Not exact matches
From the rise of «she - preneurs» (women - led startups) to wifi and car - sharing communities to «Lux M.D.» (The Mayo clinic offers physicals at luxury resorts), John Gerzema, TED talker and
trend expert leads social
sciences team that tracks
trends all
over the world.
But
trends in rationalism and scientism
over the last two centuries turned it into a «value - free» social
science» to some, just a form of applied mathematics.
Research studies have shown that many scientists are now
trending towards believing in at least some form of divinity however; I think it's largely that we're only now letting
science get the oppression it experienced
over some of the religious wars fought
over political reasons with little to do with actual beliefs or study.
Reacting against this and other «
science over nature»
trends, the pioneers of the environmental movement in the late 1960s were quick to pick up on the negative aspects of factory farming, with books such as «Silent Spring» and «Animal Machines» generating considerable interest.
According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD)
Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2014, a review of key trends in science, technology, and innovation policies, and performance in more than 45 economies, South Korea and China are now the primary destinations for researchers from the United States and experienced a net «brain gain» over the period 1996 &mdash
Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2014, a review of key
trends in
science, technology, and innovation policies, and performance in more than 45 economies, South Korea and China are now the primary destinations for researchers from the United States and experienced a net «brain gain» over the period 1996 &mdash
science, technology, and innovation policies, and performance in more than 45 economies, South Korea and China are now the primary destinations for researchers from the United States and experienced a net «brain gain»
over the period 1996 — 2011.
Schwartz now wants to do a Yellowstone - wide hair study to help pin down grizzly population
trends — information that could prove pivotal in the hot debate
over whether the animals are prospering enough to be removed from the U.S. endangered species list (
Science, 23 April 1999, p. 568).
In the paper Retreating Glacier Fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula
over the Past Half - Century published this week in
Science, we presented new data describing
trends in 244 marine glacier fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula
over the last 50 years.
«This is a worrying
trend from «high impact» journals to promote the hype
over good
science.
Climate impacts research is in its infancy compared to
science on the physical climate, for a number of reasons: attributing cause and effect isn't easy; neither is collecting data
over timescales and regions long and large enough such that it's possible to draw any meaningful
trends from their analysis.
A new study of international and U.S. state
trends in student achievement growth shows that the United States is squarely in the middle of a group of 49 nations in 4th and 8th grade test score gains in math, reading, and
science over the period 1995 - 2009.
«According to a 1972 article in the Christian
Science Monitor, Belchen asserted that «a general warming
trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice - free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000 ″»
«If the global numbers come out as CRU has presented
over the years, then it will strike a blow to skepticism about global temperature
trend records produced by CRU and restore a good deal of credibility to this area of climate
science.»
All joking aside, this thread highlights a
trend I see in much of the RC blogs...... drifting
over into commentary / politics / hype versus sticking to
science.
But it's also clear that more
science clarifying overall
trends in temperature
over a mostly sub-zero continent will have little bearing on what societies choose to do, or not do, related to accumulating greenhouse gases, warming and the resulting rise in sea levels.
Getting past the insults and accusations and (ultimately useful) fights
over statistical approaches to studying climate
trends in regions (or eras) with sparse data, it's clear to me that this is an area where
science will out, in the end.
Interestingly, the paper «Climate
Trends and Global food production since 1980» (Lobell, Schlenker, Costa - Roberts, in Sciencexpress, 5 May,
Science 1204531) confirms my finding of the absence of climate change in the USA: «A notable exception to the [global] warming pattern is the United States, which produces c. 40 % of global maize and soybean and experienced a slight cooling
over the period... the country with largest overall share of crop production (United States) showed no [adverse] effect due to the lack of significant climate
trends».
«For climate change, it is the long - term
trends that are important; measured
over decades or more, and those long term
trends show that the globe is still, unfortunately, warming,» according to Skeptical
Science.
This study, which was supported by the U.S. National
Science Foundation, is the first to analyze long - term trends in rainfall and surface air temperature over a timescale of nearly an entire century, the study's lead author, Natalie Thomas, a doctoral candidate in atmospheric and oceanic science at the University of Maryland, told Live S
Science Foundation, is the first to analyze long - term
trends in rainfall and surface air temperature
over a timescale of nearly an entire century, the study's lead author, Natalie Thomas, a doctoral candidate in atmospheric and oceanic
science at the University of Maryland, told Live S
science at the University of Maryland, told Live
ScienceScience.
It is here and has been well described by
science / physics (the theory) and supported by evidence such as the obvious
trends in weather
over time and space (decades and the whole globe).
Amplitudes, rates, periodicities and causes of temperature variations in the past 2485 years and future
trends over the central - eastern Tibetan Plateau Chinese
Science Bulletin Oct. 2001 with a forecast - temperature decrease 2006 - 2060... The «
trending up» is a consequence of the phase of the longer «1000 years» and «210 years» cycles, with n assumed maximum
over 2000 - 2020.
«Everyone» may accept there are siting effects, well except for all those people presenting «mainstream climate
science» papers and positions for years as evidence that Watts is full of it as siting has no discernible effects, people like Mosher etc have pointed to temperature record reconstructions done by individuals, often mentioned by Tami's Troupe
over at Open Airy Mind and similar sites, that found siting made no significant difference in the
trends, etc..
Climate impacts research is in its infancy compared to
science on the physical climate, for a number of reasons: attributing cause and effect isn't easy; neither is collecting data
over timescales and regions long and large enough such that it's possible to draw any meaningful
trends from their analysis.
Whereas they once spent more time debating the utility of climate policy than attacking climate
science, that
trend has reversed
over time.
Isn't it time to do a PCA of «climate
science» publications to determine the relative frequencies of papers positive, neutral and negative to IPCC conclusions together with
trends over time?
But there's been an encouraging
trend over the last couple years: Scientists are organizing to push back, and are developing more tools that better relay the import of climate
science.
And it's a straw man because the mainstream
science has been quite clear that 16 years is too short a period to expect to see the warming
trend reliably
over the normal «noise» of natural variability.