Sentences with phrase «science of a warming world»

Yale Environment 360 asked some leading climate scientists to discuss what they consider to be the most noteworthy or surprising findings in the recently released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on the physical science of a warming world.

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First off, yes: There's consensus that the science of climate change predicts that in a warming world, hurricanes will become more intense, carry more rain, and cause worse coastal flooding linked in part to sea level rise.

You likely deny evolution and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.

Thinking of himself as a grand world - historical figure, attuned to the latest intellectual trend (preferably one with a tinge of futurism and science, like global warming), demonstrating his own incomparable depth and farsightedness.

You likely deny global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron rolling around a floor speaking in tongues is enough to convince you he is channeling a spirit.

WHETHER Antarctica's ice will survive a warmer world is one of the great puzzles of climate science.

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

Stepping into that gap — at the request of the Danish government — will be the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, a collection of the world's top scientists and economists set to meet in Copenhagen in March 2009 to deliver an updated state of the science on global warming.

The 2011 UNEP / WMO assessment and the related article by Shindell et al. in Science in 2012 indicate that an aggressive program to limit emissions of these substances could relatively inexpensively cut projected warming between the present and 2050 in half while also having tremendous co-benefits for health, air quality, and improved energy efficiency, in the US and around the world.

The research performed at the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that part of this will be due to the mechanism they demonstrated, and the other part is tied to the fact that storms are born at a higher latitude in a warmer world.

But as the world warms they will shrink and temperatures will rise ever higher, according to a study that could help to resolve one of the biggest uncertainties in climate science.

In a study published this week in Science, UCI climatologists outline the results of computer simulations showing a world subjected to nearly three more centuries of unbridled global warming.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

«I've always thought that the phrase «global warming» was something of a misnomer because it suggests that the phenomenon is something that is uniform around the world, that it's all about temperature, and that it's gradual,» Holdren said yesterday at the annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C. (AAAS publishes ScienceInsider.)

The leak of the Heartland memos — including a disputed one purporting to outline a strategy to pay a Department of Energy contractor to prepare school curriculum teaching children that the science behind man - made global warming is unsettled — rocked the climate world last week when they were released to bloggers.

That a warmer world is likely to lead to increased winter rainfall, particularly intense periods of rainfall, over the UK, comes from well understood science.

The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.

That finding, detailed in the journal Science Advances, fits with the conclusions of an earlier study by Swain and his colleagues that suggested such persistent ridging was more likely to occur in a world with human - caused warming than one without it.

What, specifically, is the reason that you are «skeptical» of the conclusions of the overwhelming majority of the world's climate scientists and every relevant scientific organization in the world, including the national science academies of every major country in the world, that anthropogenic global warming is a reality?

Our science is a little more solid today, but researchers still aren't 100 % sure how and why the virus spreads, and they remain stumped about why some parts of the world have such a pronounced winter flu season with almost no flu activity in warmer months.

To put the matter simply, the science of Dendrochronology uses tree ring Rings in fossilised pine trees have proven that the world was much warmer than previously thought - with measurements dating back to 138BC

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# 86 warm Northern re-greetings Pat, Being of Scottish ancestry, I rather go down fighting the good fight, than sit down and watch the show go bad, complacency rules the world, even people in key science positions follow the business as usual flow, but it does not mean we all have to agree to do nothing.

Nature Journal of Science, ranked as the world's most cited scientific periodical, has just published the definitive study on Global Warming that proves the dominant controller of temperatures in the Earth's atmosphere is due to galactic cosmic rays and the sun, rather than by man.

And the statement about «storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season» is hard to square with the science on hurricanes in a warming world, which has gotten more nuanced of late, as we've explored here a few times.

It's a review of a University of Minnesota social sciences seminar on «how to get the world to stop talking and do something about global warming.»

They're implying that settling on a global warming policy (or the lack of it) is somehow special, somehow a matter of science and economics and politics that stands apart from one's world view or ethics or religious beliefs.

I know that is hard when it comes to such a politically charged issue as anthro global warming... but as new data and information comes in, the spirit of science should be to analyze and interpret it, with the intent to find the truth about our world — not prove someone else wrong or ourselves right.

Of course, there are quite a few experts in climate science and policy who warn that debating whether the research pointing to a disruptive human climate influence is, or is not, settled is a complete distraction from the reality that the basics are not in dispute (more CO2 = warming world = rising seas and lots of changing climate patternsOf course, there are quite a few experts in climate science and policy who warn that debating whether the research pointing to a disruptive human climate influence is, or is not, settled is a complete distraction from the reality that the basics are not in dispute (more CO2 = warming world = rising seas and lots of changing climate patternsof changing climate patterns).

