Sentences with phrase «climate impact research»

Businesses who try to avoid those steps and keep on tiptoeing will miss the next industrial revolution and thereby their best opportunity for a profitable future,» said Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

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s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who led the international team of scientists behind the finding.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and an author of previous IPCC reports, tells the Dot Earth blog that lessons can be learned from «2035-gate».

Sea - level rise too big to be pumped away From the POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH (PIK)

I think it is happening,» said one of the study's authors, Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

Members crashed a talk being given at the University of Melbourne by physicist Hans Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, presenting a shocked Dr. Schellnhuber with a noose.

Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a co-blogger with Mann at the climate blog RealClimate, felt that it was «extremely unlikely» that any university would be involved in a cover up, asking «[w] hy would a university ruin their reputation by attempting to cover up misconduct?»

More on these findings, as well as the back and forth between the Danish Prime Minister, Dan Kammen of UC Berkeley, Lord Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics, and Prof Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research later.

The research, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), was conducted by Andrew Kemp, Yale University; Benjamin Horton, University of Pennsylvania; Jeffrey Donnelly, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Michael Mann, Pennsylvania State University; Martin Vermeer, Aalto University School of Engineering, Finland; and Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

«There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual,» said Ottmar Edenhofer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, a co-chair of the report.

The report, based on scientific analysis by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, uses advanced computer simulations to paint the clearest picture of each region's vulnerabilities.

«We think not — and we are prepared to bet serious money on this,» say the scientists, led by Stefan Rahmstorf, professor of physics of the oceans at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in a comment posted at realclimate.org /

«The sea - level rise may well exceed one meter (3.28 feet) by 2100 if we continue on our path of increasing emissions,» said Stefan Rahmstorf, professor at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

[Translate] Energy and Environment by Chris Mooney WASHINGTON POST.COM (Levke Caesar / Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)...

Lead author of the study, Dim Coumou, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said: «We find that up until 2040, the frequency of monthly heat extremes will increase several fold, independent of the emission scenario we choose to take.

«Even I as a climate scientist am startled to see another potentially devastating storm in this region so shortly after Harvey,» said Anders Levermann from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Columbia University in a statement.

The almost linear increase in global mean temperature since 1979 has been mapped out by Grant Foster of Tempo Analytica in the US and Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam institute for Climate Impact Research, thanks to the satellite microwave - sensor imagery, available since that date.

In the halls, Luke ran into Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Chair of the WBGU, and asked him his thoughts on the Chinese position and the negotiations in general.

«The scenarios from the research community form the backbone of our analysis of potential climate change impacts as well as mitigation and adaptation solutions,» said Ottmar Edenhofer at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-chair of Working Group III, which deals with the mitigating climate change.

In their study, Dim Coumou, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Alexander Robinson, from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, used state - of - the - art climate models to project changes in the trend of heat extremes under two future warming scenarios — RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 — throughout the 21st century.

Stefan Rahmstorf is Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University and Department Head at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

The study's lead author, Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, says: «Short - term fluctuations are unavoidable in global temperature.

One of his co-authors, Jacob Schewe, a climate physicist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, says it is necessary to account for natural variability, model uncertainties and other factors that could obscure the picture.

«Today, we have to assume that the risks of negative impacts of climate change on humans and nature are larger than just a few years ago,» says Hans - Martin Füssel from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK)

He is Ottmar Edenhofer, chief economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

But this, say Carlo and Julia Jaeger from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who have researched the history of the target, is «perhaps the first suggestion to use two degrees as a critical limit for climate policy.»

The results were also backed up by another study published in the same issue of Nature, led by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, head of earth system analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said in the New York Times:

Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate physicist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, says that, even though CO2 emissions from fossil - fuel sources are down, global emissions overall are still increasing, mainly because of changes in terrestrial ecosystems, including deforestation in the Amazon Basin.

John Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said recently that only a return to pre-industrial levels of CO2 — about 280 parts per million — would be enough to guarantee a safe future for the planet.

«This melting of ice and snow is actually due to our lifestyle of churning out unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels,» says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, co-author of the study and founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

«We know from observations that high temperatures can harm crops, but now we have a much better understanding of the processes,» says Bernhard Schauberger from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, lead author of the study.

Ottmar Edenhofer (Germany)-- Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC — deputy director and chief economist of Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Email interview, Prajal Pradhan, junior researcher, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam University, Germany, Feb. 14, 2017

Theoretically, it's possible that other countries could ramp up their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions to compensate for a lack of U.S. reductions, but that doesn't appear realistic, according to Louise Jeffery, an emissions expert with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Co-author Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany said stoppage of the NADW could cause temperatures in continental Europe to drop by 3.6 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (2 to 5 degrees Celsius).

Organized by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the GOTHAM Summer School (18th - 22nd September 2017) will train young scientists on a unique combination of interdisciplinary scientific topics and tools relevant for understanding teleconnections and their role in causing extreme weather events.

At the end of september 2011, I have left my positions as co-chair for the research domain Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and also as Professor of Global Ecology at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Potsdam University.

Last week the Guardian reported that Professor John Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has adjusted the CO2 target threshold even lower, down to a pre-industrial level of 280 ppm.

The incipient MISOMIP team collectively contributed to the content of this article: Ben Galton - Fenzi, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; Byron Parizek, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dimitri Menemenlis, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; Eric Larour, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; Frank Pattyn, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels Belgium; Gaël Durand, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géophysique de l'Environnement, Saint - Martin d'Hères, France; Hyun - cheol Kim, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea; Ian Joughin, University of Washington, Seattle; Jeff Ridley, Met Office, Exeter, U.K.; Kazuya Kusahara, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; Mats Bentsen, Bjerknes Center, Bergen, Norway; Michael Dinniman, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va.; Nicolas Jourdain, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géophysique de l'Environnement, Saint - Martin d'Hères, France; Pierre Mathiot, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, U.K.; Ralph Timmermann, Alfred Wegner Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany; Robert Hallberg, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton, N.J.; Rupert Gladstone, Arctic Center, Rovaniemi, Finland; Ryan Walker, University of Maryland, College Park; Sebastian Mernild, Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Valdivia, Chile; Sebastian Goeller, Alfred Wegner Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany; Sophie Nowicki, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; Steve Price, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M.; Tore Hattermann, Akvaplan, Tromsø, Norway; Won Sang Lee, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea; Xylar Asay - Davis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany.

It also includes perspective from scientists developing climate - related data models at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the International Energy Agency.

A 2014 study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) further explained that we're seeing «an exceptional number» of extreme North American weather in recent years because some Rossby waves are stalling out for extended periods of time: «the study shows that in periods with extreme weather, some of these waves become virtually stalled and greatly amplified.»

Before joining Climate Analytics, Theresa worked as a scientific project coordinator at the Potsdam - Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) supporting the implementation of two EU - funded research projects dealing with climate change in cities and the role of community - based initiatives in the low - carbon transition.

In 2010 there was a publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research by [two Vladimirs — can't ignore such trivialities — of] the German Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel.

The findings have been published November 6, in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, by researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Potsdam University.

Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, head of Earth System Science at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told Readfearn:

However, Professor Richard Betts, head of climate impact research at Exeter University, sounded a note of caution.

It was just plucked from the air by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Berlin, which is Germany's green lobby.

Edited by Katja Frieler, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, and accepted by the Editorial Board August 31, 2013 (received for review January 31, 2013)