Sentences with phrase «climate analysis requires»

Furthermore, good climate analysis requires more than a knowledge of «atmospheric physics or climate science.»

Climate analysis requires absolute accuracy as a means of ensuring long term data quality if technology changes are to be made.

Not exact matches

In fact, the mitigation pledges collected under the ongoing Cancun Agreements, conceived during the 2010 climate talks, would lead to global average temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius, according to multiple analyses — and may not lead to a peaking of greenhouse gas emissions this decade required to meet that goal.

Understanding how that would affect the climate will require going beyond historical records of climate change, or even the information encoded in tree rings or ice cores, to what scientists call «deep time» records of conditions on Earth, according to a new NAS analysis.

«That would require a regional economic analysis for damages from acid rain and carbon dioxide and the benefits of reduced climate change,» said Wigley.

Radiocarbon dating laboratories have been known to use data from The application of radiocarbon dating to groundwater analysis can Table of Contents Search for printer HOME: The Discovery of Global Warming July 2004: Uses of Radiocarbon Dating Climate science required

The law further required that no later than February 1, 2012, the Connecticut State Department of Education submit a report on «the number of verified acts of bullying in the state, an analysis of the responsive action taken by school districts and any recommendations it may have regarding additional activities or funding to prevent bullying in schools and improve school climate.»

In fact, the more I think about it, the more I think that doing the basic analysis is so easy that it ought to be required of anyone who wants to be taken seriously in a discussion of climate in which math, data, and science are involved.

Words are required to articulate the Meaning of the Numbers, the Data, and the analysis of that data by the wizards in Climate Science.

Building this ability will require careful monitoring of climate conditions, improved models for projecting changes, and the interpretation and synthesis of scientific data using novel analysis techniques.

First Climate can support you in this area; from the analysis of your baseline to the delivery of the required emission allowances.

If the climate science does not provide the information that is required for rational policy analysis then the climate science is irrelevant.

regulars and those responding to this thread in particular may be interested in the class assignment I presently have underway: students are required to select an environmental issue of interest to them and compare the blogging from three sites that reflect a stasist perspective (command and control, science certainty, centalised government, precautionary principle) with the blogging from three dynamist sites (libertarian, individual responsibility, free market, adaptation over prevention, non-dogma): I expect that several of the students will use climate change as a topic and would expect that climate audit, real climate and prometheus will be prominent in the analysis.

Abstract: An analysis of the climate impact of various forms of beef production is carried out, with a particular eye to the comparison between systems relying primarily on grasses grown in pasture («grass - fed» or «pastured» beef) and systems involving substantial use of manufactured feed requiring significant external inputs in the form of synthetic fertilizer and mechanized agriculture («feedlot» beef).

It seems that the definition of «consensus» varies by field, just as the decision - making framework does, with unanimity or near unanimity expected from the scientific community, even including those scientists who in many cases have not really embedded themselves in the literature nor been required to put together a coherent assembly and analysis of scientific knowledge (and even including, somehow, CEI's [Competitive Enterprise Institute] lawyers with their ExxonMobil support, who are often quoted as the contrary view in papers on the science of climate change).

A stern lesson from history Wyatt / Curry stadium waves require confirmation from analysis and computation; otherwise they risk being regarded as one more statistics - driven model, of which the climate literature already contains innumerably many... this large corpus of cycle - seeking pure - statistics climate models is (rightly) ignored by most scientists, due to the dismal track record of cycle - seeking science in regard to explanatory and predictive power.

The most recent analysis by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecasts a global sea - level rise for this century of somewhere between one and three feet; the new findings, according to Rignot, will require these figures to be revised upward.

To address the scientific, cultural, health, and social issues arising from climate change requires an in - depth and cross-disciplinary analysis of the role of uncertainty in all of the three principal systems involved: The physical climate system, people's cognitive system and how that construes and potentially distorts the effects of uncertainty, and the social systems underlying the political and public debates surrounding climate change.

Failure requires a root cause analysis, what the climate world calls «attribution.»

Requires the EPA Administrator to offer to enter into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to report to Congress and the EPA Administrator by July 1, 2014, and every four years thereafter on: (1) the latest climate change science; and (2) an analysis of technologies to achieve reductions in GHG emissions.

