Sentences with phrase «by climate researchers»

Climateaudit has focused on auditing topics related to the paleoclimate reconstructions over the past millennia (in particular the so called «hockey stick») and also the software being used by climate researchers to fix data problems due to poor quality surface weather stations in the historical climate data record.

but still used by climate researchers today — ignored boundary conditions by assuming an «infinitely thick» atmosphere.»

Evolving to a more unified climate modeling enterprise — in particular by developing a common software infrastructure shared by all climate researchers — could help speed progress.

Despite genuine mishandling of scientific data by some climate researchers, some sloppy writing and citations by the IPCC, and the lot of quasi-scandals taking up headlines in the past month, the underlying evidence still wholeheartedly supports that climate change is a major problem.

Efforts under way by climate researchers — including reanalyses of existing tropical cyclone databases (20, 21)-- may mitigate the problems in applying the present observational tropical cyclone databases to trend analyses to answer the important question of how humankind may (or may not) be changing the frequency of extreme tropical cyclones.

The study was conducted by climate researchers at the University of Reading, and it approximates that the extent to which the Antarctic summer sea ice has diminished doesn't exceed a 14 percent rate compared to the beginning of the 20th century.

«The guiding principle for future communications by climate researchers should be to serve the public interest, to provide citizens and their representatives with the information they need and an understanding of the options available so that they can make informed choices and decisions»

In late 2009, not long before the Copenhagen climate - change conference, thousands of private emails by climate researchers based at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) were leaked on the internet.

Arguably, the harm that can come from public policy decision that are based on errors, omissions or deceptions by climate researchers is equal to the harm that can come from unregulated stock market promoters.

The lack of transparency by some climate researchers, the willingness to bend the peer review process, and the willingness to destroy data rather than share it with researchers of a different perspective all raise fundamental issues of climate change policy.

She wrote: «What has been noticeably absent so far in the ClimateGate discussion is a public reaffirmation by climate researchers of our basic research values: the rigors of the scientific method (including reproducibility), research integrity and ethics, open minds, and critical thinking.

As scientists, policymakers, diplomats and environmentalists begin to converge on Copenhagen for climate talks, the integrity of leading climate change researchers has come under attack; a release of some 1,000 hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia in Britain has created a stir, with some suggesting the e-mails demonstrate hoarding of and manipulation of data by climate researchers.

What has been noticeably absent so far in the ClimateGate discussion is a public reaffirmation by climate researchers of our basic research values: the rigors of the scientific method (including reproducibility), research integrity and ethics, open minds, and critical thinking.

And she knows this because she's getting emails from engineers and the like how tell her that they «don't believe» in the confidence levels claimed by climate researchers, because, well, they just don't believe it.

How much effort would it take for him to look at was actually said by climate researchers in the mid-70s about the prospects for an ice age?

Looking back in time The study — the result of an international team led by climate researchers at the Natural History Museum of Denmark — divided the studied time period into three phases, largely dictated by the availability of data: 1900 to 1983, 1983 to 2003, and 2003 to 2010.

A 1983 study conducted by climate researcher Kevin Trenberth found that the meteorological definition more closely agreed with observable weather in the continental regions of the northern hemisphere, while the astronomical definition only fit reality better over the oceans in the southern hemisphere.

When I was sent a copy of the letter Friday morning by another climate researcher, I immediately forwarded it to Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman of the climate panel, along with several supervising authors and press officers for the panel.

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.

Its dramatic strengthening in winter between the 1960s and 1990s pumped extra heat into Northern Europe on top of greenhouse warming, according to a new analysis in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research by climate researcher David Parker of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Exeter, U.K., and his colleagues.

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Once the project is finished, researchers are hoping to help climate migrants successfully integrate into Canadian society by providing solutions to policy makers and increasing local awareness on climate migration.

Hacked e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at England's University of East Anglia (UEA) showed that CRU researchers were defending the thesis that humans are causing global warming by suppressing contrary evidence... Continue Reading

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 studying the rings of semifossilized trees, researchers constructed a climate history for the semiarid Asian nation spanning the last 2,060 years — going 1,000 years further back than previous studies.

Researchers conducted 3,269 household surveys, more than 100 focus group discussions and open interviews about the economic, social and cultural losses incurred by a changing climate in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Micronesia, Mozambique and Nepal.

«Northern domination of science globally relevant to climate change policy and practice and lack of research led by Southern researchers in Southern countries may hinder development and implementation of bottom - up global agreements and nationally appropriate actions in Southern countries,» they write.

I was just a researcher without money, connections or crowd - pulling charisma, moved to action by the election of Donald Trump, a powerful climate change denier and anti-vaxxer, as US president.

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

The San Francisco State University researcher wanted to study flower visits by bees, given the effects of climate shifts and the destructive illness called colony collapse disorder.

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By mapping persistent springs across the African landscape, the researchers have been able to model how our ancestors may have moved between water sources at different times and how this impacted their ability to traverse the landscape as the climate changed.

Joshua Busby is an assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Texas and one of the lead researchers in the Strauss Center project on Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS), a $ 7.6 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Predictions of how much sea - levels would rise due to climate change, made by a key UN report in 2001, were conservative, say researchers on the eve of the release of the new update of the report.

As the climate warms, researchers expect more dusts to make their way aloft, possibly having impacts on precipitation by changing where rain or snow falls.

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

The researchers were able to test their hypothesis that stronger winds were driving the ocean heat uptake by putting the observations of wind behavior into climate models.

The researchers from Wageningen University & Research, Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia, University of East Anglia and the Center for International Forestry Research analysed the spatially distributed pattern of hydrological drought, that is the drought in groundwater recharge, in Borneo using a simple transient water balance model driven by monthly climate data from the period 1901 - 2015.

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006.

«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

The autumn foliage season in some areas of the United States could come much later and possibly last a little longer by the end of the century as climate change causes summer temperatures to linger later into the year, according to Princeton University researchers.

There is a risk that severity of epidemics of some wheat diseases may increase within the next ten to twenty years due to the impacts of climate change according to a study by international researchers led by the University of Hertfordshire.

Instead of nectar, researchers suggest the appendage likely helped the winged insects avoid becoming dehydrated in the hot and arid climate of the time by getting sustenance from another source: sweet secretions beaded up into droplets on seed - bearing — as opposed to flowering — plants.

Australia also experienced record rainfall in early 2012, and while La Niña, a natural variation, was behind much of that, researchers found that human - caused climate change increased the chance of the above - average rainfall by 5 to 15 percent.

Recent modelling by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, as well as studies of past climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm Climate Impact Research in Germany, as well as studies of past climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm enough.

A dust storm that blanketed seven nations in the Middle East in late summer 2015 was caused by climate factors and unusual weather, not human conflict in Syria, concluded researchers including Elie Bou - Zeid, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton.

The researchers found that while the amount of ozone depletion arising from VSLS in the atmosphere today is small compared to that caused by longer - lived gases, such as CFCs, VSLS - driven ozone depletion was found to be almost four times more efficient at influencing climate.

This phenomenon, almost certainly the result of climate change, is the first modern record of river piracy caused by a melting glacier, researchers report online April 17 in Nature Geoscience.

People who recently experienced severe weather events such as floods, storms and drought are more likely to support policies to adapt to the effects of climate change, according to a new study co-authored by an Indiana University researcher.

Researchers determined the extent of relative climate sensitivity in the reserves by looking at five factors: social, biophysical, and ecological sensitivity, and exposure to temperature change and sea level rise.

The researchers say that rising ocean temperatures, driven by human - caused climate change, are mostly to blame.