Sentences with phrase «written about global climate»

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But it wasn't until she wrote this poignant post, «Mothers Needed to Protect the Earth,» that I really started thinking harder about harnessing the power of the Green Mom blogosphere to draw attention to climate change and to advocate changes to slow the rate of global warming.
Philander's 2004 book, Our Affair With El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard, gives some insight about the man who wrote it.
«The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming,» the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its report on the matter in December 2007.
- A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies by William Nordhaus and Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto by Ernesto Zedillo, two climate - change books he is writing about for The New York Review of Books
There were climate scientists who speculated about global cooling in the seventies and there were journalists who wrote articles about the prospect of coming ice ages.
It's an investigative piece I wrote about a Soviet climate modeler who worked on global warming and nuclear winter, almost undoubtedly was a spy, traveled the world with Carl Sagan pressing the nuclear - winter case for disarmament and then vanished mysteriously in Spain.
It would have been helpful if, in 1975, the owners of these climate models had written to Newsweek informing them that: A) their story about global cooling was wrong because B) climate models have clearly demonstrated that temperatures are about to head up rapidly.
There were climate scientists who speculated about global cooling in the seventies and there were journalists who wrote articles about the prospect of coming ice ages.
As you point out other studies agree with the MBH study so I would have thought what amounts to a sudden global climate shift would be of major interest to climate scientists everywhere yet one sees relatively little written about it.
On July 23, I wrote about the rocky rollout, prior to peer review, of «Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations that 2 °C Global Warming is Highly Dangerous.»
When I wrote with James Kanter last year about the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on impacts from global warming, I made sure we noted how the consequences for humans change significantly when adaptation is taken into account (boldface added):
So here we have Rasmus writing an article about the critical differences between Climate Change and Global Warming in relation to weather and weather events.
This year I wrote an article about how North America's amazingly variegated climate, where it's tinder dry in some places and soggy and cool elsewhere, may be one reason the country has not focused on the global warming issue as much as more compact places with more uniform climate conditions (western Europe, for instance).
I vote, among others, for Mike Hulme, the climate scientist who wrote «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» and Spencer Weart, the physicist and historian who wrote «The Discovery of Global Warming.climate scientist who wrote «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» and Spencer Weart, the physicist and historian who wrote «The Discovery of Global Warming.Climate Change,» and Spencer Weart, the physicist and historian who wrote «The Discovery of Global Warming.»
«If one wanted to sabotage the chances for a meaningful agreement in Paris next year, towards which the negotiations have been ongoing for several years, there'd hardly be a better way than restarting a debate about the finally - agreed foundation once again, namely the global long - term goal of limiting warming to at most 2 degrees C,» Stefan Rahmstorf, an expert at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, wrote last week in an online response to the Nature piece.
So hey, remember on Tuesday when I wrote about the massive new climate change report that paints a stark, detailed, and highly evidence - based picture about how global warming is hitting the U.S. now, and what our hotter future will be like?
When a medical doctor with no prior record of publication in the learned journals of climate science wanders off the reservation and writes for a collectivist website about the totalitarians» favorite Trojan horse, global warming, one expects nonsense.
A clearly written book to inform the public about human induced global warming and its relationship to climate change.
Though not CMOS's first public statement, it was one of the most «vocal about climate change of late» due to the fact «that Canada's new Conservative government does not support the Kyoto Protocol for lower emissions of greenhouse gases, and opposed stricter emissions for a post-Kyoto agreement at a United Nations meeting in Bonn in May [2006]» and because «a small, previously invisible group of global warming sceptics called the Friends of Science are suddenly receiving attention from the Canadian government and media,» Leahy wrote.
Mr. Dickson wrote passionately about several areas in climate science that troubled him, including: first, the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, caused by humans, and a threat; second, the idea that government agencies had manipulated temperature records to fit a narrative of warming; and third, that China is developing its coal resources so fast that nothing short of radical population control will save us, if burning fossil fuels really does cause global warming.
As Andrew Revkin wrote last year about his storied career as an environmental reporter at The Times, «I saw a widening gap between what scientists had been learning about global warming and what advocates were claiming as they pushed ever harder to pass climate legislation.»
UPDATE: I finished writing this post and published it at my blog Climate Observations about the same time that Don Easterbrook's post Cause of «the pause» in global warming was published at WattsUpWithThat.
I don't tend to write much about this, but my concern over global warming is based, to a great extent, on the losses in biodiversity that will inevitably result from climate change, even at rates that don't greatly damage human economic activity in general.
Attempting to drum up fear about global warming in the San Antonio Express - News, Andrew Dressler and Gerald North wrote an Oct. 6 article titled, «Climate change is real and denial is not about the science.»
«C3» and others have often written about the fabrication of global warming by various climate agencies around the world.
In November, 2015, the three lead NIPCC authors — Craig Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer — wrote a small book titled Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus revealing how no survey or study shows a «consensus» on the most important scientific issues in the climate change debate, and how most scientists do not support the alarmist claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate change debate, and how most scientists do not support the alarmist claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.
