Sentences with phrase «says paleoclimatologist»

«It is simply startling that a state government in the United States would... deny its citizens the opportunity to learn about the history and prehistory of their own state,» says paleoclimatologist Glen MacDonald of the University of California, Los Angeles.

That way, says paleoclimatologist Julian Sachs of the University of Washington, Seattle, «we can establish very well the maximum and minimum temperature in each year the clam lived.»

Not exact matches

As paleoclimatologist Michael Mann of Penn State University said of the New York article, overstating the severity of climate change could feed a «paralyzing narrative of doom and hopelessness.»

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.

«Looking back on 2500 years, there are examples where climate change impacted human history,» says the study's lead author, Ulf Büntgen, a paleoclimatologist at the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape in Zurich.

«Studies have shown that both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets contributed significantly to this sea level rise above modern levels,» said Anders Carlson, an Oregon State University glacial geologist and paleoclimatologist, and co-author on the study.

Co-author Peter Clark, an OSU paleoclimatologist, said that because current carbon dioxide, or CO2, levels are as high as they were 3 million years ago, «we are already committed to a certain amount of sea level rise.»

«Beyond that we have to rely on indirect, or proxy, methods to reconstruct CO2,» said Miguel Martinez - Boti, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Southampton and the lead author of the study, in an email.

The 20th century increases look unusual,» said Elizabeth Thomas, a paleoclimatologist with the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study.

I should have said that the paleoclimatologists who study sea floor sediments are pretty confident that the high lattitude arctic ocean has not been ice free for many hundreds of thousands of years.

«As paleoclimatologists, we want to study Earth under conditions similar to those we have today, what we call «climate analogues,» which might tell us what to expect in the future,» he said.

«Two things are happening,» said study co-author William D'Andrea, a paleoclimatologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

Steve, not trying to nitpick but although it is somewhat true what you said that mann is one of the few who provide adequate data and codes and such, I think that it really depends on the type of paleoclimatologists.

Peter Clark, an OSU paleoclimatologist and co-author of the Science paper, says that many previous temperature reconstructions were regional and not placed in a global context.

In summary, Mr. Frank actually becomes an arm waving paleoclimatologist (people who he really loathes) when he says that foram δ18O is a direct function of salinity (PSU).

So why do you believe in what paleoclimatologists say?

The study may give scientists a better understanding of how changing dust levels relate to climate by providing inputs for climate models, David McGee, an MIT paleoclimatologist and lead study author, said in a statement.

«We have trillions of dollars of infrastructure in cities along the coast alone,» said White, a geochemist and paleoclimatologist at the University of Colorado.

As Hank implies, no paleoclimatologist says that individual proxies response to «global temperatures».

[Julian Emile - Geay (JEG) says:] Has it ever occurred to you [Steve Mc] that paleoclimatologists might know a shred more about paleoclimate than a mining executive?

In 1580 — when Englishman Sir Francis Drake surveyed the West Coast — tree - ring studies of Sequoias in the Sierra show that next to no rainfall fell that winter, said B. Lynn Ingram, a paleoclimatologist at the University of California, Berkeley.