Sentences with phrase «warming that scientists say»

The summary says that in the near term, at levels of warming that scientists say we are already committed to, there is a very high risk to Arctic sea ice and coral reefs.

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But the advising scientists» critique stands to reignite the debate over how to regulate a practice that critics say could contaminate water supplies and exacerbate global warming.

Sumner said Trump is too quick to dismiss the evidence of global warming compiled by climate scientists.

Trump has falsely called climate change a «hoax» and said he will roll back measures aimed at stopping global warming, sparking concern among climate scientists.

Anyone who says such things misses that once scientists publish their results, anyone — you, me, anyone — can use the results to work on global warming.

If you've said, «it's not that big a deal, the scientists aren't sure,» you chose to ignore that there is no more debate about global warming and how it will hurt people.

Scientists, academics and policymakers say the strategy has helped the industry in delaying or thwarting decisive steps toward curbing global warming.

He was harrassed because he bucked the prevailing opinions of the day, much as, say, a scientist who is anti-global warming is today.

Some have stated that unless major reforms are implemented ecologically, that by 2037, the earth may be unable to sustain life as we now have, with climate change now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely».

if anyone disagrees with any scientist who supports global warming, you hypocritcal bozo's are the first to say, «hey, he's a scientist and your not, why don't you shut your face.»

It's not about credentials, despite your complaint that «if anyone disagrees with any scientist who supports global warming, you hypocritical bozo's are the first to say»... whatever.

John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, says that climate scientists should be less hostile to doubters who question man - made global warming, and that public confidence in science depends on more openness to varied opinions.

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But you see, the Met office never predicted a «barbecue summer», firstly because as scientists, the term «barbecue summer» is hardly scientific, but also because they predicted something along the lines of «there's a 60 % chance the summer will be warmer than average», which the media duly turned into «THEREZ GON NA B A BARBEE SUMA LOLZORZ!!!! 111» As someone on the internet said about Simon Jenkins recently, and could now so easily say about Hannan, he doesn't understand what a stochastic process is.

Janeway said without significant intervention to curb global warming, climate scientists report that by 2100, the Adirondack Park's climate will resemble present - day Richmond, Virginia.

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.

Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.

The otter likely lived near and foraged in a shallow lake or wetland in a warm, humid climate, say the scientists.

«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.

New research could explain why the Arctic was much warmer during a period millions of years ago that scientists say most closely resembles Earth's climate today

«We're glad the governor went to global warming school, but he didn't learn the lessons from it,» said David Pringle, campaign director of the New Jersey Environmental Federation, about the governor's recent meetings with climate scientists.

Gerald Meehl, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who was also an author on the paper, said this research expanded on past work, including his own research, that pointed to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation as a factor in a warming slowdown by finding a mechanism behind how the Pacific Ocean was able to store enough heat to produce a pause in surface warming.

Changes in ocean salinity, nutrient runoff and other pollution can cause small - scale bleaching, but scientists say the widespread global bleaching this year is a symptom of unusual ocean warming.

Although scientists aren't sure exactly how warming temperatures will manifest under climate change, Morgan said that «chances are good as it gets warmer we'll get more dry years in the future.»

«We had very high rates of Zika transmission where it was very warm and very dry,» said co-author Madeleine Thomson, a senior research scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University.

One of the most significant findings is that high percentages of Americans — or roughly a third — say that they could easily change their minds about global warming, said Tom Bowman, president of the consulting firm Bowman Global Change, who has examined how climate scientists communicate to the public.

Scientists thought strong upwelling of colder deep waters spared the region from the warming seen in other parts of the Pacific, she said.

That's of particular interest to scientists studying global warming, because in those waters much of the carbon that's being released from melting permafrost is oxidized by bacteria into carbon dioxide, says Rose Cory, an environmental scientist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

However, in their wake, hurricanes set up large - amplitude waves that mingle warm surface water with colder deep water, says climate scientist Matthew Huber of Purdue University.

Vegetation change underway in boreal forests as a result of climate change creates a feedback loop that prompts more warming, scientists say

But curbing those substances, scientists and activists say, could slow atmospheric warming 0.5 degrees Celsius by 2050 while also increasing crop yields and preventing hundreds of thousands of related deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

Protecting this salmon stronghold will be even more important in a warmer future, says Michael Webster of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a co-author of the paper along with the U.W. scientists.

«I don't think many studies have realized this yet: Black carbon impacts global warming in at least four different ways,» said V. Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

«When confronted with the question whether or not global warming contributed to Sandy, many scientists would just throw their hands up and say, «We can not address the question of how hurricanes will behave in a future climate because the myriad factors affecting storm behaviors are too complex and impossible to simulate»,» Lau said.

It was the kind of heavy rainfall that could become more frequent with climate change, even though scientists say no one weather event can be tied to warming temperatures.

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.

Arctic warming, due to climate change, may have played some role, scientists say.

«Too often in debates about climate change risk, the starting point is a presumption that only global warming in excess of 2 °C represents a threat to humanity,» says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, College Park.

The Pacific Ocean's current cool phase is driving the global warming slowdown — but that countering effect is not going to last, scientists say.

«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.

That's greater than the warming rate of either the ocean or the atmosphere, and it can have profound effects, the scientists say.

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.

That bests the previous warmest January - June in 1934 by 1.1 °F — a substantial difference, said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist with NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.

Strangely, the scientists said, nothing of the kind is seen in a different kind of biodiversity loss: the loss of species today as you move from the warm tropics to the chillier poles.

«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

Some scientists say it is too costly to meet the sterilization requirements to explore the potentially warm and wet «special regions» on Mars that are most likely to harbor microbes.

That's an incredibly aggressive goal but one some scientists say is the only way that the world can avert global warming of more than 2 °C — the European Union has determined that's a prudent limit to «avoid dangerous anthropogenic warming,» in the United Nations parlance.

Under the model they developed, the scientists say the likelihood of Bd occurrence is predicted to decrease during warmer periods, and when precipitation exceeds an annual rainfall threshold above 1,800 mm per year.

A lot of scientists and policy makers may have been quietly pushing for actions to combat warming, he said, but not pushing very hard.

Scientists say Charon could have been warm enough to cause the water ice to melt deep down, creating a subsurface ocean.