Sentences with phrase «other climate analysis»

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Andrew Weaver, who holds the Canada Research Chair in climate modelling and analysis, says when it comes to saving energy and cutting carbon emissions, it's not enough to provide people subsidies on retrofits or other upgrades.

New York City spends more to brace for rising seas and other side effects of climate change than any other of the world's 10 biggest cities — about $ 2.2 billion last year — outstripping spending by London, Paris, Beijing, Mexico City and other megacities, according to an analysis by researchers at the U.K.'s University College London.

Among others, I have requested hearings on new findings on the impacts of climate change on agriculture, new findings regarding the probability that extreme weather events are influenced by climate change, and new analysis of earth surface temperatures.

Careful analysis of what frequencies are absorbed, and by how much, can directly reveal the presence of water vapor and other compounds, and can divulge climate parameters, such as temperature and pressure, that determine if liquid water is sustainable.

A new study linking paleoclimatology — the reconstruction of past global climates — with historical analysis by researchers at Yale and other institutions shows a link between environmental stress and its impact on the economy, political stability, and war - fighting capacity of ancient Egypt.

Dr. Martone's analyses of the effects of sea otters on kelp forest ecosystems can help shape predictions of how climate change and trophic cascades, in concert with other drivers, affect coastal ecosystems.

Analysis of great ape genetic diversity is likely to reveal ways that natural selection, population growth and collapse, geographic isolation and migration, climate and geological changes, and other factors shaped primate evolution.

A new analysis of European tree - ring samples suggests that mild summers may have been the key to the rise of the Roman Empire — and that prolonged droughts, cold snaps, and other climate changes might have played a part in historical upheavals, from the barbarian invasions that brought about Rome's collapse to the Black Death that wiped out much of medieval Europe.

On the other hand, statistical analysis of the past century's hurricanes and computer modeling of a warmer climate, nudged along by greenhouse gases, does indicate that rising ocean temperatures could fuel hurricanes that are more intense.

The repercussions of the findings, which were published Thursday in Science, could make it harder to hold warming to limits set during recent United Nations climate negotiations — but they're being received cautiously by other climate scientists, with questions raised over the results of the analysis.

The analysis acknowledges that several U.S. cities and regions have taken the lead in examining how to adapt to sea level rise, changing rain and snowfall patterns, heat waves and other effects of climate change.

Sulfur emissions, on the other hand, can shield sunlight, which complicates the climate analysis.

Comiso and other climate scientists reject the suggestion that his data set may overestimate the recent trend in Antarctic sea - ice growth — by as much as two - thirds, according to Eisenman's analysis.

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What we know from reading the actual findings of this study, as well as several other analyses of the climate impacts of fossil fuel subsidy removal, is that nixing oil, gas, and coal subsidies would be a big win for the climate, would saves money, and could free up resources to help the poorest and most vulnerable.

Most of the non-model estimates of climate sensitivity are based on the analyses using other forcings such as solar and aerosols, and the assumption that sensitivity to CO2 will be the same, despite the differences in way these forcings couple to the climate system.

A Climate Central analysis attributed almost all of 2015's record heat to carbon pollution from human activities with El Niño and other natural phenomenon also playing smaller roles.

«As the seas warm because of our effect on the climate, bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef and other areas within the Coral Sea are likely to become more frequent and more devastating,» the team of Australian university scientists wrote Thursday in The Conversation, announcing the results of the analysis.

If climate change continues unchecked, we could see similarly high temperatures in the Arctic every other year by the second half of this century, today's analysis suggests.

While a strong El Niño and other climate patterns are playing a role in regional and global temperatures, the vast majority of the excess heat this year comes from manmade global warming, a Climate Central analysis climate patterns are playing a role in regional and global temperatures, the vast majority of the excess heat this year comes from manmade global warming, a Climate Central analysis Climate Central analysis showed.

Now that the work has been done to combine these airborne measurements, Schroeder said he plans to expand this type analysis to other glaciers, a move that could improve scientists» understanding of the hidden ways climate change is affecting ice.

For six weeks every summer between 1989 and 1993, Alley and other scientists pushed columns of ice along the science assembly line, labeling and analyzing the snow for information about past climate, then packaging it to be sent for further analysis and cold storage at the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, Colorado.

These myriad unmodeled amplifying feedbacks support the analysis that the climate is much more sensitive to changes in greenhouse gas emissions and other «forcings» than the IPCC models have been saying.

Other renowned authors have drawn together powerful analyses of these issues, with key examples being David Korten (The Great Turning), David Selby (Education and Climate Change), Basarab Nicolescu (From Modernity to Cosmodernity), Duane Elgin (Deep Big History essay), Peter Senge (The Fifth Discipline), and Margaret Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science, to name a few.

Note the link is from a National Weather Service page at a regional weather center with unofficial Alaskan climate info and analyses, including other docs by the same person, and that the site generally is for weather forecasting and analysis, not climatology.

