Sentences with phrase «think climate change research»

If you think climate change research is a strange beast, vaccine safety research is far stranger.

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In an announcement Thursday, climate change think - tank the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) said the tropics now represented «a net source of carbon to the atmosphere,» roughly 425 teragrams each year.

Sixty - one percent of Americans think climate change is a problem that the government needs to address, including 43 percent of Republicans and 80 percent of Democrats, according to a new survey from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Plankton may absorb more of the CO2 causing climate change than previously thought, according to new research

Research needs still not met Luce said those on the front lines of forest management have a lot to think about, and planning specifically for how climate change will impact drought conditions is «probably at the early stages.»

«I think some of the key take - aways from this report, especially compared to the last report, are the impacts of climate change are not just something that we can look towards the future for but they are already occurring today,» said Forbes Tompkins, a research analyst at the World Resources Institute who has been tracking the report.

«A research ship moves about the speed of a 10 - speed bicycle,» said Scott Doney, director of the Ocean and Climate Change Institute at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. «Think about the size of the ocean.

«If we are lucky and the climate sensitivity is at the low end, and we have a strong agreement in 2015, then I think we stand a chance to limit climate change to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwiclimate sensitivity is at the low end, and we have a strong agreement in 2015, then I think we stand a chance to limit climate change to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwiclimate change to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwicchange to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in NorwiClimate Change Research in NorwicChange Research in Norwich, UK.

In fact, Salmon doesn't think that the National Science Foundation (NSF) should be funding her research on tea as a model system for understanding how a warming climate is putting stress on specialty crops and the impact of those changes on farmers.

Climate change could pose an even greater threat to global food production than previously thought, according to new research.

Local officials claim this is proof that the government's environmental preservation efforts have been successful, but recent research by climate scientists suggests a more worrying explanation for rising water levels: not only is climate change thought to be responsible for increased rainfall and snowfall in the area, it has also caused, by some estimates, up to a fifth of the permafrost which covers 80 % of the plateau to melt.

As Fenton has evolved through the years, it has brought many changes to the current climate of instruction, and I think that our staff has done a wonderful job in using its resources including personnel, instructional data, and current research available to meet the needs of all our learners.

, moved to caring about the fate of certain insects and thinking about many things: climate change, poverty, the decline of craftsmanship in the face of mass production, the cost of research, the disposable society and the increasing waste of goods.

Each Survival Piece reflected a thoroughly researched forward - thinking proposal for sustainable urban farming in the face of, what the Harrisons» anticipated, a future where climate change and subsequent food shortages would be inevitable.

The silurian short story and related research paper was obviously intended to 1) be thought provoking 2) draw the general public into scientific issues and 3) provide some light relief from the serious and sometimes depressing issue of climate change.

A few things are unequivocal, perhaps (doubling from the present concentration of CO2 will take 140 years [give or take]; the idea that the changes in climate since 1880 have been in the aggregate beneficial; it takes more energy to vaporize a kg of water than to raise its temperature by 1K; ignoring the energy cost of water and latent heat transport [in the hydrologic cycle] leads to equilibrium calculations overestimating the climate sensitivity), but most are propositions that I think need more research, but can't be refuted on present evidence.

I think the larger point around this is the media don't really report this sort of research, or that over 90 % of climate scientists think we are causing climate change, because they would rather keep a manufactured pretend controversy going to attract more readers interest.

His thoughts prompted me to restate my view of the overarching message I've taken from 25 years of tracking research on human - driven climate change.

So I think it's very important, both to give poor people cheap energy and to avoid hugely negative climate change, that the U.S. government and other governments fund basic research.

«Researching Don't Even Think About It, which I see as the most important book published on climate change in the past few years, George Marshall discovered that there has not been a single proposal, debate or even position paper on limiting fossil fuel production put forward during international climate negotiations.

Now, I think it was in 1956 that atmospheric physicist and sometimes - weapons designer Gilbert Plass (who needed to know about IR to fire heat - seeking missiles up the tailpipes of jet fighter at high altitude) noted that CO2 in the upper troposphere could block the escape of IR to space: The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change, Gilbert Plass (1955)(abstract) In the full paper, available at the above link, Plass spells out the previous notion which his research overturned:

When asked who has inspired him in his research and thinking about climate change and global warming, Roddy said: «I have been inspired by Mark Lynas» book «Six Degrees», the IPCC reports and supporting studies by Bill McKibben, Harte, and images of what future survivors cities might look like.

In your book, you explain your research began with natural climate variability and you said you believed this was a more important aspect to climate change than many scientists thought.

If our ultimate goal is to reduce carbon emissions and, hence, to save humanity, we must realize the psychological effect that the disturbing truth may have and teach about climate change and energy in a carefully thought - out manner based on the available research about human psychology.

The past two weeks have not been good for the Arctic and climate change: First, scientists discover that permafrost holds more greenhouse gases than we thought; Second, sea ice melt - off is at its second greatest amount ever and could set a new record by summer's end; Third, new research confirms that the past decade has indeed been the warmest since the Romans occupied Britain, and the trend is for more warming.

You do take funds from fossil fuel companies for your skeptic «research» in order to distract, obfuscate, and confuse voters into thinking climate change is not happening or that it isn't the fault of us humans.

In a poll released last November by the Public Religion Research Institute, fewer than half of them were willing to link extreme weather events to climate change, whereas more than three - quarters thought these events were signs of the «end times» predicted in the Bible.

