Sentences with phrase «climate studies like»

Most climate studies like those that look at global warming and its links to carbon dioxide emissions have examined changes that emerge gradually and steadily over decades or centuries.

It is the secondary effects that are presently not accounted for in climate studies like the one referenced in the post, Thompson et al..

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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.

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

«These studies are a wake - up call ahead of U.N. Climate Week — we must not only zero out CO2 emissions by 2050, but also rapidly limit superpollutants like HFCs and methane, and even undertake atmospheric carbon removal,» said Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House climate aClimate Week — we must not only zero out CO2 emissions by 2050, but also rapidly limit superpollutants like HFCs and methane, and even undertake atmospheric carbon removal,» said Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House climate aclimate adviser.

Conversely, climate policy that results in little or no effort to control greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide would likely result in a substantial release of carbon from the permafrost region by 2300, the study found.

Even if the near future doesn't unfold like the 2004 climate - gone - haywire film The Day After Tomorrow, scientists need to be able to produce accurate models of what abrupt change (more likely spanning hundreds or thousands or years, rather than days) would look like and why it might occur, explains Zhengyu Liu, lead author of the study and director of the University of Wisconsin — Madison's Center for Climate Reclimate - gone - haywire film The Day After Tomorrow, scientists need to be able to produce accurate models of what abrupt change (more likely spanning hundreds or thousands or years, rather than days) would look like and why it might occur, explains Zhengyu Liu, lead author of the study and director of the University of Wisconsin — Madison's Center for Climate ReClimate Research.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

Satellite imagery is used for all sorts of climate study, from identifying conditions that allow infectious diseases like West Nile virus and cholera to emerge, to creating models for predicting hurricanes, to distinguishing natural resources such as wind, water and sunlight.

«This study shows that local events like forest die - offs in one part of the globe influence climate and ecology in other, often distant locations,» said Tim Kratz, program director at the funding agency, the National Science Foundation.

While several organizations like the World Bank, European agencies, nonprofit agencies and USAID have commissioned studies, experts yesterday acknowledged that no one has emerged with a systematic approach to understanding local climate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green Climatclimate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green ClimateClimate Fund.

While natural climate variations like El Niño do affect the frequency and severity of heat waves from one year to the next, the study suggests the increases are mainly linked to long - term changes in sea surface temperatures.

Given such uncertainties, Bush, much like his father a decade earlier, pledged additional funding for climate studies.

Scientists like Zeebe also study the PETM to better understand long - term changes in Earth's future climate.

Aside from inflicting devastating natural disasters on often vulnerable communities, climate change can also spur outbreaks of infectious diseases like Zika, malaria and dengue fever, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Susannah Tringe is studying how wetland microbes affect climate change at sites like this one at the southern end of San Francisco Bay.

«The takeaway from this paper is that Harvey was more intense because of today's climate, and storms like Harvey are more likely in today's climate,» said Antonia Sebastian, a study co-author and a researcher with Rice University's Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center.

That's the conclusion of a 5 - year study, which found that when news organizations ran a number of stories on controversial topics like water quality and climate change in close succession, they significantly boosted public conversations about these topics — and even changed some people's minds.

The study applied «medium to high» future emissions estimates of heat - trapping gases, as assumed by the California state government, to models designed to assess what effect climate change would have on national parks like Yosemite, Death Valley, Redwood, Joshua Tree and Sequoia.

The sediment cores used in this study cover a period when the planet went through many climate cycles driven by variations in Earth's orbit, from extreme glacial periods such as the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, when massive ice sheets covered the northern parts of Europe and North America, to relatively warm interglacial periods with climates more like today's.

«We assumed the upcoming climate will be like the past 100 years — actually, probably, there will be more drought,» says ecologist David Breshears of U.A., who participated in the study.

The study also finds that Tea Party supporters with higher levels of education are less likely to trust scientists or accept scientific consensus on topics like evolution or climate change, which runs opposite to the positive effect education has on trust in science among Independents and Democrats.

Bristlecone pine and limber pine trees in the Great Basin region are like two very gnarled, old men in a slow - motion race up the mountaintop, and climate change is the starting gun, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.

Some Republicans may discredit climate science because they may not like the policies that have been proposed to address the problem, said the study's co-author, Jonathon Schuldt, assistant professor of communication at Cornell.

If you listen to global warming deniers, or even much of the public, it seems like there is some stack of scientific studies somewhere that refute anthropogenic — human - caused — climate change.

Along with data from the few studies like Yokelson's, Wiedinmyer used guidelines for calculating trash burning emissions produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to determine how much waste was being generated and burned, what exactly was in that waste, and what types of chemicals were likely generated.

A recent US study of more than 5500 women with engineering degrees found that of those who had started work in the sector and then left it, a fifth did so because they didn't like the workplace climate or their boss.

«It looks like predators in many types of ecosystems can play a big role in global climate change,» says Trisha Atwood of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who led the study.

Climate model simulations show that Pinatubo - like eruptions tend to shorten La Niñas, lengthen El Niños and lead to unusual warming during neutral periods, the study says.

The study, published online today in Nature Communications, used sophisticated climate model simulations to show that El Niño tends to peak during the year after large volcanic eruptions like the one at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991.

