Sentences with phrase «studying whether climate change»

Scientists also are studying whether climate change could mean more such deep droughts in the future and whether it made the current one worse.

Not exact matches

Although MIDAS is studying climate change's effect on Antartica, they said they weren't sure whether or not global warming was actually the culprit in this particular calving (although they said it does leave the ice shelf in a «vulnerable position.»)

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

A North Carolina State University study of middle school science classes explored whether teachers» beliefs about climate change influenced students» perceptions.

«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

Building on this study's findings, ZSL is conducting further research to explore whether and how climate change impacts on wild dogs might be mitigated.

Lead author, Professor Callum Roberts from the University of York's Environment Department, said: «Many studies show that well - managed marine reserves can protect wildlife and support productive fisheries, but we wanted to explore this body of research through the lens of climate change to see whether these benefits could help ameliorate or slow its impacts.

«Most modeling studies that look at the impact of climate change on crop yield and the fate of agriculture don't take into account whether the water available for irrigation will change,» Monier says.

Lead author Hilary Dugan, a limnologist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and former Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, explains, «We compiled long - term data, and compared chloride concentrations in North American lakes and reservoirs to climate and land use patterns, with the goal of revealing whether, how, and why salinization is changing across broad geographic scales.

The study may also shed light on whether today's changing climate will help or hurt the central Asian steppe, where riding and herding are still mainstays.

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 want to use NEPTUNE Canada to study how different systems interact, answering questions such as whether earthquakes trigger methane release, and how climate change is affecting the ocean.

President - elect Donald Trump said Sunday that «nobody really knows» whether climate change is real and that he is «studying» whether the United States should withdraw from the global warming agreement struck in Paris a year ago.

The assessment based on these results typically takes into account the number of studies, the extent to which there is consensus among studies on the significance of detection results, the extent to which there is consensus on the consistency between the observed change and the change expected from forcing, the degree of consistency with other types of evidence, the extent to which known uncertainties are accounted for in and between studies, and whether there might be other physically plausible explanations for the given climate change.

Whether there is a divide between weather and climate scientists out in the field, the meteorological society's official 2007 statement on climate change very clearly accepted that people are jogging the system: «[S] trong observational evidence and results from modeling studies indicate that, at least over the last 50 years, human activities are a major contributor to climate change.»

While statistical studies document a relationship between climate variability and conflict, there remains much disagreement about whether climate change directly causes violent conflicts.

But we are supposed to think that that's irrelevant because immediately after experimenters told them «97 % of scientists accept climate change,» a group of study subjects, while not changing their own positions on whether climate change is happening, increased by a very small amount their expressed estimate of the percentage of scientists who believe in climate change?

Sociologists of science wish to study the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the same reason that they want to examine other loci at which scientific knowledge is made — whether in a laboratory, the field, a museum or at a conference.

(05/14/2012) Carbon emissions from deforestation vary greatly depending on whether timber stocks are turned into finished wood products, converted into bioenergy feedstocks, or burned outright, reports a new study published in Nature Climate Change.

Tell me, too, how someone who sees things as you do — all built into Bayesianism; no need to address whether the problem is different priors or different sources of information relevant to truth - seeking likelihood ratios vs. a form of biased perception that opportunisitcally bends whatever evidence is presented to fit a preconception; no need apparently either for empirical study on any of this — can straighten out someone who says the key to dispelling public conflict over climate change is just to disseminate study findings on scientific consensus.

This report examines whether and how catastrophe models account for climate change through a series of case studies provided by a range of academic and commercial model providers.

There is disagreement whether climate change would affect the process of climate change, with some studies suggesting that more people may be trapped in poverty and fewer people enjoying exponential growth.

In the study, Soon dismissed the idea that polar bears in the Canadian Arctic were at risk from the impacts of climate change — and questioned whether the region was even warming at all.

Even as negotiators meet in Marrakech, Morocco to take the next steps to avert dangerous human - caused climate change — and, even as the U.S. decides whether or not to elect a president who is skeptical it is happening — a new study has highlighted the sharp stakes involved, particularly when it comes to the ongoing rise in global sea level and the dramatic but uneven way in which it could affect the world's coastlines.

It doesn't require a scientific study, however, to determine whether climate change is causing more hurricanes or increasing their severity.

«While these increases are most likely due to Earth's changing climate, uncertainty exists as to whether they are the product of human - induced greenhouse warming or represent variations related to natural multi-decadal climate cycles,» Ruggiero's study said.

