Sentences with phrase «climate study published»

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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.

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.

«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.

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.

Warmer temperatures shorten the lifespan of soil microbes and this may affect soil carbon storage, according to a new NSF - funded study published in Nature Climate Change this week.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Their study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, also found evidence that climate change is skewing the proportion of record high temperatures to record low temperatures in the continental United States, with extremely hot days now outnumbering extremely cold days by 2 - to - 1.

In another 2017 study published in Advances in Political Psychology, «Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing,» Landrum and her colleagues found that liberal Democrats were far less likely than strong Republicans to voluntarily read a «surprising climate - skeptical story,» whereas a «surprising climate - concerned story» was far more likely to be read by those on the left than on the right.

The Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's science and knowledge service, has published a pioneering study on the role of the chemical and petrochemical industry in reaching the EU climate targets.

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

A study published yesterday in Nature Climate Change showed that early exposure to high levels of CO2 during the larval stage of development had significant negative effects on the fish's size, metabolism and ability to sense threats in their environment.

This study, published in a recent issue of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, is the first to use financial investors» actions, rather than self - reported opinions, to investigate the trans - Atlantic difference in public opinion on climate change and the environment.

Results of the study are being published this week in NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, a Nature publication.

«Political conflicts are ultimately resolved through political mobilization and activism,» the researchers write in their study, published online Feb. 3 in the journal Climate Change.

The study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, suggests that some tough decisions could be ahead: Some areas might see tougher zoning restrictions, while others could be faced with relocating species that can't move on their own.

The oceans near Antarctica that absorb carbon and protect our planet from climate change have been working robustly in the past decade, finds a new study published yesterday in Science.

«We now have an independent measurement of these emission sources that does not rely on what was known or thought known,» said Chris McLinden, an atmospheric scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Toronto and lead author of the study published this week in Nature Geosciences.

A study published last year in the American Journal of Human Genetics used mitochondrial DNA to argue that the San Bushmen of southern Africa became isolated from other modern humans for up to 110,000 years, probably because climate change produced a great desert separating East Africa from southern Africa.

The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presents a historical view of how climate change and the resulting habitat loss can affect Earth's biodiversity.

«Incentives for permanent no till and especially permission to harvest CRP biomass for cellulosic biofuel would help to blunt the climate impact of future CRP conversion,» states the study's abstract, published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«We can predict the beginning of the Indian monsoon two weeks earlier, and the end of it even six weeks earlier than before — which is quite a breakthrough, given that for the farmers every day counts,» says Veronika Stolbova from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the University of Zurich, the lead - author of the study to be published in the Geophysical Research Letters.

As Germán Orizaola, co-author of the study published in the journal Ecology and a researcher at the Swedish university states «Among the many challenges climate change poses to natural ecosystems, the effect it can have on the dietary preferences of living organisms is a field of study that has been attracting researchers» attention in recent years.»

McCright's study, «Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States,» was published online in July and printed in the October 2011 issue of Global Environmental Change, which ranks first out of 77 journals on environmental studies.

And that is not just a tragedy for the plants and animals that require mature forests — it is also a tragedy for the world's climate, according to a study published today in Nature.

A new study published in Nature Climate Change looks at the next 10,000 years, and finds that the catastrophic impact of another three centuries of carbon pollution will persist millennia after the carbon dioxide releases cease.

The results of this study, published this week in the Nature Publishing Group Scientific Reports, allow us to know the effects of climate change on past biodiversity.

A team of scientists demonstrated another tangible effect of climate change with a new study published Thursday in Science.

The value of this information is illustrated by the results of a study published May 19 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Oster's group, working with colleagues from the Berkeley Geochronology Center, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History and the University of Cambridge titled «Northeast Indian stalagmite records Pacific decadal climate change: Implications for moisture transport and drought in India.»

These animals» sizes likely resulted from relatively rapid climate change, suggest the authors of a new study published online Thursday in Science.

This is shown in a study now published in Nature Climate Change by scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Later, as he studied how climate change was impacting vegetative growth as a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz, Ram found that colleagues weren't willing to hand over the raw measurements behind published data, or the algorithms that supported the authors» conclusions.

Climate is increasingly controlling synchronous ecosystem behavior in which species populations rise and fall together, according to the National Science Foundation - funded study published in the journal Global Change Biology.

«The Argo data is really critical,» said Paul Durack, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher who led the new study, which was published in Climate Nature Change.

A recent study published earlier this month in Nature Climate Change by University of Georgia demographer Mathew Hauer showed that Florida could lose as many as 2.5 million people to sea - level rise by the end of the century.

The other ocean temperature study, also published Sunday in Climate Nature Change, used Argo and other data to tentatively conclude that all of the ocean warming from 2005 to 2013 had occurred above depths of 6,500 feet.

The study, published today in PNAS and led by scientists at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F), the University of Vienna and UCL, analysed a global database of 45,984 records detailing the first invasions of 16,019 established alien species from 1500 until 2005 to investigate the dynamics of how alien species spread worldwide.

Normally, studies trying to attribute climate change to extreme events are published much later after the event, noted Karoly.

That's the conclusion of a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, which says China's emissions may have actually increased in 2014, rather than fallen.

For the study «Doubling of coastal erosion under rising sea level by mid-century in Hawaiʻi,» published this week in Natural Hazards, the research team developed a simple model to assess future erosion hazards under higher sea levels — taking into account historical changes of Hawaiʻi shorelines and the projected acceleration of sea level rise reported from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

«One can already suspect that the mutation rate of carnivores, especially bears, will be most likely different from that of primates,» argues bioinformaticist Axel Janke of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Center in Germany, one of the researchers behind the study published in Science.

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, was based on 30 years of research by scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Montana, and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.

A study published in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology has found that because the newer engines emit higher levels of the climate - warming pollutant black carbon than traditional engines, their impact on the climate is uncertain.

«People will adapt their behavior until they are comfortable» In a study published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change, Kingma presented a model that could better define a thermal sweet spot for homes and offices.

Dust that blew into the North Pacific Ocean could help explain why the Earth's climate cooled 2.7 million years ago, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.

Two separate studies published last spring suggest that climate change has carried the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, or WAIS, across a similar threshold.

In a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously sClimate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously sclimate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously studied.

Yang is lead author of the new study, which was published Thursday in the peer - reviewed journal Nature Climate Change.

The study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, addresses a longstanding paradox between predictions of widespread extinctions of cold - water species and a general lack of evidence for those extinctions despite decades of recent climate change.

The study, «Pathways of Influence in Emotional Appeals: Benefits and Tradeoffs of Using Fear or Humor to Promote Climate Change - Related Intentions and Risk Perceptions,» published in the Journal of Communication, was the result of a partnership grant between Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, where Niederdeppe is a faculty fellow, and the Environmental Defense Fund.

«We have detected the human fingerprint in both the Arctic and Antarctic region [s],» says Peter Stott, a climate modeler at the U.K. Met (meteorological) Office's Hadley Center, and co-author of the study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.