So why does atmospheric, climate, etc. require logical analysis?

Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress by July 1, 2013, and every four years thereafter, on an analysis of: (1) key findings based on the latest scientific information relevant to global climate change; (2) capabilities to monitor and verify GHG reductions on a worldwide basis; and (3) the status of worldwide efforts for reducing GHG emission, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

who conclude that «Simply put, the current suite of climate models were not developed to provide the level of accuracy required for adaptation - type analysis.»

Step one requires an analysis of the baseline scenario: What is the climate impact of your product development or usage?

Many climate trends are small and require careful analysis of long time series of sufficient length, consistency, and continuity to distinguish between the natural long - term climate variability and any small, persistent climate changes.

This implies that in these cases a careful analysis of the implications of projected changes for the specific temporal and spatial characteristic of the climate variables relevant to the system at risk is required.

If all goes well — which for Picarro means, essentially, that the world takes seriously the challenge of climate change, and institutes some kind of cap - and - trade or carbon - tax mechanism that requires detailed analysis of exactly who is pumping what into the atmosphere — then Picarro is looking at a solidly growing market.

But you and I differ in that I am willing to «wait and see» to what degree the L&S analysis proves to be right or wrong whereas — if I understand you correctly — you think the matter requires rejection of the L&S conclusion concerning climate sensitivity.

To that end I provided paleo data that is required for climate scale analysis.

A Breakthrough analysis found that rebound effects as high as 60 percent (the IEA's high - end scenario) will have significant implications for global climate mitigation efforts, requiring as much as 13 percent more clean energy supply by 2035 to meet higher global energy demand — equivalent to the total energy consumption of 19 Australias.

Recent global climate change is well documented [44] and is confounded in time with the recent declines of amphibians [2], which requires careful analyses to distinguish correlation from causation.

Surprisingly, the scientists said, this appeared to coincide with wide glaciation, an analysis, wrote Crayton J. Yapp and Harald Poths in the journal Nature, that «suggests that the climate models require modification.»

Pielke has a more defensible argument — «'' Thirty years is not an appropriate length of time for a climate analysis, much less finding causal factors like climate change,» — and he's bright enough to cherry pick data sets with a lot of noise and statistically infrequent occurrences that do require more than 30 years (look!

That means requiring full transparency of data and methods used in climate science research, and third party review of the data, analysis, and models.

The detection of the anthropogenic climate signal thus requires at least the analysis of long records, because we can be easily fooled by the natural fluctuations, and we need to understand their dynamics to better estimate the internal noise level.

(xiv) have classified and unclassified capabilities, as required and appropriate, to consolidate and make available climate change - related impact information, intelligence analyses, and assessments for access and use by Working Group member agencies;

Since such analyses require that like is compared with like, rainfall simulations in climate models are often «masked» to match the area covered by available observations.

The detection of the anthropogenic climate signal thus requires at least the analysis of long records, because we can be easily fooled by the short - term natural fluctuations, and we need to understand their dynamics to better estimate the noise level.

Streams of daily data are the outputs most commonly used from these sources, and these may pose computational difficulties for assessing impacts in IAMs (which commonly consider only large - scale, period - averaged climate), requiring scenario analysis to be carried out offline.

The debate among experts in the climate sciences — and those interested in the public policy implications of climate change — concerns the magnitude and speed of future warming, which requires understanding of the dynamics of the many factors involved — which are investigated by analysis of past and current climate data.

The mass media can play an important role in providing health information and related issues for parents and caregivers.10 However, adolescents are typically portrayed in the media as hostile, violent, delinquent, alienated from parents and families, and resistant to any assistance.3, 51,52 In news and television coverage, content analyses found that adolescents are depicted as perpetrators or victims of crime and violence, problem - ridden and disruptive.51, 52 In addition to the mass media images, public attitudes towards adolescents are predominately negative.51 A population approach to build a climate of public interest and responsiveness will require actively working towards counteracting the predominantly negative media coverage of adolescents.3 Media messages can raise parents» awareness and willingness to attend parenting programmes by normalizing their experiences of receiving professional support.