Sentences with phrase «at other climate researchers»

After becoming more knowledgeable about the politics of climate change (both the external politics and the internal politics within the climate field), I became concerned about some of the tribes pointing their guns inward at other climate researchers who question their research or don't pass various loyalty tests.

Not exact matches

New York City spends more to brace for rising seas and other side effects of climate change than any other of the world's 10 biggest cities — about $ 2.2 billion last year — outstripping spending by London, Paris, Beijing, Mexico City and other megacities, according to an analysis by researchers at the U.K.'s University College London.

«By rushing to respond to climate change at different speed, the pressure to respond to each other lessens,» explains Päivi Sirkiä, researcher at the Finnish Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study at the University of Helsinki

A new study linking paleoclimatology — the reconstruction of past global climates — with historical analysis by researchers at Yale and other institutions shows a link between environmental stress and its impact on the economy, political stability, and war - fighting capacity of ancient Egypt.

The team of researchers at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment found that by taking a «green position» on climate, candidates of either party can gain the votes of some citizens while not alienating others.

Bill Hare, who leads a group of top climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant species caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago led to extinctions of some groups of tetrapods, the first vertebrates to live on land, but allowed others to expand across the globe.

So a group of researchers from all over Europe turned to looking at the timing of flooding, as the seasonal nature of them is tied much more closely to climate than to any other interfering factors.

Dr Diogo Verissimo, a postdoctoral researcher at Kent's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), said: «Our findings suggest that while climate change could be deflecting attention from biodiversity loss in terms of funding, in other areas the sentiment shared by many conservationists that biodiversity loss is now a secondary issue could be a result of a comparatively quicker rise in prominence of climate change.»

Other researchers at the talk said this was the first time that researchers had shown a pattern of boom and bust in Neolithic populations that was not tied to climate change.

Fernández, who is from the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate at Minnesota, along with other researchers, compared soil properties after five years of no - till and strip - till to try to fill these research gaps.

Also, although climate change is a concern for conservation biologists, it is not the focus for most researchers (at present), largely I think because of the severity and immediacy of the damage caused by other threats.

Other researchers have tried to calculate the climate's sensitivity using temperature data collected at the Earth's surface.

For instance, university researchers at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education's John W. Gardner Center recently partnered with the California CORE districts — which include the Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified, Santa Ana Unified, Sanger Unified, Garden Grove Unified, and Sacramento City Unified school districts — to design a new local school accountability system that included measures of students» social - emotional learning, growth mindset, self - efficacy, and school climate.51 Researchers found that these measures were predictive of students» test performance and correlated with other important academic and behavioral researchers at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education's John W. Gardner Center recently partnered with the California CORE districts — which include the Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified, Santa Ana Unified, Sanger Unified, Garden Grove Unified, and Sacramento City Unified school districts — to design a new local school accountability system that included measures of students» social - emotional learning, growth mindset, self - efficacy, and school climate.51 Researchers found that these measures were predictive of students» test performance and correlated with other important academic and behavioral Researchers found that these measures were predictive of students» test performance and correlated with other important academic and behavioral outcomes.52

To overcome these drawbacks, researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change propose an alternative method that only a handful of other groups are now pursuing: a self - consistent modeling framework to assess climate impacts across multiple regions and sectors.

I find it hard to draw the same conclusion in looking at my coverage, which has long included the voices of researchers challenging the predominant line of thinking on climate science, among them Roger Pielke Sr., Richard Lindzen, who was quoted in the 2006 article you read, John Christy, Ivar Giaever (a Nobelist who rejects the science pointing to dangerous greenhouse warming) and others.

6) I considered Lindzen et al. to be rather convincingly refuted by a series of papers from researchers in the Deprtment of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington (Fu et al. and other papers), by Lin et al. (J of Climate, v. 17, p. 1239) and by Chambers et al. (J of Climate, v. 15, p. 3719, 15 Dec 2002).

Ignatius Rigor, a climate and ice researcher at the University of Washington (who's been heard from here quite a lot in recent years), added this note (in the group exchange with Francis, Eicken and others):

Other needs: make cloud and radiation measurements; perform experiments at appropriately short physical and temporal scales; and amass relevant data any climate researcher could use.

evaluated the work of Michael E. Mann of the University of Virginia and Raymond S. Bradley of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst — the other two climate researchers whose data the members of Congress demanded.

At present, survey researchers» choice of term seems somewhat haphazard — some surveys refer to the phenomenon as «global warming» (e.g., CBS News and New York Times 2006), others as «climate change» (e.g., Bloomberg 2009), and still others use the terms simultaneously (e.g., «global warming or climate change»; PIPA / Knowledge Networks 2005).

