Not exact matches
Trump,
by contrast, appears to have no engagement with
science, has implicitly denied the scientific consensus when it comes to global
warming, and he wasn't supported
by the tech industry during the election (the highly ideological, libertarian Thiel notwithstanding).
Meanwhile, the hazards of global
warming predicted
by science came at us like zombies in a horror movie.
The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada
by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global
warming science is «not settled.»
Just as every Easter long - falsified stories about Jesus are
warmed up
by journalists to increase the print - run of their magazines, so similar nonsense is brought forth whenever issues of
science and religion are covered in the media.
Bill Nye has out lived his usefulness
by supporting bad
science in the Global
Warming religion.
A child can have good observation skills that allow for excellent Scientific Method to be applied (Unlike Global
warming science) where experiements are welcome and results shared and results verified
by other scientists.
Despite the «
science is settled» and «consensus» claims of the global -
warming alarmists, the fear of catastrophic consequences from rising temperatures has been driven not so much
by good
science as
by computer models and adroit publicity fed to a compliant media.
If
Science say Irene is caused
by global
warming; & If Religion say it is an «act of God» whether in warning or punishment; & If Humanism say we have a problem - let's find a solution together.
Science questions the answers, e.g. hurricanes are caused
by warm moist ocean air being drawn up into the cooler atmosphere and creating a wind pattern though we are still open to consider other factors that may have influence on this cycle.
Since taking leadership of the country last September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who in 2009 said the
science behind climate change was «crap», has abolished the independent Climate Commission, the body created
by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global
warming.
You can find out the
science behind how the
warmer works
by clicking this link.
Fifth, the right wing websites, who would never be caught dead reading a hostile left wing website and who would never read anything written
by actual scientists (who they consider to either be part of the liberal elite or part of an ill - defined conspiracy), never hear about what poor
science the study they're celebrating actually is, and go right on believing that their anti-global
warming position is so obviously correct that everyone else must either be fools or conspirators.I believe the link pfft posted is step three.
Maverick GOP US Rep. Matt Gaetz, 36, speaking at a meeting of younger members of congress, reports The Hill, said Republicans could appeal to younger voters
by ending «our party's war on
science,» noting that people don't choose to be gay, that the earth is
warming, and that medical marijuana helps some people significantly.......
The
science says that industrial states like New York must get to 100 % clean energy and zero net greenhouse gas emissions
by 2030 if the planet is to avert runaway global
warming and climate catastrophe,» Hawkins said.
A new study
by a team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's
science and knowledge service, sheds light on another, less well - known aspect of how these ecosystems, and forests in particular, can protect our planet against global
warming.
The sagging of these storms is the result of wind pattern changes induced
by the rapidly
warming Arctic, the researchers report online March 13 in
Science.
Those who know more about climate
science, for example, are slightly more likely to accept that global
warming is real and caused
by humans than those who know less on the subject.
Meanwhile,
by the end of this year, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are expected to complete a head - to - toe examination of how the office works and whether it keeps abreast with current
science, and later this year NASA is holding a major workshop that could lead to a redefinition of special regions on Mars, the
warm and wet areas that are off - limits for all but the most sterile of spacecraft.
That's the finding of a pair of related reports released yesterday
by an international group of climate
science and policy luminaries who warned that the window is closing to avert dangerous
warming.
The loss may be accelerating: since 2006,
warm summers have caused levels to rise
by 0.75 millimetres per year, though van den Broeke says we can't be sure whether this trend will continue (
Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.11
Science, DOI: 10.1126 /
science.11
science.1178176).
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied
Science (SEAS) suggest that early Mars may have been
warmed intermittently
by a powerful greenhouse effect.
The
Science study finds that this is most likely because the models underestimate the atmospheric
warming in the Arctic that is induced
by a given carbon - dioxide emission.
Sagarin hopes that the results, appearing in the 26 October issue of
Science, will encourage others to look for environmental responses to global
warming in data sets collected informally
by individuals or communities, like a bird - watcher's records.
NOAA has been the target of congressional scrutiny from Rep. Lamar Smith (R - Texas), who has launched an inquiry into a 2015 paper in
Science prepared
by NOAA researchers that disputed the existence of a recent slowdown in the rate of global
warming.
A new study led
by the University of Maryland's Earth System
Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) suggests that a
warmer Atlantic Ocean could substantially boost the destructive power of a future superstorm like Sandy.
Some reject global
warming science thanks to a misinformation campaign funded
by fossil - fuel companies
For almost 100 years,
Science News has been reporting the latest advances in science, such as this week's cover story by reporter Laurel Hamers, «When bogs burn, the environment takes a hit,» on how the increased frequency of bog fires worldwide is becoming a surprisingly large source of air pollution and climate - warming carbon d
Science News has been reporting the latest advances in
science, such as this week's cover story by reporter Laurel Hamers, «When bogs burn, the environment takes a hit,» on how the increased frequency of bog fires worldwide is becoming a surprisingly large source of air pollution and climate - warming carbon d
science, such as this week's cover story
by reporter Laurel Hamers, «When bogs burn, the environment takes a hit,» on how the increased frequency of bog fires worldwide is becoming a surprisingly large source of air pollution and climate -
warming carbon dioxide.
