Sentences with phrase «understand modern climate»

Scientists continue to investigate past climate change events to better understand modern climate change, including extreme drought.

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Yet, if I understand your views regarding the modern state of Israel and its current conflict with its neighbors correctly, I do have some real concerns — particularly in light of the current political climate (the U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood) as well as a growing trend among certain Christian polemicists against Israel (see Gary Burge and Stephen Sizer).
I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.
«All previous research that's been done trying to understand this very rapid colonisation of the Pacific tried to grapple with the migration in terms of modern climate,» says Ian Goodwin of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Before we can understand what past climate change meant for more animals — «there needs to be a lot more work on modern animals,» Secord says.
It was, however, only after the advent of the computer that a modern understanding emerged of how fossil fuel use would impact the climate.
Our new understanding of climate and sea - level change sheds light on something that has long puzzled archaeologists: How did modern humans colonize the far reaches of the globe so quickly after their exodus from Africa?
Quite possibly the modern low in public understanding of climate science was the November 2009 hacking of the East Anglia e-mails.
At first, White was convinced that humans would understand the obvious implications of his ice - core data: The consequences of human - caused climate change «would basically cripple any kind of modern society.»
«We can't just rely on modern climate data to understand the past.
In addition, our deficient understanding of aerosol forcing also hinders our ability to use the modern temperature record to constrain the «climate sensitivity» — the operative parameter in determining exactly how much warming will result from a given increase in CO2 concentration.
Making your money stretch further is one of the challenges of college life, particularly in the modern economic climate, and at Ewritingservice.com we understand such matters well.
In recreating the modern experience of fragmentation and spectacle, both art and film explore issues of human perception and understanding of reality that were part of the intellectual climate of their day.»
FINALLY CONQUER that embarrassing IGNORANCE of modern art history by understanding which artistic movement was «the last stand of the isolated artistic self in a climate of conformity and increasing objectification created by techniques of mass control.»
«Against the backdrop of the current global political climate, exhibitions like Iran Modern are essential to fostering a better understanding of Iran's history.»
«Generally accepted modern understanding of the global carbon cycle indicates that climate effects of CO2 releases to the atmosphere will persist for tens, if not hundreds, of housands of years into the future.»
[Response: I would agree with much of this comment, though I'm far less sanguine about our understanding of D - O events, and I'm far less convinced of their relevance to modern climate.
The implications of our findings are that the modern observations of ocean - driven warming along the western Antarctic Peninsula need to be considered as part of a natural centennial timescale cycle of climate variability, and that in order to understand climate change along the Antarctic Peninsula, we need to understand the broader climate connections with the rest of the planet.
I believe that the cultural cognition of present day climate change discussions can not be conducted without understanding of how these underlying philosophies affect modern attitudes.
Unless your graphs concern modern climate I have great difficulty understanding their relevance.
In 2018, the G20 must turn toward delivering the Paris promise by expressing countries» alignment in understanding climate action as a core component of modern prosperity.
Replete with great graphics and much humor, Steve Goreham reveals the mountain of failed eco-predictions, rank green hypocrisies and outright fraud that currently masquerades in the guise of modern environmentalism and «climate science»... The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism is an easy - to - read, easy - to - understand expose of all the key facts behind the dirty «green» politics of the greatest pseudo-science racket of our age.»
To understand this just think in post normal science and «modern» specialization: How in the world a «climate scientist» or an «ecologist» watching 8 hours a day at a computer screen can know about nature.
But as I have outlined above, few have a deeper understanding of the basic science of climate than I. Almost all big modern telescopes use my sodium guidestar to correct for atmospheric turbulence.
Festinger's analysis of cognitive dissonance helps us understand the modern phenomenon of climate change denialism.
It is still not well understood how model biases in simulation of modern climate affect climate sensitivity.
To better understand these discrepancies, a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters investigates the drivers of changes in deep ocean circulation across a range of modern and Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, ~ 21000 years ago) climate simulations from the latest Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP).
This paper opened my eyes to the educational opportunities in addressing misinformation - an approach I adopted in the chapters «Understanding Climate Change Denial» and «Rebuttals to Climate Myths» in the textbook Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis.
The Inquisition Of Climate Science, available in hard cover and as an e-book that can be read on Kindle, iPad and computer, is a must - read for anyone who wishes to understand the full scope of the denial industry and their modern day persecution of climate sClimate Science, available in hard cover and as an e-book that can be read on Kindle, iPad and computer, is a must - read for anyone who wishes to understand the full scope of the denial industry and their modern day persecution of climate sclimate science.
Anne, that might be the case if there were not an adequate understanding of the natural forcings (levels of solar activity and vulcanism) causing the MCA and of anthropogenic forcings (greenhouse gases) largely causing what you call the Modern Climate Anomaly.
The success of modern environmentalism hinges on victories in the political arena, and will depend to some extent on how well we are able to understand with those who disagree with us, to communicate why we want to keep our children's children from despising us for «wasting all the future's fuel and probably screwing up the climate
I guess the politically - aggressive climatologists and their apologists need to work harder, learn some modern mathematics, to understand the real nature of climate.
All of these types of studies are crucial to the modern understanding of CO2 and climate.
In contrast, generally accepted modern understanding of the global carbon cycle indicates that climate effects ofCO2 releases to the atmosphere will persist for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years into the future.»
6 December, 2016 − Observations of Antarctic ice pack from expeditions a century ago are helping modern scientists to understand the impacts of climate change.
The knowledge of climate and its variability during the past centuries can improve our understanding of natural climate variability and also help to address the question of whether modern climate change is unprecedented in a long - term context (Folland et al. 2001; Jansen et al. 2007; Hegerl et al. 2007; Mann et al. 2008 and references therein).
Simply put, I think Encharter understands the modern business climate and helps one navigate through a field that we all traditionally want to avoid as much as taxes and death.
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