Sentences with phrase «than scientists predicted»

The figures reveal that carbon dioxide could have a smaller impact on global temperatures than scientists predicted in 2007, opening the possibility greenhouse gas emissions do not have to be radically cut.

It'll say that we can see climate change happening already, sometimes, like in the Arctic, much faster than scientists predicted previously.

With the coal industry's tunnel vision they are likely to lead us to destruction even faster than scientists predict, as recent seismic testing off Tasmanian is reputed to have been part of CCS technology.

Not exact matches

The scientist also predicted that recharging infrastructure would not prove a barrier as it was no more expensive to install than traditional gas stations.

The image showed that the amount of sea ice around the poles is dramatically lower than scientists would have predicted.

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.

But you see, the Met office never predicted a «barbecue summer», firstly because as scientists, the term «barbecue summer» is hardly scientific, but also because they predicted something along the lines of «there's a 60 % chance the summer will be warmer than average», which the media duly turned into «THEREZ GON NA B A BARBEE SUMA LOLZORZ!!!! 111» As someone on the internet said about Simon Jenkins recently, and could now so easily say about Hannan, he doesn't understand what a stochastic process is.

That caused pressures to spike to more than a million times those of Earth's atmosphere and temperatures to rise to thousands of degrees, conditions scientists had predicted may lead to the formation of superionic ice.

Another model predicted that cycle 24 would be weaker than recent cycles, but the present model's accuracy in predicting past events and scientists» deeper understanding of the underlying solar physics may give it an edge, according to David Hathaway, a solar astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

They want resources to be expended on «earthquake preparedness and risk mitigation rather than on prosecuting scientists for failing to do something they can not do yet — predict earthquakes.»

Although precipitation in Nebraska at the northern end of the aquifer will likely increase, scientists predict the southern parts of the region will get even less than the 16 inches of annual precipitation they now receive.

After controlling for the availability of the animals, the scientists calculated that vampire bats were seven times more likely to feed on pigs than chance would predict, the team reports in the current issue of the Journal of Mammalogy.

Their finding that the lunar rocks are enriched in the heavier potassium isotope does not favor the silicate atmosphere model, which predicts lunar rocks will contain less of the heavier isotope than terrestrial rocks, the opposite of what the scientists found.

Scientists predict a bigger than average dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this year.

Given widespread observation of habitat change and individual species declines — and knowing that extinction rates are many times higher than normal — the scientists predicted a drop, over time, in the number of species observed in most of these studies.

As the Danube River reaches record high levels and thousands flee Europe's worst flooding in more than a decade, scientists already are predicting that this deluge may be a portent of things to come.

Scientists have come closer than ever before to creating a laboratory - scale imitation of a black hole that emits Hawking radiation, the particles predicted to escape black holes due to quantum mechanical effects.

As central Italy continues to dig out from a devastating earthquake that killed more than 150 people, the country is abuzz with questions about whether an Italian scientist predicted the deadly event and had his warning silenced by local officials.

With everyone from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Columbia University scientists predicting that this year's hurricane season will be more active than normal, Alex is likely to foreshadow disruptions to come.

That's five times farther than predicted, Michael Summers, a New Horizons scientist at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., said at a news conference.

If it continues to accelerate at the current pace, the virus could sicken more than 10,000 people by 24 September, according to scientists trying to predict the spread of the virus.

More than a month before a game - changing detection of a short gamma - ray burst — a finding announced today — scientists at Oregon State University predicted such a discovery would occur.

The scientists suggested that the expansion of the universe was accelerating, rather than slowing down or beginning to reverse, as many researchers had predicted.

The findings — presented this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union — prompted warnings from scientists that the Arctic Ocean might have hit a «tipping point» that could leave it clear blue by 2012, decades earlier than most had predicted.

Among the implications of the study are that ocean temperatures in this area may be more sensitive to changes in greenhouse gas levels than previously thought and that scientists should be factoring entrainment into their models for predicting future climate change.

Scientists predict the insect will thrive in Florida, where temperatures sometimes dip below freezing, which is only slightly colder than the insect is used to.

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.

If, after multiple measurements with this experimental setup, scientists found that the measurements of the particles were correlated more than predicted by the laws of classical physics, Kaiser says, then the universe as we see it must be based instead on quantum mechanics.

EPFL scientists have now carried out a study on a lithium - containing copper oxide and have found that its electrons are 2.5 times lighter than was predicted by theoretical calculations.

For example, in a simulated world where the atmospheric CO2 levels were double today's values — a scenario many scientists believe likely — models predict that Earth will warm by more than 2 °C.

With standard quantum theory, scientists struggle to predict the exact behavior of anything much more complex than a hydrogen atom.

In early 1998, with less than 10 percent of the job done, scientists were predicting that it would take seven more years.

The consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst - case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models, which don't fully account for the fast breakup of ice sheets and glaciers, NASA scientists said today (Aug. 26) at a press briefing.

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.

Last month, astronomers at the University of Arizona announced that a telescope search had found far more small objects near the Earth than had been predicted (see Science, New Scientist, 31 October).

Tropical Pacific climate variations and their global weather impacts may be predicted much further in advance than previously thought, according to research by an international team of climate scientists from the USA, Australia, and Japan.

New observations made at the Pierre Auger Observatory detect about 30 percent more muons than simulations predict, scientists report October 31 in Physical Review Letters.

But scientists predict that the avian - flu virus could someday give rise to a fast - spreading strain against which people would have less immunity than they do to a typical winter flu.

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.

Fascinatingly, the book from the mid-70s said that there was one climate scientist — Wally Broecker - who predicted that the greenhouse warming was on the verge of overtaking the aerosol cooling effects and that by the year 2000 the planet would be warmer than it had been in 1000 years.

Scientists at the Advanced LIGO facility in Washington have once again detected gravitational waves, marking the third time in 18 months that the facility has observed ripples in the fabric of space - time that were originally predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

Computers are better than humans at predicting which embryos will result in successful IVF, scientists have discovered.

Just this year alone, scientists are predicting more than 140,000 new cases of colorectal cancer will occur, as well as more than 50,000 deaths.

Scientists predict this might be the first generation of Americans in 200 years to have shorter life spans than their parents.

Given that some scientists were predicting an ice free North pole in 2008, I think the thrust of the article correctly points out that maybe the global ice level isn't all that different than it was in 1979.

In Victor's delusion the scientists couldn't think of anything other than Co2 to blame the warming on, so predicted further warming and these predictions were then followed by a failure of further warming after the predictions were made.

In a year full of extremely grim news of observed climate change that is much more rapid and extreme than scientists had predicted, the rapid growth of clean renewable energy technology is definitely good news.

Those statistics make it look as if there's actually more denial of warming going on now than there was then — when scientists were supposedly predicting an ice age!

The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China — and we're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.»

Time is not on our side and we are going to see the consequences of climate change faster than predicted by scientists at the cost of mankind.