The study, published online today in the Journal of Climate, describes what future rain will look like in a typical year, but doesn't comment on how often drought might loom over southern California.

The study stops short of attributing California's latest drought to changes in Arctic sea ice, partly because there are other phenomena that play a role, like warm sea surface temperatures and changes to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, an atmospheric climate pattern that typically shifts every 20 to 30 years.

«By studying specialists like the greater bamboo lemur, we can identify the different ways that climate change can cause extinction,» says author Jukka Jernvall at University of Helsinki.

His study found population growth will likely play a small role in climate change, because the areas with the highest growth — like Africa — have a small carbon footprint.

«Outside of studies of red spruce in the 1970s, I have never seen anything quite like this,» said a study co-author, Dr. Neil Pederson, an ecologist at Harvard Forest in Massachusetts and an expert on tree rings and climate change.

Venus is like a greenhouse effect on steroids; by studying what happened to the planet's climate in the past, scientists hope to better understand climate change on Earth.

But he, like the authors of the study, is optimistic that such data will help policymakers to understand the importance of local policies to mitigate urban heat islands and larger patterns of climate change.

Climate Adaptation: The State of Practice in U.S. Communities is the first study to examine in depth actions that multiple municipalities are taking to address climate - change fueled events like flooding, heat waves, wildfires and intense Climate Adaptation: The State of Practice in U.S. Communities is the first study to examine in depth actions that multiple municipalities are taking to address climate - change fueled events like flooding, heat waves, wildfires and intense climate - change fueled events like flooding, heat waves, wildfires and intense storms.

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Studies warn climate change will bring faster warming to subtropical dry areas, making crops like wheat and potatoes unviable

A study published earlier this year and led by Prestemon used both climate models and projections of societal changes, like population growth and development, to look at how they might impact wildfire projections.

It is important to regard the LGM studies as just one set of points in the cloud yielded by other climate sensitivity estimates, but the LGM has been a frequent target because it was a period for which there is a lot of data from varied sources, climate was significantly different from today, and we have considerable information about the important drivers — like CO2, CH4, ice sheet extent, vegetation changes etc..

They are what create individual weather systems, like high pressure cells and storms,» Rutgers University climate researcher Jennifer Francis, who reviewed the new study, said in an email.

Absent understanding of cloud feedback processes, the best you can really do is mesh it into the definition of the emergent climate sensitivity, but I think probing (at least some of) the uncertainties in effects like this is one of the whole points of these ensemble - based studies.

In the second real - time extreme weather attribution study in the context of the World Weather Attribution project the team found a 5 - 80 % increase in the likelihood of heavy precipitation like those associated with storm Desmond to occur due to anthropogenic climate change.

This isn't news to top climate scientists around the world (see Hadley Center: «Catastrophic» 5 — 7 °C warming by 2100 on current emissions path) or even to top climate scientists in this country (see US Geological Survey stunner: Sea - level rise in 2100 will likely «substantially exceed» IPCC projections, SW faces «permanent drying») and certainly not to people who follow the scientific literature, like Climate Progress readers (see Study: Water - vapor feedback is «strong and positive,» so we face «warming of several degrees Celsius&rclimate scientists around the world (see Hadley Center: «Catastrophic» 5 — 7 °C warming by 2100 on current emissions path) or even to top climate scientists in this country (see US Geological Survey stunner: Sea - level rise in 2100 will likely «substantially exceed» IPCC projections, SW faces «permanent drying») and certainly not to people who follow the scientific literature, like Climate Progress readers (see Study: Water - vapor feedback is «strong and positive,» so we face «warming of several degrees Celsius&rclimate scientists in this country (see US Geological Survey stunner: Sea - level rise in 2100 will likely «substantially exceed» IPCC projections, SW faces «permanent drying») and certainly not to people who follow the scientific literature, like Climate Progress readers (see Study: Water - vapor feedback is «strong and positive,» so we face «warming of several degrees Celsius&rClimate Progress readers (see Study: Water - vapor feedback is «strong and positive,» so we face «warming of several degrees Celsius»).

Winter is a great time to extend your students» knowledge of weather and the climate with activities such as learning vocabulary terms and the components of climate systems, as well as how scientists act like detectives when studying climate changes.

Positive School Climate: What It Looks Like and How It Happens: Nurturing Positive School Climate for Student Learning and Professional Growth by Tami Kopischke Smith, Faith Connolly, and Charlene Pryseski In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City Schools to develop an understanding of how principals led their school's climate turnaround and how efforts -LClimate: What It Looks Like and How It Happens: Nurturing Positive School Climate for Student Learning and Professional Growth by Tami Kopischke Smith, Faith Connolly, and Charlene Pryseski In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City Schools to develop an understanding of how principals led their school's climate turnaround and how efforts -LClimate for Student Learning and Professional Growth by Tami Kopischke Smith, Faith Connolly, and Charlene Pryseski In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City Schools to develop an understanding of how principals led their school's climate turnaround and how efforts -Lclimate turnaround and how efforts -LSB-...]

Summary: This article reports on a research brief — the product of a year of work by 28 academic researchers who study issues like student motivation, school climate, and social - emotional learning.

Geography is the study of different countries, which includes factors like population, culture, location, climate, economy and physical land properties.