Sentences with phrase «specific role climate»

Using models to tease out the specific role climate change played, they found that it made the Ferbuary heat at least three times more likely.

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Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

«The conclusion of the study indicates that there is a statistically significant relationship between fire and same - summer droughts in most regions, while antecedent climate conditions play a relatively minor role, except in few specific ecoregions.

The climate simulations suggest that these specific anomalies in sea surface temperatures can play a predominant role in promoting the change in the NAO.

Studies of the link between orbital parameters and past climate changes include spectral analysis of palaeoclimatic records and the identification of orbital periodicities; precise dating of specific climatic transitions; and modelling of the climate response to orbital forcing, which highlights the role of climatic and biogeochemical feedbacks.

A more recent hotly debated hypothesis, is the pulsed climate variability hypothesis, that highlights the role of extreme wet - dry climate cycles specific to East Africa in driving hominin evolution [15].

Noah Diffenbaugh, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, said the new analysis represented a «valuable step» in attribution work, a field of climate science that's developed in the past decade in an effort to understand the role of climate change in specific extreme events.

While this remains a concern, a closer analysis suggests that the recent sell - off may be more specific to high - yield bonds and their role in the current investment climate.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

In this way, natural and human climate influences can be separated, and as with disease and risk factors, the role of a specific factor in a specific outcome can be quantified.

It consists of nine chapters, covering risk management; observed and projected changes in extreme weather and climate events; exposure and vulnerability to as well as losses resulting from such events; adaptation options from the local to the international scale; the role of sustainable development in modulating risks; and insights from specific case studies.

No one claims that carbon markets alone will fix the climate mess, but they do have a role to play, and its a role we hope to understand a bit more after this week, we thanks to two new surveys — one focused explicitly on the motives and strategies of voluntary carbon buyers, and the other focused on the specific ways that voluntary carbon markets are being utilized in different parts of the world.

Nonetheless in 2011, Nature published another article by Camille Parmesan who urged we end the climate debate, «By over-emphasizing the need for rigorous assessment of the specific role of greenhouse - gas forcing in driving observed biological changes, the IPCC effectively yields to the contrarians» inexhaustible demands for more «proof», rather than advancing the most pressing and practical scientific questions.»

Miami is on the forefront of the climate fight, and the training will highlight climate issues specific to the region, the political and social conversation around renewable energy deployment and the key leadership role the Latino community has on climate change action.

Session topics revolved around the six Grand Science Challenges of the WCRP and addressed the specific need for, and role of, climate observations from space.

The role of Gore and other Democratic leaders in contributing to polarization is also addressed, based on what we know from the field of political communication generally and on studies specific to climate change.

«Climate policy will play a major role in the campaign in specific (local) areas,» the policy director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Jordan Davis, told the National Journal in explaining how it will argue against President Obama's national climate plan in a handful of coal disClimate policy will play a major role in the campaign in specific (local) areas,» the policy director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Jordan Davis, told the National Journal in explaining how it will argue against President Obama's national climate plan in a handful of coal disclimate plan in a handful of coal districts.

The Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction and an annual forum like Buildings Day can play major roles in helping the industry and policymakers spur action and track progress against the new buildings - specific goal — which has been long needed and is a welcome addition to the climate dialogue.

However, these values are internally consistent in that commensurate increases in them would still yield results supporting our specific conclusions on the role of dust − climate feedbacks.

The joint CSIRO — Bureau of Meteorology South - east Australian Climate Initiative attributes a role of global climate change in the drying of south - eastern Australia via specific changes to the sub-tropical ridgeClimate Initiative attributes a role of global climate change in the drying of south - eastern Australia via specific changes to the sub-tropical ridgeclimate change in the drying of south - eastern Australia via specific changes to the sub-tropical ridge (STR):

Although it doesn't name specific companies, the amendment is surely inspired by recent revelations about ExxonMobil's early and advanced knowledge of the role of fossil fuels in driving climate change — which was followed by the company's subsequent, unconscionable climate science denial efforts.

The report concluded with the plan to continue the work programme these specific areas: (a) The analysis of options for the mobilization of financial resources from a wide variety of sources, public and private, bilateral and multilateral, including alternative sources, and their linkages; (b) The analysis of the relevant analytical work on the climate - related financing needs of developing country Parties; (c) The integration of lessons learned from fast - start finance (FSF) and best practices from developing and developed country experiences in the analysis of sources and needs; (d) The exploration of the interface between public and private finance, including approaches to leveraging private climate finance; (e) The identification of enabling environments that can unlock and foster increased climate finance flows for mitigation and adaption; (f) The exploration of delivery mechanisms that could play a role in channeling climate finance.