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Environmentalists have long scrutinized Exxon Mobil for giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science» despite understanding the link between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels as early as the 1970s, according to the New York Times.

It's a science - driven company focused on solving problems like world hunger and global warming with, for instance, drought - resistance seeds, which have been gaining market share from competitors but had to be developed over years.

There were no test tubes or Bunsen burners, but a courtroom turned into a science classroom Wednesday for a U.S. judge considering lawsuits that accuse big oil companies of lying about the role of fossil fuels in the Earth's warming environment.

You likely deny evolution and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.

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.

You likely deny global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron rolling around a floor speaking in tongues is enough to convince you he is channeling a spirit.

My grandfather was a minister and educator in the church for over 70 years... but he always believed in science, in global warming, in the work of educated men and women, and understood the Bible better than any man.

Research shows that if parents can have a warm, cooperative, co-parenting relationship, then that's going to be positive for the child's development,» says Sarah Schoppe - Sullivan, an associate professor in the Ohio State University department of human sciences.

Bummis recently had this article as well for some of the science behind the warm prerinse: http://blog.bummis.com/2011/10/laundry-science.html#!/2011/10/laundry-science.html

Even if Collins is not in immediate jeopardy of losing his House seat, said Gerald Benjamin, a longtime professor of political science at State University of New York at New Paltz, his warm embrace of Trump is ideological anathema for a candidate with statewide ambitions.

«I pointed out the planet has existed for four billion years,» Yeo said earlier in our interview, as he outlined his rationale on the science underpinning global warming.

On March 2, in response to a call for information pertaining to the science of evolution and global warming, AAAS CEO Alan Leshner wrote two Tennessee State Representatives a letter on the subjects.

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.

For Republicans, the more knowledge they have about climate science the less likely they are to accept the theory of anthropogenic global warming (whereas Democrats» confidence goes up).

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.

In a state famous for putting evolution on trial in the 20th century, teachers will now be able to avoid instructing students on the science behind global warming

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.

«Moreover, the latest developments in climate science lend greater urgency to the case for action: Effects on natural systems are already being observed and recent findings concerning the potential scope and magnitude of damages from future warming are increasingly worrisome,» the report says.

How do science deniers manage to convince themselves that the evidence for global warming, evolution and vaccine safety is so much fake news?

«Our findings mean that nature is not as efficient in slowing global warming as we previously thought,» said Kees Jan van Groenigen, research fellow at the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at NAU and lead author of the study.

When it comes to major environmental problems such as global warming, he believes that our ability to cope depends on a broad - based educational push for earth sciences, of the kind we already have for biology and public health.

The basic physics of climate change have been known for more than a century, but it is in recent decades that the fundamental science of global warming has solidified

In another session organized for the fellows, AAAS Deputy Chief Communications Officer Tiffany Lohwater stressed the importance of tone in science communication, recommending to fellows that they be «warm, genuine, and competent.»

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 dScience 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 dscience, 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.

«Using more recent data and better analysis methods we have been able to re-examine the global weather balloon network, known as radiosondes, and have found clear indications of warming in the upper troposphere,» said lead author ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Chief Investigator Prof Steve Sherwood.

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

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.

The new study measured how four sixth - grade science textbooks adopted for use in California frame the subject of global warming.

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.

Cooney himself made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.

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.

Glacier seismology is a relatively new area of science, but interest has been growing in the possibilities for detecting the extent of global warming's impact in the vibrations it causes beneath the Earth's surface.

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.

«We expect the first heavy precipitation events with a clear global warming signal will appear during winters in Russia, Canada and northern Europe over the next 10 - 30 years,» said co-author Dr Ed Hawkins from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading, UK.

«We examined average and extreme temperatures because they were always projected to be the measure that is most sensitive to global warming,» said lead author from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Dr Andrew King.

The lawmaker skipped any discussion about the science behind warming and jumped directly to action, supplanting an important debate for skeptical conservatives.

Here in the States we use Fahrenheit for weather, Celsius for science, Fahrenheit for body temperature, and Celsius — often — in our discussions of global warming.

► 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.

As the world warms, many species will once again be forced to flee, says Scott Loarie, a biogeographer at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who coauthored the 2009 study.

«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

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.

In climate science, for example, where we don't need an elaborate climate model to understand the basic physics and chemistry of greenhouse gases, so at some level the fact that increased CO2 warms the planet is a consequence of very basic physics and chemistry.

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.

Three years ago, for example, Texas revised its science teaching standards to require that students «analyse and evaluate different views on the existence of global warming».

If science can nail climate change as a probable cause of deadly weather events, like the heatwave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003, then global warming becomes a matter for product liability law.

Defra science chief is among the prominent scientists calling for reforms at IPCC; NASA veteran climate scientist Andrew Lacis says IPCC is right to highlight anthropogenic warming but is too political about it.

«This quantitative attribution of human and natural climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our confidence in the understanding of the causes of past changes as well as for projections of future changes under further greenhouse warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.

In a paper published in Science today, researchers from ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James Cook University (JCU) and the University of Queensland (UQ), as well as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) investigated what this warming pattern means for GBR coral bleaching events into the future.

But the win was also a hopeful sign for scientists who have watched from the sidelines in disbelief as politicians cut science funding and distorted research on evolution, stem cells and global warming.