As we wrote: «The clips provide a poignant, historical insight into what
scientists knew about climate change almost four decades ago — and how the world was beginning to react in terms of the resulting geopolitical, technological and societal ramifications.
nice descriptions of what
scientists know about the climate, how they are measuring it and what still remains uncertain.»
Not exact matches
Understanding the
climate is a fantastically complicated problem,
about which I
know only as much as the average
scientist, which is to say: not....
Scientists knew the most important things
about how the
climate could change during the 21st century.
«I think
scientists have seriously underestimated the importance of explaining what we
know about climate change and
climate variability in ways that are understandable to most people,» Lubchenco told reporters in a wide - ranging interview to mark her first anniversary on the job.
Climate change and the resulting loss of sea ice during the summer have opened new hunting territory for the killer whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic, but
scientists knew very little
about these animals until they tapped into the traditional knowledge of Inuit hunters who shared unique firsthand descriptions of orca hunting tactics.
Sime adds that
scientists still
know too little
about what happened in Antarctica during warm
climates similar to ours.
As for the paper's conclusion that removing atmospheric carbon is necessary in order to achieve the 2 ˚C target,
climate scientist Richard Moss of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, says that's a nearly impossible goal «with what we
know about today.»
If
scientists could
know more
about Arctic
climate of the past, they could better understand today's changes, and use that knowledge to improve projections for the future.
Oppenheimer and his co-authors use a technique
known as «structured expert judgment» to put an actual value on the uncertainty that
scientists studying
climate change have
about a particular model's prediction of future events such as sea - level rise.
With no insight into how
climate projections are judged, the public could take away from situations such as the IPCC's uncertain conclusion
about Antarctica in 2007 that the problems of
climate change are inconsequential or that
scientists do not
know enough to justify the effort (and possible expense) of a public - policy response, he said.
Due to the nature of their work,
climate scientists know more than the rest of us — but even they don't always agree
about the ways in which
climate change will affect weather in specific places.
record
climate extremes — indeed, it is only through using proxies that
scientists know about past extremes, he says.
Dr Kevin Anchukaitis, associate professor of paleoclimatology at the University of Arizona, who also wasn't involved in the study, disagrees that proxy records can't record
climate extremes — indeed, it is only through using proxies that
scientists know about past extremes, he says.
«We
know rather little
about how much methane comes from different sources and how these have been changing in response to industrial and agricultural activities or because of
climate events like droughts,» says Hinrich Schaefer, an atmospheric
scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, who collaborates with Petrenko.
The bottom line, according to a group of experts not involved in any of these studies:
Scientists don't
know much
about how sunlight interacts with our planet, and until they understand it, they can't accurately predict any possible effects of human activity on
climate change.
How
about this observation: PhDs in science, and working
climate scientist here on RC either do not
know about it either and / or if they do
know they DO NOT report / comment ACCURATELY nor FULLY on what Hansen (and the dozens of his co-author
climate scientists) have been saying for YEARS NOW in his published peer - reviewed papers?
As a professional airline pilot, I wonder how he'd react if a
climate scientist without so much as a private pilot's license were to barge into the cockpit during a landing approach and shove Simon aside proclaiming «I
know more
about flying than you, I'm going to land this airplane with its 300 passengers!»?
I remember hearing one Oceanographer /
Climate scientist declare that the Atlantic THC could have already «stopped» and we wouldn't
know about it yet, such were the paucity of relevant observations.
If you don't
know much
about climate science, or
about the details of the controversy over the «hockey stick,» then A. W. Montford's book The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science might persuade you that not only the hockey stick, but all of modern
climate science, is a fraud perpetrated by a massive conspiracy of
climate scientists and politicians, in order to guarantee an unending supply of research funding and political power.
I think
climate scientists know about these, but can't really make definitive claims, so they don't get into peer - reviewed articles much... or else other
scientists might attack them with ferocity (even substracting denialists from the equation here).
I'm not a
climate scientist nor do I
know much
about mitigation, but it seems to me that if this slowdown is the result of heat moving around within the system and not reduced intake from the sun, even if it were possible to replicate it it wouldn't do any good in the long run.
I think that the vast majority of lay readers who read the headlines and the text of stories on
climate sensitivity do not
know this and they simply presume that the
scientists concerned are talking
about their absolute best estimates of the possible temperature increases which may be faced.
The thing that constantly amazes me
about Americans and
climate change is the assumption of so many non-
climate scientists that they
know the science better than the experts... that there is some obvious thing none of the professionals have even thought of.
It looks to me like the usual rhetoric is a weak defense for the failure of responsibility of
climate scientists, the IPCC etc, the elected politicians hold as a collective to of what they
knew, when they new it, and what they did
about it.
