Sentences with phrase «climate change study point»

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«This points to the unexplored risks of changing climate on aviation,» said study co-author Radley Horton, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

«For me, to be concerned about it [climate change] at my level and at my point, I don't think it's useful for me,» said another farmer in Niles» study.»

«You can't just blindly go ahead and reforest and that will tackle climate change,» he says, pointing out a key finding in the study.

«At one level, it just reinforces a point that we already knew: that the effects of climate change and sea level rise are irreversible and going to be with us for thousands of years,» says Williams, who did not work on the study.

A new study points to the risk that China and India will be facing severe water shortages by 2050 due to a perfect storm of economic growth, climate change, and fast growing populations.

The collaborative study suggests that multiple interacting climate tipping points could be triggered this century if climate change isn't tackled — leading to irreversible economic damages worldwide.

Professor Tim Lenton, from the University of Exeter and one of the authors of the study said: «Irreversible tipping points are one of the biggest risks we face if we carry on changing the climate.

He points out, however, that «most data on the effects of climate change on penguins are not derived from banded studies.»

The authors are quick to point out that climate change is still detrimentally affecting the habitats of those species, but at a much slower rate than dozens of previous studies forecast.

As the climate changes, studies have pointed to the idea that dry spells increase in frequency and wet spells increase in intensity, although there is not a consensus about what will happen to the Indian monsoon, Singh said.

The outcomes of the study reveal the complexity of the processes shaping climate change in the Arctic and point to significant spatial and chronological variances in sea ice cover.

The study's results suggest that sensitivity to changes in climate can not be predicted simply by knowing locations within the species» climate envelope, she pointed out.

OSLO, Nov 10 (Reuters)- Greenhouse gas emissions per capita are falling in 11 of the Group of 20 major economies, a turning point for tackling climate change, a study showed on Tuesday.

Kennedy's study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, proposes a new decision - making threshold for when to move from fossil fuel technology to electric power (called electrification), and at what point that move may increase or lower carbon emissions.

At least one study has concluded that climate change will make hurricanes more likely to head for the north - east, he points out.

From studies of changes in temperature and sea level over the last million years, we know that the climate system has tipping points.

It is important to regard the LGM studies as just one set of points in the cloud yielded by other climate sensitivity estimates, but the LGM has been a frequent target because it was a period for which there is a lot of data from varied sources, climate was significantly different from today, and we have considerable information about the important drivers — like CO2, CH4, ice sheet extent, vegetation changes etc..

In the journal Nature Climate Change, lead author Dr. Tom Bridge from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies based at James Cook University and colleagues point out that global conservation policies have so far failed to prevent the widespread destruction of coral reefs and their fish life, which now threatens the food security of millions of people.

Wigley et al. (1997) pointed out that uncertainties in forcing and response made it impossible to use observed global temperature changes to constrain ECS more tightly than the range explored by climate models at the time (1.5 °C to 4.5 °C), and particularly the upper end of the range, a conclusion confirmed by subsequent studies.

The study found we may have already passed the point of no return for some cities and will do so in the next few decades for others, as greenhouse gases gradually change climate, glacier cover and sea level.

If you need help justifying this work, or want ideas for starting points, the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom campaign has done a brilliant job addressing the issues that stop schools taking learning outdoors www.lotc.org.uk www.realcoolfutures.com contains real case studies of young people who have already found or created jobs to do with climate change and sustainability.

Recent studies have pointed to «the value of strong social networks among teachers for the spread of reform implementation and innovative climate... and their capacity to change» (Moolenaar & Sleegers, 2010).

Like climate change deniers, TNR advocates ignore the preponderance of scientific evidence, but love to cite a few flawed studies and anecdotes that they believe prove their point.

The other point is that attribution studies evaluate the extent to which patterns of model response to external forcing (i.e., fingerprints) simulations explain climate change in * observations.

I have posted on RealClimate about 4 times in the past 5 years regarding the potential thaw of the methal hydrate deposits at the bottom of the oceans.I stated in my posts on your website that I believe firmly that those deposits are in quite a good bit of danger of melting from climate change feedback mechanisms.On Nov 8th, ScienceDaily posted a huge new study on the PETM boundary 55 million years ago, and some key data on how the methane at that point may very well have melted and contributed to the massive climate shift.I am an amateur who reads in the new a lot about climate change.I'd now like to say «I told you so!!!»

I've had a great time learning from, and sometimes debating with, two smart people with very different areas of expertise and vantage points: the blogging meteorologist Eric Holthaus and Jacquelyn Gill, who studies past climates in the context of ecological change.

(not a real scientist, like you guys, but a fairly up to date guy on the climate change news stories) Do you think the methal hydrates are going to melt in the harsh light of this new study I've just pointed out?

