Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
glacialist .
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- noun A
scientist who studiesglaciers
Etymologies
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Examples
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For example, one of the 39 is Dr. Murari Lal, an Indian glaciologist featured in news reports about an error in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) latest report.
Rep. Ed Markey: Just in Time for Halloween, Virginia A.G. Cuccinelli Raises His Failed Fraud Investigation From the Dead Rep. Ed Markey 2010
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Gordon Hamilton is a leading glaciologist and professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute.
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“Even if you built a wind screen big enough, it's doubtful whether you could meaningfully alter the wind patterns,” says another glaciologist.
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The article in "New Scientist" was based on report of Russian glaciologist Kotlyakov, who made a prognosis that Himalayan glaciers will melt in 2350.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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But even before the 2007 report was published, it now emerges, the offending claim was challenged, not least by a leading Austrian glaciologist, Dr Georg Kaser, a lead author on the 2007 report.
Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today 2010
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“Something like that would certainly not be very effective,” says one glaciologist about Fuchs 'idea.
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The glaciologist has never submitted what he says was a speculative comment for peer review - and most of his peers strongly dispute it.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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"One of the questions that everybody is interested in with greenhouse gases is, did the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations occur before or after the increase in temperatures in the past climate changes?" says glaciologist Kendrick Taylor, chief scientist of the $30 million U.S.
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When New Scientist heard this comment from a leading Indian glaciologist, we reported it.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Yao Tandong, perhaps China's best-known glaciologist, have been doing research and fieldwork on the glaciers, and they report that more and more black carbon is being deposited on Himalayan glaciers via the warm, moisture-laden, southerly monsoon winds that sweep it up onto the Tibetan Plateau, where it falls as snow.
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