Sentences with phrase «climate research around»

The Doha negotiations coincide with the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco, a five - day conference attended by 20,000 scientists, myself included, which provides a glimpse at the leading edge of climate research around the world.

Though this report is not «officially» from the IPCC, which makes no provisions for comprehensive mid-term reports halfway through its five - or six - year reporting cycle, Somerville said he and his fellow authors expect that it will be accepted by their peers in climate research around the world.

Not exact matches

«Human - induced climate change likely increased Harvey's total rainfall around Houston by at least 19 percent, with a best estimate of 37 percent,» Michael Wehner, a co-author on an attribution study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, said at the American Geophysical Union conference in December.

And the corresponding study in Environmental Research Letters concluded that climate change increased flooding by around 15 percent.

The research will become important across agricultural regions, she says, as climate change is expected to increase the frequency of extreme weather events around the world.

According to research in the September Nature Climate Change, precipitation patterns in the area have increased, which may help larger glaciers such as this one stick around a while longer.

Until this research, a major uncertainty around the future impacts of climate change was whether the eddy field would change with stronger winds or whether it would remain static.

The institute carries out research world - wide around four main themes: climate dynamics based on oceanographic, geological, and meteorological investigations; marine biogeochemistry; marine ecology; and the dynamics of the ocean floor.

He spoke to Climate Central from a research boat taking weekly samples from the six monitoring stations around the lake that keep track of temperatures, nutrient loads, dissolved oxygen and other factors that can help scientists track the lake's health.

At that point we probably won't have time to wait around to see the benefits of cap - and - trade systems or research in photovoltaic technology, which raises the question: In case of a climate emergency, what can we do?

Scientific research can inform policies aimed at addressing the needs of communities displaced by climate change, something that is already happening in the United States and around the world, according to experts at a 25 - 26 July meeting of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

Funded by the Norwegian Research Council, it addressed questions around how climate change might affect salmon species distribution and abundance.

According to the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, news coverage of climate change in 50 newspapers around the globe dropped by more than half in late 2009 to 2010.

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.

Using a cutting - edge research technique, UCLA researchers have reconstructed the temperature history of a region that plays a major role in determining climate around the world.

Lyons and coauthors, along with research groups from around world over, are focusing current efforts on the timing and drivers of oxygenation in the late Proterozoic, favoring a combination of global - scale mountain building, evolutionary controls on the way carbon is cycled in the biosphere, and concomitant climate events.

Since then, it has declined sharply and reached a plateau around $ 3 billion to $ 4 billion a year — a tiny fraction of the roughly $ 100 billion of total public research and development funding in the U.S. Public support for energy research is now inching up, but the effort falls short of that needed to tackle the climate challenge.

Events like record - setting heat, extreme rainfall and drought will happen more frequently around the world even if global climate targets are met, new research suggests.

The research, published in Nature Communications, examined preserved fossil remains of coccolithophores from a period of climate warming and ocean acidification that occurred around 56 million years ago — the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)-- and provides a much - needed long - term perspective of coccolithophore response to ocean acidification.

The researchers looked at a combination of roughly 50 climate models from around the world that are part of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), which is part of the World Climate Research Proclimate models from around the world that are part of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), which is part of the World Climate Research ProClimate Research Programme.

More research is needed to fully understand the importance of basking and the effect climate change will have on basking behaviors of green turtle populations around the world.

Once that is done and a «new nexus of research» begins to form around how climate science and the climate change movement can increase racial and ethnic diversity, those fact - based findings can be used to guide public climate advocacy and policy reform efforts.

A newly published research study that combines effects of warming temperatures from climate change with stream acidity projects average losses of around 10 percent of stream habitat for coldwater aquatic species for seven national forests in the southern Appalachians — and up to a 20 percent loss of habitat in the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests in western North Carolina.

«These world - first results will have significant impact on the development of climate models around the world,» said one of the study's authors, Prof Andy Pitman, Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science aclimate models around the world,» said one of the study's authors, Prof Andy Pitman, Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science aClimate Systems Science at UNSW.

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

Using multiple climate models from around the world, Clement's research team removed the ocean circulation from the analysis to reveal that variations in the Atlantic climate were generally the same.

The goal of his latest research is to better understand the widespread political polarization occurring around environmental issues such as climate change.

Method: The assessment started with 20 different climate models from research groups around the world.

Today, scientists around the world, including those at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research that Schellnhuber founded in 1992, are successfully investigating the nonlinear dynamics of the complex climate system, and religious leaders like Pope Francis - whose green Encyclical Schellnhuber had the honor to present to the world in 2015 - joined in the call for avoiding dangerous climate Climate Impact Research that Schellnhuber founded in 1992, are successfully investigating the nonlinear dynamics of the complex climate system, and religious leaders like Pope Francis - whose green Encyclical Schellnhuber had the honor to present to the world in 2015 - joined in the call for avoiding dangerous climate climate system, and religious leaders like Pope Francis - whose green Encyclical Schellnhuber had the honor to present to the world in 2015 - joined in the call for avoiding dangerous climate climate change.

