• Methane emissions from tropical wetlands have been soaring since 2006 and accelerating at the same breakneck speed as when Earth's climate has flipped from a glacial to an interglacial period. (livescience.com)
  • Changes in Earth's orbit alone would have increased summer sea ice. (wikipedia.org)
  • Climate change has occurred many times in Earth's history, and for many different reasons. (livescience.com)
  • This simulation, produced by the CCSM, provides new knowledge about Earth's climate. (nsf.gov)
  • The CESM is one of about a dozen climate models worldwide that can be used to simulate the many components of Earth's climate system, including the oceans, atmosphere, sea ice, and land cover. (nsf.gov)
  • Climate scientists rely on computer models to better understand Earth's climate system because they cannot conduct large-scale experiments on the atmosphere itself. (nsf.gov)
  • The new model enables scientists to gain a broader picture of Earth's climate system by incorporating more influences. (nsf.gov)
  • Earth's climate system is interconnected and complex, and even small temperature changes can have large impacts - for instance, with snow cover and sea levels. (newscientist.com)
  • Perhaps you'd prefer to ignore the growing signs of climate change, denying that the Earth's shifting weather patterns will have a material effect on your life. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Earth's climate has always been in a state of flux. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The Earth's climate is all about energy at or near the surface of the planet. (calacademy.org)
  • Students may have heard the oceans referred to as a carbon sink, and while they do act as a repository for carbon dioxide, the reality is more complex and demonstrates the incredible interconnectedness of chemical and biological processes that make up the earth's climate. (scienceinschool.org)
  • Our ability to monitor Earth's dynamic systems is enabled by collecting measurements and data on oceans, biosphere, climate, and near-space. (mitportugal.org)
  • The more carbon in the atmosphere, the stronger the greenhouse effect, which causes the Earth's temperatures to rise, driving climate change," he noted. (fullerton.edu)
  • Nye pointed out that Happer was obfuscating a crucial component amid his facts: that human behavior is contributing to a higher rate of carbon dioxide emissions in Earth's atmosphere than there used to be, and that carbon emissions are a known factor of climate change . (vox.com)
  • Because those reports were mostly issued after the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and in some cases focused specifically on the United States, they were generally viewed within the United States as having an importance and scientific credibility comparable to the IPCC assessments for the first few years of the Obama Administration. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Community Earth System Model will be one of the primary climate models used for the next assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (nsf.gov)
  • Nye takes his cues from Steve Running, a University of Montana ecologist and lead chapter author on the lauded 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won a Nobel Peace Prize that same year. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Boutrous noted how it took more than 20 years for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body, to find it "extremely likely that human influence" is the dominant cause of modern climate change. (courthousenews.com)
  • First, if you consult the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), you will not find a justification for the 2°C limit. (instituteforenergyresearch.org)
  • In both cases, the location of these floods - in the paraglacial zone -, the meteorological conditions, and the impacts of climate change in fragile ecosystems were natural precursors to these tragic events. (iucn.org)
  • Virtually every testable prediction made concerning the harmful impacts of climate change has been proven to be incorrect. (heartland.org)
  • Early public health action is essential to ensuring that systems are in place to protect people from the impacts of climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • When President Obama signed Executive Order 13653 in November 2013, he committed "to prepare the nation for the impacts of climate change by undertaking actions to enhance climate preparedness and resilience. (cdc.gov)
  • As a student you will receive a close understanding of the intertwined social and biophysical dynamics of both drivers and impacts of climate change, and of the different solutions that are being proposed. (lu.se)
  • METHODS: To better understand preparedness for the health impacts of climate change in BC we surveyed providers and leaders in health and immigration services and conducted key-informant interviews. (cdc.gov)
  • Here's where you'll find the latest on the effects of climate change, and the measures that scientists, world leaders and innovators are taking to reduce our harmful impact on the planet and mitigate the damage already done. (livescience.com)
  • Data integration, dissemination, and informatics - Merges data from diverse sources and distributes them through single portals to a broad range of scientists and stakeholders interested in climate change information. (ornl.gov)
  • Scientists have many ways to track climate over time, all of which make it clear that today's climate change is linked to the emission of greenhouse gases , such as carbon dioxide and methane. (livescience.com)
  • How do scientists know climate change is real? (livescience.com)
  • Atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, says the Pope's message might prove more effective than 30 years of scientists' efforts to communicate the urgency of climate change. (popsci.com)
  • Scientists can now study climate change in far more detail with powerful new computer software released by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. (nsf.gov)
  • The CESM builds on the Community Climate System Model, which NCAR scientists and collaborators have regularly updated since first developing it more than a decade ago. (nsf.gov)
  • Holdren admitted that the media frenzy over emails stolen from the University of East Anglia last December and a few mistakes by the IPCC show that "climate scientists are human too" and "more efforts at openness and transparency are warranted", but, he emphasized, they do not impact the science behind climate change. (mongabay.com)
