From understanding climate change to defining what a bird is, people prefer evidence that is diverse.
In previous entries, Ethicsandclimate.org examined the failure of the US media to communicate about: (a) the nature of the strong scientific consensus about human - induced climate change, (b) the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change, (c) the practical significance for policy that follows
from understanding climate change as essentially an ethical problem, (e) the consistent barrier that the United States has been to finding a global solution to climate change in international climate negotiations, and (f) the failure of the US media to help educate US citizens about the well - financed, well - organized climate change disinformation campaign.
In a recent press release, The National Science Foundation said, «
From understanding climate change to predicting infectious disease outbreaks to engineering solutions to address disability, scientific research is increasingly crossing the boundaries between disciplines.»
Not exact matches
«City officials may not
understand that they will get access to very little of what Google learns
from their citizens... Meanwhile, Google will be gaining insights about urban life — including energy use, transit effectiveness,
climate mitigation strategies, and social service delivery patterns — that it will then be able to resell to cities around the world.
Some leaders have long
understood the importance of «intellectual humility» then, but it's clear
from both the current political
climate and plenty of business missteps that not everyone has internalized the value of incorporating a whole lot of humility into your decision making.
This session will focus on
understanding potential perils —
from food crises to pandemics and
from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.
A second type is historical (sometimes called higher) criticism, which aims to provide a better
understanding of the message of the Bible by viewing its different books
from the standpoint of the period when they were written and the social setting, historical circumstances, and
climate of thought in those times.
Quite obviously, we do not know all that he meant by it — we can not hope to, separated as we are by twenty centuries
from his time and dependent as we are upon a few meager records — but we are by no means altogether in ignorance of his meaning, and as historical research enables us to recover more fully the mental
climate of Jesus» environment, our
understanding becomes deeper and more adequate.
It's as if Paul
understands that our truest heartaches, like his, derive not
from the culture, the economy or the political
climate, but
from the ministry.
If, however, the Catholic now sees that despite, and in addition to, his ethics based on essential natures, he must develop an individual ethics of concrete moral decision which goes beyond mere casuistry, and if the Protestant ethical theorist perhaps realizes that in the new and dangerous situation he must perhaps be less carefree in simply leaving the Christian to his «conscience», then perhaps the new situation will bring about a new
climate in which, even theoretically, people will be compelled more readily to think towards one another rather than away
from one another, and in which people will
understand one another more easily and even gradually unite.
«Though why all these people
from hot desert
climates wan na face Michigan winters, I'll never
understand!
«At a local level we are providing farmers with support to
understand their emissions and how to identify efficiency opportunities, as we work towards a target of
climate neutral growth to 2030 for on farm emissions
from a 2015 baseline.»
With the exception of Neymar, who was new in town and perhaps did not fully
understand the situation (though the match official, knowing better, offered the Brazilian winger no quarter
from the heavy Atletico challenges throughout the game), the rest of the Barcelona side appeared to play with the awareness that the rightful champions of Spain were the blue collar grafters
from Madrid, simply by virtue of having already come so close considering the current
climate of the Spanish game.
@SCFi I
understand that thoroughly, but what does California gain
from signing an accord with China specifically when they've already registered to agree to stick to the Paris accord with the US
Climate alliance?
However, students diverged
from their teachers when it came to
understanding the causes of
climate change.
With funding
from Maryland Sea Grant, a program funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the State of Maryland, Kenney has launched a «listening tour» to
understand the scientific needs of regional and local decision - makers related to increasing resilience to
climate change.
«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to
understand whether evolution to
climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic
climate change on a wide range of organisms
from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.
«The need to
understand the possibilities, limitations, and potential side effects of
climate intervention becomes all the more apparent with the recognition that other countries or the private sector may decide to conduct intervention experiments independently
from the U.S. Government,» the report says.
Its influence on infectious disease is considered by Altizer and colleagues, who use examples
from a wide range of host - pathogen systems to assess whether we are close to a predictive
understanding of
climate - disease interactions and their potential future shifts.
A better
understanding of aerosols, like those
from wildfires in the West, will improve
climate projections
The majority of the US public are known to largely gain their
understanding of
climate change
from the mass media.
«A detailed analysis of emissions
from urban harbours around the world could provide an
understanding of adaptation strategies needed to manage and protect estuaries globally
from future development and
climate change.»
