Sentences with phrase «further climate research»

IF the «science is settled», what's the point of continuing further climate research?

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In reality, earth science goes far beyond direct climate change research — and includes everything from the health of oceans to the threat of devastating solar storms in the upper atmosphere.
I'll be following the research on climate change and coffee, and report further news and suggestions.
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.
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.
«Our research so far has shown pretty clearly that although most farmers believe that climate change is occurring, a minority attribute it to human activity,» said Arbuckle, an associate sociology professor at Iowa State University.
In addition to providing further evidence of the drying out of the Mediterranean, the research also demonstrates the impact of climate change on the deep Earth.
«We hope that our findings will stimulate further research into relationships between species composition, ecosystem function, and climate variability.»
«Further research should look at ways for developing countries to adapt their agricultural practices to climate change.»
Building on this study's findings, ZSL is conducting further research to explore whether and how climate change impacts on wild dogs might be mitigated.
«The crane fly link was made as part of several longer - term studies — funded by The Natural Environment Research Council and Defra — investigating blanket bog ecosystems across several UK upland sites, including the Yorkshire Dales, Peak District and North York Moors.Dr Heinemeyer, who is currently leading a # 1m Defra - funded SEI project to further study the impacts of climate change and management on blanket bogs, said it wasn't only rare birds that were at risk from climate change.
Based on these findings, we identify knowledge gaps and fruitful areas for research that will further our understanding of the effects of climate change on ecosystems.
«We're altering the environment far faster than we can possibly predict the consequences,» says Stephen Schneider, a climate modeler at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that the study provides further evidence for what many climate scientists already suspected.
The committee identified research priorities to further enhance the scientific community's ability to attribute specific extreme weather events to climate change.
Research in Nature Climate Change reveals that adaptation measures have the potential to generate further pressures and threats for both local and global ecosystems.
The current study does not elaborate on the ways in which climate change could be leading to a protracted fire season, and Jolly said this would be an area for further research.
The research group will further investigate what kind of microclimates the species need for survival.The maps can be used not only for further climate and forest research, but also for conservation and land - use planning.
Professor Kug notes that further research is needed to obtain a general conclusion on the matter, but this research delivers important implications for climate adaptation because the analysis shows that if current warming trends continue, it is feasible to conclude that the ecosystems in regions affected by the anomalous climate will suffer greater damages due to the cold and dry spells.
Health, food security, climate change, sustainable energy, urban systems, digital technologies, and space will be the national priorities; they will be further refined and periodically revised by a newly created strategic research council, chaired by Prime Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault, with input from the French national research agency (CNRS) and five large research - coordinating networks.
For my research in climate science, I use a satellite to measure physical and optical properties of clouds with the view to further improve weather and climate models.
Deforestation may have far greater consequences for climate change in some soils than in others, according to new research led by Yale University scientists — a finding that could provide critical insights into which ecosystems must be managed with extra care because they are vulnerable to biodiversity loss and which ecosystems are more resilient to widespread tree removal.
The recently published research results provide further evidence that forests can affect the climate by producing low - volatility vapours that are able to condense and grow aerosol particles.
Including the new logbooks, the Old Weather effort has scanned more than 500,000 handwritten pages from historic ship logs, and Old Weather volunteers have so far transcribed almost 3 million historical weather records for use in climate and environmental research.
The scientists also acknowledged that long - term adaptation to climate change can greatly reduce impacts, but further research and evaluation is required to realise the potential of adaptation.
At present we don't know how many climate - threatened species with narrow distributions could thrive if they were transported elsewhere, but further research should reveal this.
While it is still a subject of research how the Arctic under climate change impacts the rest of the world, this study lends further support that a changing Arctic impacts the weather across large swaths of the Northern Hemisphere population centers.
While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Tropical Pacific climate variations and their global weather impacts may be predicted much further in advance than previously thought, according to research by an international team of climate scientists from the USA, Australia, and Japan.
In the hunt for the beginning of the much - debated «Anthropocene» — a supposed new geologic era defined by human influence of the planet — the new research suggests a need to look back farther in time than the arrival of human - caused climate change, atomic weapons, urbanization or the industrial revolution.
«What's pushing this rise in extreme outbreaks, during which the vast majority of tornado - related fatalities occur, is far from obvious in the present state of climate science,» said Cohen, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor at Rockefeller University and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, who conducted the research while a visiting scholar in UChicago's Department of Statistics.
Funding obstacles for climate research Bailenson hopes to move more into the climate change arena, though so far he hasn't won funding for that effort.
It further dismissed the emails as «mostly mundane discussion about research and meetings» and compared their release to hackers in 2009 stealing files from climate researchers to try to influence a U.N. meeting.
«The significant victories we have gained in technology research and development innovation should further inspire renewed commitments by national governments to strengthen global and regional partnerships in creating better options for resource - poor and climate change - vulnerable rice farmers in the region.»
This sea level rise estimate is larger than that provided by the last IPCC report, but highlights the need for further research on ice sheet variablity and ice sheet response to climate change, both now and in the past.
Professor Franklin said further research on other crocodile performance traits that could influence the ability to survive future climate change was needed before scientists could fully understand the effects of elevated water temperatures.
New research from PNNL further defines the role of SOA so that scientists can more accurately depict their effect on the climate.
Professor Franklin said further research on other crocodile performance traits that could influence the ability to survive future climate change was needed before scientists could fully understand the effects of elevated water temperatures.University of Queensland News, 16 Dec 2015
New research says that increased wildfires from climate change will further contribute to global warming.
Far more money has been spent on climate research in the last decade than in the 1970s.
New research published in the Journal of Climate has gone further — implicating those winds in stubborn droughts afflicting Western states.
But if climate change is contributing in some way, these links need further research, says Gleick:
The work initiated by Mann and his colleagues is still in its infancy, and as such further study, the use of wider proxy networks and the development of more sophisticated climate models will all be necessary future steps in propagating this research.
«The startlingly high temperatures so far in 2016 have sent shockwaves around the climate science community,» David Carlson, director of the World Climate Research Programme, co-sponsored by the WMO, said in a staclimate science community,» David Carlson, director of the World Climate Research Programme, co-sponsored by the WMO, said in a staClimate Research Programme, co-sponsored by the WMO, said in a statement.
The Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs likely released far more climate - altering sulfur gas into the atmosphere than originally thought, according to new research.
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Schools can join their Student Climate Research Campaign and connect with classrooms near and far.
With further research focused on these key questions, we may come to better understand the implications of discipline policy reforms — how they affect suspension use, and also how they change school climate; interactions among students, peers, and teachers; and the academic performance of all students.
In 2015, the Mayor's Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline called for far more expansive action on this issue in a report, issued less than two months after E4E - New York released its own teacher - led research paper on the topic.
Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change.
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