Sentences with phrase «about climate study»

NOAA denied those accusations, and refused to offer up some of the records that Smith asked for, such as all email correspondence about the climate study in question.

What does that say about climate study peer review?

Students and teachers are encouraged to visit the following linked webpages for questions and answers about climate studies and other topics of interest.

Read something / anything from Lindzen if you want to know the real skeptic viewpoint about climate studies — don't waste time with «skeptic» bloggers who are guessing nearly as much as true believers.

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The study, published by the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20 % annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011.

«According to the studies [the Government Accountability Office] reviewed, climate change may substantially increase losses by 2040 and increase losses from about 50 to 100 percent by 2100,» GAO wrote in a 2014 study.

In material supplementing one of his studies, Brulle documented Exxon donations directly to climate denial groups such as the Heartland Institute, up until about 2008.

But they may not be as familiar with the vast array of academic studies on effective communication about climate change.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A North Carolina State University study of middle school science classes explored whether teachers» beliefs about climate change influenced students» perceptions.

It helps lay a foundation that scientists can apply to make predictions about what would allow life to alter exoplanets» atmospheres, and may inspire deeper studies, here on Earth, of how oceanic - atmospheric chemistry drives climate instability and influences the rise and fall of life through the ages.

A new study of artifacts from a cave in Israel suggests that our ancestors began regularly using fire about 350,000 years ago — far enough back to have shaped our culture and behavior but too recent to explain our big brains or our expansion into cold climates.

The study results raise questions about the best way for researchers and other groups to communicate climate change to an audience that may not trust them as a reliable source of information.

«Much of our historical data about species» population - level responses to climate change comes from observational studies, which can suggest but not confirm causation,» said Anne Marie Panetta, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO).

Synthesizing about 1000 scientific studies and reports, the scientists were now able to give a balanced report on the changes in all 14 ecosystem functions, including gas and climate regulation, water regulation and supply, moderation of extreme events, provision of food and raw materials, as well as medicinal resources.

A key goal of the study was to understand how creationist interest groups, science interest groups, public opinion about evolution and political climate influence the political - reform process related to how evolution is taught in schools.

Climate velocity was first established in 2009 in a study estimating that species would have to move about a quarter - mile a year on average over the next 85 years.

After plugging all this information into computer models, they found that access to scientific information has a minimal effect on the public's opinion about climate change, while weather extremes have no noticeable effect whatsoever (which slightly contrasts with a 2011 study).

«This study raises new questions about what climate change will do to severe thunderstorms and what is responsible for recent trends,» says Tippett, who is also a member of the Data Science Institute and the Columbia Initiative on Extreme Weather and Cclimate change will do to severe thunderstorms and what is responsible for recent trends,» says Tippett, who is also a member of the Data Science Institute and the Columbia Initiative on Extreme Weather and ClimateClimate.

«For me, to be concerned about it [climate change] at my level and at my point, I don't think it's useful for me,» said another farmer in Niles» study.»

Sarah Reece, a malaria researcher at Edinburgh University, UK, who reviewed the study but was not involved in the work, says that although interest in the effects of climate change on the transmission of malaria is increasing, details about the interactions between parasites and mosquitoes are often overlooked.»

Hessl, a geographer from West Virginia University, studies tree rings for what they can tell us about climate and past environments.

The project studies water resources in the Phoenix area with the goal of understanding decisions about scarce water resources and their impacts: How do water managers think about climate uncertainty?

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

But that may be about to change, thanks to a new type of climate study that can connect individual weather events with the impact of human - made greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate deniers study tree rings, ice cores and the ppm of greenhouse gases because they are passionate about freedom, especially that of markets and industries to operate unencumbered by restrictive government regulations.

Regardless of political affiliation, people are more likely to believe facts about climate change when they come from Republicans speaking against what has become a partisan interest in this country, says a new University of Connecticut study.

A groundbreaking 2016 paper, one of the first to conduct a large - scale analysis of shrinking mountain glaciers around the globe, concluded that all but one of the 37 studied sites were «very likely» retreating because of climate change — and at 21 of those sites, the influence of climate change was just about certain.

The two studies improve our understand of Greenland's deep past, while raising questions about both the past and future of its giant ice sheet in a changing climate.

If American teens are unsure about climate change or its cause, some school textbooks aren't helping, says teaching expert Diego Román, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, co-author of a new study on the subject.

The IPCC draft report is the third and final study in a U.N. series about climate change, updating findings from 2007, after the Japan report about the impacts and one in September in Sweden about climate science.

Yesterday's study suggests that total glacier volume across all the investigated basins will decrease by about 43 percent by the year 2100, even if the world takes serious steps to mitigate climate change.

Such studies have concluded that species» ranges shift northwards as the climate warms, but looking at density shifts provides more detailed information about changes in the abundance of species.

«The study is of particular importance for the current debate about climate change,» says Manning.

Density estimates provide significantly more information about species» response to climate change than only studying their ranges, which has been standard practice in these kinds of studies until now.

James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and a vociferous advocate for lowering global greenhouse gas emissions, was chosen for his work modeling Earth's climate, predicting global warming, and warning the world about the consequences.

A new study by WCS and other groups offers a glimmer of hope for some amphibian populations decimated by the deadly chytrid fungus: climate change may make environmental conditions for the fungus unsuitable in some regions and potentially stave off the spread of disease in African amphibian populations struggling to adapt to changes brought about by global warming.

Regardless of the original intent of the study, Lee keeps coming back to what his results say about potential effects of climate change on perennial plants.

While the measured kidney injury resolved within two days post-marathon, the study still raises questions about the effects of repeated strenuous activity over time, especially in warm climates.

As the climate changes, studies have pointed to the idea that dry spells increase in frequency and wet spells increase in intensity, although there is not a consensus about what will happen to the Indian monsoon, Singh said.

That's the conclusion of a 5 - year study, which found that when news organizations ran a number of stories on controversial topics like water quality and climate change in close succession, they significantly boosted public conversations about these topics — and even changed some people's minds.

The Nature Climate Change study estimates the Clean Power Plan accounts for about half of emissions cuts from the U.S.'s current and proposed policies.

In a study published Dec. 15 in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers from the University of Washington looked at the abstracts from more than 700 scientific papers about climate change to find out what makes a paper influential in its field.

The studies cited in Crichton's book are still bandied about in chat rooms and climate blogs scattered across the Web.

But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aClimate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aclimate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

The main hope of rescuing the mission, intended to study the planet's climate, appears to be a second try at inserting it into orbit when it approaches the planet again in about 6 years.

The sediment cores used in this study cover a period when the planet went through many climate cycles driven by variations in Earth's orbit, from extreme glacial periods such as the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, when massive ice sheets covered the northern parts of Europe and North America, to relatively warm interglacial periods with climates more like today's.

«This study adds to a growing body of knowledge about the increases in wildfire risk and climate change,» said Chris Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

«Our intent was to create a climate change resource that will be relevant to people who work, study, recreate, manage and care about the ecosystems in the Central Hardwoods Region.»