Sentences with phrase «climate studies at»

He was a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

One leading climate scientist, Dr. Roy Spencer, who served as senior scientist for climate studies at NASA, went even further.

Dr Roy Spencer, former senior scientist for Climate studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and current principal research scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville, reports that 2015 will not be «The Hottest Year Ever» despite a strong El Niño....

But in some parts of Brazil, average temperatures rose by between 3 ° and 5 °C, according to data from the Centre for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.

The group of scientists − led by Carlos Nobre, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and co-ordinator of the Centre for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies at Brazil's Space Research Institute (INPE) − set out their vision in an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Svensmark is the head of the Center for Sun - Climate Studies at the National Space Institute in the Technical University of Denmark.

Dr. Roy Spencer, who served as senior scientist for climate studies at NASA before taking his current post as principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said he was «embarrassed by the scientific community's behavior on the subject.»

Spencer is a scientist at the University of Alabama - Huntsville and a former senior scientist for climate studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

I sent a host of climate and energy specialists my post on the «America's Climate Choices» reports from the National Academies and the first response comes from Mike Hulme, a professor of climate studies at the University of East Anglia and author of «Why We Disagree About Climate Change» and the recent «Hartwell Paper» on climate policy.

Muller launched his own climate study at the University of California, Berkeley — the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project — in order to better study temperature measurements, taking into account much of the concerns expressed by skeptics.

In addition to the data from the radiometers, the Berkeley Lab scientists will get supplemental data by taking advantage of a separate, in - depth DOE climate study at the same location, which is using additional instruments and a balloon - borne sounding system to get information on temperature, cloud cover, the density and types of aerosols or pollution particles, heat fluxes and other climate variables like precipitation.

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Another reason why fears of dispute may be unfounded is the fact that China lacks any semblance of geographical claim in the Arctic, unlike in the South China Sea, said Andrew Holland, director of studies and senior fellow for energy and climate at non-partisan research organization American Security Project.

The study, published by the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20 % annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011.

So we took a couple of years to do soil studies and climate studies: Looking at soils at different times of the year, looking at moisture levels, at holding capacities, etc..

«This points to the unexplored risks of changing climate on aviation,» said study co-author Radley Horton, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

In the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

At the federal level, the US Department of Energy's much - anticipated study on grid reliability deliberately removed language noting harm from climate change between the draft and final versions.

«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.

At the same time, climate - denier funding from family and corporate foundations — say, Exxon's foundation — has declined, according to Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University who studies the climate change «counter-movement.&raquAt the same time, climate - denier funding from family and corporate foundations — say, Exxon's foundation — has declined, according to Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University who studies the climate change «counter-movement.&raquat Drexel University who studies the climate change «counter-movement.»

Yesterday, Colby Cosh at Macleans highlighted Gordonâ $ ™ s post as revealing this study to be a «climate - change hoax.»

So when the Rhodes Scholar began studying for a Ph.D. in environmental studies at Oxford University, she paired the two to study the evangelical community's discussions of climate change.

Unfortunately, there are examples of at least one study, which claims 97 percent of climate scientists agree global warming is happening and is manmade, which may have done a not - so - great job of reaching such a conclusion.

A geophysicist at the University of Washington and director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, he is at the forefront of research on geoengineering, a science that focuses on manipulating the environment to, among other ends, combat climate change.

A new study that looks at climate change over the past 11,300 years — a record length of time for any study — suggests that the current trend of global warming is unprecedented.

This study looked at genetic (varieties) and management (row spacing and nitrogen) options to minimise the impact of climate change, using rain - out shelters to control rainfall; the results provided a platform to model wheat production in future climates.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iClimate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iclimate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iClimate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

The rate of shoulder dystocia, which is considered an emergency that may necessitate a cesarean (or an instrumental birth) is around 1.29 % though some studies report it at higher rates in the current birth climate.

James Painter is the head of the journalism fellowship programme at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and is author of a recent RISJ study on climate change and the media, called «Summoned by Science&raStudy of Journalism, and is author of a recent RISJ study on climate change and the media, called «Summoned by Science&rastudy on climate change and the media, called «Summoned by Science».

At the end of our study, we made several suggestions as to what might improve the quality and quantity of climate change reporting.

«While we can not say the (Hoosick Falls) storm was caused by climate change, incidences of severe weather and flooding such as this have a higher probability in a globally warmed climate,» said Ross Lazear, an instructor at the University at Albany who studies extreme weather and weather forecasting.

A new paper published by scientists in the Northeast finds that long - term studies at the local scale are needed to accurately predict and manage the effects of climate change.

Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting weather in every part of the United States, causing average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.

A recent Princeton study looks at the effects of climate change like erosion, deforestation and mega-droughts will have on our future.

Assuming a rotation rate similar to today, the planet could have had a habitable climate until at least 715 million years ago (SN Online: 8/26/16), even if Venus got 70 percent more sunlight than Earth does now, physicist Michael Way of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and colleagues reported in 2016 in Geophysical Research Letters.

Using the Great Barrier Reef as their study case, they estimated the evolution of the region over the last 14,000 years and showed that (1) high sediment loads from catchments erosion prevented coral growth during the early phase of sea level rise and favoured deep offshore sediment deposition; (2) how the fine balance between climate, sea level, and margin physiography enabled coral reefs to thrive under limited shelf sedimentation rates at 6,000 years before present; and, (3) how over the last 3,000 years, the decrease of accommodation space led to the lateral extension of coral reefs consistent with available observational data.

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.

«Poor countries are suffering worst from climate change that they had almost no role in creating,» said Timmons Roberts, an environmental studies and sociology professor at Brown University.

«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

European forest managers can have their cake and eat it, because according to a new study maximizing timber production in a forest does not necessarily have to come at a cost of reduced species diversity or the capacity to regulate climate change by the same forest.

Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist and modeler at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said this sort of research is useful for modelers, who can take these results and see whether they show up when they run their models.

«There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the characteristics of extreme rainfall under climate change are going to be different,» said Praveen Kumar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Illinois and project leader on the study.

KATHARINE HAYHOE is an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, where she studies climate modeling and the regional impacts of global warming.

Polly and his co-author A. Michelle Lawing, a doctoral candidate studying biology and geological sciences at Indiana, looked at 11 species of rattlesnakes across North America, tracking where they lived and how much they vary from one another, reconciling their movements with the climate several million years in the past.

In a recent study, researchers at the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University have found that tropical cyclone activity may have increased during past warm climates in connection with a greening of the Sahara.

«The Trump administration has sort of studied the playbook of some states,» said Romany Webb, a fellow at Columbia's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

A new study from The University of Texas at Dallas examines the differences in climate change perceptions in the United States and Europe by looking at investor behavior.

The new study covers the entire U.S. West, from the High Plains states to the Pacific coast, and provides the first detailed look at how groundwater recharge may change as the climate changes, said senior author Thomas Meixner, UA professor and associate department head of hydrology and atmospheric sciences.

At the Climate Action Tracker, Hare and fellow researchers are using more than 40 studies on effort - sharing to help set a standard for what is and isn't fair.

A new WRI study, in fact, finds that the bank does not put climate change at the center of its work.

Only a handful of previous studies have looked at the humidity issue in relation to climate change.