It's a superb examination of what's
known, and unknown,
about what James Hansen, Susan Solomon and other
climate scientists have described as a pause or hiatus in warming.
-LSB-...] everyone that the best - selling author who has become a hero to Deniers — even bringing his trash talk against U.S.
climate scientists to a Senate hearing — doesn't seem to
know the first thing
about global warming -LSB-...]
However one may feel, think, or
know about AGW, taking a stated group (s) to task is not to take everyone such would be included by any reasonable definition of «mainstream science», unless this is code for IPCC and
climate scientists who make up only a small part of what is considered «mainstream science».
One way to thread the needle is for
climate scientists to speak out loudly and in detail
about the areas we
know something
about —
climate change and its consequences — but then speak with a greater degree of generality when coming to prescriptions
about what exactly we should do.
What we
know about global warming comes from thousands of
scientists pouring over countless data sets, conducting experiments to figure out how the
climate works and scrutinizing every aspect of each other's work.
Another fact: The idea that a layman somehow
knows something
about climate trends that literally thousands of
climate scientists who have spent their careers working with the subject (and who have published their results in peer - reviewed journals and at scientific conferences) is ludicrous and the height of arrogance.
Wow, it is quite embarrassing of you to come on a site hosted by peer - reviewed (you
know, one of the foundations of all science)
climate scientists when you have absolutely no clue
about the scientific method.
And as long as businessmen with a vested interest (Exxon / Mobil, Peabody Coal, power companies), and economists with a political bias (CEI, Heartland, Cato, Wall Street), and lawyers (Bachmann, Cornyn, Cantor) believe that they
know more
about global warming than
climate scientists, nothing will get done to combat global warming.
Andy, think long and hard
about what you've said here and ask yourself how
climate scientists can avoid to appear to be engaged in nefarious activities when subjected to quote - mining, selective publication of stolen e-mails, outright misrepresentation of public statements, organized FOI flooding meant to overwhelm a departments resources to respond (while asking for stuff the university in question has
no right to release), etc etc..
Maybe some other
scientists that
know a lot
about climate & earth sciences?
Exxon spokesman Ken Cohen either misunderstood or misrepresented the chart pictured above as he pushed back against an InsideClimate News investigation into what Exxon's own
scientists knew about the emerging risks of
climate change, and when they
knew it.
Scientists don't
know enough
about climate change, particularly how it will vary locally.
InsideClimate News (ICN) has insisted over and over that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) and the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF), which have been bankrolling the entire #ExxonKnew campaign, have absolutely no editorial authority over the stories they publish, including the series they released last year proclaiming that Exxon «
knew»
about climate change in the 1970s before
climate scientists even understood the data.
I'm not a
climate scientist, and I don't understand why you're not able to answer my questions unless I state my position on
climate - science issues
about which I don't
know very much.
We might all speculate that communication
about climate change is «tricky,» but as you well
know, at least in the U.S., there is a strong association between political identifications and interpretations of / reactions to what
climate scientists say.
Because Monsanto
knows how farmers really feel
about climate scientists, it also recently acquired a firm that specializes in synthesizing government and university
climate - science data for the purpose of issuing made - to - order forecasts tailored to users» locations.
the most comprehensive synthesis of what
climate scientists know about how we're currently affecting the Earth's
climate.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change has released the most comprehensive synthesis of what climate scientists know about how we're currently affecting the Earth's c
Climate Change has released the most comprehensive synthesis of what
climate scientists know about how we're currently affecting the Earth's c
climate scientists know about how we're currently affecting the Earth's
climateclimate.
Exxon spokesman Ken Cohen either misunderstood or misrepresented his selected chart the other day as he pushed back against an InsideClimate News investigation into what Exxon's own
scientists knew about the emerging risks of
climate change, and when they
knew it.
because water regulates the
climate —
no»
climate scientist» talks
about» saving stormwater on dry lands to improve
climate» = proof that they are not concerned
about climate.
«you do not
know anything
about the science or lack of it exhibited by the»
Climate Scientists» but just took their word and made a post here
about Steve.
I'll tell you someone else who you can be sure
knows what farmers really think
about climate scientists: their representatives in Congress.
Even though this series of blog posts concerns a prominent complaint filed in 2007 against the UK Channel Four Television Corporation video «The Great Global Warming Swindle,» my objective is to show how a thorough analysis of any given accusation
about skeptic
climate scientists being «paid industry money to lie» shatters the accusation to bits
no matter where the hammer strikes.
* There is too much conflicting evidence
about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change
and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - 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to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateClimate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateClimate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateClimate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateClimate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change
Apparently the run of
climate scientists simply don't read or
know about important literature in their own field.