  • The source, Holdren continued, of scientists' current understanding of climate change is thousands of rigorous studies from around the world conducted by researchers subject to the peer-review process, the very same scientific process that underpins everything from evolution to medical breakthroughs to theory of relativity. (mongabay.com)
  • In the face of losses caused by global warming, scientists, activists, and the public at large may be working through "climate change grief. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Yet make no mistake: Climate change will cause individual and societal loss, and how people will process that loss through grieving increasingly preoccupies scientists and policymakers. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Though Swim emphasizes that research into climate change and mental health has barely begun, it's clear that one faction in particular is struggling with a staggering sense of loss: climate scientists. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • As numerous media reports indicate, climate scientists' existentially numbing work has mired many in what could be considered climate depression. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Over at least the last 19 years, Exxon in particular has paid researchers and front groups to create uncertainties about basic climate change science and used denialist groups to attack well-respected scientists," Oakland says in its complaint. (courthousenews.com)
  • But a growing number of scientists think that major climate shifts may have also forged some of the defining traits of humanity. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The data is also helping scientists sift through the possible theories for just how climate might have triggered evolutionary advances. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Academy scientists take a closer look at the news and stories surrounding the hot topic of climate change. (calacademy.org)
  • I will say, much as I love the CNN, you're doing a disservice by having one climate change skeptic and not 97 or 98 scientists or engineers concerned about climate change," he said during a segment on the April 22 March for Science that aired Saturday night. (vox.com)
  • The comments submitted to the EPA are based upon a number of extensive climate studies conducted by leading environmental scientists from across the world. (naturalresourcereport.com)
  • Nor has EPA weighed or considered the powerful and substantive scientific evidence from many of the world's scientists calling into question whether climate change is within the range of natural variation or otherwise challenging many of the assumptions on which EPA's proposed finding is based. (naturalresourcereport.com)
  • The fact they're resorting to the courts, and essentially mounting personal smears against individual climate scientists, is effectively an admission that they do not. (blogspot.com)
  • Explain why and how the IMF engages its member countries to address climate change issues. (imf.org)
  • WASHINGTON, May 23 (UPI) -- The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted mostly along party lines Thursday to approve an amendment to the $600 billion National Defense Authorization Act which prohibits the Pentagon from using any of its budget to address climate change and specifically instructs the Department of Defense to ignore the latest scientific reports on the threats posed by global warming. (upi.com)
  • Carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems has attracted much interest as a mitigation approach, as it can be considered as a relatively inexpensive option to address climate change in the short- medium- and long term. (europa.eu)
  • Today, the United Nations is hosting Climate Summit 2014 to bring together world leaders at the highest level to address climate change and galvanize support for climate action. (cdc.gov)
  • This paper describes a path forward for health professionals to address climate change in both in everyday operations and for advancing health policy to address the challenges of climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • Well-known climate science denier William Happer will lead the Presidential Committee on Climate Security. (truthout.org)
  • Dr. Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the nonprofit environmental group Center for Biological Diversity, dismissed Boutrous' argument as having been "plucked right from the climate-denier playbook. (courthousenews.com)
  • CNN brought Nye on to fight against a climate change denier. (vox.com)
  • he was disappointed that CNN had presumably pitted him against a climate change denier to create drama instead of spreading factual information. (vox.com)
  • and William Happer, a physicist and climate change denier with ties to President Donald Trump . (vox.com)
  • Impacts, adaptation, and dynamics - Develops analysis tools and methods for assessing adaptation strategies at the intersection of climate science, energy use, and environmental justice. (ornl.gov)
  • Toward the end of that period, CCSP issued 21 separate climate assessment reports that addressed climate observations, changes in the atmosphere, expected climate change, impacts and adaptation, and risk management issues. (wikipedia.org)
  • in Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (eds Field, C. B. et al. (nature.com)
  • For instance, one idea is that big leaps forward were not driven by adaptation to a specific habitat change, but by a series of frequent changes. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Successful applicants are expected to execute in a suitable African host institution a self-initiated project with the potential to contribute significantly to the understanding of climate change and its impacts, and/or to the development and implementation of innovative, empirically grounded policies and strategies for mitigation, adaptation, and/or resilience. (start.org)
  • The course also provides an understanding of and an ability to analyse and understand political questions and decision making in relation to climate mitigation and climate adaptation. (lu.se)
  • We are facing a scientific revolution in the understanding of how human impacts on biodiversity affect ecosystem services - evolutionary studies can contribute to understanding not only changes in species composition but also how species adaptation affects important ecosystem services," says Mikael Pontarp. (lu.se)
  • Over just a few generations, the genetic composition of species can change in response to environmental changes, altering not only the overall species composition but also the adaptation of individual species. (lu.se)
  • We focus on mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions but also connect to adaptation, resilience, social justice and sustainable development in the context of cities, climate and change. (lu.se)
