Morano told Reuters: «The global
warming scientists need to feel and hear the public's outrage at their shenanigans like climategate... There is no advocacy of violence or hint that people should threaten them... Public outrage is healthy»
Not exact matches
«I think we all
need to be assured about the credibility and motivation of
scientists onboard the global
warming wagon.»
Still, the prominent climate
scientist James Hansen, who gained fame after sounding the alarm over global
warming in the 1980s, criticized Sanders and said shutting down the plant would increase the
need for more fracked gas.
«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will
need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global
warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned
Scientists.
Scientists increasingly agree that the world may
need negative emissions to prevent catastrophic
warming
With the U.S. Congress set to take up climate change legislation next week, Obama Administration officials today joined with leading climate
scientists to emphasize that global
warming is real, it's going to get worse, and that action is
needed sooner rather than later.
Researchers also
need to «look at what will be irretrievably lost as
warming in the Arctic continues,» said report co-chair Henry Huntington, an Arctic
scientist with the Pew Charitable Trusts in Eagle River, Alaska, on a conference call yesterday.
According to a sample of
scientists contacted by ClimateWire, however, the revised ETS does not much alter the picture of overall planetary
warming or how humanity
needs to respond to it.
The
scientists say these findings reinforce the
need for assessing the risk of a wide - scale collapse of reef ecosystems, especially if global action on climate change fails to limit
warming to 1.5?
Some
scientists say that to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, that
warming needs to stay under 2 °C, or 3.6 °F.
These findings, along with those from Alaska, point to global
warming as the culprit, but additional work over a longer period of time is
needed before
scientists can be certain of that.
Prominent
scientists say researchers and policy makers
need to focus more on adapting to
warming and on controversial geoengineering techniques to limit it
Edenhofer says that the negotiations are falling short of what is
needed to address global
warming and that
scientists are unlikely to change that now.
Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are presently increasing every year at an accelerating rate, and it is extremely unlikely that humanity will collectively do what is necessary to not only stop that growth in CO2 emissions, but reverse it, and then reduce emissions by 80 percent or more within 5 to 10 years, which is what mainstream climate
scientists say is
needed to avoid the worst outcomes of anthropogenic global
warming.
Then, I saw an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal of January 27, 2012, by a group of sixteen
scientists, entitled «No
Need to Panic About Global
Warming.»
Scientists need to explain to the public that while they continue to study the details of anthropogentic global
warming and consequent climate change, that we already know enough to be certain that continued unmitigated
warming will be a disaster for all humanity, and that we urgently
need to phase out all fossil fuel use as quickly as possible.
Of course, journalistic ethics mandates that journalists make at least some effort to report accurately, so I agree that it
needs to be emphasized that the consensus among
scientists is, there is a
warming trend, it appears to be anomalous, and it appears to be caused in part by human factors.
Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy
needs, and dump 70 million tons of global
warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which
scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.
Land
warms up to a shallow depth (ask a gardener, no
need to trust a
scientist).
The fact that Christy and Pielke Sr. are
scientists allows their skeptical positions on rapid GHG driven global
warming to be even harder to deal with when I attempt to inform people that rapid GHG driven global
warming is happening and that humans
need to act quickly to reduce GHG emissions in order to delay and to reduce the catastrophe that lies ahead due to global
warming.
The Wall Street Journal has just published «Check With Climate
Scientists for Views on Climate,» a rebuttal from a long list of climate researchers criticizing last week's much - discussed 16 - author op - ed article titled «No
Need to Panic About Global
Warming.»
* «Wall Street Journal attempts to escalate the climate wars: Teaser blurb says, «Sixteen concerned
scientists: No
need to panic about global
warming.»»
With only 50,000 saigas left, there is an immediate
need for
scientists to determine how the
warming world will affect these critically endangered animals.
At the inception of the Al Gore era of the global
warming issue, Stephen Schneider and the Society of Environmental Journalists spotted the very thing that could stop the issue in its tracks — if the public only saw
scientists contradicting each other over whether man - caused global
warming was a problem, the issue would never advance as a problem in
need of a solution.
If there are indeed 19000
scientists that think global
warming is a «myth», I am certain that there are at LEAST 10 times that many that think it is a fact that we
need to do something about it.
And not even Al Gore consider trails as something that
need to be taken care of even when
scientist agree that trails is worse
warmer than CO2.
They also
need to take an aggressive role in calling out other
scientists who make dire predictions but don't really understand the science of global
warming or the uncertainties.
Global
warming believers
need only to counter dry recitations of skeptic science material with assertions about the numbers of «IPCC
scientists», declare this to be the settled consensus opinion, then claim there is leaked memo evidence proving skeptics are paid industry money to «reposition global
warming as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the public, in other words.