Studies to assess whether extreme events can be attributed to climate change are published, with contributions from weatherathome data.

Mathesius is the lead author of a study, published in Nature Climate Change, which investigates whether CDR could help stave off ocean acidification.

More specifically, we (a) examined whether non-significant results were omitted disproportionately in the climate change literature, (b) if there were particular trends of unexpected and abrupt changes in the number of published studies and reported effects in relation to IPCC 2007 and Climategate, (c) whether effects presented in the abstracts were significantly larger than those reported in the main body of reports, and (d) how findings from these first three tests related to the impact factor of journals.

In the months since the study was published, Stevens has been peppered with emails from schoolteachers and laypeople asking him, broadly speaking, whether climate change is indeed something to worry about.

The three graduate students were asked to score each article using a measure similar to that used in the Boykoff studies, recording whether the article conveyed the «consensus view» that climate change is real and that humans are a cause; the «falsely balanced view» that it is uncertain whether climate change is real and / or that humans are a cause; or the «dismissive view» that either climate change is not occurring or, if so, humans are not a cause.

What specific scientific references and sources do you rely upon to conclude that there is a reasonable scientific dispute about whether human actions are causing observable climate change and are you aware of the multiple «fingerprint» studies and «attribution» studies that very strongly point to human causation?

Observations suggest lower values for climate sensitivity whether we study long - term humidity, upper tropospheric temperature trends, outgoing long wave radiation, cloud cover changes, or the changes in the heat content of the vast oceans.

«The Earth's climate system is highly nonlinear: inputs and outputs are not proportional, change is often episodic and abrupt, rather than slow and gradual, and multiple equilibria are the norm... there is a relatively poor understanding of the different types of nonlinearities, how they manifest under various conditions, and whether they reflect a climate system driven by astronomical forcings, by internal feedbacks, or by a combination of both... [We] suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies... It is imperative that the Earth's climate system research community embraces this nonlinear paradigm if we are to move forward in the assessment of the human influence on climate.»

In fact many scientists believe that the warming limit should be lower than 2 degree C to prevent dangerous climate change and as a result the international community has also agreed to study whether the warming limit should be lowered to 1.5 degree C.

I wonder if anyone has studied whether there might be a relationship between ideology and views on climate change?

«There is some evidence of changes consistent with mid-winter warming and little evidence of changes in the fall,» he said, «but questions of the broader impact, the cause of this trend, and whether the warmer climate in New England is linked to global climate change are beyond the scope of these studies.»

The Nature Climate Change study picks apart the fine detail of the process, and the next step is to establish whether thawing polar soils will become wetter or drier overall.

12) Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London says climate change is too complicated to be caused by just one factor, whether CO2 or clouds

«I'm often asked whether climate change will threaten food supply, as if it's a simple yes or no answer,» said Stanford professor and study co-author David Lobell.

when she first said we'd be fooling ourselves to think that ACO2 influenced dominated climate change on a decadal scale, whether her public statement would contradict the conclusions of the study she co-authored.

This study investigates whether providing locally - focused vs. globally - focused information about the effects of climate change influences the personal perceived risk (PPR) of individual people.

Anyone who has studied the government for 12 seconds will know that government departments are more than happy to pitch all their efforts in the context of the boogeyman de jour, whether it be terrorism or climate change, if doing so will get them some extra bucks in the appropriations process.

Now, when Utah schoolchildren finally get the chance to study climate change in the eighth grade, they'll have this dangerously wrongheaded idea in their minds to fuel much - spirited argument over whether excess greenhouse gases are even all that bad for the environment.

It is not known whether this smaller spread indicates a closer consensus among current AOGCMs than among older models, differences in the methodology or differences in the nature of climate change integrations between the two studies.

About two - thirds of the authors of those studies refrained from stating in their abstracts whether human activity was responsible for climate change.

«Americans are getting the wrong signal from year - round weather about whether they should be concerned about climate change,» said study lead author Patrick Egan, a public policy professor at New York University.

In response, the first category attempts to provide evidence to support the above - stated AGW premise, whether from recent climate change or from paleo - climate studies.

Specifically, the study tested whether school climate has an additive contribution to academics beyond students» and schools» SES (compensation model), whether the school's SES influences its social climate, which in turn influences academic achievement (mediation model); or whether the relationship between SES and academics changes across schools with different climates (moderation model).