Sentences with phrase «year nasa»

In 1988 — the same year Nasa's James Hansen warned Congress about the threats posed by human - caused global warming — water expert Peter Gleick wrote about the wet and dry extremes that it would create for California: «California will get the worst of all possible worlds — more flooding in the winter, less available water in the summer.»

In 1988 — the same year Nasa's James Hansen warned Congress about the threats posed by human - caused global warming — water expert Peter Gleick wrote about the wet and dry extremes that it would create for California:

In 1988 — the same year Nasa's James Hansen warned Congress about the threats posed by human - caused global warming — water expert Peter

Last year Nasa's top climate scientist, James Hansen, reported that his bosses were trying to censor his lectures, papers and web postings.

Earlier this year Nasa landed the Curiosity rover on Mars.

Not exact matches

The current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still less than what most plants would prefer, and much less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.

In January this year, it was announced that the lander had been identified in images taken by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2013; these showed the lander as a glinting object, just a few pixels wide, about 5 km from the intended touchdown site.

In recent days, opposition officials have described the election results as a fraud and claimed that Raila Odinga, the 72 - year - old Nasa leader, was the legitimate winner.

It's just not the kind we're used to, because, until only a few years ago, the thought that a commercial company (not the government, not nasa) would lay claim to the business of sending stuff into the solar system — well, it seemed nearly impossible.

Two years ago, nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, hosted a conference on the astronomical phenomenon known as gamma - ray bursts.

In 2009 nasa launched the 1,433 - pound wise satellite, carrying a wide - field infrared telescope designed in part to detect such stunted stars; it has since turned up 100 of them within 20 light - years of Earth.

On 10 July, Nasa's Juno spacecraft will provide the first up - close view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot — a storm possibly existing for more than 350 years

«OCO - 2 is in development and a couple of years away from launch yet,» explained Mike Luther, a senior official from Nasa headquarters in Washington DC.

A question: I have a vague memory of years ago someone «denier / pseudo stats dude» was hassling nasa / giss for their raw data of what they used to feed in the avg / mean models for global temps... saying that the adjustments being made was being done to over-state the extent of warming?

This year's conference had some big - name participants, from Ed Stone of Nasa's Voyager project, explaining a new milestone on the path to interstellar space, to the film - maker James Cameron, discussing his adventures in deep - sea submersibles.

The current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still less than what most plants would prefer, and much less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.»

A series of investigations published last year by Prof Stephan Lewandowsky and his colleagues — including one with the fantastic title, Nasa Faked the Moon Landing — Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science — found that while subjects subscribing to conspiracist thought tended to reject all scientific propositions they encountered, those with strong traits of conservatism or pronounced free - market world views only tended to reject scientific findings with regulatory implications.

Joey Comiso, senior research scientist at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center, said this year's ice retreat was caused by previous warm years reducing the amount of perennial ice — which is more resistant to melting.

The Ferrigno rift lies close to the Pine Island Glacier where Nasa scientists found a giant crack last year; but the newly discovered feature is not thought to be influencing the «Pig», as it is known.

Nasa News Stories Archive January 16, 2008 2007 WAS TIED AS EARTH»S SECOND WARMEST YEAR http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2008/2008011626028.html

Nasa's top climate scientist Jim Hansen told a jury at the trial of 20 environmental activists that he had begun speaking out about climate change again in the past five years because of his grandchildren.

«This is the latest in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades,» said Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Nasa's Gavin Schmidt has previously argued that the danger of such a methane release is low, whereas scientists like Prof Tim Lenton from Exeter University who specialises in climate tipping points, says the process would takethousands if not tens of thousands of years, let alone a decade.

«It's just plain silly,» said James Hansen, a climate change researcher who headed Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies for over 30 years.

Thus, IMHO, Nasa resorts to the cumbersome and confusing «warmest years» phrasing to imply that it's making a statement about the latter question (trend during past 10 - 12 years) when it's really only making a statement about the former question (difference between recent temps and 100 - 130 years ago).

Just last week a Nasa scientist, Jim Hansen, whom Bush had tried to silence in the past warned that Obama has just four years to save the world.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Nasa databases, which record anomalies of 0.54 C and 0.58 C respectively, suggest that so far it's the warmest year on record.

As you can see from all three global datasets (CRU, NOAA and Nasa) all the months this year for which the data has so far been collated (January - October) were anomalously warm.

In particular, about eight years ago, Nasa launched the atmospheric infrared sounder on board the Aqua satellite, which measures water vapour distribution with great accuracy.

And since you like «eye balling graphs» have a look at the latest hadcrut or nasa global temperature graph, and it should be obvious to even you the «pause» is a blip of about 6 years duration of flat temperatures, thus easily explained by natural variability.

At the time the Nasa scientist James Hansen put up a $ 100 wager that at least one of the first three years of the 1990s would surpass the 1988 record.

Thanks to its translation success, Facebook has already unseated eight dominant local - language competitors in the last two years, according to comScore — most recently, Orkut in Brazil and Poland's Nasa Klasa.pl.