Sentences with phrase «which climate change research»

And that includes learning about the scientific method which is the manner in which climate change research is conducted.

What about his role in ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability, of which climate change research and mitigation is listed as a top priority?

Although vague on details, he announced a U.S. Climate Change Research Initiative, through which climate change research will be funded for the next 5 years.

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It also funds the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, which is based out of the London School of Economics, and it supports Imperial College London's Grantham Institute for Climate Change.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial cClimate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial cclimate risk has shot up in financial circles.

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Very worrying, the Economist which is hardly green left like me has had some great and worrying material on climate change... however the Economist is the intelligent voice of the free market right, where as as the excellent research above shows the tory bloggers are just a little dumb.

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

Nations could help by cutting funding on climate research, and boosting funding for the solution to climate change, which we already know: use less fossil fuel.

openDemocracy investigations have ascertained that The Scottish Research Society's registered address was a flat in Edinburgh which belonged to Christopher Monckton, the former UKIP deputy leader and prominent climate change denier (and subject of previous openDemocracy investigations).

It's fair to guess he was alluding to efforts by various elected officials to limit further investment in climate change studies, renewable energy technologies and proposals for outside - the - box basic research — the type of high - risk but also potentially high - payoff investigations from which transformative developments most often emerge.

The Trump Administration would eliminate funding for EPA climate change research within the Air, Climate, and Energy (ACE) Program, which has been renamed to the Air and Energy Program in the FY 2018 climate change research within the Air, Climate, and Energy (ACE) Program, which has been renamed to the Air and Energy Program in the FY 2018 Climate, and Energy (ACE) Program, which has been renamed to the Air and Energy Program in the FY 2018 budget.

«The divide may impact most on least developed countries (LDC) and small island developing states (SIDS), which are the most vulnerable to climate change but contribute least to relevant research.»

A «coverage gap» in future years The agency had sought $ 910 million this year for its Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), which will provide data for weather forecasts, search - and - rescue operations and climate change research.

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Landrum and her colleagues demonstrated the effect experimentally and reported the results in a 2017 paper in the Journal of Risk Research entitled «Culturally Antagonistic Memes and the Zika Virus: An Experimental Test,» in which participants read a news story on Zika public health risks that was linked to either climate change or immigration.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which produced the report, coordinates climate research across 13 departments and aResearch Program (USGCRP), which produced the report, coordinates climate research across 13 departments and aresearch across 13 departments and agencies.

Norgaard was surprised Morano had noticed her, because although her university had written a press release, she hadn't seen much coverage of her research, which focuses on why it is so difficult for societies to take action to respond to climate change.

The findings are part of new CSIRO and UQ research, which looks at the interaction of historical whaling, food availability and future climate changes to predict whale numbers to 2100.

Since the algal species is native to eastern Canada, its recent blooms and rapid proliferation in rivers since 2006 — which have angered anglers looking for pristine waters — have been caused by an environmental trigger, with climate change a likely culprit, said Michelle Lavery, a master's degree student at the Canadian Rivers Institute and lead author of the research, published in theCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

... We have established an Indian Network for Comprehensive Climate Change Assessment, a network of over 120 research institutes, which will bring out regular reports on the impacts of climate change on different sectors and different regions of the cClimate Change Assessment, a network of over 120 research institutes, which will bring out regular reports on the impacts of climate change on different sectors and different regions of the coChange Assessment, a network of over 120 research institutes, which will bring out regular reports on the impacts of climate change on different sectors and different regions of the cclimate change on different sectors and different regions of the cochange on different sectors and different regions of the country.

According to research in the September Nature Climate Change, precipitation patterns in the area have increased, which may help larger glaciers such as this one stick around a while longer.

The research, which was to study the effects of environmental stress due to climate change on shrimp and other economically - important species, was attacked as another example of wasteful government spending.

Science Careers described the burgeoning field of climate change research, which is attracting more public - and private - sector money, and which offers opportunities that cross traditional scientific disciplines.

Now, with tight funds, waning public patience and an increasingly urgent need for solutions to climate change, fusion research faces uncomfortable questions of which direction to go, how to get there and what gets left behind.

