even in the best case scenario, business as usual fossil fuel burning will almost certainly commit us to more than 2C (3.6 F) warming, an amount of
warming that scientists who study climate change impacts tell us will lead to truly dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change.
Not exact matches
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.
While this is bad news for the planet, it's good news for climate change
scientists who have — for the last two decades — puzzled over
warming trends in ocean surface temperatures for nearly 20 years.
Rating agencies behaved no differently than climate - change
scientists who base their doomsday forecasts of man - made global
warming on extrapolation of historical data.
As Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria plowed through unusually
warm oceans this summer, each one broke records, startling even the
scientists who study extreme weather.
In fact, there are thousands of well - credentialed
scientists who dissent in whole or in part from the thesis that human activity is causing disastrous 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.
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.
Most of us do not trust the
scientists employed by the cigarette companies to tell us truthfully about the consequences of smoking for health, nor the
scientists who work for oil companies to give us accurate information about global
warming.
As for pundits the Merson types are like climate
scientists who deny global
warming is anthropgenic, not because they really believe it but because it gets them exposure in the media which they wouldn't get if they simply went along with the crowd.
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.
In a video posted on his official Assembly website, Hanna is seen debating a bill on the floor and decrying a «conspiracy» by
scientists who engage in climate research to «suppress» research conducted by those
who challenge the existence of global
warming.
Points 2 and 3 might lead to their not believing in global
warming, but when faced by such an overwhelming majority of
scientist who believe it, it seems (to me) almost like a conspiracy theory to deny it.
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.
The drones can't come too soon for
scientists who study the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, a set of shifting global temperature and rainfall patterns triggered by
warm surface waters that slosh back and forth across the equatorial Pacific every few years.
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.
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.
Scientists discuss lessons learned from the struggle with those
who would deny human - caused global
warming
Some climate experts argue that the finding undermines the main criticism of
scientists who contend that greenhouse gases are not
warming the planet.
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.
Roy Spencer, a climate
scientist at the University of Alabama
who argued from the skeptical side, agrees that human contributed carbon dioxide lessens the planet's ability to shed heat, meaning that
warming is likely.
Until about a decade ago,
scientists thought that only babies —
who can't yet shiver to
warm up — had brown fat in their bodies.
Scientists and others
who hope to inform the public or spur action have long struggled with how to convey the high stakes of global
warming without making people feel helpless or fueling deniers by coming across as alarmist.
With previous studies showing that higher temperatures, caused by global
warming, have led to more unstable mountain rocks — the
scientists,
who took part in the new study, believe that using the two monitoring techniques together could prove vital for thousands of skiers and mountain climbers
who undertake trips every year.
If you believe, along with almost every
scientist who has studied the issue, that global
warming poses a genuine threat to humanity, doesn't this suggest that we should be doing something about it?
And while the
scientists who conducted the study are still investigating the atmospheric mechanisms behind this change, the trend seems consistent with a
warming climate.
Contrary to popular belief,
scientists are normal,
warm, and funny human beings
who bring in cakes just because it?s Thursday and agree to mind your experiments over the weekend.
«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.
Martin Hoerling, a
scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory
who researches the connections between climate change and weather extremes, said a link between a
warmer Arctic and the recent cold is unlikely.
Scott Highleyman, an official at the Ocean Conservancy
who also served on the U.S. delegation, said
scientists have little knowledge of what kind of fish are in the region now and whether commercial stocks will migrate north as the water
warms.
In compelling prose, she takes us to places where
warming is already visible — primarily, in the formerly frozen North — and talks to
scientists who are studying everything from melting sea ice in the Arctic to migrating butterflies in Britain.
That's the message one researcher has for the planet's physicians, the climate
scientists who are diagnosing whether a new international agreement can keep us from busting the boundary of dangerous global
warming.
None of Cruz's comments disprove climate change, said Richard Alley, a
scientist at Pennsylvania State University
who specializes in the effects of global
warming on ice.
The contiguous United States has
warmed considerably since 1938, and there's no question that climate change was at play this time, says National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
scientist Martin Hoerling,
who examines links between extreme weather events and climate.
He's suggested that the government only gives grants to
scientists who convey a false narrative about
warming.
But results from a Canadian government climate modeling study published last month suggest that «it is unlikely that
warming can be limited to the 2 ˚C target,» the
scientists who wrote the study say.
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.
Usually increases in methane levels are linked to
warming in the Northern Hemisphere, but
scientists who are publishing their findings this week in the journal Science have identified rapid increases in methane during particularly cold intervals.
When his turn to question Holdren arrived, Rohrabacher began by requesting permission to submit the names of 100 climate
scientists who disagree with the consensus on global
warming, including people Rohrabacher described as prominent academics.
«I do not know the source of that original document, but I assume it was sent to me because of my past exchanges with Heartland and because I was named in it,» said the
scientist who has sparred often with Heartland and others
who do not believe in the scientific underpinnings of man - made global
warming.
A large enough number of such roofs could «completely offset
warming due to urban expansion and even offset a percentage of future greenhouse
warming over large regional scales,» says sustainability
scientist Matei Georgescu at Arizona State University,
who lead the research.
The cooling effect of aerosols can partly offset global
warming on a short - term basis, but many are made of organic material that comes from sources that
scientists don't fully understand, said Joost de Gouw, a research physicist at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo.,
who is unaffiliated with the studies.
Tadeusz Patzek, an engineering professor at Berkeley
who formerly worked as a
scientist at Shell, believes the deal compromises the university's ability to look objectively at long - term energy solutions to global
warming.
«The
warmer they are, the faster they can swim,» the theory goes, according to Morten Frederiksen, a Danish
scientist from Aarhus University in Denmark
who works regularly with Petersen.
Not a literal thaw — few climatologists want to see any more ice melt — but a
warming of relations between climate
scientists and those
who vociferously deny the science of human - caused
warming.
«There is a very distressing disconnect between the research and the policy,» says Kim Knowlton, a
scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council,
who studies the health impacts of global
warming.
Dr Alison Cook,
who led the work at Swansea University, says: «
Scientists know that ocean
warming is affecting large glaciers elsewhere on the continent, but thought that atmospheric temperatures were the primary cause of all glacier changes on the Peninsula.
Climate
scientists and international negotiators are concerned that the election of Donald Trump,
who has pledged to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement and dismantle domestic climate policies, will derail the efforts to limit
warming.