Sentences with phrase «scientists focused on climate change»

I alerted a batch of scholars and scientists focused on climate change and sustainable development to my taped talk on «Paths to a «Good» Anthropocene» at the annual meeting of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences.

All will be scientists focused on climate change, while future cohorts will represent other fields of scientific inquiry, particularly those at the intersection of science and society and with a record of scholarship related to communication.

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And by carefully measuring and modeling the resulting changes in atmospheric composition, scientists could improve their estimate of how sensitive Earth's climate is to CO2, said lead author Joyce Penner, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on improving global climate models and their ability to model the interplay between clouds and aerosol particles.

As scientists and policymakers around the world try to combat the increasing rate of climate change, they have focused on the chief culprit: carbon dioxide.

The influence of climate change on this warm water invasion is an ongoing research focus among climate scientists and is still not completely understood.

Prior research has largely focused on the negative impacts of ocean acidification on reef growth, but new research this week from scientists at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), based at the University of Hawai'i — Mānoa (UHM), demonstrates that lower ocean pH also enhances reef breakdown: a double - whammy for coral reefs in a changing climate.

While the majority of climate change scientists focus on the «direct» threats of changing temperatures and precipitation after 2031, far fewer researchers are studying how short - term human adaptation responses to seasonal changes and extreme weather events may threaten the survival of wildlife and ecosystems much sooner.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

Scientists studying the potential effects of climate change on the world's animal and plant species are focusing on the wrong factors, according to a new paper by a research team from the Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Queensland, and other organizations.

In the past decades, scientists have increasingly focused on studying the potential effects of climate change on all aspects of life, including agriculture.

While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change, according to U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.

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In 2013, Marfa Dialogues is moving from the desert to the city, where the project will continue to focus on climate change, integrating the work and voices of artists, writers, journalists, scientists and other participants from the academic, government and public interest sectors.

Taking as a starting point the «backfire effect» — a phrase coined to describe how people often maintain or even strengthen their beliefs when given factual evidence against them — Tillmans interviewed scientists, politicians, journalists, and social workers in an effort to understand changes in the international political climate in recent decades, with a particular focus on right - wing populism and fake news.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (RRF) is pleased to announce the third season of the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida and the release of Rising Waters, a video documenting the artists and scientists who were invited to participate in the inaugural Rauschenberg Residency focused on climate change.

The probe by this team takes the timeline on Exxon's focus on climate change several years earlier than a previous investigation of oil industry assessments of global warming by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Between 1 and 2 p.m. eastern time this afternoon I discussed extreme weather and climate change on the The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU with Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at Rutgers University focused on the impact of Arctic conditions, and Matthew Nisbet, a communications researcher at American University.

But the planning goes back at least a year or two and the main organizers are Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, a Cambridge University economist, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, San Diego, focused on reducing sooty pollution and climate change, and Archbishop Roland Minnerath of Dijon, France, who is also a professor of history and ethics at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

Mike Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prclimate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prclimate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those prClimate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those problems.

Sullivan said the exhibit, which focused on climate change in the Arctic as observed by scientists and local indigenous peoples, deliberately highlighted any scientific ambiguity in the data.

Still, some commentators noted that a draft plan for the report approved by scientists had been watered down after the Bangkok meeting, specifically areas focused on strengthening global efforts to tackle climate change.

These issues are likely to be a major focus of the forthcoming report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the body of scientists who produce the most authoritative and comprehensive summaries of climate reClimate Change (IPCC), the body of scientists who produce the most authoritative and comprehensive summaries of climate reclimate research.

Some scientists were complicit in thwarting the scientific method by participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the political vehicle set up to put all the focus on CO2.

Prior to joining UCS in 2005, Ms. Spanger - Siegfried was an associate scientist at the U.S. Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute, where for six years her work focused on understanding and building the adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations and sectors in developing countries in response to climate change.

As a result, he's been a frequent target of environmental groups and scientists focused on slowing climate change.

While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change, according to U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.

«There is no doubt in my mind that climate change will have a major impact on the spread of infectious diseases,» writes Edward Holmes, a scientist whose work focuses on emerging diseases at Sydney Medical School in Australia, in an email to Pacific Standard.

So to help set the record straight, we're going to focus on 10 major changes scientists have seen in our climate system.

Speakers: Kathleen Theoharides, Assistant Secretary of Climate Change, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Massachusetts; Reed Schuler, Senior Policy Advisor to Governor Jay Inslee, Washington State Moderator: Alden Meyer, Union of Concerned Scientists The Big Sink: Large - scale Land Management to Meet Climate Goals Wednesday, November 15th 11:00 - 12:00 Fiji Dome Through a cross-sectoral panel, we will discuss large - scale carbon sequestration through land management, focusing on large landholders.

