Sentences with phrase «threats other climate scientists»

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On the one hand there was a quest by scientists to find the world's funniest joke, and on the other, dire warnings about the dangers of mobile phones, an increase in the incidence of new variant CJD, climate change, and cosmic threats to Earth in the shape of asteroids and gamma ray bursts.

He and other report authors noted that scientists trying to face threats such as global climate change and the preservation of biodiversity face unwanted input from special interest groups and political impedance, and countries that might be unequally affected by these threats have vastly different ideas of how to handle them.

Once the research team finishes plugging data from other endangered species into his model, Colwell hopes to work out a definitive count that will allow scientists to accurately assess threats from invasive species, habitat conversion, and climate change.

Coastal regions under threat from climate change and sea - level rise need to tackle the more immediate threats of human - led and other non-climatic changes, according to a team of international scientists.

If the people who threat and harass climate scientists were to have their way, I fear we would be heading for a world resembling the other side of the iron curtain of 1989.

Mike Roddy, I understand, although I don't share, your «bring it on» attitude regarding the Republican threat to investigate Michael Mann and other climate scientists.

James Hansen, former head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and known as the «father of global warming,» speaks at a climate change protest in Washington D.C. Hansen, together with 16 other scientists, will publish a paper this week claiming that the threat of global warming is far greater than anyone has suspected.

This latter article contains a representative statement of Kenneth Green's position on climate change as of 2003: «But other scientists, in both Canada and the United States, have shown that the threat of global warming is overstated by the United Nations (McKitrick and Essex, 2002).

Some of the meteorological threats, like extreme downpours and heat waves, are sure to worsen in a human - heated climate, with warming from elevated levels of heat - trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases seen by many climate scientists as already contributing to the severity of rains like those over Texas in recent days and Louisiana last year.

The study cites Spencer and Bast along with other «manufacturers of doubt,» whose work to undermine the public understanding of this consensus has been stunningly successful — only 12 percent of Americans, their previous work found, know that more than 90 percent of scientists agree on this — and has resulted in «cascading effects on public understanding that climate change is happening, human caused, a serious threat, and in turn, support for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.»

Emails contained «veiled threats against my wife,» and other «tangible threats,» Emanuel, a highly - regarded atmospheric scientist and director of M.I.T.'s Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate program, said in an interview.

Next up, science will take the stand: Climate scientists and other experts will testify about the serious threat posed by global warming.