The research team showed that prior to the industrial period (pre AD 1800), changes in the North Atlantic Ocean, brought about by variations in the Sun's activity and volcanic eruptions, were driving our climate and led to changes in the atmosphere, which subsequently impacted our weather.

«We have added another piece of information showing that the timescales on which humans have changed the composition of the atmosphere are extremely short compared to the natural time cycles of the climate system,» says Thomas Stocker of the University of Bern in Switzerland, who led the research.

Even a decade ago, many scientists argued that research could not confidently tie any specific weather events to climate change, which the committee reports today is no longer true today.

The research team looked at the interaction between agricultural land use and river water quality — both of which will be heavily impacted by climate change.

Obama, he said, elevated the role of science and technology advisers throughout the executive branch, put in place plans to mitigate and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change, set up health research initiatives to tackle such priorities as cancer and brain research, worked with international partners on scientific issues and used the White House as a platform from which to herald science and education, particularly for children.

The current study does not elaborate on the ways in which climate change could be leading to a protracted fire season, and Jolly said this would be an area for further research.

The research, led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and partners, has important implications for the long - term survival of coral reefs worldwide, which have been in worldwide decline from multiple stressors such as climate change and ocean pollution.

One of the key findings from the research expedition is that temperature shapes which species are present in a given plankton ecosystem, a fact that could take on increasing importance in the face of climate change.

But the AGU believes that a broader solution is needed, which is why the statement calls on members to become more involved not only in researching the problem but also spreading the word about the urgency of controlling climate change, something many scientists have been loathe to do in the past, Killeen admits.

Georgina Palmer, Lead author and Research Associate in the University of York's Department of Biology, said: «Species are sensitive to different aspects of the climate, which results in species being exposed to different levels of climate change.

The link between poverty and climate is of interest to the research community, especially the World Bank, which recently released a report titled, «Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty.climate is of interest to the research community, especially the World Bank, which recently released a report titled, «Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty.Climate Change on Poverty.»

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the lead federal agency on the report for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produced Volume 1 of the 4th National Climate Assessment.

The new paper stems from a National Science Foundation - funded, interuniversity research project which focuses on understanding how water sustainability in the United States has changed over the past 30 years as a result of climate change and population growth.

I have just read your editorial, which discusses the current situation in the field of climate change research (28 November, p 5).

«In context of climate change, you see increases of both insect outbreaks and fires, which has sparked concerns about their interactions,» said Garrett Meigs, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Vermont and lead author of the study.

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).

Although the panel released few details, the statement said that those lower priorities include climate change and ecosystem research programs at USGS, which would see its budget drop by $ 101 million to $ 967 million; the Obama administration's request was $ 1.2 billion.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program, which coordinates the National Climate Assessment report process, also released draft versions of two other reports for public comment: the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report and the Fourth National Climate Assessment.

Now that we've unlocked its genetic secrets, loblolly pine will take on even greater importance as we look for new sources of biomass to drive our nation's bioeconomy and ways to increase carbon sequestration and mitigate climate change,» said Sonny Ramaswamy, director of USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), which funded the research.

This is up to 14 per cent lower than the emissions reported by previous assessments, including those by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC) in the US and the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) in the EU, which are the official data sources for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)-- providing scientific evidence for climate change policy negotiations in Paris later this year.

In a letter sent to Senate leaders on 24 February and released earlier this week by the Massachusetts - based Woods Hole Research Center, 65 scientists warned that «this well - intentioned legislation, which claims to address climate change, would in fact promote deforestation in the U.S. and elsewhere and make climate change much worse.»

Jedediah Brodie, a scientist at the University of British Columbia and study co-author, said a next step of research is determining which ecological changes in the Arctic are completely a result of ice loss, as opposed to climate change factors such as temperature increases.

«A lot of communities in our country are struggling with how to plan to ensure reliable access to food, water and other things in their community in the face of a changing climate,» said Jack Fellows, vice president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which organized the conference that produced the report.

The idea is to provide dedicated funding to the U.S. Global Change Research Program to conduct such assessments, which would then form a base for government and the private sector to plan for the effects of climate cChange Research Program to conduct such assessments, which would then form a base for government and the private sector to plan for the effects of climate changechange.