While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global
warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate
scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the
need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.
What particularly interested me was the number of
scientists who had been pushed out of CSIRO, or had left of their own volition, after being tightly censored in what they could say about global
warming, and the emissions reductions that would be
needed to stabilise the climate (the latter point is particularly sensitive since any actual number implies a target and government policy is opposed to targets).
The fact (as amply evidenced in Dr. Curry's post above) that climate
scientists (at least some of them) and climate activists are in a tizzy tells us all we
need to know about how certain, how settled, man - made global
warming is.
In an essay «Why the Global
Warming Skeptics are Wrong» in the New York Review of Books of Feb. 22, 2012, Yale professor William D. Nordhaus attempts to counter the arguments of a group of 16 prominent
scientists who published an essay, «No
Need to Panic about Global
Warming,» in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 27, 2012.
«This study — if you can even call it that — is exactly what the Union of Concerned
Scientists said it
needed to produce five years ago in order to create «wrongdoers» of global
warming.
''... a large and growing number of distinguished
scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic actions on global
warming are
needed.»
Halving our emissions is not good enough: we
need to get down to zero to stay under the 2 C target that
scientists and policy makers have identified as the limit beyond which global
warming becomes dangerous.
It must be lean times at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, because this poverty - stricken argument is so bloated, it
needs four bandwagons to wheel it onto the pages of the New
Scientist: obesity, global
warming, anti-Americanism and anti-capitalism.
HONG KONG (Reuters)- Melting of the Arctic sea ice due to global
warming is diluting surface waters and this is endangering some species of shellfish which
need minerals in the water to form their shells and skeletons,
scientists have found.
In order to avoid the most devastating impacts of global
warming, climate
scientists have warned that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
need to be cut in order to keep the increase in average global temperature to less than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius).
One year later another spat when Schmitt was among 16
scientists signing a Wall Street Journal article: «No
need to panic about global
warming.
Past Speakers Oct 2 - Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin on Fossil Fuel Divestment Oct 3 - Massimo LoBuglio, Environmentalist and Social Entrepreneur Oct 4 - Dr. Radley Horton, Columbia University and co-author of the Obama Administration's Climate Assessment Report Oct 5 - Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers, author of the cutting - edge theory of Arctic Ice Melt and Extreme Weather Oct 9 - Opening Night with climate prophet Dr. James Hansen, NASA
scientist, who told Congress in 1988 that global
warming had begun Oct 10 — Prof. Andrew Revkin, Pace, plays Climate Music post-show Oct 11 - David Levine - Co-founder and CEO of American Sustainable Business Council Oct 12 - Jaimie Cloud & Griffin Cloud Levine - Teaching Children and Youths Sustainability Oct 16 - Prof. Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College, on industry's relationship to science Oct 17 - Marielle Anzelone, Urban ecologist Oct 18 - Dr. Jannette Barth, Why Not To Frack Oct 19 - Ken Levenson, The Passive House Oct 23 - Prof. Ana Baptista, New School for Social Research, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the
need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father Paul Mayer
Thus, to detect a
warming trend in the GMST record that exceeds a ± 2σ noise level,
scientists need at least 27 years of data.
And I'm the know - nothing, but there's a couple of dozen really hotshot
scientists in there, and what we're all agreed with, really, is that we're now 18 years into the global
warming pause, and the sky - is - falling alarmism
needs something else.
... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which includes more than 3,000
scientists from around the world, agrees that climate change is caused by a number of factors, including excess carbon dioxide... The Government of Alberta accepts the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and recognizes the
need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global
warming.
The book's editor, respected polar
scientist Paul Berkman, sees the
need to re-summon the political will shown back then, so as to deal with the ultimate cross-border threat - global
warming.
He said climate targets announced in the runup to the summit were boosting the chances of success — even though they fall short of what
scientists say is
needed to avoid dangerous levels of
warming.
If the countries make good on their pledges, they will dramatically reduce the emissions
scientists link to global
warming, but not enough to hold temperatures to levels
scientists say are
needed to minimize risks of drought, flooding and other catastrophic effects.
Although there are a lot of
scientists who believe that we are
warming the planet, and that we
need to urgently do something about, there are quite a few climate
scientists who don't agree with that.
Recently, RSS satellite
scientists decided they
needed to proactively adjust atmospheric temperatures in order to rid the world of the widely reported global
warming hiatus.
Rutan is one of 16
scientists who appended their signatures to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece titled «No
Need to Panic About Global
Warming.»
In the interview, Figueres discussed the
need for the United States to finally sign on to a global climate treaty, the inevitability of world economies making the transition to a low - carbon future, and the
need for politicians to feel the same urgency as climate
scientists about the threats posed by global
warming.