Sentences with phrase «about climate research»

For more in - depth information about climate research go to our Research web pages.

I think what Hansen did raises a whole host of very important issues about climate research, the science - policy interface, and how research is publicized.

Then ask students in each group to create a list of facts about the climate they researched and have a volunteer from each group read those facts to the rest of the class.

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It describes how Exxon conducted cutting - edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.

Whitehouse has made the revelations about Exxon's climate science research the subject of several of his recent weekly speeches.

Our office has spent the last eight years hosting the Climate Justice Project, a research and public engagement network that has produced a large volume of work about how to transition off fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner — an alliance that brings together a wide range of NGOs and academics.

Read here about Rodale Institute's research on reversing climate change through regenerative organic agriculture in this recent op - ed in the New York Times.

More of us would be tucking into climate - friendly food if enough information were given about it, according to research from Finland.

As he explained to the Financial Times: «[Granata and I] were both very concerned by climate change and we wanted to do something about it, so we started meeting scientists at the Polytechnic University of Milan and started research to develop that technology.»

Apart from providing an excellent opportunity for alliteration, what can research into social media tell us about the «contributors, content, connections, and contexts» of climate communication?

Environmentalists are bringing a giant yellow oil barrel across New York State to bring attention to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's fight to extract internal research from Exxon Mobile about climate change.

He described Pawa, and his knowledge about the oil industry and its research on climate change, as an asset.

Leading U.S. scientists have complained about threatening communications and abusive e-mails as a result of their research on the climate impact of heat - trapping gases from human activity.

When compared to other religious groups, Evangelicals have often been more wary of science as evidenced in debates about evolution, stem cell research, and climate change.

Yet the new endorsement of geoengineering research comes amid deep uncertainty about the direction that climate research will take under the new administration of President - elect Donald Trump.

The administration called for more research and created the Climate Change Research Initiative to concentrate on areas of uncertainty about the scope, pace, and effects of climateresearch and created the Climate Change Research Initiative to concentrate on areas of uncertainty about the scope, pace, and effects of climate Climate Change Research Initiative to concentrate on areas of uncertainty about the scope, pace, and effects of climateResearch Initiative to concentrate on areas of uncertainty about the scope, pace, and effects of climate climate change.

«The delay in the emergence of the benefits also suggest that we should start sooner rather than later to think seriously about mitigation,» said paper author Claudia Tebaldi, a research scientist at Climate Central and a visiting scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Rresearch scientist at Climate Central and a visiting scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric ResearchResearch.

Jessica Wentz, associate director and a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, wrote in a blog post that the phrasing shift is more technically precise and likely addresses concerns about how far an agency needs to go in calculating emissions.

Research needs still not met Luce said those on the front lines of forest management have a lot to think about, and planning specifically for how climate change will impact drought conditions is «probably at the early stages.»

Lisa Graumlich, a University of Washington paleoecologist who served on another British group, led by Lord Ronald Oxburgh, looked into a broader charge: whether there was something «fundamentally broken» about the integrity of the Climate Research Unit.

With all the discussion about global climate change effects, new research shows that another kind of climate is an important factor in regional pinyon pine tree recovery after drought events — the microclimate.

SHANGHAI, CHINA — China today unveiled a sweeping revamp of its bureaucracy that is expected to reap benefits for public health, the environment, and combatting climate change — while raising questions about the management of basic research.

«There's definitely been a shift,» said Taylor Dimsdale, senior research associate with E3G, about the understanding of linkages between social strife, food prices and climate change.

But there's a gap between the scientific community and the public — about half of Americans said they do not believe humans are mostly responsible for climate change, according to a 2014 AAAS Pew Research survey.

But Jennifer Francis, a Rutgers University researcher who uses satellite data to study Arctic climate change, said she had questions about the research.

Before joining Scientific American, he was senior writer at Climate Central, a nonprofit research and journalism organization, and before that he spent nearly 21 years at Time magazine, where he wrote more than 50 cover stories on about science and the environment, along with many smaller pieces.

