Sentences with phrase «early climate researchers»

He and other early climate researchers say they did not predict a global cooling trend but simply suggested the possibility.

Not exact matches

In the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University (MISU), researchers have done a series of model simulations investigating tropical cyclone activity during an earlier warm climate, the mid-Holocene, 6,000 years ago.

As the climate heats up and warmer winters become more frequent, researchers said, earlier influenza seasons may become more common.

Australia also experienced record rainfall in early 2012, and while La Niña, a natural variation, was behind much of that, researchers found that human - caused climate change increased the chance of the above - average rainfall by 5 to 15 percent.

«Our estimates show that the growth in Chinese emissions has slowed a lot in the past two to three years, and is now much lower than at any point since the early 2000s,» said study lead author Jan Ivar Korsbakken, senior climate economics researcher at CICERO.

The researchers then went to an intermediate elevation and simulated climate change by reducing the snowpack, which made the plants flower seven days early, similar in magnitude to flowering time shifts over 20 to 30 years of climate change.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aClimate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aclimate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

By quantifying mammalian extinction selectivity, the researchers documented what happened to mammals as early humans left Africa through the compilation of extensive data including mammal body size, climate, extinction status and geographic location over the last 125,000 years.

The researchers were also not able to calculate a genuine long - term «climate benefit» from the early restriction of emissions such as methane or fluorocarbons.

Precipitation anomalies have been stronger and covered larger areas in some earlier centuries than during the twentieth century,» according to Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, historian and climate researcher at Stockholm University and lead author of this study.

The researchers found that the fog layer is an essential regulator of the Amazon climate: during the wet season, it artificially modifies the duration of daytime because it reflects sunlight during the early morning.

Researchers of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Toronto have now detected evidence of this oceanographic event and an earlier sudden sea - level rise in the fossils of tiny calcifying marine algae preserved in seafloor sediments in the Aegean Sea.

In landscapes that are highly fragmented from human activity like development and agriculture, the end could come as early as 2050, the researchers report today in Nature Climate Change.

A study published April 7 in PNAS Online Early Edition describes how a team of scientists, including researchers from the University of California, Davis, showed that vapor losses to the walls of laboratory chambers can suppress the formation of secondary organic aerosol, which in turn has contributed to the underprediction of SOA in climate and air quality models.

In February, Australian and American researchers who compared ocean and climate modeling results with weather observations published findings in Nature Climate Change advancing earlier studies that explored the oscillation's global infclimate modeling results with weather observations published findings in Nature Climate Change advancing earlier studies that explored the oscillation's global infClimate Change advancing earlier studies that explored the oscillation's global influence.

With renewed interest in arctic oil and gas development and recognition that the polar regions are early warning systems for climate change, both foreign and Canadian researchers once again are focusing on the Arctic.

The study by researchers including Joel E. Cohen, a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, finds the increase in tornado outbreaks does not appear to be the result of a warming climate as earlier models suggested.

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) and the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) are working together to attract talented early - career researchers, scientists, engineers and other professionals to strengthen international capacity and cooperation in fields such as climate, biodiversity, conservation, humanities and astrophysics research.

Although some earlier work along similar lines had been done by other paleoclimate researchers (Ed Cook, Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, Ray Bradley, Malcolm Hughes, and Henry Diaz being just a few examples), before Mike, no one had seriously attempted to use all the available paleoclimate data together, to try to reconstruct the global patterns of climate back in time before the start of direct instrumental observations of climate, or to estimate the underlying statistical uncertainties in reconstructing past temperature changes.

Postscript When I was writing that piece (in haste) I forgot to add a note about the comment policy established by Michael Tobis, a retired climate researcher who dove in online early, and with vigor.

The core finding is that temperatures over the continents have warmed about 1 degree Centigrade (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1950, matching earlier independent analyses by American and British climate researchers that had been repeatedly attacked by climate skeptics and opponents of curbs in greenhouse emissions.

Still, I was intrigued earlier this month when I heard from Renee Lertzman, a research fellow in humanities and sustainability at Portland State University, that she was speaking on «the myth of apathy,» the subject of a book she's writing, at «Engaging With Climate Change: Psychoanalytic Perspectives,» a meeting of psychoanalysts and behavioral researchers in London.