He wrote a well - reviewed book called «The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming,» in which he presents measured skepticism of climate - change orthodoxy — for example, he believes the role of carbon emissions from human industry is greatly exaggerated by politicized science, but he doesn't think human carbon emissions are irrelevant, and is not implacably hostile to the goal of reducinClimate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming,» in which he presents measured skepticism of climate - change orthodoxy — for example, he believes the role of carbon emissions from human industry is greatly exaggerated by politicized science, but he doesn't think human carbon emissions are irrelevant, and is not implacably hostile to the goal of reducinclimate - change orthodoxy — for example, he believes the role of carbon emissions from human industry is greatly exaggerated by politicized science, but he doesn't think human carbon emissions are irrelevant, and is not implacably hostile to the goal of reducing them.
«In 1971, Hansen wrote his first climate model, which showed the world was about to experience severe global cooling.
A 2003 invitation to speak at a prestigious lecture series prompted her to gather information to create a slide detailing the amount of scientific agreement about catastrophic man - caused global warming, and the reaction to the slide is what prompted her to write and submit her «Scientific Consensus on Climate Change» paper to the Science journal, which published it on December 3, 2004.
About a year before, Epstein had also written in Forbes claiming that there was a consensus «that in the last 15 + years there has been no significant global warming, despite record, accelerating CO2 emissions, and the climate models based on high sensitivity failed to predict this.»
Climate Sim force of nature Beth Sawin (in the picture to the left) recently wrote a really lovely blog post about our team's effort to address climate change and global ecological limits through the use of simulations that are embedded in effective conversations about Climate Sim force of nature Beth Sawin (in the picture to the left) recently wrote a really lovely blog post about our team's effort to address climate change and global ecological limits through the use of simulations that are embedded in effective conversations about climate change and global ecological limits through the use of simulations that are embedded in effective conversations about action.
As Chris Mooney writes in his post about the discussion between Drs Francis and Trenberth, «The biggest debate in climate science may be over whether global warming will create more winters like this one.
In this context, it's worth pointing out that Friends of the Earth U.S., Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives and the Institute for Policy Studies wrote a report about this exact topic last year — The Green Climate Fund's «no - objection» procedure and private finance: Lessons learned from existing institutions.
Inprotest, you write: «we are talking about the catastrophic destabalization of our global climate».
So wrote the celebrated Stanford University psychologist Leon Festinger (PDF), in a passage that might have been referring to climate change denial — the persistent rejection, on the part of so many Americans today, of what we know about global warming and its human causes.
Today, Steve Outing of Editor & Publisher wrote a commentary about false objectivity in journalism and how it relates to the issue of global heating (Climate Change: Get Over Objectivity, Newspapers).
It is fascinating to me that Andy Revkin would write a summary about these complexities re global warming, shortyl after the NYT article announcing that Obama was going to do a UN climate treaty so he could bypass the US Senate.
The book, How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming (Dawn Publications, 2008), written with photojournalist Gary Braasch, was finished during Cherry's tenure as the 2006 artist - in - residence at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and features many examples of young people and others involved in citizen science projects at Cornell and elsewhere.
When I wrote about Dr. Lomborg's proposal to focus less on climate change and more on problems like malnutrition and disease, he told me: «I don't think our descendants will thank us for leaving them poorer and less healthy just so we could do a little bit to slow global warming.
«This is dead - serious business,» wrote climate activist and 350.org founder Bill McKibben in his initial «call to arms» back in May, «a signal moment in the gathering fight of human beings to do something about global warming before it's too late to do anything but watch.»
In January 2006 economist John Quiggan wrote on his blogsite: «There's no longer any serious debate among climate scientists about either the reality of global warming or about the fact that it's substantially caused by human activity»
The SST CCI Science Leader, Chris Merchant, has written a blog on the Global Drifter Program, which includes information on what using the drifter array and satellite data as two independent systems can tell us about marine climate change.
The Young Voices for the Planet films were inspired by the book Lynne Cherry wrote with photojournalist Gary Braasch, How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming.
By June 2001, Piltz had been a senior associate at the Coordination Office for the US Global Change Research Program for six years, responsible for editing and producing scientific reports written by federal climate scientists scattered over about a dozen agencies working on the problem.
The End of Nature (1989) The Age of Missing Information (1992) Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (1995) Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single Child Families (1998) Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyous Christmas (1998) Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously (2001) Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003) Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape (2005) The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation (2005) Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007) Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community (2007) The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life (2008) American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (edited)(2008) Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010) The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change (2011) Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist (2013)
The article, entitled «No Need to Panic About Global Warming», was written and signed by 16 scientists from different disciplines — few of which were climate scientists.
As Chris Castro and Dave Gutzler write, there is still a lot of uncertainty about how the monsoon might change, if at all, because «the current generation of global climate models doesn't come close to any consensus as to what the expectation is for a changed monsoon.»
Lord Lawson, who has written about climate change, said the corporation is silencing the debate on global warming since he discussed the topic on its Radio 4 Today program in February.
«In this case the assessment reaches conclusions inconvenient for political advocates on both sides — but that is how science works,» said Roger A. Pielke, Jr., a political science professor at the University of Colorado — Boulder, who's been writing on the evolution of the global change research office since its early days and has frequently been called on by Republicans in Congress to testify about climate policy.
The DemandDebate website also sold t - shirts with the slogan «I'm more worried about the intellectual climate» and offered resource kits to parents and teachers, which appeared to consist of copies of documentary «The Great Global Warming Swindle», a film about the «dark side of environmentalism» and a book called «The Sky's Not Falling: Why It's OK To Chill about Global Warming» written by Holly Fretwell.
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