  • Climate Change Adaptation actors within this field of study. (lu.se)
  • We have created a programme that has synergies between disaster risk management and climate change adaptation because these two areas are strongly interlinked. (lu.se)
  • Magnus Hagelsteen, Programme Director, MSc in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation. (lu.se)
  • Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation will be at- universityadmissions.se. (lu.se)
  • For that purpose, the IUCN Environmental Law Centre will publish a paper on Climate Diplomacy during World Water Week 2021, which will be available in the Water, Governance, Law and Diplomacy Platform to explore this approach in detail and plant the seed for discussion about our melting glaciers. (iucn.org)
  • Students may have seen and heard a lot of talk about the upcoming 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference ( COP26 ), and understandably have questions. (scienceinschool.org)
  • None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to implement the U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report, the United Nation's Agenda 21 sustainable development plan, or the May 2013 Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order. (upi.com)
  • Wuebbles called it the "most comprehensive assessment of climate change" ever conducted by the U.S. government, and said it shows the climate is changing rapidly, "about 10 times faster than anything we've seen since the end of the last Ice Age. (courthousenews.com)
  • Such data allows the understanding of how climate has changed over time and how various events are attributed to climate change, the development of complex climate models by advanced computing, as well as the assessment of natural and human systems vulnerability to climate change scenarios, and the estimation of the impact of different climate control solutions, policies and strategies. (mitportugal.org)
  • 2003 ). However, hydrological variability at the local scale is required for the assessment of the regional climate. (springer.com)
  • The fourth National Climate Assessment, released in November, noted that the past four years have seen rising sea levels, disruptions in food production and an increase in wildfires - as predicted by the previous assessment in 2014. (indstate.edu)
  • Congressman Larry Bucshon, R-Newburgh, responding via email to questions from the Tribune-Star, said he is still reviewing the nearly 1,700-page climate assessment in depth but "there is no doubt that mankind plays a part in accelerating the change of climate. (indstate.edu)
  • The new multi-model study is part of the AMPERE project ("Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation Pathways and Evaluation of the Robustness of Mitigation Cost Estimates") and will be published in a special issue of the journal Technological Forecasting&Social Change . (science20.com)
  • Weather and climate patterns are changing, causing increasingly frequent and severe heat waves, drought, flooding, and extreme weather events, as well as a rise in sea levels, a report released in May by the U.S. Global Change Research Program concluded ( National Climate Assessment ). (cdc.gov)
  • IPCC Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report (eds Pachauri, R. K. & Reisinger, A.) (Cambridge Univ. (nature.com)
  • IPCC Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis (eds Stocker, T. F. et al. (nature.com)
  • And I kind of think it's important to understand-some people imagine that the IPCC is the source of our understanding of climate-but in fact the IPCC is just one of the messengers," Holdren explained. (mongabay.com)
  • Now in response to my argument, some critics replied that the economic models used by the IPCC report were incomplete, and understated the potential risks from climate change. (instituteforenergyresearch.org)
  • On January 16, 2009 (the last business day of the Bush Administration), USGS released Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, most researchers today prefer the term climate change because of the variability of weather and climate across the globe. (livescience.com)
  • It's important for people to realize that there is a lot of variability from place to place on the Earth in terms of the temperature," said Ellen Mosley-Thompson, a paleoclimatologist at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center of The Ohio State University. (livescience.com)
  • Climate change may be due to natural processes, such as changes in the Sun's radiation, volcanoes or internal variability in the climate system, or due to human influences such as changes in the composition of the atmosphere or land use. (science.org.au)
  • Rick Potts at the Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program calls this idea " variability selection ", and it's possible at least two major evolutionary events can be linked to periods of climate instability. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Colin Kelley, a geographer at the University of California-Santa Barbara, found that a multiyear drought as severe as the one that hit Syria from 2007 to 2010 was made two to three times more likely because of climate change, compared to natural variability alone. (grist.org)
  • Pathways to net-zero carbon emissions - Uses artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to integrate data from diverse sources into regional climate models to determine decarbonization pathways and to inform mitigation strategies and technology development. (ornl.gov)
  • Here, we present an overview of science and policy aspects related to this goal and analyse the implications for mitigation pathways. (nature.com)
  • Develop recommendations for up-take in practice, including specifying which silvicultural measures to apply to which types of forest in order to maximise their mitigation potential while ensuring the provision of other ecosystem services, under the current and future climate, while fully respecting ecological principles favourable to biodiversity and soil conservation. (europa.eu)
  • With a special focus on climate science and climate change, scientific area #1 targets the study, measurement, and modeling of the complex interactive system dynamics of climate, weather, biosphere, ocean, and near-space, taking its relations with human activities, to advance on sustainable mitigation and resilience solutions. (mitportugal.org)
  • CONCLUSIONS: Health impacts from climate change are increasing yet health systems are not yet building the necessary adaptive capacity or GHG mitigation for health infrastructure. (cdc.gov)
