Sentences with phrase «recent climate research»

The vast majority of recent climate research simply assumes the precise correctness of the 20th century mean temperature profile generated by these wonky models.

If you're pressed for time, or already familiar with recent climate research, then you can just skip to the conclusion.

Physicist Joe Romm, drawing on recent climate research, reports that «levels of aridity comparable to those in the Dust Bowl could stretch from Kansas to California by mid-century.»

«Why Pruitt's Decision to End EPA «Secret Science» Is So Important Both Sides Ignore the Major Finding of Recent Climate Research»

Recent climate research shows major, unprecedented shifts in the global environment.

This «lukewarm» option has been boosted by recent climate research, and if it is right, current policies may do more harm than good.

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C40 cites a recent report by the New Climate Economy, a research organization, which estimates there is a $ 17 trillion opportunity worldwide by 2050 from investments in smarter, low - emission cities.

Whitehouse has made the revelations about Exxon's climate science research the subject of several of his recent weekly speeches.

Read here about Rodale Institute's research on reversing climate change through regenerative organic agriculture in this recent op - ed in the New York Times.

Recent research in Environmental Communication examines the powerful influence of mass media portrayal of climate change and subsequent public identification with the issue.

Other recent research on geoengineering using solar radiation management has also found that if the practice did begin but was then stopped, it could lead to rapid climate change with potentially hazardous consequences (ClimateWire, Nov. 27, 2013).

Since the algal species is native to eastern Canada, its recent blooms and rapid proliferation in rivers since 2006 — which have angered anglers looking for pristine waters — have been caused by an environmental trigger, with climate change a likely culprit, said Michelle Lavery, a master's degree student at the Canadian Rivers Institute and lead author of the research, published in theCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

While large - scale climate research models offer a systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.

Recent modelling by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, as well as studies of past climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm Climate Impact Research in Germany, as well as studies of past climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm enough.

Its core is a flurry of recent research proposing that such extreme weather events in the midlatitudes are linked through the atmosphere with the effects of rapid climate change in the Arctic, such as dwindling sea ice.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

In a recent study, Mathias Trachsel (Dept. of Biology, University of Bergen) and Atle Nesje (Dept. of Earth Science, University of Bergen and Uni Research Climate) used simple statistical models to assess and quantify the relative importance of summer temperature and winter precipitation for annual mass balances of eight Scandinavian glaciers.

But explaining that to the public is proving difficult in the wake of recent revelations of errors in the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, furor over e-mails apparently stolen from a British climate research unit last fall, and an unusually cold and intense winter in many parts of the cClimate Change, furor over e-mails apparently stolen from a British climate research unit last fall, and an unusually cold and intense winter in many parts of the cclimate research unit last fall, and an unusually cold and intense winter in many parts of the country.

«When we measure that a particular stand of mature forest is accumulating carbon, it is difficult to say whether that might be due to recovery from some unrecognized disturbance long ago or whether it is due to more recent changes in climate and CO2,» explained Woods Hole Research Center Senior Scientist and Executive Director Eric Davidson, lead author of the review, in an e-mail.

Policymakers and the energy industry have been looking to natural gas in recent years as a more climate friendly fuel with half the greenhouse gas emissions of coal, but EPA research is casting doubt on that plan

Toward the end of this century (project here for the years 2068 to 2098) the possibility of storm surges of eight to 11 meters (26 to 36 feet) increases significantly in cities not usually expected to be vulnerable to tropical storms, according to recent research in the journal Nature Climate Change.

The proximate causes of species decline relative to resilience remain largely obscure; however, recent examples of climate - associated species decline can help guide current management in parallel with ongoing research.

Committee members also devoted a significant portion of the hearing to a recent controversial article about climate change research, recently published in the Daily Mail, a London tabloid newspaper.

«Our recent extremes may be strongly climate change — driven,» says Penny Whetton, a climatologist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency, in Victoria.

Research on bilingualism has increased in recent years as the global climate has become more intermixed, Lotto noted.

LONDON (Reuters)- Extreme floods like those swamping parts of Britain in recent months could become more frequent in Europe by 2050, more than quadrupling financial losses, if climate change worsens and more people live in vulnerable areas, research showed on Sunday.

Martin Hoerling, a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory who researches the connections between climate change and weather extremes, said a link between a warmer Arctic and the recent cold is unlikely.

A recent study published in Scientific Reports, led by researchers of the University of Barcelona in collaboration with several other research institutions, shows that the direct effect of climate change in regulating fuel moisture (droughts leading to larger fires) is expected to be dominant, regarding the indirect effect of antecedent climate on fuel load and structure - that is, warmer / drier conditions that determine fuel availability.

Despite climate question marks, Hurley points to his recent research as evidence of what decreasing emissions could do.

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.

However, there are tricks cities can use to cool off, and some recent research shows these tactics can save lives, even as the climate changes.

Cut back on the beef, dairy, sweets and savory snacks, but feel free to munch away on more fruits, vegetables and cereals, if you'd like a more climate - friendly and healthy diet, according to recent research conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Congressional Republicans in recent years have targeted the agency's funding for climate science and criticized its handling of research into the herbicide glyphosate, among other things.

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).

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

Their research shows that during the past 32 years there have been widespread increases in both plant growth and evaporation due to recent global climate trends.

The research shows that the recent climate - protecting gains in forests are being nearly canceled out by efforts to satisfy the world's growing appetite — particularly its appetite for meat.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

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.

This research received wide attention, in part because it was illustrated with a simple graphic, the so - called hockey stick curve, that many interpreted as definitive evidence of anthropogenic causes of recent climate change.

Hopefully, more refined work with recent and future data, and incorporation of research into the coupling mechanisms themselves, will allow us to validate the model climate sensitivities to the various forcings, and confidently reproduce multidecadal internal climate modes.

Climate Central has been reporting on preliminary research suggesting that warmer air in the Arctic may be disrupting the jet stream, leading (although not consistently) to some unusually cold winters in recent years in both North America and Europe.

Recent research is able to attribute these types of events to climate change.

Research using climate models suggests that the combined effects of higher temperatures and lower oxygen will drive many marine animals away from their current habitats to areas with more oxygen, according to in a recent press release...

At a recent meeting, 30 scientists from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Rothamsted Research, a UK - based independent science institute, agreed to pool expertise in research to develop higher - yielding, more disease resistant and nutritious wheat varieties for use in more productive, climate - resilient farming Research, a UK - based independent science institute, agreed to pool expertise in research to develop higher - yielding, more disease resistant and nutritious wheat varieties for use in more productive, climate - resilient farming research to develop higher - yielding, more disease resistant and nutritious wheat varieties for use in more productive, climate - resilient farming systems.

Thanks to improved research abilities in recent years and the deployment of moored instruments to sense mid-ocean conditions, scientists are now able to better understand and predict these climate phenomena.

The need for public credibility and transparency has dramatically increased in recent years as the policy relevance of climate research has increased.

The most recent National Assessment of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, part of a government analysis published in 2001, used two models to examine climate in the Southeast.

If your aim is to point out the weaknesses in climate research in general, then surely time an effort of all sceptics would be better spent scrutinising more recent work

This book is based on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report and more recent research.