Ongoing research at each of the reserves provides real - time data about how climate change impacts these important natural resources.

As part of their weeklong orientation, they worked with a media trainer and each other to develop and refine key messages about their climate change research, and they began to develop public - engagement plans to be implemented at each of their institutions.

To see how increased temperatures might contribute to the reductions in the river's flow that have been observed since 2000, Udall and Overpeck reviewed and synthesized 25 years of research about how climate and climate change have and will affect the region and how temperature and precipitation affect the river's flows.

The administration and congressional Republicans have already spoken about removing or replacing climate research at other federal agencies, as well.

An extensive body of prior research has revealed students have many misconceptions about climate change, confusing it, for example, with causing acid rain and ozone depletion, as well as linking it to skin cancer, the authors note.

Sea - level rise and coral bleaching often dominate discussions about how climate change affects the ocean, but a host of more subtle — and harder to research — trends also play a role in reshaping the world's marine ecosystems.

Credit growing concerns about climate and computer advances that make it easier to fashion custom - shaped panels, says Sam Zelinka, head of building and fire sciences research at the Forest Products Laboratory, an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in Madison.

«A reminder: virtually all we know about Earth's atmosphere & oceans comes from sustained decades of government - funded scientific research,» tweeted Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate researcher.

Committee members also devoted a significant portion of the hearing to a recent controversial article about climate change research, recently published in the Daily Mail, a London tabloid newspaper.

These include the investigation into leaked e-mails from University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) gaffe about rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers, and the failure to achieve a strong outcome at the Copenhagen climate conference last DeClimate Change's (IPCC's) gaffe about rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers, and the failure to achieve a strong outcome at the Copenhagen climate conference last Declimate conference last December.

The research team showed that prior to the industrial period (pre AD 1800), changes in the North Atlantic Ocean, brought about by variations in the Sun's activity and volcanic eruptions, were driving our climate and led to changes in the atmosphere, which subsequently impacted our weather.

About a dozen research groups recently launched a new effort called PlioMIP2, or Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 2, to model the climate of a time somewhat similar to today in the mid-Pliocene, about 3.205 million yearsAbout a dozen research groups recently launched a new effort called PlioMIP2, or Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 2, to model the climate of a time somewhat similar to today in the mid-Pliocene, about 3.205 million yearsabout 3.205 million years ago.

Uncertainty about rain, little uncertainty about sea level rise Climate change could also affect precipitation in California, though the two models USGS used in its research produced different results.

Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more powerful and increased its deadly flooding, according to new research released as major storms may be driving more Americans to worry about global warming.

Given the current competitive climate for hiring and advancement, the panel agreed that young scientists who are not deeply passionate about their research need to reconsider their career choices.

The scientists generated the enormous dataset by running NCAR's Weather Research and Forecasting model at an extremely high resolution of about 4 kilometers (about 2.5 miles), across the entire contiguous U.S. Typical climate models only resolve to about 100 kilometers (about 62 miles)-- not nearly the detail available in the new dataset.

Between being run out of [the popular statistics blog FiveThirtyEight.com] for writing on my research last year and what's happening this week [in] Congress, a lot of folks want to make the issues surrounding climate about me, instead of the issues.

(Read Douglas Fox's story about this research expedition in «The Ground Zero of Climate Change,» DISCOVER, September 2008.)

Their research, published in Nature Climate Change on June 29, is the first attempt to examine and document these changes in the air - sea heat exchange in the region — brought about by global warming — and to consider its possible impact on oceanic circulation, including the climatologically important Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

«Scientists have talked about Arctic melting and albedo decrease for nearly 50 years,» said Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps who has previously conducted similar research on the global dimming effects of aerosols.

«There are a lot of people in those programs worried about climate and energy research.

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But the AGU believes that a broader solution is needed, which is why the statement calls on members to become more involved not only in researching the problem but also spreading the word about the urgency of controlling climate change, something many scientists have been loathe to do in the past, Killeen admits.

«In context of climate change, you see increases of both insect outbreaks and fires, which has sparked concerns about their interactions,» said Garrett Meigs, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Vermont and lead author of the study.