Sentences with phrase «examine whether climate change»

Here I'll examine whether climate change is likely to be the most important global public health problem if not today, at least in the foreseeable future.

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But now, for the first time, climate scientists are systematically examining recent extreme weather events to determine whether climate change played a role.

But the latest techniques are making it possible to examine the role that climate change played in shaping the season that has just past — whether it was a scorching summer or a particularly wet winter, for instance.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

In an interview with Miller-McCune.com, meteorologist Kevin Trenberth examines the world's recently wacky weather and whether it's a sign of climate change or just routine variability.

Not only do pupils understand the causes and effects, they examine evidence as to whether or not climate change is real or a hoax.

The thesis examines whether and how spatial planning is used in urban areas to promote resilience to flood risk and climate change.

It's also important to examine whether a world without such efforts — in which citizens had a clear view of both what is known, and uncertain, about the human factor in shaping climate - related risks — would appreciably change.

There's a great discussion under way at the Room for Debate blog examining whether the Endangered Species Act is the right tool for the job in limiting losses from human - driven climate change.

In 2002, the National Academy of Sciences published «Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises,» a valuable report examining whether and how the building human influence on the climate system might lead to disruptiveClimate Change: Inevitable Surprises,» a valuable report examining whether and how the building human influence on the climate system might lead to disruptiveclimate system might lead to disruptive jolts.

Sociologists of science wish to study the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the same reason that they want to examine other loci at which scientific knowledge is made — whether in a laboratory, the field, a museum or at a conference.

Kahan: We examined whether people, in judging the validity of evidence on climate change, would be more or less open - minded based on whether they had just previously been exposed to information either about geo - engineering or carbon limits.

In an interview with Miller-McCune.com, meteorologist Kevin Trenberth examines the world's recently wacky weather and whether it's a sign of climate change or just routine variability.

As the Migration Policy Institute elaborates in an article examining the complexities of climate change and migration, a weather - related event — whether it's gradual glacial melting or a sudden superstorm like Sandy — can increase pressures on land, food, and water resources.

This report examines whether and how catastrophe models account for climate change through a series of case studies provided by a range of academic and commercial model providers.

It examines the evidence (climate change research) and decides whether or not human - produced carbon dioxide emissions are interfering in a dangerous way with normal background climate.

So when we examine the climate change debate we should consider whether this issue is like a dispassionate scientific question where we may assume that the math will be used in a neutral manner or is it like a financial or political issue where no sensible person would accept the assumption of neutrality.

In the face of Donald Trump's cabinet nomination of Scott Pruitt, an AG who was part of the backlash against the racketeering persecution of «climate deniers», is Shabecoff actually blissfully unaware that in the legal action he's demanding, the accusation would be cross examined in order to determine whether people accused of denying climate change and deliberately spreading lies and misinformation for the purpose of criminally blocking meaningful action... actually undertook exactly that action??

More specifically, we (a) examined whether non-significant results were omitted disproportionately in the climate change literature, (b) if there were particular trends of unexpected and abrupt changes in the number of published studies and reported effects in relation to IPCC 2007 and Climategate, (c) whether effects presented in the abstracts were significantly larger than those reported in the main body of reports, and (d) how findings from these first three tests related to the impact factor of journals.

Here I'll examine whether, notwithstanding that climate change is likely to be outranked by other factors when it comes to human well - being, whether it is likely to be the most important global ecological problem if not today, at least in the foreseeable future.

But, there is another view of extreme climate change that can be examined to ascertain whether it has become a modern era problem or not.

With this information, I examine global climate model predictions of future climate to see whether the models change in what seem to be realistic ways.

From the abstract the article examines whether or not increased greenhouse gases will cause climate change.

Next, the magnitudes and patterns of climate change from high - end model simulations are examined and compared with the remaining projections, to see whether the behaviour of these two classes of model is very different.

«We've seen, from the tutorial we've been examining [https://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/hafemeister.cfm], that the physics of climate change, regardless of how sound each step in the process might seem, is far too complex to satisfy Occam's Razor — we have no way of knowing whether a simpler explanation might account equally well or better for the known physical interactions.