Sentences with phrase «climate model built»

What are the odds that a climate model built on a system that simple would be reliable?

To predict the consequences of carbon emissions, we must therefore rely on climate models built from our best understanding of how the climate system works.

«''»»» Bill Illis says: January 10, 2011 at 6:29 pm George E. Smith, I'm the one who said the Clausius - Clapeyron equations indicate there should be a 7 % increase per degree C. All the climate model build in 6 % to 8 % for this amount.

Given the climate models built - in high sensitivity to CO2 emissions, it is virtually impossible to limit future (computer) warming to just 0.5 degrees.

The main evidence for catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW), the principal alleged adverse effect of human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), is climate models built by CAGW supporters in a field where models with real predictive power do not exist and can not be built with any demonstrable accuracy beyond a week or two because climate and weather are coupled non-linear chaotic systems.

In conclusion, the thesis advocates that GCMs be used and developed uncompromisingly for «Hypothesis testing, numerical experiments, to understand how the climate system works, including its sensitivity to altered forcing,» such a policy to continue until climate model building becomes better understood.

The main evidence for catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW), the principal alleged adverse effect of human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), is climate models built -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Earlier in the fall, we commissioned economic modelling to look at the benefits of building on the best elements of today's provincial climate policies.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The two - year project, called Building Climate Action Communities, will create a regional model of community - based climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to Climate Action Communities, will create a regional model of community - based climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to climate change education programs, with a specific emphasis on moving people to action.

But the critical thing is to know what this algorithm is predicting; how to justify it; what is the model of climate change built into the algorithm; what risks of error are built into the algorithm that is predicting climate change?

«By enabling entrepreneurs and green innovators to test and scale their business models, homegrown clean technology solutions can help the country build climate resilience, while also creating jobs and fostering economic growth.»

His team built a model with agents representing 1.4 million households around the globe — roughly 10,000 per country — and looked at how climate change and disasters might affect health, food security, and labor productivity.

The new study builds on this earlier research, extending the projections globally using a variety of climate models and taking into account future population growth.

The researchers built a complex series of mathematical models to recreate the dynamic interaction between the main potential drivers of extinction (dingoes, climate and humans), the long - term response of herbivore prey, and the viability of the thylacine and devil populations.

One day, oceanographers hope Spray and other gliders will be able to roam the oceans at will, providing an almost limitless supply of data that could be used to build more sophisticated climate models and develop better weather forecasts.

The model used real - world measurements of metabolism and built on them to establish temperature comfort standards, a bottom - up approach that can be tweaked to accommodate different office cultures, workplace demographics and climate conditions.

The coalition of states can't replace federal support for science, including maintaining satellites and building better climate models, said Richard Moss, the committee's chairman and a researcher at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

«Most climate models that incorporate vegetation are built on short - term observations, for example of photosynthesis, but they are used to predict long - term events,» said Bond - Lamberty, who works at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.»

As the first to build contrail cirrus into a climate model, Burkhardt's study is «an important leap forward», says Olivier Boucher of the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, UK.

These effects, largely ignored so far, will now be incorporated into several climate models in order to build a more complete picture.

The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic science could help solve other important problems by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.

Biologists use molten metal and 3 - D modeling to uncover how large - clawed scorpions build homes in a harsh climate.

This new insight into how the Southern Ocean behaves will allow scientists to build computer models that can better predict how our climate is going to change in the future.

When the scientists compared the output of climate models with a decade of satellite measurements of relative humidity, they found that the models that best reproduced observed conditions were built on the premise that climate sensitivity is relatively high — 7 degrees F or more.

The models» results also play a significant role in the latest assessment report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), where they are used to link the mitigation options described for different sectors such as buildings, transport, or energy supply.

The USC researchers applied a regional climate model to California, and Berkeley Lab ran simulations of building energy consumption.

It's a global view of plant evolution at a time when global rules are essential for building climate models and understanding the biosphere.»

In the United Kingdom we have climate and weather in the same building, using the same models.

I can read any peer - reviewed article I like on modern climate models, but until I go through much of the process of building, running, validation, discussing with colleagues how they solved particular wrinkles etc of some models, I am unlikely to fully comprehend climate modelling as a skilled craft.

PNNL researchers built highly detailed regional models and tailored the scenarios to reveal climate changes and consequences for the state.

Similar to the model development process adopted for other components of the climate system, this strategy is composed of four stages, each one building on the next.

Now, when scientists build climate models, they test them by running them for the past and seeing if the models replicate what actually happened.

Stakeholders of Montana agriculture may find the cumulative uncertainty of inexact crop models built on inexact climate models frustrating, but it is as important to understand the sources of uncertainty as it is to realize that temperatures are rising.

Her research apparatus is built with a fusion of advanced statistical methods, idealized general circulation models (GCM), and state of the art climate models.

Tom appears challenged by the idea of building global climate models based on atmospheric physics and doing years of testing those models against actual data.

The workshop, building on the knowledge and practical skills acquired during the school, aims to bring together expertise on large - scale atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, small scale cloud and precipitation processes, hierarchical climate modeling and observation.

It is not possible to build an accurate climate model without getting that right.»

«For instance, one of the major climate feedbacks built into the models is increased water vapor.

Unless you built a giant greenhouse and tried to set up a miniature climate, but I think it would be impossible to model crucial features of the planet, so I think any results would be of very dubious value.

School leaders play a critical role in fostering schoolwide activities and policies that promote positive school environments, such as establishing a team to address the building climate; adult modeling of social and emotional competence; and developing clear norms, values, and expectations for students and staff members.

Before tackling the most significant school challenges, schools need to build their own local resource expertise in the model of a professional learning community that builds competence and networking regarding school culture and climate and social - emotional and character development.

These teachers usually craft their classroom climate with care, building good relationships with and among their students and modeling the behaviors that they expect.

Liz often speaks both regionally and nationally on collaboration building and the`School led - District wide» model of sustainable culture and climate change.

Other changes include an 8 GB hard drive built into the iDrive system so that music can be stored in the car, four - zone climate control as standard and, thankfully, a slight styling overhaul on the bland - ish current model.

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The Preferred II builds on the Sports Touring model's equipment with an auto - dimming rear - view mirror, dual - zone automatic climate control, rear cross-traffic alert, and a 120 - volt household power outlet, Blind - spot monitoring is standard on the Preferred II.

This model builds on its predecessors» offerings with a heated steering wheel, heated rear seats, and a three - zone climate control.

All models (including the confusingly - named «Premium Plus» base trim) come with four - zone climate control, built - in navigation, satellite radio, blind spot monitoring and rear parking sensors as standard, which is okay for a car at this price (especially as you'll be spending a minimum of $ 70,000 on a Mercedes - Benz CLS if you want to match the entry - level Audi A7's spec level like - for - like).

Even the entry - level, $ 24,910 «LE» spec cars come with adaptive cruise control, a reversing camera, lane departure warning and hill start assist as standard, with mid-range $ 26,830 «XLE» models (which we reckon represents the sweet spot in the line - up) adding dual - zone climate control, built - in navigation and HD radio to the spec sheet.