Sentences with phrase «when climate change research»

As scientists, when climate change research is relevant to public policy, the authors consider it important to bring that research to the attention of the wider world; sound science can and should inform wise policy.

Not exact matches

When compared to other religious groups, Evangelicals have often been more wary of science as evidenced in debates about evolution, stem cell research, and climate change.

When the weather - based model developed at Rothamsted Research was used to predict how climate change may affect the wheat crops, it was predicted that wheat flowering dates will generally be earlier and the incidence of the ear blight disease on the wheat crops will substantially increase.

The impacts of climate change are broadly understood, the research says, but there's no telling exactly where, when and how hard these impacts will strike.

But beauty won't save the pinyon jay nor will blandness work against its cousin when climate change raises temperatures and alters bird habitats in the southwestern United States, according to research sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey.

«When we measure that a particular stand of mature forest is accumulating carbon, it is difficult to say whether that might be due to recovery from some unrecognized disturbance long ago or whether it is due to more recent changes in climate and CO2,» explained Woods Hole Research Center Senior Scientist and Executive Director Eric Davidson, lead author of the review, in an e-mail.

When Rajan Chakrabarty, Ph.D., an assistant research professor at the Desert Research Institute, began looking into the regional inventories of human - produced sources of carbon aerosol pollution in South Asia, considered to be a climate change hot spot, he knew something was research professor at the Desert Research Institute, began looking into the regional inventories of human - produced sources of carbon aerosol pollution in South Asia, considered to be a climate change hot spot, he knew something was Research Institute, began looking into the regional inventories of human - produced sources of carbon aerosol pollution in South Asia, considered to be a climate change hot spot, he knew something was missing.

That's much less than what was requested a year ago, when biodiversity and climate change research was slated to receive $ 8 million and understanding the universe, $ 500,000.

Proponents of climate change tend to use more conservative, tentative language to report on the science behind it, while skeptics use more emotional and assertive language when reinterpreting scientific studies, says research from the University of Waterloo.

Co-author, Dr James Risbey of Australia's CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, said: «Some point to uncertainty as a way to minimize the climate change problem, when in fact it means that the problem is more likely to be worse than expected in the absence of that uncertainty.

Kevin Trenbeth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said the study didn't account for changes in sea surface temperatures, which are the main drivers of changes in the position of the rain belts (as is seen during an El Nino event, when Pacific warming pushes the subtropical jet over the Western U.S. southward).

People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it comes to climate change, according to new Princeton research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«The fact that our research suggests it was El Niño and not anthropogenic climate change shouldn't be any comfort when considering the future impact of climate change,» he says.

In 1996, when climate research was more certain about the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change than during the time of Shaw's memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit: «Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.»

Scientists recognized that climate change is rapidly altering the landscape in Antarctica, particularly when it comes to glacier retreat and ice shelf collapse, so they made a pact for how they would approach research as huge chunks of ice broke off.

«When we look at the heat across the whole of Australia and the whole 12 months of 2013, we can say that this was virtually impossible without climate change,» said David Karoly, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne who led some of the research.

This latest study, conducted by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the City University of New York (CUNY), highlights the importance of considering societal changes when trying to determine future climate impacts.

Now, this research shows that climate goals greatly influence the frequency of extremes, and this should be considered when preparing for future climate change.

Students advocating for educational improvement, researching classroom climate, and leading new approaches to learning and teaching stand together in the architecture of involvement, effectively demonstrating what school change looks like when the hearts, heads, and hands of students are infused throughout the process.

Students advocating for educational improvement, researching classroom climate, and leading new approaches to learning and teaching stand along side one another in the architecture of involvement that Fletcher endorses, demonstrating what school change looks like when the hearts, heads, and hands of students are infused throughout the process.

She said that the analysis she and co-authors did for a paper on «irreversible climate change» helped lead her, as a non-expert citizen when considering energy technology, to conclude that such research is vital, even as efforts are made to find successors to fossil fuels.

It's fine for Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research to say he feels «it is irresponsible not to mention climate change» when discussing tornado outbreaks.

Still, I was intrigued earlier this month when I heard from Renee Lertzman, a research fellow in humanities and sustainability at Portland State University, that she was speaking on «the myth of apathy,» the subject of a book she's writing, at «Engaging With Climate Change: Psychoanalytic Perspectives,» a meeting of psychoanalysts and behavioral researchers in London.

On the other hand if you just love climate research as a really interesting intellectual pursuit, that's when you've got an interest in shedding doubt on the reigning view that CO2 - induced climate change is a serious policy program, requiring action.

