Sentences with phrase «uncertainty in climate science»

The findings have generated vigorous international debate about an issue that remains a key area of uncertainty in climate science.
But as the world warms they will shrink and temperatures will rise ever higher, according to a study that could help to resolve one of the biggest uncertainties in climate science.
First, while it is important to understand the remaining uncertainties in climate science, it is critical to also realize how much we do understand about the climate.
Where do you come down on the whole subject of uncertainty in the climate science?
«Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science...»
According to this «Global Climate Science Communications Action Plan,» first revealed by my colleague John Cushman at the New York Times, «Victory will be achieved when uncertainties in climate science become part of the conventional wisdom» for «average citizens» and «the media» (Cushman 1998).
By 1994, Shell was emphasizing uncertainties in climate science in an updated internal document titled «The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect.»
This post relates to a poster at the American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco in December 2012 that summarizes our work on uncertainty in climate science.
Not one to be constrained by mere facts or observable reality, he has launched a sally against Andy Revkin for reporting the shocking news that past industry disinformation campaigns were not sincere explorations of the true uncertainties in climate science.
Fred Pearce, the British science writer and author, has written a valuable summary of the implications of unyielding, and sometimes expanding, uncertainty in climate science for Yale Environment 360.
The White House's sceptical stance lost credibility last year when it emerged that Phil Cooney, chief of staff at the Council on Environmental Quality, had been editing scientific reports to emphasise uncertainties in climate science.
Curry believes humans are having an impact on the climate, but she's become known for pointing out the massive uncertainties in climate science and the failures of most climate models to predict global warming and reproduce observed temperatures.
Then there was the particularly interesting session on Construing Uncertainty in Climate Science (maybe that one was particularly interesting because I chaired it).
Starting with the negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty in 1997, it has promoted the idea that lingering uncertainties in climate science justify delaying restrictions on emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases.
Industry senior leadership understands uncertainties in climate science, making them stronger ambassadors to those who shape climate policy
It was a small fraction of Exxon Research's annual $ 300 million budget, but the question the scientists tackled was one of the biggest uncertainties in climate science: how quickly could the deep oceans absorb atmospheric CO2?
It's interesting that you and others here have gone the ad hominem route simply because I call for transparency and honesty about uncertainties in climate science.
Aerosols are one of the greatest sources of uncertainty in climate science.
It said «victory» would be «achieved» when industry leaders, the media and average citizens «understand» uncertainties in climate science, and when recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the «conventional wisdom.»
Having taken us to task for somehow not properly handling the uncertainties in climate science — an error we did not commit, as I document above — he then proceeds to offer a horrifically misleading summary of what the IPCC actually found about the achievability and cost of meeting the 2 degree goal.
James Murdoch, the young scion of the giant News Corporation media empire, has an op - ed article for The Washington Post aimed at «conservation - minded conservatives,» spelling out the many reasons to propel an energy transformation in the United States through a declining cap on carbon dioxide emissions, despite the uncertainties in climate science.
Sashka's main goal seems to be convincing us about the uncertainty in climate science, then to use this uncertainty to argue against regulatory action.
Paul Voosen, one of the most talented journalists probing human - driven climate change and related energy issues, has written an award - worthy two - part report for Greenwire on one of the most enduring sources of uncertainty in climate science — how the complicated response of clouds in a warming world limits understanding of how hot it could get from a given rise in greenhouse gas concentrations:
«Victory will be achieved when... average citizens «understand» (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the «conventional wisdom».»
FAR revealed, for example, that on the most important indicator of uncertainty in climate science — the likely range of warming for a given increase in carbon dioxide emissions — progress was actually retrograde.
In a blog post about his study, Daniel Swain writes, «For quite some time, the biggest uncertainty in climate science has been how we, as a society, choose to respond to this growing global threat.
Average citizens «understand» (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the «conventional wisdom»
As the program discussed, a similar secondary strategy has involved exaggerating the uncertainties in climate science.
«Victory will be achieved when average citizens «understand» (recognize) uncertainties in climate science»
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