  • It requires a consideration of the major forces controlling the river such as changes in rainfall, the operation of dams, and extraction of water. (science.org.au)
  • These freshwater lakes can fill up or disappear with changes in rainfall," he says. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Soil erosion is one of the major hazards affected by the climate change, particularly the increasing intensity of rainfall resulted in increasing erosion, apart from other factors like landuse change. (springer.com)
  • Changes in climate have an adverse effect with increasing rainfall. (springer.com)
  • 2014 ) due to changes in the rainfall, and a study shows that increased intensity of various climatic parameters, particularly rainfall, has caused an increase in the sediment load (Mukundan et al. (springer.com)
  • Furthermore, as climate change disrupts regional rainfall and temperatures, Leptospirosis should be considered in the setting of potential exposures. (medscape.com)
  • The American Psychological Association, for instance, has forecast that climate change will likely have a profound impact on human mental health and well-being, whether from the shock of an extreme weather event such as Hurricane Katrina, or the sense of helplessness that climate change's magnitude may provoke. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Borrowing from fresh water cooperation theory and environmental peacemaking, this chapter proposes a similar approach to natural resources and climate change's possible effect to peace in internal armed conflicts, turning them from conflict drivers to catalysts of negotiations. (lu.se)
  • How will patterns in the ocean and atmosphere affect regional climate in coming decades? (nsf.gov)
  • Improve the integration of European forests, including forest practices, in global and regional climate modelling. (europa.eu)
  • Asked about the federal government's latest report on the impact of climate change, President Donald Trump said flatly, "I don't believe it. (indstate.edu)
  • The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) was the program responsible for coordinating and integrating research on global warming by U.S. government agencies from February 2002 to June 2009. (wikipedia.org)
  • Shortly after President Obama took office, the program's name was changed to U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) which was also the program's name before 2002. (wikipedia.org)
  • While these data are consistent with the results from climate models at the global scale, discrepancies in the tropics remain to be resolved. (wikipedia.org)
  • Help parents, teachers, and others fight the introduction of climate change/global warming denial and pseudoscience in the classroom. (forbes.com)
  • Small changes in the proportions of greenhouse gases in the air can add up to major changes on a global scale. (livescience.com)
  • This is why climate change is sometimes called global warming . (livescience.com)
  • Climate change is a global problem with grave implications: environmental, social, economic, political…" Francis writes. (popsci.com)
  • In this offering, you will learn about the science and economics behind climate change, the framework for global climate action, and how the IMF engages on climate change issues. (imf.org)
  • Describe the progress, challenges, and opportunities in the global frameworks to address climate issues. (imf.org)
  • Thus, climate projections appear on regional to global scales rather than local scales. (nsf.gov)
  • This approach enables researchers to simulate global climate over years, decades, or millennia. (nsf.gov)
  • Global maps of projected relative changes (%) in seasonal mean of precipitation averaged across available CMIP6 models (number provided at the top right of each panel) in the SSP2-4.5 scenario. (ipcc.ch)
  • Gelbspan says, 'The reason most Americans don't know what is happening to the climate is that the oil and coal industries have spent millions of dollars to persuade them global warming isn't happening. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Greenpeace notes that the ongoing 'campaigns against climate science continue to receive funding from big oil and energy interests - not just ExxonMobil, but a raft of other companies and foundations whose profits are driven by the products that cause global warming. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. (scientificamerican.com)
  • With the United Nations' climate conference in Scotland turning a spotlight on climate change policies and the impact of global warming, it's useful to understand what the science shows. (newscientist.com)
  • I'm an atmospheric scientist who has worked on global climate science and assessments for most of my career. (newscientist.com)
  • In "Explorer: Bill Nye's Global Meltdown," former California governor and action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger counsels Bill Nye through "climate change grief. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • In the recent TV special "Explorer: Bill Nye's Global Meltdown," which premiered Sunday, November 1, on the National Geographic Channel, Nye guides viewers through the "five stages of climate grief"-denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance-as a means of grappling with his own feelings about climate change. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • In its 37-page complaint, Oakland cites a 1998 memo drafted by the oil companies' Global Science Communications Team task force. (courthousenews.com)
  • Back in the courtroom, Dr. Don Wuebbles, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Illinois, presented on behalf of the plaintiffs findings from a 475-page report released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program last year. (courthousenews.com)
  • Pentagon-commissioned reports have concluded the effects of climate change over the next 20 years could result in global catastrophe that leads to millions of deaths from war and natural disasters. (democracynow.org)
  • Though Muller was once a notable skeptic regarding studies connecting human activity to climate change, he has now concluded that "humans are almost entirely the cause" of global warming. (sciencefriday.com)
  • Climate change and global warming are urgent areas of interest for the survival of humanity. (mitportugal.org)
  • Global Circulation Models (GCMs) are tools that are used in the simulation of the present and future climate changes. (springer.com)
  • Even though we don't know exactly what will happen, we know we can do things to reduce the risk of certain bad things happening by participating in global agreements and global attempts to reduce the human contributions to climate change," Israel said. (indstate.edu)