Climate experts are now concluding that research must focus on clouds, with many scientists considering the possibility that a 1 % or less change in cloud coverage could explain most of the past changes in global temperatures.

His end of the tutorial focused on the changes we can anticipate as average temperatures go up around the world, noting that models have become more robust and that scientists are zeroing in on the harms that will be caused by unmitigated changes to the global climate.

As we have documented in numerous articles on the disinformation campaign on this website, although responsible scientific skepticism is necessary for science to advance, the climate change disinformation campaign has been involved not in the pursuit of responsible scientific skepticism but in tactics that are morally reprehensible including: (a) telling lies about mainstream climate scientific evidence or engaging in reckless disregard for the truth, (b) focusing on unknowns about climate science while ignoring settled climate change science, that is cherry - picking the evidence, (c) creating front groups and Astroturf groups that hide the real parties in interest behind claims, (d) making specious claims about «good science», (e) manufacturing science sounding claims about climate change by holding conferences in which claims are made and documents are released that have not been subjected to scientific peer - review, and (d) cyber bullying journalists and scientists.

Meanwhile, even if experts are calling it «luck» that Florida went more than a decade without hurricane landfall, that aberration itself fits the profile of climate change: In general, climate scientists who focus on hurricanes expect slightly fewer storms, but warn that the ones that do form will be more powerful.

According to a study published this year by Climate Central, a non-partisan organization of scientists and journalists who focus on climate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the currenClimate Central, a non-partisan organization of scientists and journalists who focus on climate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the currenclimate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the current rate.

In retrospect this is a little ironic — for it is guilty of the very crime it accuses the «alarmists» of perpetrating — unsupported, biased views of climate change science which distort any kind of balanced analysis being undertaken by focusing exclusively on the suggested polarity of existing climate change debate — «scientists» v deniers.

The company said that it shared the concern on climate change expressed by many scientists and is focused on the target of keeping the global temperature rise below 2 °C.

The influence of climate change on this warm water invasion is an ongoing research focus among climate scientists and is still not completely understood.

Two scientists who believe we are on the wrong track argue in the current issue of the journal Nature Climate Change that global warming is inevitable and it's time to switch our focus from trying to stop it to figuring out how we are going to deal with its consequences..»

2) why should we focus on the climate over problems such as disease and malnutrition 3) there are many reports of scientists fudging # s in order to get more funding — how trustworthy are many of the scientists who seem to benefit from climate change hysteria 4) what reasonable actions are these scientists advocating?

the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked to coal - burning power stations: they did not make a calculation about the economic costs of chronic illness linked to polluted air, nor did they estimate the health costs that might be linked to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil fuel combustion.

The environmentalists linked the issue so that people, including some scientists began to think that the IPCC's focus on man made climate change represented a consensus on the science which was also a consensus on the environmentalist's recommended policy.

«The focus would be on e-mails stolen from scientists at the University of East Anglia in Britain last fall that climate - change deniers have falsely claimed demonstrate wrongdoing by scientists, including me.»

Importantly, the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked to coal - burning power stations: they did not make a calculation about the economic costs of chronic illness linked to polluted air, nor did they estimate the health costs that might be linked to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil fuel combustion.

Endorsed by more than 100 independent scientists, engineers and economists who work in the field of climate change, the open letter calls on world leaders to abandon the goal of «stopping climate change» and focus instead on helping nations become resilient to natural changes by promoting environmentally - responsible economic growth.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Researchers and officials concerned about global warming have focused on oil usage, but scientists on Wednesday said liquefied coal could have a greater affect on global climate change.

As a climate scientist, I focus almost exclusively on the scientific questions related to climate change.

Though the book covers much of the same ground, albeit at a lower reading level, as Al Gore's famous global warming presentation, it is never alarmist, and instead focuses on the grounded evidence for global climate change and the collective efforts of many different kinds of scientists.

It argues that the IPCC's «heroic days» of «Herculean work» are probably over, more frequent assessments focused on policy challenges are required, and the wider review of science made possible by the blogosphere can help: New Scientist says because the case for anthropogenic climate change is firmly established («the Nobel prize is won») the IPCC really needs to revision itself.

It's also drawing on secular experts such as Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, a Cambridge University economist, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, San Diego, focused on reducing sooty pollution and climate change.

During floor debate in the legislature, however, Republican State Sen. Beau McCoy, a candidate for governor, amended the bill to direct scientists to focus only on so - called «cyclical» climate change — a term that has no legitimate scientific meaning.