Sentences with phrase «for climate studies for»

Spencer, since leaving his position as Senior Scientist for Climate Studies for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, has been the Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and has been funded by various government agencies, including the Department of Energy.

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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.

WASHINGTON — Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change.

Study after study has reached the same conclusion: for Canada to achieve its 2030 and 2050 climate targets, we must switch to cleaner fStudy after study has reached the same conclusion: for Canada to achieve its 2030 and 2050 climate targets, we must switch to cleaner fstudy has reached the same conclusion: for Canada to achieve its 2030 and 2050 climate targets, we must switch to cleaner fuels.

Even with climate change, Harvey's rain was an extremely rare event, expected not to return for thousands of years, Karin van der Wiel, a co-author of the Environmental Research Letters study, said.

According to this meta - study (a fancy name for a literature review), there seems to be a systematic tendency to downplay the economic costs of climate change policies:

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Funding for climate studies is second only to funding for biological sciences.

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.

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.

Dinosaur - Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance Mar. 14, 2013 — The dry, barren prairie around Alberta's Drumheller area was once a lush and subtropical forest on the shores of a large inland sea, with loads of wetlands inhabited by dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and small mammals.

'» I find nothing remarkable in the Pope accepting mainstream science — things have moved on from the days of Galileo»» says Gavin Schmidt, a climate researcher with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.

In this climate a study apparatus of unprecedented scope for the examination of congregations was established by the World Council of Churches and its national counterparts.

«When farms sign on for verification, we create case studies applying the 5P's to eight separate categories of sustainability: pest management, good employee practices, soil treatments, climate / energy, water, waste, packaging and community support.

He is on the board of the California Climate and Agriculture Network, the California Institute for Rural Studies, and the Welte Institute for Oaxacan Studies.

Study links California drought to global warming: Now a study is asserting a link between climate change and both the intensifying California drought and the polar vortex blamed for a harsh winter that mercifully has just ended in many placStudy links California drought to global warming: Now a study is asserting a link between climate change and both the intensifying California drought and the polar vortex blamed for a harsh winter that mercifully has just ended in many placstudy is asserting a link between climate change and both the intensifying California drought and the polar vortex blamed for a harsh winter that mercifully has just ended in many places...

Studies link enteric fermentation (that's a geeky name for methane emissions — including cow gas) to climate change.

None of the strategies tested offset the expected fall in wheat production, but the study identified directions for wheat breeding (canopy vigour and root characteristics) and management to minimise yield losses in a hotter and drier climate.

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.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

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».

A new study I carried out for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it examstudy I carried out for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it examStudy of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it examined.

The FSB is on the lookout for new case studies to speak to print and broadcast media on a range of topics, such as the business climate, access to finance through the banks or other providers, late payment, exporting and your use of technology.

A separate study released Monday by the Tax Foundation ranked the state 49th — ahead only of New Jersey — for its «business climate.»

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.

By studying the rings of semifossilized trees, researchers constructed a climate history for the semiarid Asian nation spanning the last 2,060 years — going 1,000 years further back than previous studies.

It's fair to guess he was alluding to efforts by various elected officials to limit further investment in climate change studies, renewable energy technologies and proposals for outside - the - box basic research — the type of high - risk but also potentially high - payoff investigations from which transformative developments most often emerge.

For a number of years, this lab in a cavern has hosted the UK's search for dark matter, along with super-sensitive radio - isotope testing equipment for environmental and climate studies, for exampFor a number of years, this lab in a cavern has hosted the UK's search for dark matter, along with super-sensitive radio - isotope testing equipment for environmental and climate studies, for exampfor dark matter, along with super-sensitive radio - isotope testing equipment for environmental and climate studies, for exampfor environmental and climate studies, for exampfor example.

As far as communication in climate policy is concerned, the study's results suggest that in future a comprehensive mix of information on climate change and various justifications for climate protection will be necessary.

A new study suggests that climate change will make life even more arduous for adolescent girls in the developing world

Studies suggest that using olivine to transform Earth's climate would require more mineral than can fit on its surface, so carbonation is unlikely to be solely responsible for changes on Mars.

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.

And a fourth study in the same issue of Nature, this one focusing on ancient climate, also makes the case for an earlier exodus.

Oceanography postgraduates, for example, might study how coastal dynamics affect amphibious warfare, or how decreasing polar sea ice might influence global climate patterns.

Chris Nadeau is studying a species of water flea whose tiny, easily replicated and manipulated rock pool habitats make them ideal test subjects for predicting how climate change affects the planet's most vulnerable species.

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.

In the current climate, the main source of funding for studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policy.

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.

For this reason, annual rings are very easy to count, making Douglas - fir a widely used species for dendrochronology and historical climate studies in western North AmeriFor this reason, annual rings are very easy to count, making Douglas - fir a widely used species for dendrochronology and historical climate studies in western North Amerifor dendrochronology and historical climate studies in western North America.

The study suggests that an understanding of how human use of the landscape interact with climate and ecosystem processes is important for organizations that want to develop strategies for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and local development in one of the world's poorest regions.

In the study, scientists from the Potsdam - based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and Harvard University show that sea surface temperatures reconstructed from climate archives vary to a much greater extent on long time scales than simulated by climate models.

For a scientist studying climate change, «eureka» moments are unusually rare.

«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.

«We may have to wait 20 or 30 years before the data set in the 21st century is good enough to pin down sensitivity,» says climate modeler Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).

In 2010, we went to Mongolia for a month, but in actuality we only had 10 to 15 days in the field, during which time we hoped to study the impact of climate change on wildfires in some of the country's larch forests.

Weathers and Kendall study US reportage of climate change in a public health frame; a more powerful presentation for motivating public engagement and action against climate change?

Consumer demand for dramatized news has dictated less coverage on climate change over the study period, but did the style of presentation change?

These extreme weather patterns make this area an ideal location for climate scientists to study the delicate interconnected web of the global climate system.

For the study, Dr. Toohey and his colleagues from GEOMAR and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg have used an aerosol - climate model to track 70 different eruption scenarios while analyzing the distribution of the sulfur particlFor the study, Dr. Toohey and his colleagues from GEOMAR and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg have used an aerosol - climate model to track 70 different eruption scenarios while analyzing the distribution of the sulfur particlfor Meteorology in Hamburg have used an aerosol - climate model to track 70 different eruption scenarios while analyzing the distribution of the sulfur particles.