Sentences with phrase «how urban warming»

«We're interested in how urban warming affects the ecology of insects and what implications that might have for understanding how global warming might impact insects outside of the city, «said Elsa Youngsteadt, an entomology research associate at NCSU and co-lead author of the study.

Not exact matches

Urban says the data call for larger and longer - term experiments to test how these species may adapt to gradual warming.

Urban says the results — which show how even slight rises in temperature can upend entire ecosystems — speak to the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent further warming.

But data on how warming might affect women in urban environments are scarcer, and Hidalgo's initiative will support research into that.

«In urban areas, we'll look at how cool roofs can ameliorate both extreme heat demand and irrigation demands associated with future warming.

The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association mentioned the idea this week as part of an extensive analysis of how global warming might affect the City by the Bay, which is thought to be highly susceptible to flooding and other dangers in the decades ahead.

As the paper says, if its conclusion is accepted, then it is necessary to «unravel the mystery of how a global temperature time series created partly from urban in situ stations could show no contamination from urban warming».

Sure, there are appearances by luminaries from a wide spectrum of life (Keith Urban, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Martin, and President Bill Clinton, to name a few) who speak to what a figure of consequence Campbell was, but so much more of the film is filled with family and friends who offer both warm memories of Campbell and chilling insight into how this disease is so painful to watch.

Updated, 6:17 p.m. As Cleveland tries to find a path to normalcy after hosting the Republican National Convention, as the city's urban farmers prepare to benefit from a convention - boosted bonanza of composted coffee grounds * (there's an up side to everything), it's worth taking a closer look at a few details in how the party handled global warming in its platform and rhetoric.

After much debate the issue was pretty much settled, in terms of figuring out how to compensate for the urban effect and detecting a warming trend anyway, by 1990.

As the paper says, if its conclusion is accepted, then it is necessary to «unravel the mystery of how a global temperature time series created partly from urban in situ stations could show no contamination from urban warming».

There are quite a few reasons to believe that the surface temperature record — which shows a warming of approximately 0.6 ° -0.8 °C over the last century (depending on precisely how the warming trend is defined)-- is essentially uncontaminated by the effects of urban growth and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) efurban growth and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) efUrban Heat Island (UHI) effect.

In Issues, a trio of experts has explained how better managing use of these nutrients — in agriculture and in urban areas — can yield environmental, socioeconomic, and national security benefits, especially as atmospheric warming drives climate change.

As we discussed above, the rural stations also agree with the urban stations that the 1990s - 2000s were warmer than the 1960s - 1970s, but disagree over how much.

It really matters to making policy how much of the warming is from CO2, and how much is from methane, land use changes, urban island (asphalt, concrete, air conditioning, etc.), carbon black, solar changes (sun activity lower and heliosphere at low level), or the catch all — natural variability.

Early on in my following of the global warming issue I became aware of the Surface Stations Survey, which led me to be very skeptical of the validity of the most recent temperature data trends, as I have never seen any convincing explanation as to how data from the many urban heat island and «corrupted» temperature monitoring sites are properly corrected.

How to move beyond the warm words about tackling urban heat islands to doing something about them.

How about Jones» admitted «adjustment» of ocean surface «data» to align them with land surface «data» because, after being adjusted upwards by, among other «tricks», adjusting for UHI effect by making urban readings warmer rather than cooler, land & sea numbers were out of whack (imagine that!)

That this is the same description that some places use to show how global warming is impacting the Earth, they ignore the fact that urban data will create the same temperature signature.

(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The apparent rise of global average temperatures is actually an illusion due to the urbanization of land around weather stations, the Urban Heat Island effect.

With how many people have complained about the effects of UHI, why would anyone think it means anything that a single, urban station shows a warming trend not present in the trend of its area?

How is it that the conclusions of climate scientists can be called into question as a result of supposedly dubious statistical techniques, but the long history of nonsense from the skeptics, (such as the Robinson et al paper that accompanied the politically motivated Oregon Petition, the corporate funded propaganda campaigns of the Global Climate Coalition, and the recent urban myth that Martian «global warming» disproves a human influence on earthly climate) tells us nothing about the integrity of the skeptic theory of climate?

The oceans they sailed hold the key to measuring and understanding how the planet is warming and to what degree this will effect our urban lives.

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Watching the health of butterflies globally helps us understand how their habitats are changing from global warming and urban development.