If you study the conservative approach to climate change policy long enough, the implication that they are trying to participate in a scientific conversation starts to fade away and you realize the underlying logic they are using actually starts from the conclusion that regulation and government intervention are bad and proceeds to the premise that there is no real problem with climate change, at which point, they pick around for snippets to support their premise.

Updated, 3:10 p.m. Using climate models and observations, a fascinating study in this week's issue of Nature Climate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening dclimate models and observations, a fascinating study in this week's issue of Nature Climate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening dClimate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening dclimate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening drought.

An important point with reanalyses, is that the model used doesn't change over the time spanned by the analysis, but reanalyses are generally used with caution for climate change studies because the number and type of observations being fed into the computer model changes over time.

The Worldwatch Institute and Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors recently analyzed the full greenhouse impacts of natural gas and coal — from the well or mine to the power plant — and the work supports other studies pointing to a large and clear climate advantage from gas as a source of electClimate Change Advisors recently analyzed the full greenhouse impacts of natural gas and coal — from the well or mine to the power plant — and the work supports other studies pointing to a large and clear climate advantage from gas as a source of electclimate advantage from gas as a source of electricity.

Related IPCC Climate Change Report The Five Key Points IPCC Report: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis IPCC Report: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability New York Times: Climate Study Puts Diplomatic Pressure on Obama

In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near - term stability of global sea levels.

In a wide - ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a «human tipping point» — essentially, a social revolution — as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near - term climate policy.

Other studies of the Amazon climate tipping point The existence of an Amazonian climate tipping point is confirmed by other model studies, including the above - mentioned Climatic Change publication from 2008 — that suggests a large - scale die - back (70 percent) from about 3 degrees onwards, starting in the South of the basin.

«Committed terrestrial ecosystem changes due to climate change» When trying to position the Amazon tipping point on the scale of the global temperature rise, one of the most - often cited studies is one from the year 2009, performed by a team of researchers of the UK Met Office Hadley Centre, led by Chris Jones and published in Nature Geoscience.

Psychologists studying climate communication make two additional (and related) points about why the warming - snow link is going to be exceedingly difficult for much of the public to accept: 1) people's confirmation biases lead them to pay skewed attention to weather events, in such a way as to confirm their preexisting beliefs about climate change (see p. 4 of this report); 2) people have mental models of «global warming» that tend to rule out wintry impacts.

A spokesman pointed out that the company's $ 100 million founding commitment to Stanford University's Global Climate & Energy Project was made in 2002, right in the middle of the period covered by the Nature Climate Change study.

Case in point: A recent study in Nature Climate Change warned that the US could miss its targets due to excess methane emissions.

Leading climate scientist James Hansen used a study published Tuesday to continue to hammer home the warning that humanity is nearing «the point of no return» when it comes to reversing or even mitigating the adverse effects of climate change.

«These findings point to potential public health effects associated with global climate change,» study leader Dr. Gregory Tasian, a pediatric urologist and epidemiologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said in a hospital news release.

Phil, finding two errors in José's examples doesn't exactly an «epic fail», since the main point «The Cook et al 97 % paper included a bunch of psychology studies, marketing papers, and surveys of the general public as scientific endorsement of anthropogenic climate change» remains valid.

The main point «The Cook et al 97 % paper included a bunch of psychology studies, marketing papers, and surveys of the general public as scientific endorsement of anthropogenic climate change» remains valid.

Lomborg claims the often - repeated talking point that «Policies aimed at addressing climate change can easily end up punishing the poor,» pointing a finger at Germany and citing a study by the fossil - fuel - funded Institute for Energy Research (IER), claiming that renewable energy targets and emissions caps have resulted in «energy poverty.»

Now, a new study, which is featured in the journal Nature, points to global agriculture as another culprit that contributes to climate change in the same way that fossil fuels do.

Press Trust of India: A study pointing that the pollution levels in New Delhi is worse than that of Beijing may have been quoting the data from the worst period of the year but the air quality in Indian cities is progressively getting worse, UN climate change chief Rajendra Pachauri said today.

But the atoll study is one of many that points to a looming crisis of global displacement that will come sooner than expected if the world doesn't act quickly to reduce emissions and curb climate change.

The authors of the latest study stop short of attributing the 2015/2016 floods to climate change, pointing out that identifying trends can be challenging because records are held over a relatively short timespan.

Analyses of these measures by the American Council for Capital Formation, which studies economic and environmental policy, show that they will raise electricity rates as well as gas prices - costing jobs and hurting the economy - even as the EPA admits that these choices will have an insignificant impact on global climate change (a point former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson confessed during a Senate hearing in 2009).

What specific scientific references and sources do you rely upon to conclude that there is a reasonable scientific dispute about whether human actions are causing observable climate change and are you aware of the multiple «fingerprint» studies and «attribution» studies that very strongly point to human causation?