Sentences with phrase «than scientists thought»

In particular, I felt that natural climate variability might be more important than some scientists thought.

«Climate change may be far worse than scientists thought, causing global temperatures to rise by at least 4 degrees Celsius by 2100, or about 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a new study.

White House science adviser John P. Holdren told the crowd at the State Department that the total disappearance of sea ice in the Arctic «may be far, far closer» than scientists thought just a few years ago.

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.

That's right, the latest climate science (some 10 studies published in just the past 3 years) indicates that the earth's climate sensitivity — that is, how much the global average surface temperature will rise as a result of greenhouse gases emitted from human activities — is some 33 percent less than scientists thought at the time of the last IPCC Assessment, published in 2007.

Climate change may be far worse than scientists thought, causing global temperatures to rise by at least 4 degrees Celsius by 2100, or about 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a new study, published in the journal

The results suggest that radiation could be riskier than scientists thought.

If the troposphere's OH filter is indeed less effective than scientists thought, he says, the west Pacific would provide «a potentially very important avenue for the injection» of pollutants that could damage the ozone layer.

Many of these varieties arose in Europe, suggesting that the continent may have been more of an evolutionary hot spot than scientists thought.

The findings won't change your retirement plans, but could imply that habitable, Earth - like alien worlds are more common than scientists thought.

All of this suggests that circadian clocks can be cued by social roles and that the rhythms can be much more complicated than scientists thought, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. «People seem to think about daily activity patterns as something that's more or less fixed in a species,» Kempenaers says.

«Life on Earth likely started 4.1 billion years ago, much earlier than scientists thought: Evidence that early Earth was not dry and desolate.»

Fisheries are disrupted, but it's happening faster than scientists thought.

Funerary wrappings from a 1920s excavation suggest mummification is older than scientists thought.

If we are lucky, the climate will be less sensitive than scientists think is most likely; if we are unlucky, it will be more sensitive.

What if uncertainty is actually greater than scientists think?

Not exact matches

Or in other words, rather than assume that walking while thinking splits your mental and physical resources, leaving less to devote to each, the scientists actually found «an increase in arousal or activation associated with physical activity... which then can be invested into the cognition,» according to the paper reporting the research.

This is just one example of an organization's using its data to drive decisions and dramatically increasing revenue — even thought it has fewer than 100 people and no data scientists on its payroll.

(In 2011, Cenovus Energy let on that output from two of its in situ oilsands projects could meet the standard, which mandates that crude oil imported to the state have lower wells - to - wheels emissions than the average of all crudes sold in the U.S.) «Yes, I think that's feasible,» says George Hoberg, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia who specializes in environmental conflict.

This changes a lot of what scientists thought they knew about how water bears deal with radiation, as they were previously thought to have proteins that repaired damaged DNA, rather than proteins that halt damage altogether.

When thinking about the Pentagon's technological research, it's more pertinent to wonder what its scientists aren't into than what are they into.

«I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.»

you mention that particles can move faster than the speed of light, but it was an admitted computer error that made these scientists think this.

I just think a lot of us scientists have a different understanding of religion than others.

Like the religious objectors, scientists wishing to separate faith and reason — a minority, but a noisy one — claim that nature, which they often think of as self - subsistent rather than as created, can not be reconciled to God, whose existence they often deny.

2 He suggested that scientists are moving away from a mechanistic model of the universe which has dominated their thinking for more than two hundred years.

The Mind of God by Paul Davies Simon & Schuster, 254 pages, $ 22 «I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.»

Believer or not, I would think that you wouldn't want a scientist to start using god in their explanations any more than you would want your mechanic to invoke demon possession for your car problems.

To say, as Joe says, that «God making evolution appear undirected is similar to the idea that he planted dinosaur fossils and created geological strata to fool us into thinking the earth has been around more than 6,000 years,» is in my view completely to misunderstand what scientists and ordinary people mean when they speak about random processes.

Nothing is impossible with God, He is the beginning and the end, the author and the finisher, Meaning he is the ultimate scientist that is much older than when you think life came into being.

We can fail to realise the quite different aspect the Universe bears when we try to think of it as a process and a progress upwards from primitive beginnings; some scientists consistently ignore this much more important mental process which is synthesis rather than analysis.

I think Carl Jung came up with some good ways of thinking about our cultural images and how they come about — that scientists many hundreds or thousands of years later might have the same sorts of cultural images informing their intuitions, and thus using those images as the basis for a theory of evolution is not so much extraordinary than it is to be expected.

Yet another scientist, or person of education, who thinks they know better than the rest of us, and that we have to follow their thinking or be publicly castigated and humiliated for any belief they didn't proclaim as «good.»

Hey everybody, the scientific survey says that the younger top scientists are more likely to attend religious services than the older ones and the researcher thinks it could be a trend ind icating a future increase in religious top scientists!

Surely you're not so arrogant as to think you understand particle physics and biology better than all the scientists in the world.

By rejecting a rigid either / or type of thinking Darwin was a more cautious scientist than Auguste Comte and a more profound theologian than Henry Morris.

I know there is a substantial amount of evidence suggesting that the Universe is significantly older than this, but I think a lot of that evidence comes from bad science, or from a worldwide conspiracy of scientists who want to deny Leprechauns.

Now I think that in making this distinction Whitehead makes a good and original initial point; because it is the fact that philosophers, by instinct, always think heterogeneously about nature, whereas scientists, equally by instinct, don't, which, more than any one thing, makes the philosophy of science so unreal a subject for actual research scientists.

The fact that this is not the least bit of a curiosity to you and that you rush to judgement by slandering him shows that you are thinking more like a sheep than a scientists.

And Ptolemy thought there were multi circular rings centering around the Earth but Atheist and Scientist give him a pass on this as a noble try for an enlightened thinker which is still further from the truth than the Earth being spherical, circular or whatever.

I don't think we should restrict scientists (within the bounds of common morality) if they want to hypothesize on something other than the commonly taught ideas of science.

Scientists have discovered that the tomb Jesus was buried in may be older than previously thought.

Pluto's weather is more active than we thought With each batch of images that rolls in from New Horizons, scientists learn more about Pluto's characteristics.

As the U.S. launches its first - ever National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month today, scientists say the problem may be even more widespread than was thought.

Two years ago, a team of scientists from two British universities discovered that liquid iron, at the temperatures and pressures found in the outer core, conducts far more heat into the mantle than anyone had thought possible.

This large sample allowed the scientists to derive the most accurate high - mass segment of the IMF to date, and to show that massive stars are much more abundant than previously thought.

This isn't mere sci - fi speculation: In a nondescript warehouse in Webster, Texas, a forward - thinking scientist is developing a prototype rocket engine that could make space travel faster than ever before.

Humans colonized the New World earlier than previously thought — a revelation that is forcing scientists to rethink long - standing ideas about these trailblazers

This repositioning of the polypterids sends shock waves through the fish family tree and suggests that ray - finned fish may have emerged tens of millions of years later than scientists had thought, near the boundary between the Devonian and Carboniferous periods about 360 million years ago.

They provide a crucial view of Earth's earliest evolution of multicellular life, which scientists now think started millions of years earlier than previously thought.