Sentences with phrase «several new climate change»

The news this summer has featured several new climate change science reports, and drawn the link between current extreme events and global warming.

Not exact matches

Badlands National Park posted several facts about climate change on its official Twitter account Tuesday afternoon, sharing statistics that might contradict the beliefs of President Donald Trump's new administration.

The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.

Zooming in on climate change, Proxy Preview highlights one new shareholder proposal «that raises questions about transporting oil and gas by train and several taking up different angles on deforestation that connect ecological and human rights impacts.»

The EPA announced Friday night that its website would be «undergoing changes» to better represent the new direction the agency is taking, triggering the removal of several agency websites containing detailed climate data and scientific information.

The New America Foundation actually has several of these in the works — quickie animations that help explain a complex issue or statistic; maps comparing all 50 states» climate change policies; even an interactive database that compares all 14,000 U.S. school districts.

ALBANY — After a two - hour debate that touched on climate change and several anti-Semitic incidents at the City University of New York, Republicans in the state Senate endorsed a one - house budget resolution that shifts costs to New York City, increases aid for public schools and cuts taxes for middle - income New Yorkers.

Mark Dunlea says Cuomo has positioned New York as a national leader on climate change, but «his goals are weaker in several ways than those adopted seven years ago» by former Gov. David Paterson.

Cuomo in recent months has sought to reduce carbon emissions through entering New York into several multi-state and multi government climate change pacts.

Last week, House Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith (R - Texas) subpoenaed the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts, who are each investigating if Exxon Mobil Corp. misled investors and the public about climate change threats, and several environmental groups (ClimateWire, July 14).

Climate change could cause new hay fever misery for millions of people across Europe — according to a new report from the University of East Anglia in collaboration with several European institutes.

Most notably, the two agreed on new language on how to fairly divide responsibilities among countries for tackling climate change, which has found its way into several subsequent agreements.

Such a transition has been made possible by the convergence of several factors: a stream of new science showing an accelerating pace of climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secclimate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuchange and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuchange around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secClimate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuChange; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secclimate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national security).

By remotely «combing» the atmosphere with a custom laser - based instrument, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have developed a new technique that can accurately measure — over a sizeable distance — amounts of several of the major «greenhouse» gases implicated in climate change.

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.

The new study builds on research conducted for the IIASA - coordinated Global Energy Assessment, and provides an analysis linking water, energy, and climate change mitigation, a focus of several new IIASA research projects.

Man - made climate change has been a global concern for several years, but as industrial emissions of some greenhouse and ozone - depleting gases drop, scientists are finding new sources to worry about.

It's an idea spawned on Reddit, where several scientists — concerned about the new president's policies on climate change and other issues, and hyped from the success of the Women's March on Washington — were discussing the best way to respond to what they feared would be an administration hostile to science.

Participant recently made several high - profile announcements during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, including the co-acquisition of documentary feature RBG with Magnolia Pictures, as well as a distribution deal with Starz for director Steve James» 10 - part docuseries America to Me, and the unveiling of a new four - part virtual reality series titled, This is Climate Change, to be distributed by WITHIN.

I'm not sure there's anything particularly new here, except a focus on Hansen's point that the «long term» timescale people talk about with climate may be a lot shorter than the several thousand years or so that was observed for the ice age changes.

The 350 organization has already put together several global calls to action, with its newest aimed squarely at injecting climate change back in the election.

«We know that our planetâ $ ™ s future depends on a global commitment to permanently reduce greenhouse gas pollution, â $ President Obama said yesterday at the U.N. Summit on Climate Change in New York, one of several references to â $ œgreenhouse gas pollutionâ $ and â $ œcarbon pollutionâ $ sprinkled throughout his speech.

«What's the News: Climate change may have sparked the demise of early Viking settlements in Greenland, according to a new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, when temperatures cooled rapidly over several decades.

About 1980ish, some old ideas like the greenhouse effect were brought out of mothballs and re-examined with new tools and techniques; simultaneously several researchers and theoreticians released their notes, published, or otherwise got together and there was a surprising consilience and not a small amount of mixing with old school hippy ecologism on some of the topics that became the roots of Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather models.

He has co-lead several climate impacts studies in the greater New York and New Jersey region, including the New York City on Panel on Climate Change climate impacts studies in the greater New York and New Jersey region, including the New York City on Panel on Climate Change Climate Change (NPCC).

«A new NASA computer climate model reinforces the long - standing theory that low solar activity could have changed the atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere from the 1400s to the 1700s and triggered a «Little Ice Age» in several regions including North America and Europe.»

