Sentences with phrase «warming than climate scientists»

And as long as businessmen with a vested interest (Exxon / Mobil, Peabody Coal, power companies), and economists with a political bias (CEI, Heartland, Cato, Wall Street), and lawyers (Bachmann, Cornyn, Cantor) believe that they know more about global warming than climate scientists, nothing will get done to combat global warming.

Not exact matches

Rating agencies behaved no differently than climate - change scientists who base their doomsday forecasts of man - made global warming on extrapolation of historical data.

While more than 95 percent of the world's climate scientists attribute global warming to human causes, only about half of U.S. adults agree.

Deforestation is likely to warm the climate even more than originally thought, scientists warn.

But those early temperatures are now a tool unto themselves, helping scientists tease out when humans might have started to warm Earth's climate — and suggesting that the warming may be greater than first thought.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

Hansen told reporters at a press conference yesterday that he hoped the paper — to be published online this week — would influence global climate talks this December in Paris and encourage negotiators to reconsider their goal of keeping warming to less than 2 °C above preindustrial levels, a laudable but insufficient target, some scientists say.

The results — along with a recent Dartmouth - led study that found air temperature also likely influenced the fluctuating size of South America's Quelccaya Ice Cap over the past millennium — support many scientists» suspicions that today's tropical glaciers are rapidly shrinking primarily because of a warming climate rather than declining snowfall or other factors.

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.

They announced that although the climate system was so complex that scientists would never reach complete certainty, it was much more likely than not that our civilization faced severe global warming.

«What this study addresses is what's better described as a false pause, or slowdown,» rather than a hiatus in warming, says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Global warming has been going on for so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average in 1985 in a shift that is altering perceptions of a «normal» climate, scientists said.

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.

That is allowing weather forecasters to push their predictions further into the future than ever before, while climate scientists are exploring how the MJO will behave in a warmer world.

According to some climate scientists, the cold in places like Florida actually could be a sign of warming, rather than an argument against the phenomenon.

«Northeast US temperatures are decades ahead of global average: Climate scientists say Northeast will warm sooner than most of US.»

Moreover, the impacts of that warming, including sea level rise, drought, floods and other extreme weather, could hit earlier and harder than many models project, said study co-author John Fasullo, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

The hockey stick - shape temperature plot that shows modern climate considerably warmer than past climate has been verified by many scientists using different methodologies (PCA, CPS, EIV, isotopic analysis, & direct T measurements).

But now we've got significantly more CO2 in the atmosphere than there was even during the warm periods, and climate scientists have some hints that we're actually at the highest levels in perhaps 15 million years.

I'm not even an amateur climate scientist, but my logic tells me that if clouds have a stronger negative feedback in the Arctic, and I know (from news) the Arctic is warming faster than other areas, then it seems «forcing GHGs» (CO2, etc) may have a strong sensitivity than suggested, but this is suppressed by the cloud effect.

«I think that it is more likely than not that we will see a Top 10 warm year for the contiguous United States,» Jake Crouch, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate scientist, said in an email.

Fascinatingly, the book from the mid-70s said that there was one climate scientist — Wally Broecker - who predicted that the greenhouse warming was on the verge of overtaking the aerosol cooling effects and that by the year 2000 the planet would be warmer than it had been in 1000 years.

A new paper published in the Journal of Climate reveals that the lower part of the Earth's atmosphere has warmed much faster since 1979 than scientists relying on satellite data had previously thought.

published in the Journal of Climate reveals that the lower part of the Earth's atmosphere has warmed much faster since 1979 than scientists relying on satellite data had previously thought.

NASA Warming Scientist Hansen Blasts Obama's «Counterfeit» Climate Bill — Calls it «a monstrous absurdity... less than worthless!»

In other words, with more nitrogen available, plant life might be able to absorb more CO2 than climate scientists have been estimating, which means the planet won't warm as much, despite mankind's pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.

«It has been an unusually mild winter,» said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. «The Northeast region had their fifth warmest December on record, and January has been warmer than average,» he told OurAmazingPlanet.

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate - change issues.

