Sentences with phrase «most climate change studies»

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This «disaster» story is by far the most common one in the coverage of climate change, as shown by several studies.

A new study I carried out for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it examstudy I carried out for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it examStudy of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it examined.

It's fair to guess he was alluding to efforts by various elected officials to limit further investment in climate change studies, renewable energy technologies and proposals for outside - the - box basic research — the type of high - risk but also potentially high - payoff investigations from which transformative developments most often emerge.

Unfortunately, the results of this study suggest that some yellow warbler populations that are most genetically vulnerable to climate change have already been declining over the past half - century, says Bay.

Chris Nadeau is studying a species of water flea whose tiny, easily replicated and manipulated rock pool habitats make them ideal test subjects for predicting how climate change affects the planet's most vulnerable species.

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The new study presents the most convincing evidence so far that abrupt climate change was instrumental in this development.

In its most recent study of the impact of climate change, the Bureau of Meteorology noted that average temperatures across Australia have increased by almost 1 °C since 1910, and could rise by up to 5 °C by 2070.

A new study attempts to estimate the effects of climate change on global agriculture — and outline ways to mitigate its most dire consequences

Nadeau also studies the potential impacts of climate change on species around the globe, using modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on animal populations.

A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.

The most likely scenario studied was based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's projections of sea level height by 2100 and corresponding changes in reef structure.

The study does a «very nice job» of using different approaches to show that climate change is a dominant force, says Thomas Lovejoy, president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment in Washington, D.C. «I think the single most important public policy [issue] here is agreeing on what the limit should be on greenhouse gas concentration,» he says.

Until now, most estimates of how many species are threatened by climate change have been based on theoretical studies that look at the climatic and environmental conditions that species need to survive, and overlay this with estimates of how much suitable habitat will remain as the world warms.

He points out, however, that «most data on the effects of climate change on penguins are not derived from banded studies.»

Most recently, he reported on the diversity of oceanic viral communities in a special issue of the journal Science featuring the Tara Oceans Expedition, a global study of the impact of climate change on the world's oceans.

«Most modeling studies that look at the impact of climate change on crop yield and the fate of agriculture don't take into account whether the water available for irrigation will change,» Monier says.

The new study published in the peer - reviewed journal Global Change Biology says such increased flow variability has the most negative effect on salmon populations of several climate factors considered.

A recent study found that fire seasons grew longer by almost 20 percent in a span of 35 years in most parts of the world, and linked this lengthening to climate change.

A new study from climate scientists Robert DeConto at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard at Pennsylvania State University suggests that the most recent estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for future sea - level rise over the next 100 years could be too low by almost a factor climate scientists Robert DeConto at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard at Pennsylvania State University suggests that the most recent estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for future sea - level rise over the next 100 years could be too low by almost a factor Climate Change for future sea - level rise over the next 100 years could be too low by almost a factor of two.

«Where climate change is most likely to induce food violence: Study finds capable governments more important than weather.»

Tropical deforestation and climate change are expected to have serious negative effects on most tropical species, but few species have been studied for more than a few years, and they are usually studied in a single site.

Our study allows us to target conservation efforts on those species that are most negatively affected by climate, to help them persist under future climate change.»

We need more empirical studies to truly understand who will be most affected by climate change in the future.»

Hammer, who came to the United States from Guatemala as a child, «has studied how the cities and regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and sea - level rise also have large Hispanic populations — something she learned firsthand growing up in South Florida,» according to a White House statement.

An astrophysicist named Wei - Hock «Willie» Soon affiliated with the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics had published a study suggesting that climate change was caused mainly by the sun, a theory that most climate scientists would classify as hogwash.

Most conservation planning in Madagascar prioritizes areas containing the highest species diversity or the greatest number of unique species, not habitats those species might move to in the future under climate change, said Brown, who was a postdoctoral researcher at Duke at the time of the study.

The results demonstrate that behaviors, such as eating and mating, are extremely sensitive to thermal change, especially compared to sprinting speed, a physiological trait used by most studies to measure climate change effects.

