She tries to broaden the range of groups
involved in climate change research, and works with federal, state and municipal government agencies and the private sector on science - based solutions.
The conference will cover a wide range of issues: the
latest in climate change research, planning for rising sea levels and adapting infrastructure to a changing climate.
Highlights of the annual meeting included a session focusing on the role of
observations in climate change research and breakout sessions with topics ranging from current field campaigns to new instruments.
This federal
investment in climate change research is working as intended: We now know more than ever about the causes and consequences of climate change, and the possible ways to avoid or adapt to it.
Lisa Alexander is an Associate Professor
in the Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and leader of the Extremes Research Program in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science.
Meehl, G. A., C. Covey, K. E. Taylor, T. Delworth, R. J. Stouffer, M. Latif, B. McAvaney, and J. F. B. Mitchell, 2007: The WCRP CMIP3 Multimodel Dataset: A New
Era in Climate Change Research.
Their results will help to shape the way the University contributes to the global effort of understanding climate change and gives geography students at Sheffield access to the latest
innovations in climate change research.
As I pointed out in one of the previous threads, just look at the proposals that NSF actually
funds in climate change research — as far as can tell it is all interesting and capable stuff, but you would be hard pressed to say it was alarmist.
The presentation evidences Exxon's shift from a
leader in climate change research to an advocate against the dissemination of climate change information in the early -LSB-...]
By the early 1980s, a fairly broad consensus had
emerged in the climate change research community that greenhouse gas emissions could, by 2050, result in a rise in global average temperature by 1.5 ° to 4.5 °C (about 2.7 ° to 8.0 °F) and a complex pattern of worldwide climate changes.
Thirteen state GOP attorneys general have sent a letter to the Democratic AG's who are investigating ExxonMobile for
fraud in climate change research, telling them that if minimizing the danger of climate change is fraud, so is exaggerating the peril.
many scientistcs are
envolved in the climate change research because it apparently brings a lot «money» from the goverment... even if their work contradicts with proven research results, they keep doing it because the benjamins are still coming:)
Entitled, «The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature,» the paper marked an important step
forward in climate change research, says Andrew Solow, director of the Woods Hole Marine Policy centre and lead author on the detection and attribution of climate impacts chapter in the IPCC's working group two report.
Wallace S. Broecker, a geochemist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, has received the newly founded Frontiers of Knowledge
Award in Climate Change Research, one of the world's largest science prizes.
As someone who's starting a doctoral program in atmospheric science this coming fall and
interested in climate change research I am concerned about what Dr. Mann and others have had to endure.
This is an excellent summary of the principles of the GHE and it is well aimed and highly needed for professional scientists who are in one way or another
engaged in climate change research.
The Australian government recently invested nearly $ 500 million
in climate change research, including $ 126 million specifically earmarked to identify the best strategies for adaptation to hotter days, storm surges, drought, and rising sea levels.
A very new and «hot topic»
in climate change research is the notion that rapid warming and wholesale melting of the Arctic may be playing a role in causing persistent cold spells.
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In climate change research, scenarios describe plausible trajectories of different aspects of the future that are constructed to investigate the potential consequences of anthropogenic climate change.
«Representative Steve Palazzo (Republican, Mississippi): There are 13 agencies within the government that fund over $ 2.5 billion
in climate change research.»