Sentences with phrase «for climate change study»

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Isro will launch two satellites — one for atmospheric change and another to study the methane and carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere, crucial for climate change study by 2011, chairman G. Madhavan Nair said.

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An important point with reanalyses, is that the model used doesn't change over the time spanned by the analysis, but reanalyses are generally used with caution for climate change studies because the number and type of observations being fed into the computer model changes over time.

The long time series of ionospheric data were of crucial importance for climate change studies.

However, as outlined by Bengtsson et al. (2004) and others (see IPCC AR4 Chapter by Trenberth), reanalysis datasets are not typically employed for climate change studies without considerable bias correction, and that is a difficult proposition in itself.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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 imChange 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 imchange - 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

The study results raise questions about the best way for researchers and other groups to communicate climate change to an audience that may not trust them as a reliable source of information.

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 Reclimate - 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 ReClimate Research.

When scientists use climate models for attribution studies, they first run simulations with estimates of only «natural» climate influences over the past 100 years, such as changes in solar output and major volcanic eruptions.

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

No time to adapt In terms of adaptation, the rate of climate change might be more important than how much the climate changes, said Alan Robock, a climate scientist at Rutgers University who ran some of the models for the study.

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

«This study raises new questions about what climate change will do to severe thunderstorms and what is responsible for recent trends,» says Tippett, who is also a member of the Data Science Institute and the Columbia Initiative on Extreme Weather and Cclimate change will do to severe thunderstorms and what is responsible for recent trends,» says Tippett, who is also a member of the Data Science Institute and the Columbia Initiative on Extreme Weather and ClimateClimate.

In a 2015 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, another team of Columbia researchers made the case that climate change made Syria's 2006 - 2010 drought two to three times more likely, and that the drought was a catalyst for Syria's 2011 uprising.

We should get the best science and stay abreast of any threat from human impacts, but I am disturbed that we have spent over thirty billion dollars studying climate change and have little to show for it.

«For me, to be concerned about it [climate change] at my level and at my point, I don't think it's useful for me,» said another farmer in Niles» study.&raqFor me, to be concerned about it [climate change] at my level and at my point, I don't think it's useful for me,» said another farmer in Niles» study.&raqfor me,» said another farmer in Niles» study.»

Add the emerging effects of climate change into the mix, and single - shot sampling can be woefully inadequate for scientific study, Moran says.

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 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.

In their study, the researchers found no evidence for the widespread idea that evolutionary adaptations to these two aspects of climate change would interfere with each other.

Matthew Thomas, a professor at The Pennsylvania State University who is studying the impact of climate change on the transmission of infectious diseases, says that his group had applied for funding in late 2008.

The oldest studied rodent fauna in this work, which inhabited the Iberian Peninsula from twelve million years ago, progressively shifted north looking for humid environments to survive climate change that caused prominent dry and cold environments in central Iberia.

Although the draft decision expresses «its utmost concern» regarding the impacts of climate change on the World Heritage reefs, any action is delayed by a call «to further study the current and potential impacts of climate change» for possible action when the committee meets in 2018.

To get some idea of what climate change will likely mean for the reefs, the World Heritage Centre asked coral experts at NOAA and elsewhere to produce what they claim is a first of its kind study «that scientifically quantifies the scale of the issue, makes a prediction of where the future lies, and indicates effects up to the level of individual sites,» says Fanny Douvere, marine program coordinator at the center.