Temperatures are expected to be above normal this summer, said John Nielsen-Gammon, the state climatologist.
Do it for those reasons, even if you think Leonardo DiCaprio is a good actor and a flawed climatologist.
World-renowned climatologist Sir John Houghton warns that extreme weather patterns are here to stay, and the risk of flooding will rise.
What about if my professional advancement is dependent upon climate change monies (which applies to just about every academic or government climatologist)?
"If it were ever shut off, Europe would see an average temperature drop of 15 degrees, " says Jeff Schultz, the center's chief climatologist.
Started some 36 years ago by Ibn Browning, famed and (then somewhat) controversial climatologist, it is continued today by his daughter Evelyn Browning Gariss.
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Let me say at the outset that I approach this subject from the perspective of a policy practitioner in defense and foreign policy matters, not as a climatologist.
The Los Angeles area has received less than 2 inches of rain since January, making the bone-dry region "definitely ripe for these fires, " said William Patzert, a NASA climatologist.
"We are now experiencing the warmest period (for this season) in the past 1, 300 years, " said Reinhard Boehm, chief climatologist at Austria's Central Institute for Meteorology and Geo-Dynamics in Vienna.
"I tried hard to balance the needs of the science with the IPCC, which were not always the same, " wrote East Anglia climatologist Keith Briffa to Penn State's Michael Mann in April 2007.
While it's exciting to work beside world-class scientists such as ice-sheet climatologist Jason Box, glaciologist Alun Hubbard and geophysicist Richard Bates, it's equally disheartening to be here bearing witness to the catastrophic events they record.
As a quintessential science example, federal climatologist Ben Santer just published a pal-reviewed paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences loudly proclaiming that the dreaded man-made global warming signal has emerged from our naturally chaotic climate.
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As Judith Curry, a climatologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, observes, attacks on climate scientists, sometimes paid for by carbon-emitting industries when global warming first became a public issue, have made many researchers in the field nervous and defensive.
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University College London (UCL) climatologist Mark Maslin called it "the Stern report for medics", referring to the 2006 review that outlined the future impacts of the climate change situation in economic terms and advocated comprehensive, early-stage action to address it.
The widespread blazes are more typical of the wildfires that break out in the grasslands of the Midwest and Great Plains this time of year, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) is a climatologist who realizes, as a slice of the polar ice cap slides into the sea, that the end of the world (or, at any rate, of that half of the world that drives S.U.V.s) is nigh.
On the other hand, scientists such as climatologist and NASA Science Team leader Dr. Roy Spencer, meteorologist Anthony Watts, and Past President of the American Association of State Climatologists Dr. Patrick Michaels have vigorously explained why global warming will, if anything, reduce the frequency and strength of tornadoes.
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