Sentences with phrase «understanding whether climate change»

More important, it's key to understanding whether climate change threatens mussels around the world, as well as to the food chains mussels support and protect in the wild.

People's beliefs about how well climate scientists understand whether climate change is occurring and the causes of climate change are significantly linked with science knowledge among Democrats.

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House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

«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.

Predicting future biodiversity in these pools will help researchers understand whether unique fauna will be lost from the park due to climate change and contribute to global research attempting to understand how climate change will affect whole ecosystems.

«Understanding which trees in the forest are most vulnerable to drought is quite important for understanding whether [they will] continue to act as a strong carbon sink in a rapidly changing climate,» he saidUnderstanding which trees in the forest are most vulnerable to drought is quite important for understanding whether [they will] continue to act as a strong carbon sink in a rapidly changing climate,» he saidunderstanding whether [they will] continue to act as a strong carbon sink in a rapidly changing climate,» he said in an email.

And action depends largely on whether the public and elected officials understand climate change and think it's a high - priority issue, said Burbank.

[Response: That's more of a regional issue, and of course, the regional patterns of change — whether forced or internal to the system - are of great interest for understanding climate dynamics.

It is essentially irrelevant whether the insolation has changed at that level, both when trying to understand the regional south pole climate changes, and long term climate trends on Mars.

Not only do pupils understand the causes and effects, they examine evidence as to whether or not climate change is real or a hoax.

It is essentially irrelevant whether the insolation has changed at that level, both when trying to understand the regional south pole climate changes, and long term climate trends on Mars.

I understand there is some debate about whether earthquakes could be related to climate change.

Whether Kyoto is or isn't cost effective is irrelevent to the scientific understanding of climate change.

Christy's concerns center on whether land - surface temperatures or lower - atmospheric temperatures are the most reliable data sources to understand a changing climate.

As might be expected, people's views about whether there is scientific understanding about climate change tie more closely to their science knowledge and education levels.

Since Callendar (1938), great progress has been made in understanding the past changes in Earth's climate, and whether continued warming is beneficial or not.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

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.

Given that existence beliefs are considered to be the «gatekeeper» in climate policy engagement, it is important to understand the factors that influence whether citizens believe that global climate change is real (Krosnick et al. 2006).

Now that remarkable headway has been made into understanding the physical science of climate change, there's a feeling among climate experts — including those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forestclimate change, there's a feeling among climate experts — including those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forest change, there's a feeling among climate experts — including those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forestclimate experts — including those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forestClimate Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forest Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forestclimate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forest fires.

Understanding how the climate is changing does not mean you know and understand it will impact other natural processes, let alone the impacts — whether from a changing climate or any remedial actions taken to counteract it — to energy, economic or political systems.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of economic cost alone, whether they deny that, in addition to economic interests, nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

The author finds that most researchers agree on the understanding of CE as part of a proposed solution to the political problem of climate change — even though there are widely differing opinions and arguments on whether or not it is a good or viable option.

Yet the fierce politicization of the climate change problem raises questions as to whether public opinion has been shaped more by partisan conflict than by an understanding, or a lack thereof, of the scientific findings per se.

«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.»

You were questioning elsewhere whether the Great Unwashed public were capable of understanding Climate Change.

As has been the case for recent COPs, commentators about achievements at COP - 17 are split on whether these negotiations accomplished some important positive steps toward an eventual meaningful global solution to climate change or whether Durban must be understood as another tragic international failure to come up with an adequate solution to the immense threat of human - induced warming.

Climate change regulation changes and increases the complexity of relationships between natural gas and other energy activities (e.g. coal - to - gas generation switch), increases the nature and variety of candidate actions available, and thus magnifies the uncertainties that must be taken into account by any useful forecast, whether a conditional assessment to gain insights and understand potential vulnerabilities or an attempted prediction of the future.

Decision - makers, by contrast, need to understand how climate change may interfere with their plans and compromise their objectives, so they can adapt existing policies and adopt new strategies to stay on track — whether to protect life, health, and well - being, sustain economic growth, preserve natural resources, ensure continued performance of critical infrastructure, or maintain national security.

The Fraser Institute booklet, Understanding Climate Change, released March 6, evades debate as to whether the world is warming or to what extent warming is caused by human activity.

Regardless of whether early land use significantly affected global climate, understanding the global role of land use in determining the onset and magnitude of anthropogenic climate change is critical for gauging the climatic impact of current and future modifications of the terrestrial biosphere, including efforts to offset fossil fuel emissions by reducing deforestation (114).

But to fully understand what's actually happening to the climate — and whether specific events are tied to global changes — we need better ways of analyzing extreme weather events, he said.

To really evaluate whether climate finance and ODA are effective in helping countries to prepare for climate change and pursue sustainable development, we also need to understand the behaviour and impacts of much larger flows of finance in the mainstream economy.

The debate will continue because people like you don't understand what the debate is about (you seem to think it's about whether or not climate change is happening), and because people like you are making a crisis out of nothing.

Also, a recent article on climate - vegetation dynamics concludes that, due to poor scientific understanding of ecological thresholds and their relationship to climate change, we can not accurately predict how or when vegetation will change due to global warming, or even whether these changes will be reversible (Maslin, 2004).

Models can help scientists understand what effects higher temperatures will have, for instance, or whether declining sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean will add to climate change.

«Capex Tracker is going to provide the world with a leading indicator to understand whether the flows of capital are set to create dangerous levels 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).