Sentences with phrase «climate change to test»

There is a great opportunity to use our knowledge of past climate change to test and improve climate models.

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Again, though, as their approach to their students changed, the classroom climate improved, and their students» test scores went up.

New robots undergoing field tests could expand scientists» access to polar regions and improve understanding of climate change

Landrum and her colleagues demonstrated the effect experimentally and reported the results in a 2017 paper in the Journal of Risk Research entitled «Culturally Antagonistic Memes and the Zika Virus: An Experimental Test,» in which participants read a news story on Zika public health risks that was linked to either climate change or immigration.

For entrepreneurial farmers like Sayles, the key to surviving intense droughts and other vagaries of a changing climate lies in testing new practices and abandoning old ones.

Clear forecasting is important for another reason: the response to a big El Niño will be a test of how ready the world is for climate change.

«These experiments will enable us to further test and refine the underlying processes in the CORPSE model and should lead to improved predictions of the role of plant - soil interactions in global climate change,» Sulman said.

«Using data mining to make sense of climate change: New methodology puts emphasis on data to test climate models.»

At the gathering of more than 12,000 geoscientists, Allen reported an ambitious computer experiment that his team has undertaken over the last two months to test whether the winter floods could be attributed to climate change.

At the Environmental Change Institute in Oxford, researchers Nathalie Schaller and Friederike Otto analysed results from almost 40,000 climate model calculations to test the impact of climate change on Britain's winter Change Institute in Oxford, researchers Nathalie Schaller and Friederike Otto analysed results from almost 40,000 climate model calculations to test the impact of climate change on Britain's winter change on Britain's winter rains.

One of nature's premier survivors is facing its sternest test yet: Hammered by an array of threats that includes overfishing, pollution, and climate change, populations of freshwater eels, also known as river eels, have fallen to catastrophic lows.

As their efforts start to bear fruit, the ocean impacts of climate change may test the mettle of the burgeoning industry.

We wanted to test if this humorous approach could be used to engage young people in climate change activism.»

A major test of the world's willingness to phase out greenhouse gases will arrive in December, when nations gather in Paris to try to agree on what to do about climate change.

The researchers asked the students whether they believed that humans are causing climate change, and they also had the students complete a test intended to reveal their automatic, instinctual preferences toward the politicians.

The acid test will come in 2015, when nations will meet in Paris to agree to limits on emissions beyond 2020 — when deep cuts will be needed if the planet is to have any chance of avoiding «dangerous» climate change.

Once Perlan is fully tested, says Austin, she hopes to get funding to use the glider as a long - term scientific platform that would examine how hourly, seasonal or even decadal changes in the stratosphere affect weather and climate.

A team of scientists from Vanderbilt and Stanford universities have created the first comprehensive map of the topsy - turvy climate of the period and are using it to test and improve the global climate models that have been developed to predict how precipitation patterns will change in the future.

«The new work improves our understanding of history, allowing better model tests and allowing better assessment of how the ice responded to climate changes in the past,» Alley said, «and this will help in making better and more - reliable projections for the future.»

The team also compared the response of flies in cages (which experienced the local temperature and humidity, but not interactions with other species) with the abundance of D. birchii in wild populations at the same sites along mountain gradients (where other species were also present), to test whether interactions among species affect responses to climate change.

«Testing how species respond to climate change.»

In a new study, published in Global Change Biology, scientists from the Universities of Bristol, James Cook University, and Melbourne University in Australia tested the response of the tropical rainforest fly Drosophila birchii to a changing climate by transplanting flies in hundreds of cages along mountain gradients in north - eastern Australia, and measuring their reproductive success at different elevations.

In order to understand how El Niño responds to various climate forces, researchers test model predictions of past El Niño changes against actual records of past ENSO activity.

The test - bed's first project will use a high - speed network to link nine locations around the country for research into climate change.

To see whether the lab test is an accurate predictor how bees respond to heat in the real world, Hamblin used urban heat islands to mimic climate change, following bee populations at 18 places around Wake County over two yearTo see whether the lab test is an accurate predictor how bees respond to heat in the real world, Hamblin used urban heat islands to mimic climate change, following bee populations at 18 places around Wake County over two yearto heat in the real world, Hamblin used urban heat islands to mimic climate change, following bee populations at 18 places around Wake County over two yearto mimic climate change, following bee populations at 18 places around Wake County over two years.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced today that it has moved its Doomsday Clock to 2 minutes before midnight, citing North Korea's recent tests of missiles and nuclear weapons and the world's lack of progress in confronting climate change.