Warm ocean waters, driven inland
by winds, are undercutting an ice shelf that holds back a vast glacier from sliding into the ocean, researchers report November 1 in
Science Advances.
What happens when the world moves into a
warm, interglacial period isn't certain, but in 2009, a paper published in
Science by researchers found that upwelling in the Southern Ocean increased as the last ice age waned, correlated to a rapid rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
In June 2015, NOAA researchers led
by Thomas Karl published a paper in the journal
Science comparing the new and previous NOAA sea surface temperature datasets, finding that the rate of global
warming since 2000 had been underestimated and there was no so - called «hiatus» in
warming in the first fifteen years of the 21st century.
That's not enough to counteract an overall negative trend for the country, which, if the planet
warmed by 6 °C from preindustrial levels, could suffer damage worth 6 % of its gross domestic product, the team reports today in
Science.
New research published in Geophysical Research Letters
by University of Melbourne scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System
Science shows that a positive IPO would likely produce a sharp acceleration in global
warming over the next decade.
The study, which was funded
by NASA and the National
Science Foundation, found lakes are
warming an average of 0.61 degrees Fahrenheit (0.34 degrees Celsius) each decade.
The reason, says study leader Scott Collins of the National
Science Foundation, seems to be that mowing opens up a «big, thick canopy» formed
by the taller
warm - season grasses, allowing sunlight to get through so that «a lot more species can coexist.»
In my view, the most important omission related directly to
science and technology aspects of the greenhouse gas issue is the failure to point out the tremendous opportunity that exists to limit
warming over the next few decades
by imposing strong, mandatory controls of short - lived
warming agents (so methane, black carbon, and tropospheric ozone).
The 2011 UNEP / WMO assessment and the related article
by Shindell et al. in
Science in 2012 indicate that an aggressive program to limit emissions of these substances could relatively inexpensively cut projected
warming between the present and 2050 in half while also having tremendous co-benefits for health, air quality, and improved energy efficiency, in the US and around the world.
IPCC, an international organization founded in 1988
by the United Nations, is best known for its lengthy, periodic reports assessing climate
science and policy options for curbing global
warming.
In a paper that that was recently published in Nature Geoscience, Weizmann Institute of
Science researchers provide new insight into this phenomenon
by discovering that mid-latitude storms are steered further toward the poles in a
warmer climate.
The rapid northerly shifts in spawning may offer a preview of future conditions if ocean
warming continues, according to the new study published in Global Change Biology
by scientists from the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Oregon State University and NOAA Fisheries» Northwest Fisheries
Science Center.
► In Books et al., Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies panned Behind the Curve:
Science and the Politics of Global
Warming by Joshua P. Howe.
U.S. geoscientists are accustomed to being used as a punching bag
by climate change skeptics in Congress, who challenge the
science of global
warming.
Research led
by the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) at the University of Adelaide, published in
Science Advances, has revealed that it was only when the climate
warmed, long after humans first arrived in Patagonia, did the megafauna suddenly die off around 12,300 years ago.
Results of a new study
by researchers at the Northeast Climate
Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius
warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.
Indeed, Boxer told reporters at a press conference this week that the new push
by foes to challenge on the fundamental facts of global
warming will backfire since it will put «new attention on the
science — and that's good.»
At least two studies published since 2010 — one report from the United Nations Environment Programme in 2011 and a follow - up published in
Science last year — suggested that significantly reducing the emissions of soot and methane could trim human - caused
warming by at least 0.5 °C (0.9 ° F)
by 2050, compared with an increase of about 1 °C if those emissions continued unabated.
Research conducted
by Jin - Soo Kim and Professor Jong - Seong Kug from the Division of Environmental
Science and Engineering at Pohang University of
Science and Technology (POSTECH), in collaboration with Professor Su - Jong Jeong from the School of Environmental
Science and Engineering at South University of
Science and Technology of China, has shown that the
warmer Arctic has triggered cooler winters and springs in North America, which has in turn weakened vegetation growth and lowered carbon uptake capacity in its ecosystems.
The repercussions of the findings, which were published Thursday in
Science, could make it harder to hold
warming to limits set during recent United Nations climate negotiations — but they're being received cautiously
by other climate scientists, with questions raised over the results of the analysis.
Last month, the journal
Science reported that a Swedish company was planning on using the body heat generated
by commuters in a Stockholm train station to
warm a nearby office building.
«I am sure that those global leaders were driven
by a primitive fear that the present ambient
warm weather is somehow caused
by humanity; and that fear — as far as I understand the
science — is equally without foundation,» he said.
More recently, his service on the
science committee was interrupted
by 4 years as the senior Republican on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global
Warming, where he was a reliably skeptical voice on climate
science.