Sentences with phrase «global climate computer models»

[The MIT] study used six newly upgraded global climate computer models to simulate future hurricane activity around the world.

«Existing global climate computer models tend to underestimate the effects of natural forces on climate change..»

Not exact matches

It would be like trying to model 1000 years of global climate change on a TRS - 80 computer when it takes a modern 16,000 processor supercomputer a week to process the data.

Smith and his former research assistant Andrew Mizrahi used a PNNL computer model, the Global Change Assessment Model, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's climodel, the Global Change Assessment Model, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's cliModel, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's climate.

Looking ahead, engineers have set their sights even higher, on computers a thousand times as fast as Tianhe - 1A that could model the global climate with unprecedented accuracy, simulate molecular interactions, and track terrorist activity.

«Being based on climate records, this approach avoids any biases that might affect the sophisticated computer models that are commonly used for understanding global warming.»

Although computer models used to project climate changes from increasing greenhouse gas concentrations consistently simulate an increasing upward airflow in the tropics with global warming, this flow can not be directly observed.

The researchers plugged this information into a computer model to find out the effect on the climate of increasing tree cover and diminishing grassland and found that it led to a global temperature increase of about 0.1 °C (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2010gl043985).

Still, the increase is about what's predicted by computer models of global climate.

Meehl and his colleagues used two sophisticated computer models of global climate to predict what would happen under various scenarios for greenhouse gas emission controls, taking into account the oceanic time lag.

Moreover, our analysis does not depend on large, complex global climate models, the huge computer programs that are notorious for their hidden assumptions and adjustable parameters.

After the field campaign, Fast will perform computer simulations to help evaluate all of the field campaign data and quantify the uncertainties associated with using coarse grid global climate models to study megacity emissions and to determine the radiative impact of the Mexico City particulates on the local and regional climate.

These climate scientists analyzed 25 different computer models of global climate.

CESM models the global climate, providing state - of - the - art computer simulations of the Earth's past, present, and future climate states.

At UW — Madison, Holloway leads a research program in the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy and climate.

The GISS Global Climate Model (GCM) is already made up of hundreds of thousands of lines of computer code, and now it will be expanded substantially to allow for the 3D visualization of exoplanet climates and planetary dynamics as well.

«Imagine basing a country's energy and economic policy on an incomplete, unproven theory — a theory based entirely on computer models in which one minor variable (CO2) is considered the sole driver for the entire global climate system.»

Complex systems are studied using information theory and computer simulation models (e.g. global climate models.)

The authors compared recently constructed temperature data sets from Antarctica, based on data from ice cores and ground weather stations, to 20th century simulations from computer models used by scientists to simulate global climate.

Even if the study were right... (which it is not) mainstream scientists use * three * methods to predict a global warming trend... not just climate computer models (which stand up extremely well for general projections by the way) under world - wide scrutiny... and have for all intents and purposes already correctly predicted the future -(Hansen 1988 in front of Congress and Pinatubo).

Global Warming: Computer models used by environmentalists predict imminent and disastrous climate change.

Latham has been collaborating with the UK Meteorological Office to test the theory behind his project using their powerful computer model of global climate.

NASA computer models reveal what a small, regional nuclear war in one part of the world would do to the global climate and environment.

Benjamin Sulman − a biologist at Indiana University, but then of the Princeton University Environmental Institute in the US − and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they have developed a new computer model to examine what really happens, on a global scale, when plants colonise the soil and start taking in moisture and carbon from the atmosphere.

Climate realists say that the entire global - warming behemoth ought to be axed entirely — especially considering recent developments that experts say have thoroughly debunked the United Nations» warming theories and wildly inaccurate computer models.

Climate alarmism is not based on empirical observation; rather, it is entirely predicated on computer models that are manipulated to generate predictions of significant global warming as a result of increased concentrations of CO2.

Computer scientists that do global - climate modeling are fairly well set up to deal with thinking about that sort of thing.

Thanks to a growing body of scientific evidence and improved computer models that can project climate changes more accurately and in much finer detail, each report has proclaimed with greater and greater certainty that human activity is the main cause of global warming.

In March 2009, Michaels, under the auspices of the Cato Institute, circulated a draft advertisement that stated: «Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now... The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior.»

Assuming that no action is taken to reduce emissions, computer models of the earth's climate indicate that global average surface temperatures will rise by 1.5 - 4.5 C over the next 100 years.

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These climate - related land storage effects could be significant for global sea - levels, though unfortunately there seem to be very few direct experimental measurements of the factors involved, and so the only studies of these effects seem to have been from computer modelling of data from weather data «reanalysis» models (e.g., ERA - 40).

Using computer climate models, scientists estimate that by the year 2100 the average global temperature will increase by 1.4 degrees to 5.8 degrees Celsius (approximately 2.5 degrees to 10.5 degrees Fahrenheit).

Over the last three decades, five IPCC «assessment reports,» dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of papers focused heavily on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, as being responsible for «dangerous» global warming, climate change, climate «disruption,» and almost every «extreme» weather or climate event.

Wine Terroir and Climate Change by John Gladstones (Wakefield Press 2015) concludes that viticulture in Australia is not threatened by global warming, and that much of the computer modelling that underpins the climate change hype isClimate Change by John Gladstones (Wakefield Press 2015) concludes that viticulture in Australia is not threatened by global warming, and that much of the computer modelling that underpins the climate change hype isclimate change hype is wrong.

Then, in 2009, the exposure of emails between the «scientists» responsible for the data the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was putting out to scare the pants off of everyone about «global warming» — since dubbed Climategate — revealed they were not only rigging the computer models, but were increasingly worried that the planet had entered a new, perfectly natural, cooling cycle.

Although mainstream scientists do identify considerable uncertainties in their climate predictions, which are based on computer models, they are increasingly confident that global warming is a serious problem and often say that the uncertainties do not justify inaction.

Using a detailed computer simulation of global economic activity and climate processes, they ran the model 400 times with possible tweaks.

The «claim» of the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that humans are almost solely responsible for global warming «is not proven except in their computer models and can not be proven until we understand how much climate varies naturally,» he wrote on his wClimate Change that humans are almost solely responsible for global warming «is not proven except in their computer models and can not be proven until we understand how much climate varies naturally,» he wrote on his wclimate varies naturally,» he wrote on his website.

National Geographic, like other choristers in the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) alarmist choir, is hyping the latest «climate research,» in this case, the new computer modeling program of a team at the University College of London's (UCL) Institute for Sustainable Resources.

«Thus, global climate models are nothing but a very expensive form of computer game entertainment.»

The feedbacks can be studied in the global climate models running on the big computers.

In addition to surveying actual temperatures in recent decades, Meehl and his co-authors turned to a sophisticated computer model of global climate to determine how record high and low temperatures are likely to change during the course of this century.

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One area of controversy has to do with the reliability of computer models of the global climate system.

Computers don» t have the capacity, and we don» t have the data or understanding, to create climate models that can recreate global climate or make accurate forecasts.

The frigid weather, freezing families, record budget deficits, soaring unemployment — and complete failure of global warming computer models to predict anything other than «a warmer than normal winter» — have caused a meltdown in Europe's longstanding climate and energy policies.

Climate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1 degree F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening everClimate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1 degree F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening everclimate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1 degree F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening every year.

Despite this, supporters of the anthropogenic global warming cause regard climate model computer projections as indisputable predictions, ignoring all else.

Edwards, P., 2010, «A Vast Machine, Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming,» MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass..