Sentences with phrase «technology climate change study»

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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.

The authors of the new study, Steven Smith and Andrew Mizrahi, both climate analysts at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, argue that for one thing, the earlier work assumes that dramatic cuts in methane and soot emissions are feasible based on shifting technologies and changes in human behavior.

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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.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have studied new ways of measuring sea level that could become important tools for testing climate models and for investigating how the sea level along the world's coasts is affected by climate change.

The study, published today in Nature Climate Change, demonstrates the potential environmental, economic, and energy impacts of negative emission technologies for addressing climate Climate Change, demonstrates the potential environmental, economic, and energy impacts of negative emission technologies for addressing climate cChange, demonstrates the potential environmental, economic, and energy impacts of negative emission technologies for addressing climate climate changechange.

The study was the result of an unusual collaboration of a climate scientist, Ken Caldeira, who contributed to the recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, and Nathan Myhrvold, the founder and CEO of a technology corporation, Intellectual Venturclimate scientist, Ken Caldeira, who contributed to the recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, and Nathan Myhrvold, the founder and CEO of a technology corporation, Intellectual VenturClimate Change report, and Nathan Myhrvold, the founder and CEO of a technology corporation, Intellectual Ventures LLC.

-- Kerry Emanuel, who has been studying hurricanes and climate change for decades, has a great page on his Web site at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology consolidating the many competing computer model runs aiming to forecast the strength and track of tropical storms.

(2007) • Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security (2007) • Modelling Investment Risks and Uncertainties with Real Options Approach (2007) • Financing Energy Efficient Homes Existing Policy Responses to Financial Barriers (2007) • CO2 Allowance and Electricity Price Interaction - Impact on Industry's Electricity Purchasing Strategies in Europe (2007) • CO2 Capture Ready Plants (2007) • Fuel - Efficient Road Vehicle Non-Engine Components (2007) • Impact of Climate Change Policy Uncertainty on Power Generation Investments (2006) • Raising the Profile of Energy Efficiency in China — Case Study of Standby Power Efficiency (2006) • Barriers to the Diffusion of Solar Thermal Technologies (2006) • Barriers to Technology Diffusion: The Case of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (2006) • Certainty versus Ambition — Economic Efficiency in Mitigating Climate Change (2006) • Sectoral Crediting Mechanisms for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Institutional and Operational Issues (2006) • Sectoral Approaches to GHG Mitigation: Scenarios for Integration (2006) • Energy Efficiency in the Refurbishment of High - Rise Residential Buildings (2006) • Can Energy - Efficient Electrical Appliances Be Considered «Environmental Goods»?

For months, Sullivan has been tangling with U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas and chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, as he investigates a climate change study done by NOAA scientists.»

A recent multi-model study coordinated by the Energy Modeling Forum at Stanford University (EMF 27) brought together many energy - economic models to assess technology and policy pathways associated with various climate stabilization targets (e.g., 450, 550 ppm CO2 equivalent or CO2e), partially in support of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate stabilization targets (e.g., 450, 550 ppm CO2 equivalent or CO2e), partially in support of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate Change (IPCC).

Soon after Karl et al. published their study, Rep. Lamar Smith (R - Texas), Chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology — who disputes the scientific consensus on climate change — subpoenaed the scientists» documents and communications.

Isn't it time to increase funding to scientists studying climate change and new and better technologies that will capture clean energy, rather than bank role fossil fuels.

Study Group 2 was entrusted by WTDC - 10 with the study of nine Questions in the areas of information and communication infrastructure and technology development, emergency telecommunications and climate - change adaptaStudy Group 2 was entrusted by WTDC - 10 with the study of nine Questions in the areas of information and communication infrastructure and technology development, emergency telecommunications and climate - change adaptastudy of nine Questions in the areas of information and communication infrastructure and technology development, emergency telecommunications and climate - change adaptation.

«Right now, all of the decisions regarding climate - change policy are made by five people — in general, officials from the Ministry of External Relations and the Ministry of Science and Technology,» says Monzoni, who runs the Center for Sustainability Studies at Brazilian university Fundação Getulio Vargas.

«Cutting down rainforests to grow biofuel crops will likely never be a winning proposition for climate change or the environment, even considering projected improvements in agricultural and energy technology,» said Gibbs, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and lead author of the study.

National Research Council; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Board on Atmospheric Studies and Climate; Water Science and Technology Board; Committee on Population; Committee on Himalayan Glaciers, Hydrology, Climate Change, and Implications for Water Security

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Studies suggest people with right - leaning political views tend to prefer technology fixes to address climate change.

Cap and trade programs to reduce emissions do not inherently provide incentives to induce the private sector to develop innovative technologies to address climate change, according to a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RRC.AP), a UNEP collaboration centre located in the Asian Institute of Technology, entrusted to the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) the task of conducting an in - depth research into the determinants and effectiveness of local - level adaptation to climate change as part of an initiative called the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asiaclimate change as part of an initiative called the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia change as part of an initiative called the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for AsiaClimate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia (AKP).

Her research interests include agro-ecology and climate - smart agriculture, energy landscapes, land use change, new media, and science and technology studies.

Included in this set of studies are the following: Carolyn Fischer (Resources for the Future) and Richard Newell (U.S. Energy Information Administration, on leave from Duke University), «Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation»; Stephen Schneider (late of Stanford University) and Lawrence Goulder (Stanford University), «Achieving Low - Cost Emissions Targets»; and Daren Acemoglu (MIT), Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn, and David Hemous (Harvard University), «The Environment and Directed Technical Change.»

That the researcher responsible for the study is clearly not a «climate change denier» makes the IPCC's credibility gap all the more significant, and it raises new questions regarding the fundamental credibility of any claim coming from an organization which has relied on shaky science to back its demand for the power to take $ 76 trillion from the economies of the industrialized world and «redistribute» those funds for «green technologies» in the third world.

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It looks as if the study - conducted by a team led by Robert Howarth, and to be published in May's Climatic Change Letters - has put shale - gas, extracted using controversial hydraulic fracturing technology, at the top of the climate impact bad - boy league.

In studies funded by the National Science Foundation, his research has investigated public disagreement over climate change, public reactions to emerging technologies, and conflicting public impressions of scientific consensus.

Some commenters skeptical of the severity of projected climate change have recently seized on two sources to argue that the climate may be less sensitive than many scientists say and the impacts of climate change therefore less serious: A yet - to - be-published study from Norwegian researchers, and remarks by James Annan, a climate scientist with the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC).

And there's lots of money to be doled out to researchers studying climate change and new energy technologies.

Just to be clear, I'm not against studying climate change, or funding research into technology that can mitigate human effects on the environment.

Scientific studies have determined that current technology is sufficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to avoid dangerous climate change.

FCEA co-executive director Professor Simon Nicholson will discuss climate engineering technologies in light of recent developments in climate change science and politics, including the recent United Nations meeting and new studies that show pathways to meeting 1.5 and 2 degree targets.

A major «scientific» study issued in the summer of 2013 by a climate researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) warned of increased activity of killer hurricanes because of global warming / climate change.

Dec 10, 2007 — Scientists from Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory will report this week on vital topics including new evidence of the effects of climate change; technologies to confront it; studies of eastern U.S. earthquake risk; and previously unseen inner workings of the deep polar ice caps.

With concerns over climate change and health impacts of air pollution growing and due to cost reductions in renewable technology, similar developments are taking place in many parts of the world, making the German experience an interesting case study for energy policy in other countries.