Sentences with phrase «much climate research»

As with much climate research, the science is complex and opinions can vary dramatically.

Even Popper, with his axe to grind, would consider much climate research to be science (though perhaps not the numerical models taken in isolation).

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Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

And, Bradshaw noted, much of the improvement coincides with the Obama administration's efforts to fund research and use its, ahem, bully pulpit to improve school climate.

New research could explain why the Arctic was much warmer during a period millions of years ago that scientists say most closely resembles Earth's climate today

The climate link is a hypothesis, and much more research is needed to determine a cause, but the effects of warming seem to favor the species, she said.

In the study, scientists from the Potsdam - based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and Harvard University show that sea surface temperatures reconstructed from climate archives vary to a much greater extent on long time scales than simulated by climate models.

Norgaard was surprised Morano had noticed her, because although her university had written a press release, she hadn't seen much coverage of her research, which focuses on why it is so difficult for societies to take action to respond to climate change.

Deutsch's latest research is untangling how much oxygen loss is linked to climate change and how much is due to normal variation in oxygen levels.

LaLueza - Fox sees such research as an indication that scientists can reliably collect ancient DNA from hotter climates, where much of human prehistory played out.

Much of that cut would come out of DOE's climate modeling research.

Our research seeks to combine many different sources of climate data, in a statistically rigorous way, to determine a consensus on how much temperatures are changing.»

But when it comes to the climate, too much fertilizer can spell trouble, new research from Michigan State scientists recently confirmed.

That's much less than what was requested a year ago, when biodiversity and climate change research was slated to receive $ 8 million and understanding the universe, $ 500,000.

Their research found that forests in the basin's north - east on average stored twice as much carbon as those in the south - west, as a result of soil, climate and species variation.

Published in Science Advances, this research shows variation among species is attributed to differing sensitivity to climate change, and also because species vary in how much the climate has changed for them (their «exposure»).

«The record of the Earth's climate since the invention of the thermometer is much better understood now,» says physicist Tim Killeen, AGU president and director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. «This detailed understanding of the climate of the 20th century gives confidence in the ability to project into the future.

Because these other stabilization mechanisms are likely much less vulnerable to disturbance than anaerobic microsites, our research suggests that the impact of climate or land use change may release greater amounts of carbon from soils than we expected.»

Cobb's finding is consistent with a 2013 study of tree rings suggesting that El Niño — related weather havoc has intensified across much of the globe in recent decades, notes Wenju Cai, a climate modeler at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Melbourne, Australia.

Written by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, the report concludes that the world is on a path to a 4 °C warmer world by end of this century and that current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not reduce warming by very much.

This is a much - needed approach, because climate change «really deals with all aspects of weather,» says Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

In climate change scenarios simulated by the model GOTILWA + — within the Consolider - Ingenio project Montes and the research project Med - Forestream — , net primary productivity of Spanish forests (how much carbon dioxide plants take in during photosynthesis minus how much carbon dioxide they release during respiration) will decrease from the second half of this century.

It is very much the mainstream view in the climate research community that you can not explain the warming of the past few decades without anthropogenic and human influences on climate.

As much a profile of Church and his rise to renowned scientist as it is a tour of the latest research on climate change, species extinction and conservation biology, author Mezrich's telling is riveting and almost too like fiction to be believed.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

The research, published in Nature Communications, examined preserved fossil remains of coccolithophores from a period of climate warming and ocean acidification that occurred around 56 million years ago — the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)-- and provides a much - needed long - term perspective of coccolithophore response to ocean acidification.

In a letter sent to Senate leaders on 24 February and released earlier this week by the Massachusetts - based Woods Hole Research Center, 65 scientists warned that «this well - intentioned legislation, which claims to address climate change, would in fact promote deforestation in the U.S. and elsewhere and make climate change much worse.»

The US National Science Foundation's investments directed toward climate change research have increased substantially since 1987, but biodiversity expenditures have increased much less and have held steady since 2004.

«In the past, many scientists were understandably afraid of talking about their use of animals, but the climate has very much changed,» says Frances Rawle, head of policy at the Medical Research Council.

Carys Cook, co-author and research postgraduate from the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial, adds: «Scientists previously considered the East Antarctic ice sheet to be more stable than the much smaller ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland, even though very few studies of East Antarctic ice sheet have been carried out.

Daniel McGrath, a research geophysicist with the program, said much of the government's ongoing climate research draws from the USGS's 50 years of Alaska glacier studies.

De Sherbinin notes the research did not tease apart how much these trends were caused by the urban heating effect versus climate change.

We asked Emily Becker, a research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who specializes in climate diagnostics, to clarify how much of our unusual weather we can blame on El Niño.

The overall aim of Dr Berry's research is to understand how much carbon these trees were capable of capturing from the atmosphere and how this effected Earth's climate.

The National Research Council in Washington, D.C., estimates that dairy cows account for as much as 20 percent of human - induced emissions of methane, a potent climate change — causing greenhouse gas.

Understanding how much society values those future people should be an influential component of climate policy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Tropical Pacific climate variations and their global weather impacts may be predicted much further in advance than previously thought, according to research by an international team of climate scientists from the USA, Australia, and Japan.

In the hunt for the beginning of the much - debated «Anthropocene» — a supposed new geologic era defined by human influence of the planet — the new research suggests a need to look back farther in time than the arrival of human - caused climate change, atomic weapons, urbanization or the industrial revolution.

Claudia Tebaldi, a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that the researchers propose a much more robust method for evaluating the increasing volume of climate - change data coming out than experts coming up with «a ballpark estimate based on their own judgments.»

Cory Cleveland, a UM professor of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, said that previous research in the wet tropics — where much of global forest productivity occurs — indicates that the increased rainfall that may occur with climate change would cause declines in plant growth.

My stance is pretty much that of the scientists researching climate and what is found in the IPCC report (except changes are happening quicker than originally reported).

However, even if the hacked emails from HADCRU end up to be much ado about nothing in the context of any actual misfeasance that impacts the climate data records, the damage to the public credibility of climate research is likely to be significant.

White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters Tuesday that the government has been spending too much money on climate change and Trump's proposed budget intentionally rebukes the Obama administration's support for federally funded climate research.

It coordinates some of the world's most exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change, food security, environmental influences on human health, the genetic make - up of life on earth, and much more.

Can you summarize current state of the world regarding research on expected ENSO behavior in warming climate, i.e.: a) About the same b) Expect distribution of La Nina / El Nino / Neutrals to change c) Insufficent data to be able to say much

«We know rather little about how much methane comes from different sources and how these have been changing in response to industrial and agricultural activities or because of climate events like droughts,» says Hinrich Schaefer, an atmospheric scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, who collaborates with Petrenko.

The potential influence of rapid Arctic warming on such extremes has been a hot research topic in recent years, though it is much debated in the climate community.

Decades of climate research could be wrong, meaning we're in a much worse situation than previously thought.

This potential link has received much attention and fueled more research in recent years, although there are many climate scientists who remain unconvinced of the connection.