Towards their safeguarding research within HERACLES project («HEritage Resilience Against CLimate Events on Site», GA 700395) is dedicated to the design, testing and promotion of responsive systems, methodologies and techniques with the aim to mitigate the impact of climate changes and natural hCLimate Events on Site», GA 700395) is dedicated to the design, testing and promotion of responsive systems, methodologies and techniques with the aim to mitigate the impact of climate changes and natural hclimate changes and natural hazards.

Rice - based farming systems are now driven to develop and test innovations that adapt to changing climates and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

«Climate change refers to a change in the state of the climate identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and / or the variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer.Climate change refers to a change in the state of the climate identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and / or the variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer.climate identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and / or the variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer.»

One critical limitation is a paucity of historical tests of modeled human responses to climate variability and climate change.

These were grown men, all ofthem battle tested, and they found the news about climate change to bevery scary indeed.

With the changing climate of education, one that is beginning to question the relevance of standardized testing, Naiku is a refreshing tool that emphasizes the importance of how we learn, rather than the test results.

Shi» kera Carr and Justin Granados, students from Power U Center for Social Change, brought tears to the eyes of attendees when sharing their personal stories about how testing causes anxiety and contributes to an unhealthy school climate.

To understand how we may orchestrate networks to support educational change, more research and testing is needed — and with the current climate of increased collaboration, the educational field seems open to explorations of how we can support teachers to work and learn togetheTo understand how we may orchestrate networks to support educational change, more research and testing is needed — and with the current climate of increased collaboration, the educational field seems open to explorations of how we can support teachers to work and learn togetheto support educational change, more research and testing is needed — and with the current climate of increased collaboration, the educational field seems open to explorations of how we can support teachers to work and learn togetheto explorations of how we can support teachers to work and learn togetheto work and learn together.

Participants will engage in activities that will test Reyes's hypothesis that conflict - resolution techniques used in social psychology, theater, and art can help solve the world's most challenging problems, from climate change, to fair wages for women, to food shortages.

Participants engaged in activities in the Hammer's courtyard that tested Reyes's hypothesis that conflict - resolution techniques used in social psychology, theater, and art can help solve the world's most challenging problems, from climate change, to fair wages for women, to food shortages.

Response: < / b > von Storch et al purport to test statistical methods used to reconstruct past climate patterns from «noisy» proxy data by constructing false proxy records («pseudoproxy» records) based on adding noise to model gridbox temperature series taken from a climate simulation forced with estimated past radiative forcing changes.

Then there are the tests of climate changes themselves: how does a model respond to the addition of aerosols in the stratosphere such as was seen in the Mt Pinatubo «natural experiment»?

I felt it was a mistake for McKibben (an old friend from decades spent in parallel, but divergent, tracks on climate change) and others to make this a green litmus test for Hillary Clinton:

There are some physics - based theories regarding the nature of climate change yes, but the ONLY way to test them is on the basis of the sort of evidence that climate scientists have been collecting for many years now, on, for example, global temperatures, ocean temperatures, sea level, frequency of drought, hurricanes, rainstorms, etc..

Climate modelers are very thankful for the existence of the seasonal cycle, for providing such a beautiful data set with which we can test a models quantitative response to a well - defined change in external forcing.

Typically, the modeler poses a problem (an inadequately modeled climate process) and a solution (a change to the model) and then proceeds to test the solution.

When we use the iid - test in studying climate - change, then we want to exclude the dependency between successive values related to aspects not related to climate change (i.e. ENSO, NAO), but want to retain the part that explains long - term changes (trend).

# 66 nigelj: «We then ask sceptics to test their «logical assumption» and show in detail which natural forces are causing current climate change, and they can not, because solar activity is flat etc..»

Since the projected surface forcing changes come from a climate model (s) the underlying assumption is that the important ice - ocean feedbacks are captured in the superimposed forcing changes, so it really isn't an independent test and not meant to be a substitute for a coupled model.

We then ask sceptics to test their «logical assumption» and show in detail which natural forces are causing current climate change, and they can not, because solar activity is flat etc..

von Storch et al purport to test statistical methods used to reconstruct past climate patterns from «noisy» proxy data by constructing false proxy records («pseudoproxy» records) based on adding noise to model gridbox temperature series taken from a climate simulation forced with estimated past radiative forcing changes.

I am conversant with the arguments relating to climate change, and as a scientist (albeit not a climate scientist) understand how scientific theories are formed, tested and evolve.

This folks which until to - day got never in contact with this power of nature should test in the reality of climate - change on board of one of this megaliners crossing the carribian that they will get in contact to reality n o w still in Christmas season!!!

Keystone XL will be the Obama administration's a major test of its newly re-articulated commitment to taking action on climate change.