  • If you disagree which his claim the science is settled that human greenhouse gas emissions are causing global warming, or his assertion the impacts of a warmer world are so bad the government is justified in imposing severe limits on freedom and economic development, you are either in the pocket of the fossil-fuel industry or you are ignorant of the truth because industry-backed shills have misinformed or confused you. (heartland.org)
  • If China were to stop hiding behind developing nation status and joined the EU in leading the way to a global climate regime, early action could reduce emissions until 2030 by a multiple of what the EU alone would achieve, increasing the probability of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. (science20.com)
  • The transitional challenge that late-comers face when joining a global climate regime is due to the difficulty of rapidly elevating efforts from a low to an ambitious level, according to the study. (science20.com)
  • This session of Grand Rounds explored the wide-ranging health impact of our changing climate and discussed some of the strategies, programs and partnerships currently being used to confront the challenges associated with global climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • Climate change poses a serious, immediate and global threat to human health and the responsibility for taking action to address this threat rests with every person, every community, every leader and every government around the world. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. John Iskander and Dr. George Luber discuss some of the challenges associated with global climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • Communicating climate science on a global scale to a young and interactive audience. (lu.se)
  • Global climate change has become one of the most visible environmental concerns of the 21st century and these changes have the potential to affect human health both directly and indirectly. (cdc.gov)
  • Progress against malaria has stalled in these high-burden African countries since 2017 due to factors including humanitarian crises, low access to and insufficient quality of health services, climate change, gender-related barriers, biological threats such as insecticide and drug resistance and global economic crises. (who.int)
  • When students around the world walked out of classes in mid-March to demand government action on climate change , they noted the impact of rising sea levels, increasing air and water temperatures and ever-worsening storms on planet Earth. (truthout.org)
  • Climate change is any long-term alteration in average weather patterns, either globally or regionally. (livescience.com)
  • Taken together, these records show that the modern climate is undergoing a swift departure from the patterns of the past. (livescience.com)
  • All of these plausibly link to climate change by theory, by models and by observed fingerprints-namely the patterns matching what you would expect if climate change were the cause. (mongabay.com)
  • Integrative ecosystem science - Captures model-inspired measurements and observations from a range of biomes and biogeochemical processes, leveraging unique ecosystem-scale climate change experiments managed by ORNL. (ornl.gov)
  • The exhibition The Earth and the climate throughout history was developed and built by staff at the Vattenhallen Science Centre in consultation with the researchers at the Departments of Geology , Biology och Physical Geography & Ecosystem Science at Lund University. (lu.se)
  • These classroom experiments allow students to explore thermal expansion and the volumetric coefficient of thermal expansion, and the accompanying discussion clarifies how these affect climate change. (scienceinschool.org)
  • These hands-on chemistry experiments demonstrate how carbon dioxide interacts with water, including how it changes the pH level. (scienceinschool.org)
  • Vicki brings "experiments and fun to students of all ages through science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics education," to quote Christina Cox of The Signal. (signalscv.com)
  • We have come to rely on science to inform us about dangers to public health and the health of our ecosystems, to provide cures for many of our ills, including fixes for the ills we have brought on ourselves through industrial pollution. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Current climate change] is rapid compared to the capacities for adjustment, the capacities of ecosystems, and the capacity of social and economic systems to adjust, and it is going to be harmful for most places and most times," Holdren said. (mongabay.com)
  • The changing climate is affecting all people on Earth, but some communities are already facing profound changes to their ways of life and the ecosystems they depend on. (scienceinschool.org)
  • The Science and Politics of Climate Change course provides a basic scientific understanding of the dynamics and complexity of the climate system, including its connections to the marine and terrestrial ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • This online course, presented by the IMF's Institute for Capacity Development, Fiscal Affairs Department, Research Department, and Strategy, Policy, and Review Department serves as the first in a six-part "Macroeconomics of Climate Change (MCCx)" series. (imf.org)
  • We enjoy a vast architecture of science - peer-reviewed journals, conferences, research institutions, and graduate schools, plus government, foundation, and corporate funding to support it all. (scientificamerican.com)
  • The standards - developed by states and a committee convened by the National Research Council in 2013 - emphasize that climate change is real, severe, caused by humans and can be mitigated with actions that reduce greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. (click2houston.com)
  • These are the findings of a new study from Columbia University's Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions published in Psychological Science . (psychologicalscience.org)
  • This 11 volume set is a compilation of important research on climate change. (novapublishers.com)
  • As part of a group of community college students studying at Cal State Fullerton, she worked on a research project on how carbon, one of the essential building blocks of organic life, buried in the soil of California's coastal wetlands can help combat climate change. (fullerton.edu)
  • For eight weeks, Duncan worked with C.S.U.F. faculty mentor Joe Carlin, assistant professor of geological sciences, on the research as part of "Regional Alliance in STEM Education: Raising the Bar in Transfer, Retention and Graduation Rates," known as Project RAISE . (fullerton.edu)
