FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Detailed new research into when global warming will start to have a serious effect on local climates has produced the shock finding that it could happen much
sooner than scientists have previously predicted London, 9 October — Catastrophic climate change may begin sooner than anyone expected --- and the first place to feel the heat could be a small but important city in Indonesia.
But now something dramatic is happening at one of the poles, and much
sooner than scientists had (until recently) predicted.
If the trend continues, ice sheets could become the dominant contributor to sea level rise
sooner than scientists had predicted, concludes the research, which will be published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
That type of fine - grained control is also revealing that at least some tumors may begin releasing cells
sooner than scientists had realized.
Not exact matches
Science may never meet God, but the intelligent
scientists are the ones who will find the truth
sooner than others.
And New
Scientist has learned it could be ready
sooner than anyone expected — perhaps even by the end of next year.
BUT: Although
scientists initially regarded the decision as better
than expected, they
soon had concerns.
«The delay in the emergence of the benefits also suggest that we should start
sooner rather
than later to think seriously about mitigation,» said paper author Claudia Tebaldi, a research
scientist at Climate Central and a visiting
scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
In reality, «substantially more
scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities
than can find attractive career openings in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects
than a high - quality training program for
soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continued.
Soon afterward, the European Commission (EC) issued a press release pointing out that European countries collectively produce proportionally more
scientists than the United States, but that
scientists constitute a much smaller proportion of the working population.
Scientists may have spotted Antarctica's ozone hole on the road to recovery, at least a decade
sooner than they thought healing would be noticeable.
Another
scientist named Tenure - Track Asst Prof wrote that she (or he) needs a funding decision
sooner than June to remain in a tenure track position: «[T] he consequences of this decision could very well be career - ending for those of us who are in need of external funding for re-appointment.»
With the U.S. Congress set to take up climate change legislation next week, Obama Administration officials today joined with leading climate
scientists to emphasize that global warming is real, it's going to get worse, and that action is needed
sooner rather
than later.
A nanomachine is a tiny device of less
than a micron (one millionth of a meter, or about four one - hundred - thousandths of an inch) in size that
scientists hope will
soon be able to carry out a variety of medical and research functions, such as the targeted delivery of anticancer drugs, more efficiently and quickly
than is possible today.
«Northeast US temperatures are decades ahead of global average: Climate
scientists say Northeast will warm
sooner than most of US.»
In October or
soon after, 14 years after the project's initial approval and 10 years after construction began, a beam will be introduced traveling in the opposite direction, and ATLAS will tell
scientists what happens when the protons collide at 7 TeV, a much higher energy
than any manmade particle collision in history.
By accurately measuring CO2, which escapes magma earlier
than SO2,
scientists could predict eruptions
sooner, helping to implement timely evacuations for nearby populations — but measuring CO2 is a challenge.
The
sooner this message of collaboration is understood by
scientists and the
sooner they get used to thinking ahead as partners rather
than rivals, the quicker our understanding of nature will progress.
The
scientists soon determined that mice that lack IL - 17A activity healed wounds on their skin much more slowly
than normal — very much like mice that lack DETCs.
That is partly because
soon after the tsunami struck, disaster - victim identification teams raced to Thailand from more
than two dozen countries and worked independently from Thai
scientists to identify foreigners.
Scientists are predicting that genomics — the field of sequencing human DNA — will
soon take the lead as the biggest data beast in the world, eventually creating more digital information
than astronomy, particle physics and even popular Internet sites like YouTube.
It's simply this: climate disruption has arrived much
sooner than anyone, including the gloomiest
scientists, and the doomiest doomers thought possible.
For now, he is distinctive for his demonstrable urge to explore life's deepest mysteries — a shared trait of
scientists and artists — and his hunch that these mysteries might,
sooner rather
than later, be revealed by human endeavor.
In a brilliant — and
soon - to - be published — article in the American Political Science Review, University of Chicago political
scientists William Howell and Christopher Berry show conclusively that presidents hand out money to states loyal to their party more often
than otherwise, all other things being equal.
I agree that targeting 2C rather
than nothing is a start — but is it a start in the right direction or will we be confronted with a whole new set of excuses ranging from «we don't have to do anything because of the «current» trend» or «we'll put up an aerosol emission program as
soon as 1.9 C have been reached» or «our
scientists say we'll never reach the 2C anyway and we don't care what your
scientists say» or other ideas like that?
By Gene J. Koprowski Contrary to the commonly held scientific conclusion that the Earth is getting warmer, a
scientist who has written more
than 150 peer - reviewed papers has unveiled evidence for his prediction that global cooling is coming
soon.
As the chart makes clear, if we want a high probability of staying below the 2 °C (3.6 °F) threshold, beyond which
scientists project impacts rapidly shift from dangerous to catastrophic, we will have to adopt policies that are considerably more ambitious
than Paris — and we need to do that as
soon as possible.
«A global deterioration of the climate, by order of magnitude larger
than any hitherto experienced by civilised mankind, is a very real possibility and indeed may be due very
soon,» read a letter to President Nixon in 1972 from two
scientists reporting the views of 42 «top» colleagues.
Here, rather
than having a written - out guest post, Dr
Soon suggested I could place two videos featuring him, followed by a specific comment question he wants to pose to his accusers, along with a statement from a fellow skeptic
scientist, Dr Richard Lindzen.
Scientists, he wrote, would
sooner be accused of fiddling while Rome burns
than of crying wolf.
That problem will not be solved
soon enough to avert significant climate change unless the Earth system is a lot less prone to climate change
than most
scientists think.
Scientists will
soon conclude studies that show NG even more harmful
than coal, and the EPA will use said studies to regulate it into oblivion.
No
sooner had
scientists shown that the Antarctic really had been warming up a bit, actually, probably due to climate change and everything,
than it was proved that Emperor penguins are more screwed even
than the polar bears:
One
scientist, paleoclimatologist William Ruddiman, even argued that the rise of human agriculture had already produced enough greenhouse gases to counteract the gradual cooling that should have come during the past several thousand years; every previous cycle had begun a steady cooling
soon after its peak, rather
than leveling off as ours had done.
For
scientists, an asymmetric reward structure means that it is better to be a little late in what proves to be an important discovery
than to publish too
soon and be proved wrong.
Thus, focusing on anything
sooner than 2050 or so is blatant disregard for what the
scientists are telling us.
Greenland may be on its way to earning its namesake far
sooner than expected: recent research conducted by
scientists at NASA indicates that the island nation experienced more days of melting snow in 2006
than it has on average.
''
Soon, like most research
scientists, has in the past accepted money from sources other
than our beneficent government (and what makes government money pure?)
But would you really have clicked on an article advising that
scientists have just published an analysis indicating that «Climate change will reduce crop yields
sooner than we thought»?
Groundwater depletion will
soon be as important a factor in contributing to sea - level rise as the melting of glaciers other
than those in Greenland and Antarctica,
scientists say.