A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost - effective policies and current and emerging technologies.

Their work encompasses a range of problems and time scales: from five - day model predictions of hurricane track and intensity, to understanding the causes of changes in extremes over the past century, to building new climate prediction models for seamless predictions out to the next several years, to earth system model projections of human - caused changes in various extremes (heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, etc.) over the coming century.

A new study published in Nature Climate Change found that by taking into account the short - term changes caused by factors like El Niño and La Niña cycles, they could accurately forecast the slowed warming at the surface several years in advance.

This week, several news stories depict the increase in agenda status for climate change among major medical associations and health professionals, coinciding with the release of a new book by on climate change and health by Paul Epstein, a professor in the School of Public Health at Harvard University.

But the downside of those opportunities is the risk that the current pace of climate change could be sped up dramatically by the release of long - trapped methane gas in the region's permafrost — a risk to which a new study has attached an eye - popping price tag of $ 60 trillion in the next several decades, on top of previous estimates.

The President has directed NASA to accelerate the development of new satellites that the National Research Council recommended as Earth science priorities, in addition to flying several research satellites currently in development, conducting a campaign to monitor changes in polar ice sheets, and pursuing enhancements to climate models.

The new US commitments were also welcomed because the United States has a record that spans several decades of being a major obstacle to achieving an adequate global solution to climate change.

I am one of several climate change sceptics to have been celebrated and immortalised in an exciting new, prizewinning art installation at

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.

Climate change already is being felt in the form of warmer winters in New York over the last several decades and increasing numbers of extreme rainfall events, according to DeGaetano, the Cornell researcher, who is the director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.

Republicans seized firm control, and added several new senators who deny that climate change is a problem.

By 2008 and 2009, the office of the New York attorney general had reached settlements with several electric utilities — AES Corporation, Dynegy Inc, and Xcel Energy — that, as Sullivan & Cromwell noted in its 2010 memo, «agreed to enhance their disclosures relating to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions in their annual reports filed with the SEC.»

In an article entitled, ««Climate Change»: the New Eugenics,» James Delingpole writes about several of the ideological gurus behind the current «crop» of those whom he calls «watermelons» («green» on the outside, «red» on the inside).

Last March, through numerous state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman formed a secret coalition of several other states» attorneys general (AGs) and prominent green activists to use the criminal justice system to target organizations that question the climate change agenda under fraud and racketeering laws.

The new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- released last night — reveals several findings that decision - makers can keep in mind — both in order to understand current and future climate impacts, as well as develop strategies to help societies become more resilient tClimate Change (IPCC)-- released last night — reveals several findings that decision - makers can keep in mind — both in order to understand current and future climate impacts, as well as develop strategies to help societies become more resilient tclimate impacts, as well as develop strategies to help societies become more resilient to them.

«Any one of the several new or likely regulatory initiatives for CO2 emissions from power plants — including state carbon controls, E.P.A.'s regulations under the Clean Air Act, or the enactment of federal global warming legislation — would add a significant cost to carbon - intensive coal generation,» the letters said... Selective disclosure of favorable information or omission of unfavorable information concerning climate change is misleading.

In American Electric Power v. Connecticut, several states and New York City sued energy companies, claiming that their contributions to climate change were a public nuisance.

Toiling away at the day job this afternoon, I had a spare moment to pen this whine about the ruckus over the past several days about Tim Barnett's new work on ocean temperatures and climate change.

Norgaard is encouraged by the fact that President Obama has, in the past several months, been speaking out about climate change and has announced several new initiatives to combat the problem.

Our little revolutionary moment comes in a document with the memorable title «ADP 2 - 7 agenda item 3 Elements for a draft negotiating text» with its climate - busting section D (paragraph 13.2) outlining several possible long - term goals for a new climate change agreement.

Later in the radio interview, host Chris Smith asks Dr Carter several questions about climate change, which you would presume Dr Carter would have been happy to answer given they were taken straight from his new climate sceptic book, Taxing Air.

* According to the Berkeley group, the Earth's surface temperature will have risen (on average) slightly less than what indicated by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office * Differences will be on the edge of statistical significance, leaving a lot open to subjective interpretation * Several attempts will be made by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data * After publication, organised groups of people will try to cloud the issue to the point of leaving the public unsure about what exactly was found by BEST * New questions will be raised regarding UHI, however the next IPCC assessment's first draft will be singularly forgetful of any peer - reviewed paper on the topic * We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to human mind.