  • said Jeff Dukes, director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center. (indstate.edu)
  • Leading by example needs to be convincing to other countries," says Elmar Kriegler of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, lead author of a new paper on the subject. (science20.com)
  • Home » Publications » All research » Research article » The concept of loss and damage of climate change - a new challenge for climate decision-making? (lse.ac.uk)
  • New research links climate change to Syria's devastating civil war. (grist.org)
  • Read our interview with Twila below to learn more about her research and why science is so important. (societyforscience.org)
  • try and learn about different methods in geology, environmental and climate research. (lu.se)
  • get examples of how technical research in Lund has contributed to the development, what the researchers are doing today and what opportunities they see for a positive climate development. (lu.se)
  • The exhibition was produced with financial support from SIDA and the research environments Lund University Centre for studies of Carbon Cycle and Climate Interactions ( LUCCI ) and BECC - Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate, Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. (lu.se)
  • There has been considerable research and planning with regard to the public health and environmental aspects of climate change, but little on its effects on workers. (cdc.gov)
  • Research trying to understand why these changes occur and what we can do about them has mainly focused on ecological processes. (lu.se)
  • In this week we connect climate action to research, evaluation and innovation. (lu.se)
  • Human activity - particularly the production of greenhouse gasses from fossil fuel emissions - is reshaping our planet, effecting rapid environmental change at a rate never seen before. (livescience.com)
  • Republicans have also in recent years sought to punish companies that adopt ESG policies, which typically attempt to align companies with international climate goals, set internal emissions reductions targets, or employ investment strategies that emphasize renewable energy over fossil fuels. (click2houston.com)
  • Multiple lines of scientific evidence point to the increase in greenhouse emissions over the past century and a half as a driver of long-term climate change around the world. (newscientist.com)
  • Despite overwhelming scientific consensus that heat-trapping carbon emissions are warming the planet, a Big Oil attorney argued in court Wednesday that doubt still lingers as to how much the fossil fuel industry has impacted climate change. (courthousenews.com)
  • Consider the dynamics of the carbon stored in the different pools (above-ground biomass, below-ground biomass, deadwood, litter, soil organic carbon fractions, harvested wood products) under different forest management regimes and at different scales (EU-wide, national, local) to identify possible adaptations to current European models of sustainable forest management, so that the forest-based sector can optimise climate action, and to facilitate the monitoring and reporting of GHG emissions. (europa.eu)
  • Technological advancements made possible "by a strong and growing economy and other market-driven changes" have resulted in reducing U.S. carbon emissions to the lowest level since 1992, he said. (indstate.edu)
  • And Europe's unilateral leadership could be achieved at little extra cost for the EU because it already has implemented significant climate and energy policies that are expected to reduce emissions by 30 percent in 2030. (science20.com)
  • Regulation of these emissions would be inconsequential to the climate change equation. (naturalresourcereport.com)
  • The Pentagon itself in its later 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review said: "Climate change poses another significant challenge for the United States and the world at large. (upi.com)
  • In his State of the Union address in January, he said that "no challenge poses a greater threat to future generations" than climate change. (grist.org)
  • Students come from all over the world and from various ac- processes of change such as climate change, urbanisation, ademic disciplines, such as engineering science, social science, and the increasing complexity of modern society poses major political science, natural science and environmental science. (lu.se)
  • The course also pursues a number of cross-cutting themes, for example on the unequal dimensions to both climate change responsibility and vulnerability, and a focus on questions of power for understanding the obstacles to, and opportunities for, climate action. (lu.se)
  • As the nation's public health agency, CDC is using its prevention expertise to help states and cities investigate, prepare for, and respond to the health effects of climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • For worker populations such as migrant workers and day laborers who may have inadequate housing or other social and economic constraints, the health effects of climate change may be additive from exposures both at work and at home. (cdc.gov)
  • The issue is not about running out of water, it's about having water in the right place," Lis Mullin Bernhardt, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), told Live Science. (livescience.com)
  • The steep increase is just one example of how record-breaking weather and climate disasters are impacting the National Guard, who often serves as a response force to wildfires and hurricanes around the nation. (popsci.com)
  • The challenges of predicting weather and climate are very different. (science.org.au)
  • NOAA released Re-Analyses of Historical Climate Data for Key Atmospheric Features: Implications for attribution of causes of observed change in December 2008. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Community Earth System Model is yet another step toward representing improved physics and biogeochemistry in a coupled model,' says Anjuli Bamzai, program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funds NCAR. (nsf.gov)
  • Projections of human-induced climate change over decades to centuries are possible because human activities have predictable effects on the future atmospheric composition, and in turn a predictable effect on climate. (science.org.au)
  • For example, the Paris Climate Agreement calls upon its signatories to keep total warming "well below" 2°C. Indeed, many environmentalists call for much stricter limits , such as limiting atmospheric concentrations of CO 2 to 350ppm and a 1.5°C ceiling. (instituteforenergyresearch.org)