Former Vice President Al Gore has spent decades immersing himself in the science and policy of global warming, visiting the poles, writing two books largely framed around the issue, and traveling the world giving a climate presentation that began on 35 - millimeter carousels and evolved into a snazzy Keynote extravaganza and Oscar - winning documentary.

The highlighted points of emphasis in the report have been the dominant focus of research in the field of science communication and science studies for the past 15 years and the basis for recent innovative projects such as the World Wide Views on Global Warming initiative.

Paul Voosen, one of the most talented journalists probing human - driven climate change and related energy issues, has written an award - worthy two - part report for Greenwire on one of the most enduring sources of uncertainty in climate science — how the complicated response of clouds in a warming world limits understanding of how hot it could get from a given rise in greenhouse gas concentrations:

The 2000 paper Warming of the World Ocean can be found here Science 2000 287: 2225 - 2229.

The PBS Frontline documentary, written and directed by Martin Smith, explores the world to explain why there has been such a persistent gap between the growing body of science pointing to an increasingly human - warmed world and action by policymakers, politicians and the public to limit risks.

That a warmer world was bad for humanity -(that was not really science based, but more of conjecture) c.

The statement is one conclusion in the final draft of a summary the IPCC is preparing for world policymakers on the state of the climate and climate science as part of its fifth assessment report on global warming.

Remember that in the 1970's the entire world climate science community agreed that we were heading for another ice age based on a warming period of over 30 years.

In 2013, researchers with the World Bank took a look at the science on projected effects of 4 °C warming and were appalled by what they found.

quote: «Despite the 97 % expert consensus on human - caused global warming supported by peer - reviewed research, expert opinion, the IPCC reports, and National Academies of Science and other scientific organizations from around the world, a large segment of the population remains unconvinced on the issue.»

Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations - affiliated network of climate scientists that constitutes conventional wisdom on global warming, projected in its latest voluminous climate - science report that the world is likely to blow past the two - degrees marker by 2100.

Dr. S. Fred Singer, one of the world's earliest and most credible critics of the theory that global warming is man - made and dangerous, will be recognized with an award for Lifetime Achievement in Climate Science at an international conference on global warming taking place July 7 — 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Richard Allan, reader in climate science at the University of Reading, said: «Global warming is not «at a standstill» but does seem to have slowed down since 2000 in comparison to the rapid warming of the world since the 1970s.»

Earlier this year, he co-wrote an article in the peer - reviewed Chinese Science Bulletin with fellow climate denialists arguing that the IPCC's models are inaccurate and the world won't warm dangerously by the end of the century.

Meanwhile, the good news (if further research bears it out) that the world's warming has been slowed, at least for a few years, needs to be leavened with the realisation, yet again, that there are significant uncertainties in science's understanding of the climate — and thus unquantifiable risks ahead.

The end - of - the - world prognostications from the Left of global warming catastrophe that never came but, the Left never cared if they were right or wrong about that and it does not worry them that the EPA prefers politics to science.

Science can not settle all arguments about how the world should respond to global warming, because the answer to that question involves values, varying perceptions of risk, and political ideology, in addition to what we know (and don't know) about the climate system.

Stern, The Economics of Climate Change, 4 — 5, 11 — 16, 95, 193, 220 — 34, 637, 649 — 51; «Evidence of Human - Caused Global Warming is Now «Unequivocal,»» Science Daily, http://www.sciencedaily.com; Browne, «The Ethics of Climate Change,» 100; Spratt and Sutton, Climate Code Red, 30; Editors, «Climate Fatigue,» Scientific American 298, no. 6 (June 2008): 39; Ted Trainer, «A Short Critique of the Stern Review,» Real - World Economics Review, 45 (2008), http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue45/Trainer45.pdf, 54 — 58.

This book presents an overview of the science related to global warming and explains climate projections (what they are and how they are made), presenting observed changes in the natural world which are in line with the projections.

While climate science can effectively inform us about the range of possible consequences of a warming world, there is a large amount of irresolvable uncertainty inherent in climate forecasting.

«Even with just a further 3C of warming — well within the range to which the UN climate science panel expects temperatures to rise by the end of the century — nearly one - fifth of the planet's 720 world heritage sites will affected as ice sheets melt and warming oceans expand.»