Sentences with phrase «modern climate studies»

I think that many non-academic people, who would be put off by technical questions like the validity of principal components algorithms, may very well be interested in what I have learned about these processes as they apply to modern climate studies.

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I was becoming increasingly captivated by climate change — modern and ancient — and the mechanisms used to study it.

A study published last year in the American Journal of Human Genetics used mitochondrial DNA to argue that the San Bushmen of southern Africa became isolated from other modern humans for up to 110,000 years, probably because climate change produced a great desert separating East Africa from southern Africa.

A new study by an international team of scientists reveals the exact timing of the onset of the modern monsoon pattern in the Maldives 12.9 million years ago, and its connection to past climate changes and coral reefs in the region.

The researchers note that the study provides historical context for what is happening today and what may happen in the future and demonstrates that there is need for further investigation into the effects of climate change on modern societies worldwide.

For example, Senegal has «switched virtually its entire population from traditional stoves to modern ones, so it can be done,» climate scientist Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, lead author of the study, wrote in an e-mail.

The recent hacking of e-mails at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia Center — one of the world's foremost institutions for the study of climate change — offers a disconcerting view of how modern science is done.

But in a new study in Nature, researchers show that the deep Arctic Ocean has been churning briskly for the last 35,000 years, through the chill of the last ice age and warmth of modern times, suggesting that at least one arm of the system of global ocean currents that move heat around the planet has behaved similarly under vastly different climates.

Thus, I also study modern reptiles, and how they are responding to climate change today.

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While many climate scientists have come under the withering fire of skeptics, some of the toughest fights have centered around Mann and his research — largely because of a single study that demonstrated that modern climate change is unprecedented in at least the past millenium of Earth's history.

Scientists have been studying the event because it is seen as an analog, albeit an imperfect one, of modern climate change.

Volcanic activity was high during this period of history, and we know from modern studies of volcanism that eruptions can have strong cooling effects on the climate for several years after an eruption.

A new study confirms that carbon pollution has ended the era of the stable climate conditions that enabled the development of modern civilization High levels of carbon pollution have caused global temperatures to rise above the slow - changing, relatively stable conditions that existed «when humans were figuring out where the climate — and rivers and sea levels — were most suited for living and farming.»

One study, by the Georgetown Climate Center, found that investing in a clean and modern transportation system through 2030 in the broader Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region (also including Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) could:

With two independent studies triangulating the onset of the PETM in the 3,000 -4,000-year timeframe, it puts modern climate change into perspective.

Parker, W. S. (2010) «Predicting weather and climate: Uncertainty, ensembles and probability», Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.

Ken derides Pat's reference on the grounds that it didn't concern trees of the last 2000 years, but in fact the point of the paper Pat referenced was that a study of modern trees showed that they didn't do well in separating noise from signal and therefore using treerings as climate proxies was questionable whether the treerings were a thousand years or a million years old.

But seriously, I look at your use of terms like «forcing», and «feedback», and «equilibrium climate sensitivity», and «CO2 control knob», and I feel sorta like a modern redox chemist watching a bunch of biologists trying to study the cell by measuring its «phlogiston» characteristics.

A new study claiming renewable energy is the «most expensive policy disaster in modern British history» was written by climate sceptic Rupert Darwall and published by UK conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).

Tim Ball was a student of H.H. Lamb, who pioneered the modern study of climate change before it was taken over by those promoting dangerous global warming caused by carbon dioxide (CO2).

As the Post noted («Study Confirms Past Few Decades Warmest on Record», June 2, 2006 [link]-RRB-, the academy study backed up the conclusions my colleagues and I reached more than a decade ago about the unprecedented nature of modern climate chStudy Confirms Past Few Decades Warmest on Record», June 2, 2006 [link]-RRB-, the academy study backed up the conclusions my colleagues and I reached more than a decade ago about the unprecedented nature of modern climate chstudy backed up the conclusions my colleagues and I reached more than a decade ago about the unprecedented nature of modern climate change.

We use numerical climate simulations, paleoclimate data, and modern observations to study the effect of growing ice melt from Antarctica and Greenland.

Our analysis is based on about equal parts of information gleaned from paleoclimate studies, climate modeling, and modern observations of ongoing climate changes.

To better understand these discrepancies, a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters investigates the drivers of changes in deep ocean circulation across a range of modern and Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, ~ 21000 years ago) climate simulations from the latest Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP).

A study warns that impacts of modern - day climate change are similar to the scenarios that had taken place before a mass extinction happened million years ago.

Tree - ring study proves that climate was WARMER in Roman and Medieval times than it is in the modern industrial age

We have no idea when the Modern Warming will end, or whether it already ended a decade ago, but ice core studies suggest several hundred years of warming, followed by several hundred years of cooling, are typical of historical climate cycles between the ice ages..

As the vast majority of climate peer - reviewed studies confirm, there were multiple periods in the geological and ancient past that exhibited, not only extreme climate change, but also hotter temperatures prior to the modern era's huge industrial / consumer greenhouse gases.

From the article:... Many archaeologists would argue that the potentially most meaningful contribution of archaeology to modern climate change debates lies in the study of the interrelationships between the impact of climate change and the adaptation by communities.

Fact Check: As these two studies from China indicate, modern industrial / consumer emissions from fossil fuels are not a major component of climate change.

The charts provide ample factual proof, along with the study's own premise, that our modern climate change is not unprecedented.

This research adds to the huge compilation of prior peer - reviewed studies that confirm modern climate change is not out of the ordinary, and highly likely due to natural causes, not human - induced as speculated my many.

There are also some interesting sociological studies which suggest that the high points of human civilization appear to coincide with periods of global warmth (Roman Empire, Rapid european growth in middle ages, modern era of growth) while periods of cooler climate have coincided with the low points in human civilization (collapse of Rome, Dark ages, black death, european population collapse, famine)

All of these types of studies are crucial to the modern understanding of CO2 and climate.