The other analysis, by Jason A. Lowe and Jonathan M. Gregory of the British climate office, concurred:

«To the contrary, our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.»

The best way around this could be to make some posts on legitimate skepticism, based on analyses by Lindzen and others, so that people can come to a better understanding of exactly what is known and what is not known in climate science.

(Andy and others: I wrote the following «analysis» based on what I read in the paper, i.e., the article «Climate Experts Tussle Over Details.

But I can point you to some great guides, if you live in the affected region: There are others, but I find particular value in the analysis offered by Brian McNoldy and Jason Samenow of the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang (Samenow led me to that forecast above), as well as Andrew Freedman at Climate Central and Eric Holthaus of The Wall Street Journal.

Oxfam America and other groups working to limit vulnerability to disasters, including those related to climate extremes, were cautiously upbeat about the analysis.

(He has long been critical of other aspects of the impacts analysis by the climate panel.)

If climate science is to uphold core research values and be credible to public, we need to respond to any critique of data or methodology that emerges from analysis by other scientists.

Comiso and other climate scientists reject the suggestion that his data set may overestimate the recent trend in Antarctic sea - ice growth — by as much as two - thirds, according to Eisenman's analysis.

In support of this, the international scientific community calls for a framework for regular global sustainability analyses that link existing assessments that build on the foundations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and other ongoing efforts.

Therefore, the cost - benefit analyses regarding the mitigation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases need to be considered along with the other human climate forcings in a broader environmental context, as well as with respect to their role in the climate system.»

Related The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which runs one of the critical hubs for climate analysis, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has just published «guidance for the next U.S. presidential administration and Congress on the importance of better understanding and predicting weather, water, climate, and other aspects of the Earth system.»

Jim Murphy, senior counsel for the National Wildlife Federation, said of the E.P.A.'s letter, «The Environmental Protection Agency's letter shows that despite multiple tries, the State Department is incapable of doing a proper analysis of the climate, wildlife, clean water, safety and other impacts of this disastrous and unneeded project.»

Overstatement of confidence, active efforts to suppress publication of differing technical analyses, insistence on consensus, over-egged frightening scenarios, and admonitions from one climate scientists to others to «stay on message», are ALWAYS going to be detrimental to scientific progress.

At least half of the 60 - plus S&T related positions identified in the Academy report will involve some level of involvement in one aspect or another of climate change: scientific research; assessment of climate change impacts; analysis and evaluation of adaptation and mitigation strategies; development of energy and other technologies for a carbon - constrained economy and society; and so on.

Key Issues for Discussion and Comment in the ANPR: Descriptions of key provisions and programs in the CAA, and advantages and disadvantages of regulating GHGs under those provisions; How a decision to regulate GHG emissions under one section of the CAA could or would lead to regulation of GHG emissions under other sections of the Act, including sections establishing permitting requirements for major stationary sources of air pollutants; Issues relevant for Congress to consider for possible future climate legislation and the potential for overlap between future legislation and regulation under the existing CAA; and, scientific information relevant to, and the issues raised by, an endangerment analysis.

And this was a highly conservative analysis that assumes no Kyoto protocol on climate change or other new policies to promote clean energy.

Other historical reference points of the interaction of climate with society emerge from analysis of the little Ice Age.

Other indicators of climate, such as tree - ring analysis and palynology, were previously mentioned, but many documentary indications are also useful: the time of the cherry blossom festival in Kyōto, Japan, the freezing of lakes, the incidence of floods, blizzards, or droughts, the economics of harvests, salt evaporation production, some disease statistics, and so on.

As a result of my analyses that challenge IPCC conclusions, I have been called a denier by other climate scientists, and most recently by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.

For six weeks every summer between 1989 and 1993, Alley and other scientists pushed columns of ice along the science assembly line, labeling and analyzing the snow for information about past climate, then packaging it to be sent for further analysis and cold storage at the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, Colorado.

From changes in cooling degree days to the local effects of El Niño, the Local Climate Analysis Tool helps meteorologists and others understand the connection between global climate and local iClimate Analysis Tool helps meteorologists and others understand the connection between global climate and local iclimate and local impacts.

Gasoline indirect cost calculated based on International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA), The Real Price of Gasoline, Report No. 3 (Washington, DC: 1998), p. 34, and updated using ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities Associated with Global Climate Change: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: September 2004), ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities: Security and Protection Services: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: January 2005), Terry Tamminen, Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006), p. 60, and Bureau for Economic Analysis, «Table 3 — Price Indices for Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Purchases,» GDP and Other Major Series, 1929 — 2007 (Washington, DC: August 2007); U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), This Week in Petroleum (Washington, DC: various issues).

These Russian experts in particular have a history of opposing international climate treaties (based on flawed expert analysis, as determined by other experts in the linked paper below):

Further analyses of long coupled model runs will be critical to resolve the influence of the ocean thermohaline circulation and other natural climate variations on Arctic climate and to determine whether natural climate variability will make the Arctic more or less vulnerable to anthropogenic global warming.»