When asked about climate change (research has found), people describe an apocalypse, devastating scenes of flood, disease and drought in a far and distant land.

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.

Julian Ramirez - Villegas, lead author of the study at CGIAR's Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security said: «This study tells where, and crucially when, interventions need to be made to stop climate change destroying vital food supplies in Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security said: «This study tells where, and crucially when, interventions need to be made to stop climate change destroying vital food supplies in AChange, Agriculture and Food Security said: «This study tells where, and crucially when, interventions need to be made to stop climate change destroying vital food supplies in climate change destroying vital food supplies in Achange destroying vital food supplies in Africa.

That set the research clock at Exxon even further back, to a time when few people outside small scientific circles knew or cared about climate change.

His research deals with climate change models, which are still very coarse when it comes to tornado prediction — a single pixel can be up to 100 km on a side, while individually storms are typically only half that size.

It comes at a time when President Donald Trump and other members of the administration have expressed doubt about the accepted science of climate change, and are considering drastic cuts to federal funding for scientific research.

Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.

Claire Parkinson, now a senior climate change scientist at NASA, first began studying global warming's impact on Arctic sea ice in 1978, when she was a promising new researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

The unequivocal and indisputable climate research clearly demonstrates that climate change is constant; and when combined with historical accounts and anecdotal evidence, warmer climates tend to favor prosperity and peace outcomes while cooler periods provide more of the opposite.

When an author starts off with, «my recent research into gender and climate change» you can stop right there and save a lot of time!

Further research is also needed to understand how climate change mitigation activities might be contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, especially when considering biofuel production.

The share of the public saying climate change is due to human activity is about the same as when last asked in a 2009 Pew Research survey, but more now say there is no solid evidence of warming (25 % today, up from 11 % in 2009) and fewer say that warming is occurring due to natural patterns in the environment (23 % today, down from 36 % in 2009).

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.

Experts such as John Walsh, chief scientist with the University of Alaska Fairbanks» International Arctic Research Center, say climate change always must be taken into consideration when analyzing weather in the far north.

Indeed, most of the improvements in our climate monitoring abilities occurred after the public interest in «global warming» began in the late 1980s, i.e., when governments began increasing funding for climate research with multi-billion dollar research programmes such as the U.S. Global Change Research research with multi-billion dollar research programmes such as the U.S. Global Change Research research programmes such as the U.S. Global Change Research Research Program.

For example, when researching the impacts of climate change, they are inherently inclined towards studying and reporting on the negative impacts and tend to ignore studies that show the positive impacts.

«When we look at the heat across the whole of Australia and the whole 12 months of 2013, we can say that this was virtually impossible without climate change,» said David Karoly, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne who led some of the research.

When the budgets for FY 2015 & FY 2016 of the U.S. Global Change Research Program are included, the total expenditures for «climate science» from FY 1993 to FY 2016 come to $ 47.56 billion, with international assistance amounting to $ 8.24 billion.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Detailed new research into when global warming will start to have a serious effect on local climates has produced the shock finding that it could happen much sooner than scientists have previously predicted London, 9 October — Catastrophic climate change may begin sooner than anyone expected --- and the first place to feel the heat could be a small but important city in Indonesia.

That brief summary shows a lifetime of dedicated scientific research and a commitment to fact over fiction when it comes to climate change.

The «smartest people in the world» also said Iraq had WMDs, never trust the smartest people when billions of dollars is at stake, and all that money is flowing to these people in the form of grant money, research grants, carbon credits, etc. and you said A. Climate Change, not A.GWwarming so I guess global cooling will soon be blamed on A. activity along with hurricanes and droughts.

The research agenda outlined below seeks to develop information and analyses that could be helpful in ensuring that nations take equity and justice seriously when making national commitments on climate change.

Biofuels meant to help alleviate greenhouse gas emissions may be in fact contributing to climate change when grown on converted tropical forest lands, warns a comprehensive study published earlier this month in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

Cuccinelli, who believes the jury is still out on whether climate change is caused by human activity, has said he is investigating whether Mann defrauded taxpayers when seeking state grant money for his research.

Bob Henson, of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, said: «To claim that global temperatures have cooled since 1998 and therefore that man - made climate change isn't happening is a bit like saying spring has gone away when you have a mild week after a scorching Easter.»

The publicâ $ ™ s receding fear of climate change may be related to the series of scandals and admissions that have been uncovered since Nov. 20 when e-mails from University of East Angliaâ $ ™ s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) were leaked.