The probe by this team takes the timeline on Exxon's focus on climate change several years earlier than a previous investigation of oil industry assessments of global warming by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

I also agree with Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University, who said the basics were clear long ago and that the response to global warming is more about ethics and economics than data:

I'm no more a climate scientist than Lomborg, but even I begin to recognize his creative use of statistics — for example, not mentioning well - established severe weather increases, or creating a false dilemma between spending to combat global warming and spending to combat malaria.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said that if the buildup of greenhouse gases and its consequences pushed global temperatures 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today — well below the upper temperature range that scientists project could occur from global warming — Earth's population would be devastated.

Steve McIntyre: «If you are not a climate scientist (or a realclimate reader), you would almost certainly believe, from your own experience, that cities are warmer than the surrounding countryside From that, itâ s easy to conclude that as cities become bigger and as towns become cities and villages become towns, that there is a widespread impact on urban records from changes in landscape, which have to be considered before you can back out what portion is due to increased GHG.

But while plenty of other climate scientists hold firm to the idea that the full range of possible outcomes, including a disruptively dangerous warming of more than 4.5 degrees C. (8 degrees F.), remain in play, it's getting harder to see why the high - end projections are given much weight.

But the newly obtained documents show that Dr. Carlin's highly skeptical views on global warming, which have been known for more than a decade within the small unit where he works, have been repeatedly challenged by scientists inside and outside the E.P.A.; that he holds a doctorate in economics, not in atmospheric science or climatology; that he has never been assigned to work on climate change; and that his comments on the endangerment finding were a product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship, as he acknowledged Thursday in an interview.

If, for example, scientists had somehow underestimated the climate change between Medieval times and the Little Ice Age, or other natural climate changes, without corresponding errors in the estimated size of the causes of the changes, that would suggest stronger amplifying feedbacks and larger future warming from rising greenhouse gases than originally estimated.

The past two weeks have not been good for the Arctic and climate change: First, scientists discover that permafrost holds more greenhouse gases than we thought; Second, sea ice melt - off is at its second greatest amount ever and could set a new record by summer's end; Third, new research confirms that the past decade has indeed been the warmest since the Romans occupied Britain, and the trend is for more warming.

Every legitimate climate scientist knows that the MWP had to be more than it was previously depicted, but whether it is warmer than right now is I believe up for serious debate.

In my previous blog post, I showed how one anonymous op - ed writer tried to casually drop the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase into his piece to insinuate skeptic climate scientists received illicit industry money in exchange for the promise to lie to the public.

More than 650 scientists from around the world dispute the claims made by the United Nations and former Vice President Al Gore about global warming, saying that science does not support that climate change is a manmade phenomenon, according to a posting on the Senate environmental committee's press blog.

Where do you believe that Dr. Curry implies agreement that leading climate scientists are incompetent and should not be working, and that there is a cover - up and that the current warming is caused by an iron sun rather than increased CO2 from human activity?

The letter portends to offer facts about «climate change deniers, but readers can't even get further than the first paragraph without running into an unsupportable talking point about skeptic climate scientists saying global warming «isn't happening / happening, but for natural reasons / happening and caused by humans, but it's not so bad.»

Controversy arose after various allegations were made including that climate scientists colluded to withhold scientific evidence and manipulated data to make the case for global warming appear stronger than it is.

And wouldn't those talking points pack a fatal punch with reporters if you could say a Pulitzer winning investigative reporter discovered a leaked coal industry memo which was proof for skeptic climate scientists being paid to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»

There appears to be plenty of evidence for some places being warmer than today in the MWP, and whilst most studies say that globally it wasn't warmer it seems that scientists still want more data to be sure (and if it was warmer, that might suggest higher climate sensitivity).

In my prior piece about the spread of Ross Gelbspan's accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid by the fossil fuel industry to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact ``, I barely skimmed the surface of the sheer number of repetitions of it.

Climate change skeptics, most of whom are not scientists, are touting the study, saying it blasts gaping holes in global warming theory and shows that future warming will be less than feared.

Roy Spencer is one of the less than 3 % of climate scientists whose research suggests that humans are playing a relatively minimal role in global warming.