Sentences with phrase «than scientists imagined»

Keep in mind that the IEA's «450 Scenario» is intended to limit warming to 2 °C — even though we can plainly see that the warming that has already occurred is sufficient to cause far worse effects than scientists imagined possible only a few years ago, and we have every reason to believe that 2 °C will be truly catastrophic.

We've found that planets around other stars are far more abundant and diverse than scientists imagined just a couple of decades ago.

Yet they've done just that, and the new study suggests that they've been even more successful than scientists imagined.

Not exact matches

«Chernobyl is a more lively place than you might imagine: Nowadays it is repopulated with 500 people, many of them scientists,» wrote Suess after his trip in March 2009.

Scientists, for their part, especially those in the scientific community with burdens against religion, need to understand that the nature of scientific evidence, method and hypotheses and the nature of theological evidence, method, and hypothesis have more in common than they might imagine.

You want to imagine scientists have some kinda «theory of everything», but science is a process that involves more questions, some of which are never answered, than it does «describe everything».

Gore begins with hero scientists like Roger Revelle, who first began to imagine the magnitude of this tragedy, and continues through the latest scientific findings, like last fall's revelation that the ice over Greenland seems to be melting much faster than anyone had predicted — news that carries potentially cataclysmic implications for the rate of sea - level rise.

Viruses have many more tricks for invading cells and replicating themselves than scientists originally imagined.

Amyloid — an abnormal protein whose accumulation in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease — starts accumulating inside neurons of people as young as 20, a much younger age than scientists ever imagined, reports a surprising new Northwestern Medicine study.

Amyloid — an abnormal protein whose accumulation in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease — starts accumulating inside neurons of people as young as 20, a much younger age than scientists ever imagined.

Those scientists who have gotten involved have found that the rewards of their actions have been far greater than they had imagined.

A deluge of genetic data in recent years suggests that interbreeding between species is more widespread than scientists ever imagined.

Scientists have recently captured real - time video showing a glacier purging its own meltwater, and at rates far faster than the experts had imagined.

That means signals in the immediate environment can in some cases override a cell's history, and that nature allows developing cells far more freedom than scientists had imagined.

The paper shows that orchids» sexual deception of insects goes farther than scientists had ever imagined.

What is emerging from the research is that Antarctica is a far more dynamic place than anyone could have imagined a century ago — and that what happens there can have dramatic consequences for millions of people around the world.Now, instead of mapping new geographical discoveries, scientists are seeking to map the inner workings of the strange forces at play in Antarctica, from the biological mechanisms that allow tiny organisms to seemingly awake from the dead, to the little - understood forces that are gnawing away at the continent's ice — with increasing vigor.

The ability to find and study the remains of animals, plants and other organisms that lived millions of years ago is extraordinary, and as technology has improved over the past few decades, scientists have realized that fossils contain more information about the stories of extinct life forms than even Charles Darwin could have imagined.

Pluto is a weirder place than scientists had ever imagined.

Scientists can now identify microbes by their DNA, and they've discovered that microbial communities are far more diverse than anyone ever imagined, including tens or even hundreds of thousands of different microbial species, all interacting with one another.

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.

The study of vitamins has not waned since the early days of research, and the subject of food science has proved to be far more complex than scientists at first imagined.

Whether or not you've seen other movies about scientists who create machines that are smarter than they are, it isn't hard to imagine the possible outcomes.

Of course, I would imagine some of these are quite rare and not many people have actually seen other than scientists and those who study dogs.

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.

I imagine it's possible that governments might come up with stronger statements than the scientists do, but I've not heard of any where this has yet happened.

«So, imagine you are a climate scientist and climate change ideologue, and want to «take down» the single organization (or individual) that is doing the most damage to the movement (i.e. with the end result of thwarting CO2 emissions / stabilization policy)» And why would you ever imagine that this activity was as or more important than working on evidence supporting your position?

(btw - the main problem with the students attitude may not be incompetence but simply the fact that they got so used to trust blindly what tv or experts tell them (especially when they appear in groups) and that they can not imagine that there may be something wrong though even current scandals (VW - Diesel) or older failures (ozon - cfc / ice age scare) or even the fact that thousands of scientists were more than willing to change their ideology and citizenship (+ certain scientific believes) as it happened with «operation paperclip.

A comparison of variations in the cores showed convincingly that climate could change more rapidly than almost any scientist had imagined.

What I have said, or meant to say, is that as far as I can tell, what we have every reason to expect from climate science going forward is study upon study upon study telling us that the AGW problem is worse than scientists thought, and is getting worse more rapidly than they ever imagined possible.

The variations are far, far greater than most scientists imagine.