Sentences with phrase «studies human impact on climate»

Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory post-doctoral fellow Deepti Singh studies human impact on climate and extreme weather.

A major focus of GISS GCM simulations is to study the human impact on the climate as well as the effects of a changing climate on society and the environment.

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A study provides the first evidence that pollen production is significantly stimulated by elevated carbon dioxide in a grass species as a result of climate change, which may have significant impact on human health.

The study supports calls for improved monitoring of wetlands and human changes to those ecosystems — a timely topic as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to examine land use impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, says Prof. Merritt Turetsky, Department of Integrative Biology.

«Looking back on 2500 years, there are examples where climate change impacted human history,» says the study's lead author, Ulf Büntgen, a paleoclimatologist at the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape in Zurich.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

According to the NASA article, early studies on the impact humans had on global climate referred to the relationship as «inadvertent climate modification.»

While Pollard's research focuses on understanding the microbiome through bioinformatics and modeling, other projects study human disorders such as diabetes and asthma, the impact of the ocean and soil on climate change, and the influence of plants, animals, and water on food production.

This SAMSI program will study the interrelations among climate data, climate models and impacts with a view towards projecting future climate change and its impact on earth systems and the human population.

Studies of human and physical geography continue at key stage three, where the impact of humans on changes to the environment and climate can be covered in more depth.

All the case studies draw on observations of impacts that are consistent with, or attibutable to, human - induced climate change based on multiple lines of scientific evidence.

Although one might think that the human health impacts of global warming would be among the most well studied areas of climate change, it is only in the last decade that the medical community and other health professionals have focused on this issue in depth.

The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change released a study presenting the human impact on global warming as greatly exaggerated.

The changes are too small to have an impact on human health, but are of interest to the study of climate change and carbon dioxide.

World Health Organization and British government - sponsored global impact studies indicate that, relative to other factors, global warming's impact on key determinants of human and environmental well - being should be small through 2085 even under the warmest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenario.

«I think what it's telling us is that humans had an impact on the Arctic much earlier than had been thought,» said John Fyfe, a senior scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada in Victoria, British Columbia and one of the authors of the study, which appeared today in Geophysical Research Letters.

Study On The Legislation Of Human - impact Climate Change (Zhi Qiao, Institute of Climate Change and Public Policy - Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology) 6.

All four of us have dedicated our scientific careers to understand the processes and impacts of climate change, variously studying ocean systems, tropical cyclones, ice sheets and ecosystems as well as impacts on human societies.

While the study was not set up to find a link between human - emissions and bushfires, the study said the trends were «consistent with projected impacts of climate change on FFDI».

This study differs from previous treatments of abrupt changes by focusing on abrupt climate changes and also abrupt climate impacts that have the potential to severely affect the physical climate system, natural systems, or human systems, often affecting multiple interconnected areas of concern.

A more sober reality, though, is that whatever slight impact humans might have on the climate, it is too small to measure — a point made in a study just published by Swiss researchers in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews (November 2005).

The ESMs, by design, close the carbon cycle and are used to study the impact of climate change on ecosystems, ecosystem changes on climate and human activities on ecosystems.

The framework of the study is represented, on the one hand, by the scientific assessment of climate change, with its impacts and associated effects on human and natural systems, and, on the other hand, by the international response to this challenge.

The student's manual is for them to take home, study and share information about climate change and its impact on human health with their families.

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Since the mid-1970s, he has focused on studies and computer simulations of Earth's climate, working to understand the climate system and human impacts on global climate.

That's the conclusion of a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which finds that humans are worsening the impacts of climate change and disease on frogs and their fellow amphibians — to the point where they are vanishing at an unprecedented, alarming speed.

For example, while the report does find that three independent studies «did not find conclusive evidence for the impact of human - caused climate change on the ongoing rainfall deficit in California,» it does not claim this with certainty.

-- which can be found here, draws upon the results of a series of UK Government - sponsored studies which employed the IPCC's emissions scenarios to project future climate change between 1990 and 2100 and its global impacts on various climate - sensitive determinants of human and environmental well - being (such as malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and habitat loss).

For many years important events in human evolution have been attributed to climate change and as part of a recent study, scientists have been considering the precise impact that climate change has had on human evolution during the last few hundred thousand years.

In order to invoke the imagination, I have also included two case studies which explore first hand the potential impacts of climate change on a number of human rights of the Indigenous peoples, particularly those living on the Torres Strait Islands and the Indigenous nations of the Murray - Darling Basin.

The report also includes two case studies which demonstrate the potential impacts of climate change on the human rights of Torres Strait Islanders and the Indigenous nations of the Murray Darling Basin.