Sentences with phrase «ancient climate research»

«Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past: Scientists conduct ancient climate research on oldest cave glacier in the world.»

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A University of Alaska Fairbanks - led research project has provided the first modern evidence of a landscape - level permafrost carbon feedback, in which thawing permafrost releases ancient carbon as climate - warming greenhouse gases.

LaLueza - Fox sees such research as an indication that scientists can reliably collect ancient DNA from hotter climates, where much of human prehistory played out.

New research using ancient animal depictions tracks the collapse of Egypt's ecological networks one extinction at a time, offering a glimpse into how climate change and human impacts have altered the structure and stability of ecosystems over millennia.

Research led by the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) at the University of Adelaide, published in Science Advances, has revealed that it was only when the climate warmed, long after humans first arrived in Patagonia, did the megafauna suddenly die off around 12,300 years ago.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

By analyzing the chemical clues locked inside an ancient Martian meteorite known as Black Beauty, Florida State University Professor Munir Humayun and an international research team are revealing the story of Mars» ancient, and sometimes startling, climate history.

Extensive systems of fossilised riverbeds have been discovered on an ancient region of the Martian surface, supporting the idea that the now cold and dry Red Planet had a warm and wet climate about 4 billion years ago, according to UCL - led research.

The research from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used topographical and atmospheric data collected by the Pioneer and Magellan space probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it iresearch from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used topographical and atmospheric data collected by the Pioneer and Magellan space probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it iResearch Letters, used topographical and atmospheric data collected by the Pioneer and Magellan space probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it is today.

Information packs include facts about the country, its location, geography, modern history, ancient history, climate, general information, famous people and inventions etc Display • Photo packs for each country • Country names flashcards, key word flashcards, food flashcards, population statistics poster, A4 flags Maps and Activities • Maps of each country, Scandinavia, the Arctic circle, Europe, the world, continents, map jigsaw, maps to colour, matching cards, flag activities, Language (As Swedish is the most common language spoken across Scandinavia resources are included in this languages) • Number flashcards from 1 - 20 in Swedish • Days of the week in English and Swedish flashcards • Months of the year flashcards in English and Swedish • Common phrases cards — in English and Swedish • Colour flashcards in Swedish • A4 speech bubbles showing «hello» in each Scandinavian language Activities • Themed writing paper with flags to frame pupils work • Writing activities, drawing activities, make a presentation, research note pad, place mat, reward chart, word search, quiz, etc Borders, Banners and Buntings • Extra large lettering spelling «SCANDINAVIA» • Long banners for each country name, buntings with names • patterned and plain display borders and packing paper if needed

Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski — world - renowned expert on the ancient ice cores used in climate research — says the U.N. «based its global - warming hypothesis on arbitrary assumptions and these assumptions, it is now clear, are false.»

I researched many climate scientists (ancient and modern) who saw a very clear link between CEt and global temperature.

An ancient lake whose shores vacillated between lush forests and dry savannahs shows how the changing climate may have shaped humanity's dawn in eastern Africa, according to new research.

Whether the current conditions are because of «climate change» I can't say, although researching the Arctic for my next article I was startled to see how many substantial ancient villages there were that were subsequently abandoned as climate change forced them to relocate.

And earlier research into ancient climates has confirmed that greenhouse - driven warming could all but erase the ice, and change the world dramatically.

The announcement comes as research published by the National Academies shows that extreme heat waves can be attributed with near - certainty to climate change; a NOAA study links global warming to toxic algae blooms; and paleoclimatic research shows that Antarctic glaciers fluctuated with ancient CO2 levels, raising sea level tens of meters when CO2 levels were just 500 ppm.

Unfortunately, they conveniently ignore (or are unaware) the empirical evidence that climate change is a constant, which has produced ancient and geological era extremes in weather and temperatures - extremes that science has confirmed with a cornucopia of peer - reviewed research.

Robert M. Carter is an Adjunct Research Professor at James Cook University and a marine geologist who studies Earth's ancient climate.

1950s: Research on military applications of radar and infrared radiation promotes advances in radiative transfer theory and measurements = > Radiation math — Studies conducted largely for military applications give accurate values of infrared absorption by gases = > CO2 greenhouse — Nuclear physicists and chemists develop Carbon - 14 analysis, useful for dating ancient climate changes = > Carbon dates, for detecting carbon from fossil fuels in the atmosphere, and for measuring the rate of ocean turnover = > CO2 greenhouse — Development of digital computers affects many fields including the calculation of radiation transfer in the atmosphere = > Radiation math, and makes it possible to model weather processes = > Models (GCMs)-- Geological studies of polar wandering help provoke Ewing - Donn model of ice ages = > Simple models — Improvements in infrared instrumentation (mainly for industrial processes) allow very precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 = > CO2 greenhouse.