  • For environmentalists and international officials frustrated with the US's slow pace on combating climate change-which is decades behind Europe's and many other nations'-Holdren touted that the Obama Administration had made progress on the issue and stated that the administration plans to pursue legislation again after a new congress is elected. (mongabay.com)
  • Climate change is a change in the statistical properties of the climate system that persists for several decades or longer-usually at least 30 years. (science.org.au)
  • And the urban change is very obvious - people have been moving into larger and larger cities for several decades. (resalliance.org)
  • AMPERE established a European platform of state-of-the-art energy-economy models to undertake a series of analyses on the implications of short term climate policy for achieving long term climate objectives. (science20.com)
  • This paper reviews the implications of Loss and Damage L&D for decision-making with a special focus on the role of climate science. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Social implications: The study suggests that the conflation of communication practices needs to be seen in relation to larger structural changes in the academic working environment, as well as in relation to the specific environment in which communication about climate change occurs. (lu.se)
  • We target how to support individuals and organisations in developing transformative skills and capacities for climate action in cities. (lu.se)
  • How can we develop transformative skills and capacities to achieve climate neutral and sustainable cities? (lu.se)
  • The approaches of creationists and climate change denialists are similar in that both groups, rather than concentrating on the merits of particular political or economic reactions to the science, deny the validity of the science itself … trying to portray the scientific community as liars and con-artists. (forbes.com)
  • It's morally irresponsible to suggest there's a debate about the reality of climate change. (popsci.com)
  • With wildfires devastating the West and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast, President Trump, who has for years mocked and denied the reality of climate change, was briefed on Monday on the status of fires in California. (tpr.org)
  • Catastrophic natural and climate related disasters continue to rise, making the National Guard's work more dangerous and difficult. (popsci.com)
  • Morgan Higman, an expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Energy Security and Climate Change program, told Task & Purpose that as we've watched "catastrophic natural and climate related disasters" increase, it's "pretty reasonable to anticipate that the supportive needs to respond to those disasters will increase. (popsci.com)
  • On the other side of the country, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden addressed these disasters and others, and their link to human-caused climate change. (tpr.org)
  • Speaking outdoors on the grounds of the Delaware Museum of Natural History, Biden stressed that climate disasters are affecting blue and red states alike. (tpr.org)
  • Biden has focused much of his campaign on fighting the battle against climate disasters and has vowed to boost funding for clean energy initiatives and to create domestic jobs in the sector. (tpr.org)
  • When the climate changes, disasters follow and unfortunately it is a growing trend. (lu.se)
  • In Nye's telling, for instance, the oil company Shell "bargains" with climate change when it builds a massive carbon sequestration plant in Alberta, Canada, that will capture less than two percent of the area's CO2 output. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Contribute to a better understanding of favourable management practices for both soil and vegetation, within-species genetic diversity upon , species selection and rotations to enhance and climate-proof forest carbon stocks (considering both in situ carbon sequestration and carbon storage in long-lived wood products) and sinks, while considering the broad range of other forest values and ecosystem services. (europa.eu)
  • A portion of the carbon dioxide released through human activities is taken up by plants, and some is absorbed directly into the ocean, but roughly half of all carbon dioxide emitted by human activities today stays in the atmosphere - and it likely will remain there for hundreds of years , influencing the climate globally. (newscientist.com)
  • The flows of radiation in the atmosphere (Figure 1.1) are very important in determining climate. (science.org.au)
  • Coastal wetlands are known as a "carbon sink" - meaning they are an ecosystem that can use and remove excess carbon, such as CO 2 , from the atmosphere, said Carlin, who is collaborating with Patty Oikawa, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at C.S.U. East Bay. (fullerton.edu)
  • One way to think about it is that fossil fuels, such as gasoline, take carbon that was buried in the ground, then we burn it in our cars, and move it into the atmosphere, which can have a negative effect on our climate," Carlin said. (fullerton.edu)
  • It was found that climate determined the prefire quantity and structure of forest fuel, which in turn controlled both the immediate and extended fire-induced removal rates of C and nitrogen (N) to the surrounding land and atmosphere. (lu.se)
  • Overall, the Earth is warming up because of human-caused climate change. (livescience.com)
  • Explain the general consequences of climate change on economic impacts and on human welfare. (imf.org)
  • The updated Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or TEKS, require eighth graders to learn about climate change and describe how human activities "can" influence the climate. (click2houston.com)
  • Systematically taking on each of these 'myths', often touted by climate change deniers, Holdren argued that for most of the world unmitigated climate change would mean massive disruptions to society and exponential increases in human suffering. (mongabay.com)
  • The Chevron attorney appeared to suggest that oil companies could not have known their industry was the driving force behind climate change because the scientific community hadn't officially reached that consensus until 2013, though previous findings indicated that human activity was likely the primary cause. (courthousenews.com)
  • We found that these particular periods, or 'pulses', when the lakes come and go correlate directly with major changes in human evolution. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • With so much scientific uncertainty surrounding the question of whether human activity is responsible for climate change, it is inappropriate for the EPA to only consider one side of the debate-especially considering the devastating consequences that their actions could have on an already struggling U.S. economy," says Tamara Thies, NCBA chief environmental counsel. (naturalresourcereport.com)
