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"Experts" share climate-change findings at UH-Hilo conference

Climate change is a given for scientists converging this week at the University of Hawai'i-Hilo for the Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology.
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His research colleague, James Marsh, professor of international business economics at UH-Mānoa, said progress can be made simply by moving past the debate. Even though he's not a climate scientist, he has reviewed the research and finds it solid, he said.

"I don't listen much to skeptics," Marsh said.

"We were somewhat teased by Mother Nature," said Lorenz Magaard, a scientist at the UH School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. "But if one looks at the total picture, it is clear. I think there is enough scientific evidence that global warming is going on."

Magaard cites the melting of glaciers and increased acidification of oceans as signs. He said a UH colleague has created models that showed predictable climate activity for millions of years, but changes over the past 40 years fit the model only when it includes human activity.