role that climate scientists can do first and foremost is clean up their act and get their facts and uncertainties public, and quit treating skeptics as the enemy.

I believe climate science a new science does definitely have a role to play but the Scientists need to be 100 % truthful in this fashion (as marcott original Thesis was) yes you probably can keep your jobs etc most likely dealing with an impending Maunder minimum type event!

But what is the role of the social scientist, as distinct from the natural scientist, in characterizing the climate change problem and connecting it to societal decisionmaking?

My role as Chairman of the IPCC is not to trust or mistrust any of the participants in the climate - change debate, whether they belong to environmental groups, industry associations or individual scientists.

My interest was driven mostly by the basic comments and questions being asked by climate scientist Chris Poulsen only a couple years ago that served as a foundation for his research, it was his query relative to the role of O2 that intrigued me: ``... most thought oxygen's role has been negligible».

Are we???? If it is not their role as scientists to determine how to deal with problems like climate change, then why are they trying to get involved?

Dr. Christy played the role of the «skeptic» climate scientist being bullied by the consensus scientists, and the Republican congressmen often referred to him as a «maverick».

While the initial focus of Weather@home ANZ is on extreme events that occurred in 2013, simulations will also be performed for other years, allowing scientists to assess better the possible role of climate change in such events as the Black Saturday bushfires in Australia in 2009, the record rainfall event in Golden Bay, New Zealand in 2011 and the record rainfall events in eastern Australia in 2010 and 2011.

Most climate scientists are interested in policy only insofar as their role in assessing whether it addresses the risks.