  • EPA's Proposed Finding fails to acknowledge the profound uncertainty that pervades the current state of scientific knowledge related to human-caused climate change. (naturalresourcereport.com)
  • But in Syria, there was some uncertainty about whether that drought in particular was a product of human-made climate change. (grist.org)
  • Changes occurring in the world's climate pose significant threats to human health and wellbeing and will have even greater impacts in the future. (cdc.gov)
  • Planning for climate change provides opportunities to protect human health and well-being across many sectors. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr. John Iskander and Dr. George Luber revisit their discussion on climate change and its impact on human health to discuss some of the important new scientific findings that have taken place. (cdc.gov)
  • Landscape transformation, invasive organisms, climate change and other human-induced changes lead to altered population sizes and species composition - changes in biodiversity - which in turn can negatively affect functions such as carbon capture, pollination and pest control. (lu.se)
  • In this week we delve into community and citizen engagement and how it underpins climate action. (lu.se)
  • An article by Joan VanDervort published by The Center for Climate and Security in 2020 called the combination of COVID-19 with climate change impacts "the perfect storm," as the pandemic collided with "existing readiness impacts on the Department of Defense … from the bruising impact of severe weather events, sea level rise, flooding, and wildfires fueled by climate change. (popsci.com)
  • He had an a crazy upbringing and strange life, but his integrative view of nature and focus on precise measurements had a strong impact on Science. (resalliance.org)
  • During his briefing, which included California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, officials repeatedly invoked climate change and its impact on the state's ability to manage the raging infernos. (tpr.org)
  • We carry out laboratory sessions with air and water, fossils and impressions, simulate earthquakes, examine the effects of the Gulf Stream and simulate mine operation and investigate its impact on water, soil and the climate. (lu.se)
  • Researchers are studying the best ways to lessen climate change and reduce its impact on our health. (medlineplus.gov)
  • As our understanding of climate-relevant processes improves, it is imperative to represent these processes in the model. (nsf.gov)
  • The researchers build on recent findings that evolutionary processes, in response to landscape change, are happening faster than previously thought. (lu.se)
  • Climate change is a tangible reality that affects our daily lives. (ornl.gov)
  • So anything that affects this energy will influence climate. (calacademy.org)
  • The Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is addressing these challenges by translating data, knowledge, and applied understanding of climate change science into equitable and sustainable solutions for our communities, the nation, and the world. (ornl.gov)
  • I argue for a phase-based approach to analyzing how natural resources and climate change can affect peace before, during, and after negotiations, with the intent of improving the discussion on the role of natural resources and climate change in peace and sustainable development. (lu.se)
  • This course explores how we can design, create and achieve climate neutral and sustainable cities. (lu.se)
  • The past decade was the hottest on record, and extreme events such as wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding are becoming more frequent and intense.These events and other consequences of climate change, including droughts and sea level rise, pose serious threats to communities, national security, and the economy. (ornl.gov)
  • Moreover, it is unlikely that a fundamental change has occurred in either how often or where severe droughts have occurred over the continental United States during the past half-century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Short term fluctuations in climate, such as droughts, can be predicted with limited skill from season to season. (science.org.au)
  • Climate change is not a distant threat -- It already is affecting every region of the country and key sectors of the economy. (upi.com)
  • Democrats tell us they understand the world, but then they call climate change, not radical Islamic terrorism, the greatest threat to national security," he said . (grist.org)
  • Workers may also be exposed to conditions that the general public can avoid, and work force increases are likely in jobs that are most affected by climate change such as wildland firefighting, as well as in industries that will emerge in response to it, including renewable energy. (cdc.gov)
  • Some places for some time will get some benefits from climate change, but most places for most times and increasingly so going forward will suffer harm. (mongabay.com)
  • Today climate changes are occurring at an increasingly rapid rate. (medlineplus.gov)
  • This article follows the author on a journey to the Arctic, where she sees first-hand the effects climate change is already having on people's ways of life. (scienceinschool.org)
  • Too often Climate Change is seen as a danger for the future, but the effects are already being felt. (scienceinschool.org)
  • Although scientific understanding of the effects of climate change is still emerging, there is considerable evidence to support preparing for potential health risks. (cdc.gov)
  • While climate and wildfire place strong controls on ecosystem function, few observations have been made regarding their potential synergistic effects. (lu.se)
  • Workers are often the first to be exposed to the effects of climate change and may be affected for longer durations and at greater intensities. (cdc.gov)
  • The primary focus of the negotiations is on carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that is released when fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas - are burned, as well as by forest fires, land use changes and natural sources. (newscientist.com)
  • In other words, is the climate-driven conflict there merely representative of what might happen more often in the future, or is it an actual consequence of burning fossil fuels? (grist.org)
  • Using their results they can build hypotheses on the consequences of these changes for ocean life. (scienceinschool.org)