Sentences with phrase «specific role climate change»

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 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.

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.

* 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...)

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.

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.

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.

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.