Sentences with phrase «how well climate scientists»

People's beliefs about how well climate scientists understand whether climate change is occurring and the causes of climate change are significantly linked with science knowledge among Democrats.

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Multimedia stations explain how scientists determined the location's flora and fauna, as well as its climate and geology.

As Cobb explained, climate scientists still lack a good understanding of how climate change will alter precipitation patterns.

Although scientists aren't sure exactly how warming temperatures will manifest under climate change, Morgan said that «chances are good as it gets warmer we'll get more dry years in the future.»

The low - lying island nation offers the scientists a unique opportunity to reconstruct climate conditions during previous periods of varying sea levels to help scientists better understand how future climate change will the effect the 1,000 km - long archipelago and low - lying coastal areas all around the world.

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

Scientists are studying ice from different climate periods in the past to better understand how the ice sheet might respond in the future.

Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around the world.

Wehner says the high - resolution models will help scientists to better understand how climate change will affect extreme storms.

Cziczo says the group's experimental results will help to improve Martian climate models, as well as scientists» understanding of how the planet transports water through the atmosphere.

«Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how climate change will affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation changes, and allows us to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of local hydrological changes,» said Polade, a postdoctoral researcher who works with Scripps climate scientists Dan Cayan, David Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, and Michael Dettinger, who are co-authors of the study.

This new insight into how the Southern Ocean behaves will allow scientists to build computer models that can better predict how our climate is going to change in the future.

And having this Europe - wide data in hand will also help climate scientists and hydrologists better predict how floods will change there in the future, Slater said.

By identifying images with changing leaves, blooming flowers, and other easy - to - recognize features, citizen scientists can contribute to a better understanding of how plants are responding to climate change

Over time, Richardson hopes the resulting trove of color data will help scientists understand — and better predict — how ecosystems like the Harvard Forest respond to changes in the climate.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

The research is helping scientists better understand how animals survive under drastic temperature changes, information that's critical in a world being altered by climate change.

Scientists have combined genetic analyses with new modeling approaches for the first time to help identify how well balsam popular trees are adapted to handle climate change.

By studying the past climate, scientists can understand better how temperature responds to changes in greenhouse - gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

The discovery of genes involved in the production of DMSP in phytoplankton, as well as bacteria, will allow scientists to better evaluate which organisms make DMSP in the marine environment and predict how the production of this influential molecule might be affected by future environmental changes, such as the warming of the oceans due to climate change.

Extreme weather events like Harvey are expected to become more likely as Earth's climate changes due to greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists don't understand how extreme weather will impact invasive pests, pollinators and other species that affect human well - being.

The new results may help scientists better assess how episodes of mountain - building deep in Earth's past have affected climate over the long term.

Marine scientists are warning that if the Trump administration rescinds fishing protections around eight Pacific islands, the United States will lose one of its best laboratories for measuring how a warming climate affects marine life.

«As we consider how humans may be affecting climate, dissecting what was going on tens of thousands of years ago in all regions of the globe can help scientists better predict how the Earth will respond to modern climate forcings.»

They found that to better understand climate change and its impacts, scientists need to adopt an integrated approach into how coasts are changing.

And that's why a group of scientists set out to better estimate how much methane is escaping in the U.S. To do that, they surveyed more than 200 sets of field measurements and scientific papers from the past 20 years to learn whether increasing use of natural gas could prove a climate boon or bane.

Getting the basic data should help scientists to better understand how Antarctic clouds will respond to a changing climate, Russell says.

Better measurements on site might also permit a better understanding of how to reduce the climate impacts of natural gas, but the gas industry has, for the most part, not cooperated with attempts by either the EPA or independent scienBetter measurements on site might also permit a better understanding of how to reduce the climate impacts of natural gas, but the gas industry has, for the most part, not cooperated with attempts by either the EPA or independent scienbetter understanding of how to reduce the climate impacts of natural gas, but the gas industry has, for the most part, not cooperated with attempts by either the EPA or independent scientists.

Those findings could be critical as scientists work to better understand climate change and how much carbon the Earth's atmosphere and -LSB-...]

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Climate scientists need to get their field in order because this is not how good scientists conduct their research.

Better understanding the mechanisms by which such gases migrate will therefore help scientists understand how Mars's atmosphere — and hence its climate — has altered over time.

They have tracked the rotten ice to a depth of nearly 3 feet below the surface — a finding that could help scientists who develop climate models to better understand how ice sheets are losing mass.

If you want a tutorial into how climate scientists think about feedbacks, a good article to read is Roe, 2009.

«We hope that other scientists will use these data to answer questions such as why, unlike humans, some plants do not deteriorate as they age, why some environments are better for agriculture than others, and how fast plant populations will move in response to climate change,» said Yvonne Buckley, professor of Zoology in Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences.

Those findings could be critical as scientists work to better understand climate change and how much carbon the Earth's atmosphere and oceans can store.

Nonetheless, researchers say, scientists are getting better at understanding how clouds play into the climate system.

Winter is a great time to extend your students» knowledge of weather and the climate with activities such as learning vocabulary terms and the components of climate systems, as well as how scientists act like detectives when studying climate changes.

Here's an excellent example of how to write really well and thus communicate effectively to the public and others in authority the issues related with climate science denial and the few academics and scientists who choose the other team.

Your best posts, like this one, allow lay - people to «see inside the heads» of how climate scientists think.

The outcome will depend on how an atmospheric tussle plays out — one well captured nicely in the title of a post by Brenda Ekwurzel, senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists: «El Niño vs. the Arctic: Which Will Dominate This Year's Winter Weather?»

You may be of the opinion that all climate science is merely being done to further our own personal interests and therefore nothing that is said by any of us can be trusted --(though if that were the case, I'd be writing studies on how short, balding, rotund scientists are really the best lovers).

NASA scientists are working on better understanding Earth's climate, our interaction with the sun, and how our planet interacts with the rest of the cosmos.

If our best scientists, with the accumulated knowledge of millennia, can not agree on the seriousness of our current situation or what climate variables will come into play over the next century, then how the heck are they supposed to determine the exact size, number, and placement of massive sun shields to deflect the perfect the amount of radiation, without any unforeseen consequences?

A central dispute was over how scientists can best discuss risks and responses related to inherent, and dangerous, extremes of climate in a world increasingly fixated on how to limit global warming caused by human activity.

Dr. Prather's comment is worth posting here on its own as a starting point for more discussion of how scientists can best help society weigh evidence pointing to human - caused climate change and attendant risks and consider how to respond if people ever got inspired to do so:

All reputable scientists in this area know and acknowledge that there remain uncertainties with respect to climate sensitivity (how warm, how fast in response to a given level of GHGs)-- indeed that's where most of the research is going — along with a better understanding of the speed of impacts (e.g. ice loss).

But over the last few years, glaciologists and climate scientists have come to better understand how ice - sheets are likely to respond to a warming globe.

As you say: «What's interesting is how a neat idea is sold as an established fact, how a working hypothesis has become a truth «well - known to all climate scientists», how» scientists are investigating» becomes scientists «have explained».»

While her criticism of some facets of climate science, such as the IPCC, have sharpened over time as well as the reactions of some climate scientists and their defenders to her crtiques, I wonder how much her initial stance, as I viewed it, has actually changed.