For the study, five cultures were kept under a constant temperature and three different concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2): a control value with today's conditions, the conditions that could be reached until the end of this century according to the most critical calculations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the highest possible degree of acidification.

After analyzing the biological characteristics of 1,074 marine fish and shellfish, the study identified 294 species that are most at - risk due to climate change by 2050.

«We hope that this study will highlight the marine species that are most in need of management and conservation actions under climate change,» said William Cheung, associate professor in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and director of science for the Nippon Foundation — UBC Nereus Program.

Watson said most climate studies on biodiversity focus on the effects climate change could have 50 to 100 years from now.

Within a million years, most of the large carnivores in the region — from saber - toothed cats to bear - size otters — had gone extinct, leaving just a few «hypercarnivores» alive, according to a study presented here last week at a workshop on climate change and human evolution at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

For the study, Gentine and Lemordant took Earth system models with decoupled surface (vegetation physiology) and atmospheric (radiative) CO2 responses and used a multi-model statistical analysis from CMIP5, the most current set of coordinated climate model experiments set up as an international cooperation project for the International Panel on Climate climate model experiments set up as an international cooperation project for the International Panel on Climate Climate Change.

Yet, many long - running volunteer efforts did not originate with the specific purpose of understanding the consequences of global climate change, and as a result, most of these projects were not designed to foster communication of scientific findings back to project participants; this is particularly true for studies using data from online repositories.

Monckton's father - in - law is Lord Lawson of Blaby (Nigel Lawson, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer), who has contributed many times to the public debate on climate change, most recently in a speech to the Centre for Policy Studies, in which he drew parallels between climate researchers and Islamic fundamentalists.

The extra data spanning many thousands of years that this study uncovers will go a long way to matching model projections with past observations, helping scientists identify the most accurate models for making predictions of future climate change.

Most recently McClanahan is studying the potential interaction between global climate change and coral reef management.

The study found that climate change impacts were driving most of the increases in stress, which Halpern says shows how important it is to address climate change.

The UNC researchers say this is the most comprehensive study yet on how climate change could affect public health through air pollution.

Naturally occurring changes in winds, not human - caused climate change, are responsible for most of the warming along the US West Coast over the last century, according to a new study.

««The arid lands of southwestern North America will imminently become even more arid as a result of human - induced climate change just at the time that population growth is increasing demand for water, most of which is still used by agriculture,» said Richard Seager, Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the lead authors of the study.

With issues concerning climate change, population growth and movement, regional strife, and job creation, Gardner intends through this study to better understand and enable colleges and universities of America to offer well - crafted educations in liberal arts and sciences and equip future leaders with capacities to think critically, question, collaborate, and solve our most pressing problems.

The nonprofit National Center for Science Education said most science teachers understand the scientific consensus on climate change, according to a national study conducted in 2014 - 2015 by the center and Pennsylvania State University researchers.

Geography is the most opted one - course program by most of the students as they get to learn many fascinating facts and things about the earth related to the weather studying, climate change factor, flora and fauna, accumulation of vegetation all such factors student studies in geography.

Third, and most worrying of all, the study ignores the real threats to wildlife — habitat destruction, climate change and pollution — in favor of scapegoating cats.

But there are vast volumes of studies concluding that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are already influencing the climate and will continue to raise the odds of fiercer floods, drier droughts and other disruptive changes, including a quickening pace of coastal retreats (and all as human populations soar in some of the world's most vulnerable places).

A major California drought, also deemed unlikely to have been caused by climate change, according to most of the scientists who studied it.

But what the GSL now says is that geological evidence from palaeoclimatology (studies of past climate change) suggests that if longer - term factors are taken into account, such as the decay of large ice sheets, the Earth's sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 could itself be double that predicted by most climate models.

Geography, meteorology, poverty, shoddy construction, a booming population, and, to a much lesser degree, climate change combine to make the Philippines the nation most vulnerable to killer typhoons, according to several scientific studies.