This troubling conclusion comes
from a project to
understand how
climate change might affect the SoCal coast.
To
understand how global carbon in soils will respond to
climate change, the authors stress, more data are needed
from under - and nonrepresented regions, especially the Arctic and the tropics.
The results affirm the strong and growing scientific consensus developing
from the
understanding of the physical origins and consequences of
climate change, as outlined in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Working Group 1 report last September.
Effects
from climate change are on the rise, making it more important than ever to
understand changes in seasonal flooding patterns.
«The ice cores
from Greenland are without a doubt an important key to
understanding the
climate of the past.
Scientists are studying ice
from different
climate periods in the past to better
understand how the ice sheet might respond in the future.
Predicting future biodiversity in these pools will help researchers
understand whether unique fauna will be lost
from the park due to
climate change and contribute to global research attempting to
understand how
climate change will affect whole ecosystems.
Obtaining accurate sea surface temperatures is important for a range of applications —
from weather prediction to
climate modeling to
understanding marine ecosystem fluctuations.
According to Professor Judith Stephenson: «Bringing together natural and social scientists with people
from different organisations and communities in the global South and global North is essential to improve
understanding of the interactions between consumption, demographic change and the
climate, and to devise more scientifically and politically integrated solutions for global health.»
«Studying the PETM helps us
understand the mechanisms that aid recovery
from global warming, thereby helping researchers reduce the uncertainties surrounding the Earth's response to global
climate change,» Ridgwell said.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that integrating evidence
from historical writings with paleoclimate data can advance both our
understanding of how the
climate system functions, and how climatic changes impacted past human societies.
Scientists»
understanding of the
climate during the Pliocene has largely been pieced together
from fossil records preserved in sediments deposited beneath lakes and on the ocean floor.
Finney believes that changes in
climate cause the cycles in salmon populations, and as scientists struggle to
understand the rate and effects of global warming, salmon may help them distinguish normal
climate variations
from the early warnings of a system gone dangerously wrong.
Co-author of the study Professor Ian Hall,
from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Our results highlight the challenge of basing our
understanding of the
climate system on generally short observational records.
By
understanding how these fishes evolved, by
understanding how we got
from the past to the present, we can create a model for predicting what's going to happen as global
climates change, as deforestation continues, and all of these aquatic habitats change.
The study helps researchers
understand the oceanographic processes necessary to better predict future sea - level rise
from the melting of ice sheets due to
climate change.
«The highly accurate and precise data
from Glory, in combination with observations
from the rest of the A-Train, will enable researchers to improve our
understanding of the Earth system by improving our ability predict future
climate,» she said.
Co-author Nerilie Abram,
from the Australian National University, said: «In order to better
understand climate change in Antarctica, we need continued
climate measurements in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean, and extension of these short observational records with past
climate reconstructions and
climate modelling.»
Our new
understanding of
climate and sea - level change sheds light on something that has long puzzled archaeologists: How did modern humans colonize the far reaches of the globe so quickly after their exodus
from Africa?
Understanding Antarctic
climate change is important not only because of the potential sea level rise locked up in the vast Antarctic ice sheet, but also the shift in the westerly winds has moved rainfall away
from southern Australia.
«Assessment has had these phenomenal successes, and that ranges
from framing the
understanding of
climate change to creating foundations that enable people to step forward and try out
climate solutions,» Mach said.
«To
understand the impacts of deforestation and
climate change, we need reliable long - term data on the fauna
from around the world,» explained Dr. Aide.
«We can use those satellite data to better
understand what's happening
from a
climate, economic, and sociological standpoint.»
The new paper stems
from a National Science Foundation - funded, interuniversity research project which focuses on
understanding how water sustainability in the United States has changed over the past 30 years as a result of
climate change and population growth.
Re-creating photographs
from the 1930s can help scientists
understand Greenland's melting glaciers and predict how quickly
climate change might make them disappear into the sea.
Many societies at risk of
climate shocks might benefit
from understanding that resilience — and how to bolster it.
Patterns like these help us explain and
understand biodiversity on a large scale» says lead author and MSc student Jesper Sonne
from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and
Climate at the University of Copenhagen.
They then looked at another source of data: that of the Clouds» and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite instruments which measure fluxes of reflected and emitted radiation
from Earth to space, to help scientists
understand how the
climate varies over time.