Sentences with phrase «involved with climate»

The point is not whether there are many influences involved with climate change — there indisputably are.

For some additional context, see Climate and Statistics Workshop @ NCAR, 2007, which had both good climate scientists who did statistics and statisticians generally involved with climate and / ore geospatial work, on this agenda.

So Mr Connolley you have been closely involved with climate modelling.

Inspired by their experiences in Alaska and Crater Lake, Lazar and Ettling became involved with the Climate Reality Project, an organization founded by former Vice President Al Gore with a mission to inspire social action around climate change.

Scientists involved with climate studies warn that it is not just about temperature change but how fast it occurs.

If Mann and others involved with the climate science debacle knew anything about climate, or were doing honest science, they would know this.

I became involved with climate change issues, entirely by accident, at the end of 2002.

Over the last 15 years, as we all know, he has been increasingly involved with climate science and the climate record, both recent and historic, much to chagrin of the believers and large segments of the academic community that preach free speech and tolerance but act otherwise.

The physical evidence for man - made global warming has never been demonstrated - evidence that many of us trained in the sciences have been waiting.When some scientists suggest that other forces other than man - made CO2 may be involved with the climate, like the Sun, the clouds, the oceans, natural sources of CO2, etc., they are met with scorn and derision.

The Friends of Science are involved with a climate change conference, as detailed in the January, 2007 newsletter: «Barry Cooper of the University of Calgary and Tim Patterson of Carleton University are arranging a conference in Ottawa on the science of global climate change.

But those involved with climate issues may well recognize the situation immediately:

It is important to understand feedbacks in order to further quantify the risk factors and time scales involved with climate change.

But some of those most intimately involved with the Climate Summit or the UNFCCC process have not lost hope that these international discussions can produce concrete actions to counter that upward swing in global temperatures.

It is actually a bit self contradictory because it has been the HS that made me to involve myself with climate questions and brought me to CA.

Not exact matches

So the most evident problem with this new venture is that it is illegal and in the current political climate, no matter the lobbying dollars involved, is unlikely to change the laws sufficient to allow this business to ever launch.

Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global warming.

Heyman noted that he and New Democrat Leader John Horgan met with members of the Climate Leadership Team, and respect their thoughtful and balanced approach to both the economic and environmental issues involved in a climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming Climate Leadership Team, and respect their thoughtful and balanced approach to both the economic and environmental issues involved in a climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming climate change in the coming months.

This Thursday, Canada's Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna published an open letter to B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman outlining the steps that Ottawa has taken to prepare for a potential spill involving the proposed pipeline, and offering scientific collaboration with the province to ensure its concerns are addressed.

Connect with groups like the Micah Challenge (www.micahchallengeusa.org) to learn the spiritual elements involved in climate justice.

Bring up one of the following terms, with a link to an accompanying news story: Benghazi, climate change, anything involving something inflammatory Donald Trump said, the illuminati, gun control or any number of other slightly controversial topics.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide attributes the tense climate to «the promotion of Turkish ultra-nationalism» and «the backdrop of mounting terrorist violence,» as the country grows more involved with the Syria crisis.

Cultivation for export, however, would involve less risk, if capsicums were regarded as a secondary or intermediate crop, to be grown on a plantation along with the principal one — as natives plant groundnuts or other beans between the rows of their maize - gardens — in a country with favourable soil and climate.

Judith has been involved as an advocate for family farmers for many years and serves as an advisor or on the Board of several organizations (Community Alliance with Family Farmers, California Agriculture Climate Action Network, State of California Environmental Farming Science Advisory Panel and the Capay Valley Volunteer Fire Department).

Schools involved in our program send full teams to attend intensive conferences where they work with a coach to design action plans to implement best practices in areas such as curriculum, assessment, homework, school schedule, and a healthy school climate.

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.

Three didymo experts not involved in the study agreed that climate change possibly is playing a role with didymo, although the degree of the link is uncertain.

The study involved researchers from the Schools of International Development and Environmental Sciences, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA, working with international colleagues in China and the US.

This is the first time anyone has examined regional climate change in the central United States by directly comparing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture, says Nathan Mueller, an earth systems scientist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who was not involved with this study.

The study, which involved collaboration with British Trust for Ornithology, Aberystwyth University and the University of Leeds and part - funded by the RSPB, showed that the humble crane fly, more commonly known as «daddy longlegs», is a crucial link in determining the impact of climate change on these peatland bird species.

«This is a really neat and pioneering study,» says Stephen Jackson, a paleoecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Southwest Climate Science Center in Tucson, Arizona, who was not involved in the work.

Concerns about peat fires worsening climate change Mike Flannigan, director of the University of Alberta's Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science who was not involved with the analysis, said it's important to note that wildfires are a part of northern boreal forests» ecology.

In global climate change research in particular, natural scientists still tend to set the research agenda, and social scientists are often involved only after the natural scientists «have analyzed a process and come up with solutions, and need social scientists to help sell those solutions to society,» Hackmann said.

Nick Sundt of WWF says if turning down White House lights wasn't possible for security reasons, the Administration could highlight climate change impacts around the country in a special event, promote energy - efficiency measures, or generally rally Americans to participate in an event that began with 2.2 million people in Sydney in 2007 and involved millions more last year in 35 countries.

The discovery won't mean much for climate change: The process occurs over millions of years, and the amounts involved are small compared with human - driven emissions.

«It's one of the best examples of the effect of climate that I've seen,» says Sydney Cameron, an entomologist at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, who was not involved with the work.

If you would like to get involved with offsets, both Kollmuss and climate blogger Romm recommend projects certified by the Gold Standard Foundation as the most rigorously vetted ones on the voluntary market.

Among the most uncertain elements in climate models are the effects of aerosols and their interactions with clouds — just the things involved in albedo modification — she says.

And this matters, because those patterns largely determine where it's rainy or arid, broadly speaking,» NASA climate scientist Kate Marvel, who wasn't involved with the study, said in an email.

In contrast, the hares «provide a really compelling visual effect of climate change,» says Daniel Blumstein, a behavioral ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved with the work.

BOULDER, Colo. — Climate science research often involves a little derring - do mixed in with a lot of tedium.

Based on past observations, Held, who was not involved with the study, said the climate sensitivity of 5 °C or more shown by the new research may be implausible.

Michael Mann, a meteorology professor at Penn State who was not involved with the study, said it's «speculative» but «plausible» that global climate models have been underestimating climate sensitivity by assuming too much cloud glaciation.

Obviously, people like Michael Mann are offended by what I'm saying [about the shortcomings of climate science], and I have received an e-mail from one of the people involved in the East Anglia e-mails who's not happy with what I'm doing.

Another author involved with the project, Eric Kort, who teaches climate and space science at the University of Michigan, regards it as a valuable new measuring tool.

One research challenge involves having just a few decades or a century of high - quality weather data with which to make sense of events that might occur once every 1,000 or 10,000 years in a theoretical climate without human influence.

And that campaign, involving all sorts of organizations that have lobbied against climate change legislation, has led some people to conclude that this is connected to a larger campaign by special interests to attack the science of climate change, to prevent policy action from being taken to deal with the problem.

«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.

Some scientists have said that there could be tremendous risks involved with CCS: The stored carbon dioxide could explosively leak into the atmosphere through fissures in the earth or be placed at risk by terrorism, creating a climate catastrophe.

«[This] study has important global implications, because we know early plants cooled the climate and increased the oxygen level in the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

Two NASA spacecraft are also involved: the Mars Observer, now heading for Mars to study its climate and geology (see «Rendezvous with the red planet», this issue); and Galileo, en route for Jupiter.