«Globally important wilderness areas — despite being strongholds for endangered biodiversity, for buffering and regulating local climates, and for supporting many of the world's most politically and economically marginalized communities — are completely ignored in environmental policy,» James Watson, director of science and research initiatives at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and the study's lead author, said in a statement, adding that we probably have only one to two decades to turn this around.

«This work was a foundational reference case for the recently released RCP4.5 model scenario, one of four scenarios that will be used by modeling groups around the globe to make realistic projections of future climate change,» said Dr. Steven J. Smith, scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a partnership between PNNL and the University of Maryland, and lead researchResearch Institute, a partnership between PNNL and the University of Maryland, and lead researchresearch author.

Simon Mason, a senior research scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, said the reason for 2014's holding pattern was also another major issue researchers would be looking at in hopes of avoiding a repeat forecast misstep when the next El Niño rollsresearch scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, said the reason for 2014's holding pattern was also another major issue researchers would be looking at in hopes of avoiding a repeat forecast misstep when the next El Niño rollsResearch Institute for Climate and Society, said the reason for 2014's holding pattern was also another major issue researchers would be looking at in hopes of avoiding a repeat forecast misstep when the next El Niño rolls around.

Because the monsoon drives weather patterns around the world and affects the stratosphere globally, this research will also improve our understanding of climate processes worldwide and will improve climate predictions where we live.»

This year's meeting brought together 270 ARM researchers, ARM Climate Research Facility infrastructure members, and leading scientists from 10 countries around the world, including China, Japan, Australia, Niger, France, and Germany.

A study led by Stefan Rahmstorf concluded «many vastly improved models have been developed by a number of climate research centers around the world.

Most of the Exxon climate research ended around 1982, likely due to widespread cost - cutting at the company during a down - turn.

We also conduct research, often working in collaboration with scientists and engineers across PNNL and around the world, on related topics such as the renewable energy, complex regional meteorology and chemistry, and the possible national security implications of climate change.

«The startlingly high temperatures so far in 2016 have sent shockwaves around the climate science community,» David Carlson, director of the World Climate Research Programme, co-sponsored by the WMO, said in a staclimate science community,» David Carlson, director of the World Climate Research Programme, co-sponsored by the WMO, said in a staClimate Research Programme, co-sponsored by the WMO, said in a statement.

By the University of Southampton A decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels led to a fundamental shift in the behaviour of the Earth's climate system around one million years ago, according to new research led by the University of Southampton.

The National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. (set up by President Lincoln to advise on scientific issues), as well as major National Academies of Science around the world and every other authoritative body of scientists active in climate research have stated that the science is clear: the world is heating up and humans are primarily responsible.

Researchers from the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F), the California Institute of Technology, the Univerity of Southern California and the University of Bremen found that this cyclic, bipolar climate phenomenon has likely been around for 10,000Climate Research Centre (BiK - F), the California Institute of Technology, the Univerity of Southern California and the University of Bremen found that this cyclic, bipolar climate phenomenon has likely been around for 10,000climate phenomenon has likely been around for 10,000 years.

Gaston has more than fifteen years of experience in participative and transdisciplinary research on governance related to issues such as sustainable development, energy, climate change and radioactive waste management and with working in and around the assemblies of the policy processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European Commclimate change and radioactive waste management and with working in and around the assemblies of the policy processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European CommClimate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European Commission.

The conference is organized around the prime principles of successful 21st century schools, districts, camps, and learning centers: Student Agency, Climate of Achievement, Community Partnerships, Distributed Leadership, and Research and Evidence.

«Darling - Hammond reveals the successful educational strategies around the world that are toppling the old educational guard, including a high degree of personalization that allows stronger, closer relationships among students, faculty, staff, and parents... Scholarly and factual, well - researched and packed with astounding examples of the current climate of American education, this text should prove highly informative for educators, educational administrators, and involved parents throughout the U.S.» — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin / / Jul. 21, 2017 Dehlia Hannah's work traverses both the world of image - making and scientific discourse: she started her research in climate change and art around ten years ago and has repeatedly asked the question... [read on]

I think the larger point around this is the media don't really report this sort of research, or that over 90 % of climate scientists think we are causing climate change, because they would rather keep a manufactured pretend controversy going to attract more readers interest.

«Recent vivid and memorable media coverage of climate change impacts around the world and domestically have brought global warming onto the radar screen of the residents of New York, elevating it to a risk worth worrying about,» said Elke U. Weber, a psychologist and professor of international business who is co-director of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University.

The emails represented private correspondence between CRU scientists and scientists at climate research centers around the world.

All of this tends to circle back around to the ideas of folks like Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, who insist that a more effective path forward on climate is direct investment in research, development, and demonstration of non-polluting energy technologies.

Coincidentally, newly published research on changing dietary habits of polar bears around the southern shores of Canada's Hudson Bay reveals the species» adaptability in the face of shifting climate patterns.