Sentences with phrase «for climate»

Several processes are at work, says Mahé Perrette of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

«I would like to have something analogous for climate.»

«The American business community has a critical role to play both in preparing itself for climate change and in informing the policy response,» Lewis said.

«In the end, a failure to plan adequately for climate change by taking the full cost of carbon dioxide emissions into account will prove far more costly,» said Missirian, a fourth - year sustainable development major.

Airplane emissions are a big problem for the climate — and steadily rising.

Polar bears, the poster - child for climate change, are among the animals most affected by the seasonal and year - to - year changes in Arctic sea ice, because they rely on this surface for essential activities such as hunting, traveling and breeding.

«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.

Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now analyzed the magnitude of future hurricane losses in relation to economic growth.

«This understanding will help us make better forecasts for climate, as well as for the basic dynamics of forests.

The study involved researchers from the Schools of International Development and Environmental Sciences, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA, working with international colleagues in China and the US.

A team of scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now provides a method to quantify monetary losses from coastal floods under sea - level rise.

Fernández — who investigates the rehabilitation of degraded agricultural soils and their carbon sequestration potential for climate change mitigation — considers himself «lucky» because he managed to gather all the samples he needed before the budget restrictions.

Sulfate particles, on the other hand, reflect solar radiation and act as seeds for cloud droplet formation, cooling the climate as a result,» says Juan Acosta Navarro, PhD student at the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES) and the Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University, and co-author of the study.

In addition to tracking Arctic change, the sea - ice record is also important for climate modellers.

But the last 100 years are interesting for climate researchers as it is the period where we have had massive pollution of the atmosphere from industrialisation, vehicle use and people's energy consuming lifestyles.

«We had very high rates of Zika transmission where it was very warm and very dry,» said co-author Madeleine Thomson, a senior research scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University.

And understanding how agriculture and climate will continue to affect one another is crucial for developing projections for both climate and agricultural yields.

So what does McCright and Dunlap's research mean for climate regulation?

Of all of the participants, 48 percent said they would agree to enter a government program for climate change adaptation or mitigation, Niles said.

Schneider's goal is to build a set of fundamental laws of physics for climate.

Some scientists, such as NASA climatologist James Hansen, are convinced that using such resources — he calls them «the dirty needle» of an oil addict — will mean «game - over for climate change.»

Collin P. Kelley, senior research fellow at the Center for Climate & Security, a non-partisan security and foreign policy institute, called for more research to help regions better manage diminished water resources and to help better forecast water shortages to allow plans to be put into action.

«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,» said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and lead author of the study.

At the same time, House Republicans have voted to cut funding for climate research that could provide more insight into the pace and likely impacts of climate change.

Funding for climate research would drop 19 percent, weather and air chemistry research 25 percent and ocean, coastal and Great Lakes research by 49 percent.

Colin Kelley, a climate scientist at Columbia's International Research Institute for Climate and Society who linked climate change to Syria's ongoing conflict, also praised the research.

Tropical birds are also an interesting case study for climate change impacts on ecosystems.

No one knows whether the sum of all the carbon emissions from such fires adds up to anything of consequence for climate change.

His goal: make crops better prepared for a climate - changed future.

«In the end, what's going to count is what happens during those [next] four years, not what he says» in the address, Eileen Claussen, president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, said before the speech.

As an important sink for climate - affecting greenhouse gases, forests remain at the mercy of people for whom the life of a tree may stand between them and feeding their families.

Studies have suggested that leaks of methane during production from oil and gas wells are so high that the fuel may be no better for the climate than coal.

Better engines for the climate On average, about 85 percent of the particle matter emitted from diesel trucks is black carbon, said Christopher Frey <, a professor of environmental engineering at North Carolina State University.

«Expectations at this stage are much more realistic than they were before Copenhagen, and that's one of the reasons I'm hopeful,» said Elliot Diringer, executive vice president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.

A group of about 20 religious activists associated with Young Evangelicals for Climate Action traveled to the debate to hold prayer sessions asking that both candidates embrace the «moral» challenge of climate change.

The reason for climate scientists» pessimism is this: Carbon dioxide persists in the atmosphere for centuries, so today's emissions would trap heat at the Earth's surface well into the future.

Previous studies have found that belief in climate change is linked to more support for climate change actions.

«I think it can make a huge difference at least in reframing the discussion,» said Kelly Rigg, executive director of the Global Call for Climate Action.

And Elliot Diringer, executive vice president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), said he thinks the U.S. range is unlikely to be negotiated away.

The deal, which officials say brings the NHL to the fore among major sports leagues for its climate mitigation activities, will rely heavily on the use of Green - e Climate certified carbon offsets derived from wind energy and landfill gas - generated power, and RECs.

«The only rationale for this to hold would be for climate change to have such a strong impact on the non-agricultural economy that people would lose purchasing power and thus would be so poor they couldn't afford the food they need to meet the requirements,» Schmidhuber said.

In an attempt to resolve a sticking point between the U.S. and China, Indian negotiators have proposed monitoring the emissions responsible for climate change from all large countries

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 Research.

The data is important for climate change models, since the emissions released by thawing permafrost could significantly affect levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

In Michigan, Rep. Gary Peters (D) beat Terri Lynn Land (R) to replace retiring Sen. Carl Levin (D); Stevens spoke about his support for climate action on the campaign trail and didn't rule out the possibility for cap and trade in the future.

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

Turning hate mail into teachable moments Hayhoe has used her experiences in communications training sessions for climate scientists that address harassment.

Climate is subject to chance and chaos — which makes life difficult for climate researchers.

That has meant steadily breaking down what U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern has called the «firewall» between developed and developing countries.

Jessica Wentz, associate director and a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, wrote in a blog post that the phrasing shift is more technically precise and likely addresses concerns about how far an agency needs to go in calculating emissions.