Peter Huybers, a Harvard University researcher focused on ice sheets and influences on the climate system (Huybers made an earlier appearance on Dot Earth):

24 Feb: Courier - Mail: Climate researcher questions Cyclone Marcia's category 5 status Jennifer Morohasy said the bureau had used computer modelling rather than early readings from weather stations to determine that Marcia was a category 5 cyclone, not a category 3... Systems Engineering Australia principal Bruce Harper, a modelling and risk assessment consultant who analyses cyclones, said it was often difficult to determine whether a storm was a marginal 3, 4 or 5.

What wrong with the dam metaphor, which I recall was first made by John Tyndale, an early climate change researcher?

Climateprediction.net «s Dr Friederike Otto presented on climate attribution science to Chinese and Brazilian early career researchers today, as part of a week - long workshop for the LOTUS project being hosted by the Oxford e-Research Centre.

In this context, WCRP promotes current and future leadership in climate science, making particular efforts to support and engage Early Career Researchers (ECRs) from all regions in the world, toward a sustainable climate research community.

President - elect Barack Obama's entry into the White House early next year, vowing greater action on climate change, will also lift expectations of China, said Guan Qingyou, a climate policy researcher at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Researchers found the state's efforts to reduce diesel emissions to have lessened the impact of global warming on California, supporting earlier theoretical computer modeling by Dr. Mark Jacobson of Stanford University that reducing black carbon from diesel combustion is a potent «climate cooler.»

Years earlier, one climate researcher at the company, Henry Shaw, had called management's attention to a key conclusion of a landmark National Academy of Sciences report: global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, not a scarcity of supply, would likely set the ultimate limit on the use of fossil fuels.

Parallel investigations by Inside Climate News and Columbia Journalism School / Los Angeles Times uncovered internal documents showing the oil major's own researchers confirmed the scientific consensus as early as the 1970s.

Fostering future leaders: WCRP promotes current and future leadership in climate science, making particular efforts to support and engage Early Career Researchers (ECRs) from all regions in the world, toward a sustainable climate research community.

In an earlier version of this post, I said that the Cook researchers were not scientists (I meant to say climate scientists.)

The summer school is aimed at graduate students and early - career researchers in physics, (applied) mathematics, engineering, the climate sciences, and related fields.

By Barry Brown Canadian researchers studying the ArcticÂ's ancient permafrost have discovered 700,000 - year - old ice wedges buried in the soil that have survived earlier periods of global warming, adding complexity to predictions about the impact of contemporary climate change.

In comparison, the researchers say that a number of the global models used in previous studies of future climate change predict too frequent precipitation that often falls too early in the day.

The earliest reports from Barbuda indicate that 90 percent of the houses on the small island were destroyed by the storm, an unsustainable level of damage, according to Carl - Friedrich Schleussner, a researcher with Climate Analytics who helps island nations prepare for climate change iClimate Analytics who helps island nations prepare for climate change iclimate change impacts.

The researchers used data on earlier warm periods in Earth's history to estimate climate impacts as a function of global temperature, climate models to simulate global warming, and satellite data to verify ongoing changes.

In the early 1980s Exxon researchers often repeated that unbiased science would give it legitimacy in helping shape climate - related laws that would affect its profitability.

The output of the workshop for early career researchers is to bring forward the next group of climate scientists who will have knowledge of this cutting edge area of research and its applications for societally relevant problems.

As temperatures in the East Valley were predicted to hit over 100 the early part of next week, some climate researchers predict Arizona could be unlivable by 2050.

Key Findings A series of regional surveys conducted by Carsey Institute researchers in 2010 and early 2011 asked nearly 9,500 individuals about climate change.

When I first began to work with my Ph.D. adviser Barry Saltzman in the early 1990s, he, like many other climate researchers at the time, remained unconvinced that there was yet a detectable human influence on the climate... other scientists, such as NASA's James Hansen and Stanford University's Stephen Schneider, were convinced by the evidence already in hand that human - caused climate change was indeed now upon us.

In addition, the researchers posed this question first, so respondents weren't prompted by any earlier questions about climate change.