Climate researchers from the Hadley Centre, led by Douglas Smith, are the first to try that, as they report on page 796.
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.
As a result of the ruling,
climate researchers from now on will be required to make their research publicly available.
An international team of
climate researchers from the US, South Korea and the UK has developed a new wildfire and drought prediction model for southwestern North America.
Together with colleagues from Berlin and Geneva,
climate researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have been investigating the interactions of laser light and ice clouds using the unique AIDA aerosol and cloud chamber on KIT's Campus North.
Climate researchers from the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group ECUS at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam have now investigated how temperature variability changed as the Earth warmed from the last glacial period to the current interglacial period.
The group calls for more funding to support the work of
climate researchers from developing countries.
Professor Richard Tol, a prominent
climate researcher from Sussex University and a coordinating lead author of an important chapter of the IPCC report, has also drawn negative attention to climate frenzy — in more ways than one.
Not exact matches
To figure out the economic cost of a decade of extreme methane release — say
from 2015 to 2025 — the
researchers added the extra methane and temperature increases to the
climate models through to 2200 — that's how they got the $ 60 trillion cost globally
from just the East Siberian Arctic Shelf.
Over the longer run, things may get even better: a team of American
researchers recently claimed that Canada's farmers may actually benefit
from climate change.
Researchers expect that as
climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution
from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made
from cleaning up emissions
from industry.
'» I find nothing remarkable in the Pope accepting mainstream science — things have moved on
from the days of Galileo»» says Gavin Schmidt, a
climate researcher with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.
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
Lawmakers and activist groups also have sought detailed disclosure of records
from climate researchers.
Micronesia is one of nine nations that
researchers recently reviewed in a report assessing loss and damage
from climate change.
And it may assign developing countries a junior position within the U.N. Framework Convention on
Climate Change body responsible for advising on implementation and technological and scientific questions, giving
researchers from wealthier countries a disproportionate say in that body's conclusions.
Combining new data with those garnered previously
from another stalagmite
from the same cave provides a continuous
climate chronicle that stretches back more than 5700 years, the
researchers report today in Science Advances.
Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have analysed the natural
climate variations over the last 12,000 years, during which we have had a warm interglacial period and they have looked back 5 million years to see the major features of the Earth's
climate.
The amicus brief cited examples
from an array of groups increasingly using public records laws to gain access to emails beyond those of
climate scientists, including animal rights groups that have long waged legal battles against
researchers who use animals in their studies and opponents of genetically modified organisms seeking to expose the emails of scientists in efforts to demonstrate links to industry.
Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that century - old museum specimens hold clues to how global
climate change will affect a common insect pest that can weaken and kill trees — and the news is not good.
In INSIGHTS classrooms, the
researchers saw an increase
from fall to spring in teacher practices of emotional support to students — essentially, teachers were more sensitive to student needs, created better classroom
climates, and showed respect for student interests.
Using different calibration and filtering processes, the two
researchers succeeded in combining a wide variety of available data
from temperature measurements and
climate archives in such a way that they were able to compare the reconstructed sea surface temperature variations at different locations around the globe on different time scales over a period of 7,000 years.
In the Northeast, the
researchers project a ratio of high species movement
from land use as compared to
climate change, based on its already dense development and large population.
«Much of our historical data about species» population - level responses to
climate change comes
from observational studies, which can suggest but not confirm causation,» said Anne Marie Panetta, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral
researcher in CU Boulder's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO).
The
researchers are careful not to imply that phosphorus necessarily caused the chain reaction, but in sedimentary rock taken
from coastal areas, the nutrient has marked the spot where that burst of life and
climate change took off.
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.
Lead
researcher Alex Chepstow - Lusty of French Institute of Andean Studies in Lima, Peru, says warmer temperatures enabled the Inca to build mountainside terraces for growing crops at altitudes previously too cold to support agriculture, and provided meltwater
from the Andean glaciers for irrigation (
Climate of the Past, vol 5, p 375).
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.
Researchers Rebecca Dew and Michael Schwarz
from the Flinders University of South Australia teamed up with Sandra Rehan, the University of New Hampshire, USA, to model its past responses to
climate change with the help of DNA sequences.
The team of
researchers,
from the Universities of Gloucestershire, Aberdeen and Plymouth, conducted studies on past
climate through detailed laboratory examination of peat
from a bog near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego.
But the last 100 years are interesting for
climate researchers as it is the period where we have had massive pollution of the atmosphere
from industrialisation, vehicle use and people's energy consuming lifestyles.
The study involved
researchers from the Schools of International Development and Environmental Sciences, and the Tyndall Centre for
Climate Change Research at UEA, working with international colleagues in China and the US.
Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research (PIK) now analyzed the magnitude of future hurricane losses in relation to economic growth.
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.
Prof Guan said: «In recent years, many
researchers have proposed that consumption - based accounting be applied to re-allocate the responsibilities of mitigating
climate change because of the large net emission flows
from developing countries to developed countries.
To see whether this increase in crops has influenced the region's unusual weather,
researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge used computers to model five different 30 - year
climate simulations, based on data
from 1982 to 2011.
The
researchers identified several key circulation patterns that affected the winter temperatures
from 1979 to 2013, particularly the Arctic Oscillation (a
climate pattern that circulates around the Arctic Ocean and tends to confine colder air to the polar latitudes) and a second pattern they call Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia (WACE), which they found correlates to sea ice loss as well as to particularly strong winters.
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.
The
researchers also used data
from global
climate monitoring stations to calculate CO2 emissions
from tropical lands over the same time period.
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.
The
researchers report online today in Nature Geoscience that the findings
from that
climate model were supported with data
from 18 other models.
The two ice cores
from Denali benefited
from high levels of snowfall, providing what Osterberg says is «amazing reproducibility» of the
climate record and giving the
researchers exceptional confidence in the study results.
Storms that battered Australia's east coast are a harbinger of things to come and a stark reminder of the need for a national effort to monitor the growing threat
from climate change, UNSW coastal
researchers warn.
Using data
from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the
researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of
climate change.
This fall
researchers at the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia will lead an effort to digitize around 2.1 million specimens
from the order Lepidoptera — moths and butterflies — and to make that data available to scientists studying
climate, natural habitats and agricultural pests.
But
researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, working alongside the University of Zurich, discovered that this extinction took place during a short ice age which preceded the global
climate warming.
Predicting future biodiversity in these pools will help
researchers understand whether unique fauna will be lost
from the park due to
climate change and contribute to global research attempting to understand how
climate change will affect whole ecosystems.
But in a new paper in the journal Nature Communications,
researchers investigating nutrients in runoff
from agricultural land warn that phosphorus losses will increase, due to
climate change, unless this is mitigated by making major changes to agricultural practices.
The scientists, part of a team headed by
researchers at Laval University in Quebec, used
climate reconstructions
from 21,000 years ago to the present to predict where caribou habitat would likely exist and they matched reservoirs of high genetic diversity to areas with the most stable habitat over time.
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 rains.