Sentences with phrase «tested against climate»

Professor England's study has been tested against climate models, and indeed just the trade winds could account for the missing heat.

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The Case Against Further Green Taxes, followed on this year by The Burden of Green Taxes, pioneered testing existing green taxes against the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government deparAgainst Further Green Taxes, followed on this year by The Burden of Green Taxes, pioneered testing existing green taxes against the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government deparagainst the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government departments.
In order to understand how El Niño responds to various climate forces, researchers test model predictions of past El Niño changes against actual records of past ENSO activity.
Towards their safeguarding research within HERACLES project («HEritage Resilience Against CLimate Events on Site», GA 700395) is dedicated to the design, testing and promotion of responsive systems, methodologies and techniques with the aim to mitigate the impact of climate changes and natural hCLimate Events on Site», GA 700395) is dedicated to the design, testing and promotion of responsive systems, methodologies and techniques with the aim to mitigate the impact of climate changes and natural hclimate changes and natural hazards.
«One demanding test of the validity of the computer simulations of the climate of the earth is based on temperature records from the Arctic... When tested against the Arctic temperature record, therefore, the computer forecasts are seen to exaggerate the projected warming by a large amount.»
Tom appears challenged by the idea of building global climate models based on atmospheric physics and doing years of testing those models against actual data.
Climate models are tested all the time against reality and are tracking reality well on the whole.
It wouldn't be surprising if models tended to have Atlantic THC that were too strong or stable if the current climate, that they are being tested and developed against, is less stable than had previously been thought.
The models serve merely to quantify these basic facts more accurately, calculate the regional climate response, and compute effects (such as the expected increase in ocean heat content or sea level) which can be tested against observed data from the real world.
tested against the observed behavior of the ice and the usual assumptions about the future of the climate in the Greenland region over the coming decades, comprise the pieces of the puzzle needed to come up with an estimate of how fast things are really proceeding in Greenland.
Maybe you would find our recent manuscript interesting, in which we use an efficiently - generated ensemble of a state - of - the - art GCM, tuned to present - day climate and validated (tested against out - of - sample data) with simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum.
Tom appears challenged by the idea of building global climate models based on atmospheric physics and doing years of testing those models against actual data.
In fact, climate models are tested against historic trends, both near history and distant history, and then tested against specific events, such as the effects of volcanic eruption.
Denying climate change isn't scepticism — it's «motivated reasoning» True sceptics test a hypothesis against the evidence, but climate sceptics refuse to accept anything that contradicts their beliefs
«In reality climate models have been tested on multicentennial time scales against paleoclimate data (see the most recent PMIP intercomparisons) and do reasonably well at simulating small Holocene climate variations, and even glacial - interglacial transitions.
Mhyre has been very poorly mentored by climate «scientists» to commit illogical rhetorical attacks rather than upholding true science by exploring ALL models and testing them against ALL data.
We also tested the correlations between GHG emissions and GDP against vulnerability to climate change by treating vulnerability categories as ordinal data and undertaking spearman's rho tests using R statistical software31.
He argues that, in a world of climate change, investors should urgently stress - test the business strategies of big oil against «carbon risk.»
These need to be tested against real - world data, not climate model against climate model.
Just as Newton's law of universal gravitation is most easily tested against astronomical observations, which we are in no position to vary ourselves, so does my poster test its hypothesis against modern climate observations, which likewise we are in no position to change.
``... the possibility of circular reasoning arises — that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that are then tested against the temperature record.»
Likewise, shouldn't someone have been in a position to assess the state of climate models and justify if these were ready to be used to make a prediction, rather than simply be tested against past data?
There's a lot of blowback against James Hansen's recent (non tested) PNAS paper, trying to link weather and climate, covered here on WUWT.
PARENTEAU: It's testing these theories which are very similar against a body of state law, in different states as you just mentioned, and so it's probing, it's trying to find a breakthrough case where you can find a state supreme court willing to make a really bold decision finding not only a right to a healthy environment, or a safe climate, stable climate, but also finding a duty on the part of the government to take real tangible action to address that.
So while I expect that climate scientists will argue against «empirical AR1» coefficients as too severe a pseudoproxy test, I, for one, do not think that «empirical AR1» coefficients are too severe a test — if anything, they are probably not severe enough.
Investors testing their portfolios against the SDS or 450S would be undervaluing climate transition risk.
The problem with Schwartz is that his method undershoots the known sensitivities of the climate models it is tested against.
E.g., Soden has done a lot of work testing the water vapor feedback against data, they are constantly looking at how the models are able to reproduce various events and aspects of the climate.
Investor demands for greater transparency on climate risks will continue to test the sector where scenario planning is in its infancy and requires more standardized reporting against climate constrained pathways.
To this end, a number of SRM governance proposals will be tested against a range of «Climate Response in 2030» scenarios constructed by a multi-disciplinary group of participants consisting of a core group of 10 - 12 researchers from multiple disciplines, practitioners from policy and NGO backgrounds, and a revolving set of figures external to the SRM research community.
It is true that the model replications of past conditions are not perfect, which is to be expected given the chaotic variations of the climate about its now - changing baseline; however, the ensemble of model simulations has been tested against previously observed perturbations to climate (such as the response to volcanic eruptions) and overall they correspond well with what is observed to occur.
A: Climate models are tested against what we know happened in the past and they do accurately map past climate cClimate models are tested against what we know happened in the past and they do accurately map past climate cclimate changes.
But the models do show real skill when tested against data not used to tune them — and they show large - scale climate patterns that reflect what really happens.
To remedy this, the Task Force will consider a range of reporting options, including forward - looking, industry - specific disclosures, comparable scenario and sensitivity analyses «The direction of travel towards a lower - carbon economy is clear; stress - testing extractives companies» businesses portfolios against the internationally agreed two - degree climate target is essential to quantifying their exposure,» said Rob Schuwerk, Senior Counsel, Carbon Tracker.
In addition to the problems that you list in testing the climate models against climate data of the instrumental period they affect certainly also most paleoclimatic studies.
Where, then, does this leave the climate models which were developed and tested against this corrupt set of information?
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