Sentences with phrase «most climate studies»

By Fred Pearce How did the Romans manage to grow grapes in northern England when most climate studies suggest the weather was much cooler then?

In order to obtain their result, the authors analysed an ensemble of 68 possible climate responses to the same idealized scenario of increased concentration of carbon dioxide, more than most climate studies up to date.

Most climate studies like those that look at global warming and its links to carbon dioxide emissions have examined changes that emerge gradually and steadily over decades or centuries.

How did the Romans manage to grow grapes in northern England when most climate studies suggest the weather was much cooler then?

Watson said most climate studies on biodiversity focus on the effects climate change could have 50 to 100 years from now.

Not exact matches

This «disaster» story is by far the most common one in the coverage of climate change, as shown by several studies.

A new study I carried out for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it examstudy I carried out for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it examStudy of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it examined.

It's fair to guess he was alluding to efforts by various elected officials to limit further investment in climate change studies, renewable energy technologies and proposals for outside - the - box basic research — the type of high - risk but also potentially high - payoff investigations from which transformative developments most often emerge.

Unfortunately, the results of this study suggest that some yellow warbler populations that are most genetically vulnerable to climate change have already been declining over the past half - century, says Bay.

Chris Nadeau is studying a species of water flea whose tiny, easily replicated and manipulated rock pool habitats make them ideal test subjects for predicting how climate change affects the planet's most vulnerable species.

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

However, a number of studies have indicated that climate models underestimate the loss of Arctic sea ice, which is why the models might not be the most suitable tools to quantify the future evolution of the ice cover.

The new study presents the most convincing evidence so far that abrupt climate change was instrumental in this development.

In its most recent study of the impact of climate change, the Bureau of Meteorology noted that average temperatures across Australia have increased by almost 1 °C since 1910, and could rise by up to 5 °C by 2070.

A new study attempts to estimate the effects of climate change on global agriculture — and outline ways to mitigate its most dire consequences

Nadeau also studies the potential impacts of climate change on species around the globe, using modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on animal populations.

Although not all the studies agree, most climate scientists argue that, yes, Antarctica is losing mass in a warming world

Such work is necessary for more accurately predicting future climate trends and helping governments prepare for the most severe scenarios, says study coauthor Amy Hessl, a physical geographer at West Virginia University in Morgantown.

A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.

The most likely scenario studied was based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's projections of sea level height by 2100 and corresponding changes in reef structure.

The study does a «very nice job» of using different approaches to show that climate change is a dominant force, says Thomas Lovejoy, president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment in Washington, D.C. «I think the single most important public policy [issue] here is agreeing on what the limit should be on greenhouse gas concentration,» he says.

Until now, most estimates of how many species are threatened by climate change have been based on theoretical studies that look at the climatic and environmental conditions that species need to survive, and overlay this with estimates of how much suitable habitat will remain as the world warms.

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

«One can already suspect that the mutation rate of carnivores, especially bears, will be most likely different from that of primates,» argues bioinformaticist Axel Janke of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Center in Germany, one of the researchers behind the study published in Science.

«These areas are most susceptible to climate warming in the coming century in Antarctica, because they are the closest to the melt threshold,» says climatologist Andrew Monaghan of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., who was not involved in this study but reviewed the research.

Most recently, he reported on the diversity of oceanic viral communities in a special issue of the journal Science featuring the Tara Oceans Expedition, a global study of the impact of climate change on the world's oceans.

«Most modeling studies that look at the impact of climate change on crop yield and the fate of agriculture don't take into account whether the water available for irrigation will change,» Monier says.

At the same time, new studies of climate sensitivity — the amount of warming expected for a doubling of carbon dioxide levels from 0.03 to 0.06 percent in the atmosphere — have suggested that most models are too sensitive.

The new study published in the peer - reviewed journal Global Change Biology says such increased flow variability has the most negative effect on salmon populations of several climate factors considered.

«The conclusion of the study indicates that there is a statistically significant relationship between fire and same - summer droughts in most regions, while antecedent climate conditions play a relatively minor role, except in few specific ecoregions.

A recent study found that fire seasons grew longer by almost 20 percent in a span of 35 years in most parts of the world, and linked this lengthening to climate change.

The study's second most promising climate engineering strategy, after carbon sequestration, was carbon capture and storage, particularly when the technique is used near where fuels are being refined.

A new study from climate scientists Robert DeConto at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard at Pennsylvania State University suggests that the most recent estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for future sea - level rise over the next 100 years could be too low by almost a factor climate scientists Robert DeConto at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard at Pennsylvania State University suggests that the most recent estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for future sea - level rise over the next 100 years could be too low by almost a factor Climate Change for future sea - level rise over the next 100 years could be too low by almost a factor of two.

«Where climate change is most likely to induce food violence: Study finds capable governments more important than weather.»

Most studies of this kind look only at the extent to which climate shocks affect crop yield — the amount of product harvested from a given unit of agricultural land.

Tropical deforestation and climate change are expected to have serious negative effects on most tropical species, but few species have been studied for more than a few years, and they are usually studied in a single site.

Most focus on droughts, floods or other disasters that arguably have cut off empires; the new study is one of the few to explore the more complex question how climate might have invigorated one.

Our study allows us to target conservation efforts on those species that are most negatively affected by climate, to help them persist under future climate change.»

We need more empirical studies to truly understand who will be most affected by climate change in the future.»

Most climate negotiation modeling studies have used social dilemma games such as the prisoner's dilemma, in which the best interests of the individual agent are not the same as those of the whole.

Hammer, who came to the United States from Guatemala as a child, «has studied how the cities and regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and sea - level rise also have large Hispanic populations — something she learned firsthand growing up in South Florida,» according to a White House statement.

An astrophysicist named Wei - Hock «Willie» Soon affiliated with the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics had published a study suggesting that climate change was caused mainly by the sun, a theory that most climate scientists would classify as hogwash.

Perhaps most chillingly, the study reveals how inadequate our present observing systems still are when it comes to certain fundamental climate questions — such as whether the world is getting more or less cloudy, Stevens adds.

Most conservation planning in Madagascar prioritizes areas containing the highest species diversity or the greatest number of unique species, not habitats those species might move to in the future under climate change, said Brown, who was a postdoctoral researcher at Duke at the time of the study.

«Most of the previous research of the past climate in this region is based on detailed studies of specific sites,» said the lead author Jessica Oster, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University.

This way, scientists studied three variables (maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation) in the Pyrenees in the period 1910 - 2013; «this is one of the most extensive climate records to date for this study area,» stresses Sigró.

The results demonstrate that behaviors, such as eating and mating, are extremely sensitive to thermal change, especially compared to sprinting speed, a physiological trait used by most studies to measure climate change effects.

For the study, five cultures were kept under a constant temperature and three different concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2): a control value with today's conditions, the conditions that could be reached until the end of this century according to the most critical calculations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the highest possible degree of acidification.

After analyzing the biological characteristics of 1,074 marine fish and shellfish, the study identified 294 species that are most at - risk due to climate change by 2050.

The study is the most detailed assessment to date of the interwoven effects of climate policy on the economy, air pollution, and the cost of health problems related to air pollution.