In another analysis, Pei Zhai, Dev Millstein and other Berkeley Lab researchers looked at the impacts to human health, land use, weather, climate and greenhouse gas emissions associated with large - scale photovoltaic (PV) installations in 10 states.

The researchers looked at mean sea levels, tides, wave energy, storm surge and all the other factors likely to be affected by climate change, to reckon that, without concerted international action to reduce greenhouse emissions, extreme sea levels along the European coasts could reach 81cms on average by 2100.

Personally after seeing all the corruption going on in Scientific Research, not only in Climate but in other fields, I am not at all interested in having one thin dime of my tax money go to another university or researcher.

The fact that others have created pdfs from sensitivity estimates and that economists uses these pdfs is not a justification; rather, climate researchers and statisticians need to take a close look at this to see whether this line of reasoning is flawed.

These statements were taken completely out of context and ignored other readily available statements demonstrating that our researchers recognized the developing nature of climate science at the time which, in fact, mirrored global understanding.

What I would like to point out is that it seems that some of the same issues you are discussing in climate science are affecting other branches of science — notably medicine: pharmaceuticals have been throwing millions at doctors and medical researchers for more than a generation, and partly as a result, about one in three people in the United States is taking prescription drugs.

In order to test this theory, several independent researchers (Tamino, Ron Broberg, Zeke Hausfather, Joseph at Residual Analysis and others at the Clear Climate Code Project) and have calculated whether the stations dropped showed less warming than the ones kept.

And researchers report in the journal Science Advances that unless there are serious reductions in global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that drive global warming and could trigger catastrophic climate change, the most extreme, once - in -25-years heat waves could increase wet bulb temperatures now at around 31 °C to 34.2 °C.

Also, although climate change is a concern for conservation biologists, it is not the focus for most researchers (at present), largely I think because of the severity and immediacy of the damage caused by other threats.

In a paper entitled, «Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opinion.

At this summer's AGU Chapman Conference on Abrupt Climate Change, researchers described this turbulent history through all manner of proxies — ice, tree rings, corals, marine and lake sediments, among others.

And climate deniers â $» who claim that researchers at NASA and other groups analyzing climate trends have massaged and distorted the data â $» had been hoping that the Berkeley project would conclude that global warming is a myth.

But they expect that other climate researchers from Goddard who are soon to retire from government will soon join them to bolster the team at low cost.

Jennifer Francis, a researcher at Rutgers University and the most prominent proponent of the hypothesis that Arctic warming is altering the jet stream around the Northern Hemisphere, told Climate Central that while the cold snap is brief in duration, it fits with patterns observed this year and in other recent years.

The Harvard academic and former energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley, commands international respect among physicists, climate experts and other researchers.

* that BP is funding research into «ways of tackling the world's climate problem» at Princeton University to the tune of $ 2 million per year for 15 years * that BP is funding an energy research institute involving two other US universities to the tune of $ 500 million — the aim of which is «to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment» * that ExxonMobil itself has donated $ 100 million to Stanford university so that researchers there can find «ways to meet growing energy needs without worsening global warming»

Prof. Lindzen believes climate sensitivity to doubling of CO2 is at 0.5 deg C — much lower than the 1.5 deg C minimum (3 deg C average) that many other climate researchers now accept.

Paulo Moutinho, a senior climate researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), also praised the government's willingness to establish an absolute target, as opposed to a reduction against a hypothetical future, as other developing countries have done, but said he was disappointed in the forestry component.

In January 2012, climate researcher Trevor Prowse put questions to the Bureau of Meteorology about the results charted above, making the point that as the 14 tidal stations are mostly free of urban heat effect, all are at sea level and are well scattered around Australia, they may be more accurate than any other land - based data.

What we — and other competent researchers — have all found is that the warmth was far more regional than modern warmth, with some large regions, like the tropical Pacific, having been unusually * cold * at the time, and when you average over the globe, the warmth of the medieval warm period / medieval climate anomaly simply doesn't reach modern warmth.

(Contrast Lindzen who used to be almost certain in 1995 that the climate sensitivity was tiny with even tinier error bars, Morgan and Keith, 1995 other researchers at the time provided sensible error bars *).

Just last week, Svensmark and other researchers from the Centre for Sun - Climate Research at the Danish National Space Centre published a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A — the mathematical, physical sciences and engineering journal of the venerable Royal Society of London — announcing that they had experimentally verified the physical mechanism by which cosmic rays affect cloud cover.

When I first began to work with my Ph.D. adviser Barry Saltzman in the early 1990s, he, like many other climate researchers at the time, remained unconvinced that there was yet a detectable human influence on the climate... other scientists, such as NASA's James Hansen and Stanford University's Stephen Schneider, were convinced by the evidence already in hand that human - caused climate change was indeed now upon us.