Dr Rebecca Nadin, Director of the British Council's Climate and Sustainability project who contributed research to the study, said: «Journalists and other key communicators often lack the knowledge base, skills and online and offline resources to cut thought the confusion and accurately report on the complex science of climate change and this can be especially true in developing couClimate and Sustainability project who contributed research to the study, said: «Journalists and other key communicators often lack the knowledge base, skills and online and offline resources to cut thought the confusion and accurately report on the complex science of climate change and this can be especially true in developing couclimate change and this can be especially true in developing countries.

Based on my recent research into gender and climate change, in particular masculinity and the militarization of climate change (Nagel 2010), my conclusion in response to the question is, no, it doesn't matter much what Americans think about climate change.

It is in this fluid international context that The Australia Institute has joined with two other think tanks — the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) in London and the Center for American Progress (CAP) in Washington DC — to establish a high - level International Climate Change Taskforce.

News stories that provided a balanced view of climate change reduced people's beliefs that humans are at fault and also reduced the number of people who thought climate change would be bad, according to research by Stanford social psychologist Jon Krosnick.

I differ too in that I'm an environmentalist and think generally global warming is a farce and we'd be better to spend the money on stopping pollution of rivers and oceans, buying the amazon, and researching and finding action plans for when oceans do rise, as they will one day, man made climate change or not.

You would think researchers would welcome opportunities to balance that vast library of one - sided research with an analysis of the natural causes of climate change — so that they can evaluate the relative impact of human activities, more accurately predict future changes, and help ensure that communities, states and nations can plan for, mitigate and adapt to those impacts.

Mark Lewis, the highly - regarded Barclays analyst, has been named as the new head of research of a climate change think - tank, becoming the latest high - profile departure from investment banking research as regulation overhauls the industry in Europe.

According to DeSmog research, Mont Pelerin members have ties to a wide range of conservative think tanks, many which have consistently denied the human influence on climate change.

Q3 Isn't Steven E. Koonin's essay calling for a research program that is * MORE * closely allied with James Hansen's climate - change worldview, and with Pope Francis» sustainability worldview, than * ANY * of the willfully ignorant short - sighted self - serving ideology - driven (and unrepentantly abusive) «no action» programs of anti-science think - tanks like the Marshall Institute, the Heartland Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the CATO Institute, and National Review?

While I think that the research is sufficiently settled to warrant some sort of action to reduce carbon emissions, I think there's plenty of work left to be done on better understanding the impacts of climate change and many of the finer details of climate.

I think that how the probability of the next ice age has changed with the CO2 increase, if at all, should be a central question of climate change research.

But new research shows that evaporation may be more of a problem than previously thought: Climate change could dry out up to a third of the planet.

Keynote speaker Phil Downing, head of environmental research for Ipsos Mori, will be encouraging councils to «think global» but «act local» and use the regional advice and support available to inspire their communities to help tackle climate change.

Michael MacCracken, climate - change scientist and former director of the Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and now at the Climate Institute in Washington D.C., told Foreign Policy, simply, «I don't think there is any doubt.climate - change scientist and former director of the Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and now at the Climate Institute in Washington D.C., told Foreign Policy, simply, «I don't think there is any doubt.&change scientist and former director of the Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and now at the Climate Institute in Washington D.C., told Foreign Policy, simply, «I don't think there is any doubt.&Change Research Program and now at the Climate Institute in Washington D.C., told Foreign Policy, simply, «I don't think there is any doubt.Climate Institute in Washington D.C., told Foreign Policy, simply, «I don't think there is any doubt.»

Overall, Pew's research finds that only 33 percent of U.S. adults think climatologists understand «very well» whether the climate is changing, and only 19 percent of respondents think climate scientists know the best ways to address climate change.

According to The New York Times, The Economist, and other sources, Heartland is the most prominent think tank in the world supporting critical research and commentary on the causes and consequences of climate change.

The page also states the scientists at the conference would talk about the application of the scientific method in current climate research, and that they think the hypothesis of man - made climate change has failed.

Those of us involved in that research are motivated entirely by concern over the suffering of humans and non-humans alike due to climate change, and we think there is sufficient cause for alarm about the future to do the research into the idea of putting something like sulfate (not a significant part of aircraft exhaust) into the stratosphere (higher than the airplanes you see making contrails).

Generally, I think the debate on climate change research funding on this blog is not very thoughtful.

New research by a team of international scientists reveals that the effects of human induced climate change began much earlier than originally thought.

I thought this was worth posting (via ABC News): Professor Andy Pitman (lead author on the IPCC's 2001 and 2007 reports and co-director of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales) thoughts on the ongoing efforts of climate denialists to derail thClimate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales) thoughts on the ongoing efforts of climate denialists to derail thclimate denialists to derail the IPCC:

TERI globally ranked first in climate change research and TERI tops global climate think - tank list declared the headlines.

i think that's inaccurate shx, the scientists did their work, and from what i could gather tried very hard not to overstate their case, the media did the scare - mongering and the media have then turned like the whores they are in the other direction, al gore's film upped the tempo and although it seemed like a good thing at the time, i think with hindsight it was a poisoned chalice, but lets be clear, doing research in multiple areas and having the results point to potentially catastrophic climate change and asking for changes to be made to avert this is not scare - mongering, its common sense, accepting that their is margin for error but erring on the side of caution since the stakes are life on earth as we know it is not scare - mongering, it is the application of the precautionary principle and common sense