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Plague is more likely now thanks to climate change

[ad_1] A closed sign is posted in a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge.Photo: David Zalubowski (PA) The risk of plague spreading from humans to animals in the western United States has increased since 1950 thanks to climate change, news to study found. Importantly, the research yields valuable insight into how this […]

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Understanding the abrupt climate change at the end of the Quaternary

[ad_1] Editors Vox is a blog of the AGU publications service. About 75,000 to 10,000 years ago, there was a series of sudden and dramatic changes in precipitation patterns in the tropics, possibly triggered by changes in the circulation of ocean waters. A recent article in Geophysical reviews examines the evidence for these “tropical hydroclimatic […]

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Climate change and mycotoxins: unraveling a complex web

[ad_1] With an increase in average global temperatures, thoughts are obviously turning to the impact this will have on mold growth and subsequent mycotoxin production. However, the reality is much more complex, as discussed in various studies. Factors such as carbon dioxide concentration, water stress, and extreme weather events will all impact the delicate relationship […]

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Mandy Mahoney discusses climate change, infrastructure and housing on Decaturish’s Twitch show – Decaturish

[ad_1] Atlanta, Georgia – Atlanta City Council District 5 candidate Mandy Mahoney participated in a Decaturish Twitch forum on November 10. Mahoney is running against Lilianna Bakhtiari to replace Natalyn Archibong on Atlanta City Council. The candidates are in a second round and polling day is November 30. District 5 includes East Atlanta, Edgewood, and […]

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Climate models overlook benefits of ‘warming’ CO2, says statistician

[ad_1] Rather than relying on models of climate change that could be the basis for extensive and costly regulations, policymakers should instead question these models, focusing on the legitimacy of their underlying assumptions. That’s what the Heritage Foundation’s chief statistician said at a recent climate change conference in Las Vegas leading up to the international […]

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Economics of Climate Change: “The Biggest Reallocation of Capital Since the Industrial Revolution”

[ad_1] This article is an on-site version of our Moral Money newsletter. Sign up here to receive the newsletter directly to your inbox. Visit our Moral Money hub for all the latest ESG news, opinions and analysis from the FT Breaking: the first try of the final COP agreement was released this morning and will […]

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A new study explores the link between man-made climate change and the risk of forest fires. | Monterey County NOW Introduction

[ad_1] Christopher Neely here, thankful for the rain part of the county lived last night until this morning, and my fingers crossed that we can get through the end of the year without news of a local wildfire. Unfortunately, sometimes it feels like this is what it happened to– fingers crossed, hoping that human superstition […]

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New NASA mission to study storms, impacts on climate models

[ad_1] Washington, November 8: NASA has selected a new Earth science mission that will study the behavior of tropical storms and thunderstorms, including their impacts on weather and climate models. The mission will be a collection of three SmallSats, flying in close coordination, called Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS), and is expected to launch in […]

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COP26: Daily briefing of the UN summit on climate change on Monday 8 November

[ad_1] We love a good old fashioned queue With problems with queuing, online access and Covid-19 protocols, the UNFCCC, the agency overseeing COP26, hasn’t exactly had its issues to research. Register now to our daily newsletter The newsletter i cut through the noise But the agency had another headache yesterday after being the victim of […]

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NASA selects new mission to study storms and impacts on climate models

[ad_1] Huge cumulonimbus storm clouds are visible in this photo taken on August 15, 2014, looking east toward the Atlantic Ocean from the area of ​​Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base (now the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station) in Florida. NASA has selected a new Earth science mission called Investigation of […]

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NASA selects new mission to study storms and impacts on climate models

[ad_1] INCUS aims to directly explain why convection storms, heavy precipitation, and clouds occur exactly when and where they form. The survey stems from the 2017 Decennial Earth Sciences Survey of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which presents ambitious but essential research and observation directions. “In a changing climate, more precise information […]

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World science advisers call for action on climate change | New

[ad_1] Senior science advisers and presidents of national science academies from more than 20 countries have signed a statement to leaders of world governments reiterating the existing scientific consensus and the need for immediate action to tackle climate change. The signatories call on world leaders to develop “ambitious” long-term strategies based on solid scientific evidence […]

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Earth’s orbit affects millennial climate variability

[ad_1] There is ample geological evidence to show that Earth’s climate experienced millennial-scale variability superimposed on glacial-interglacial fluctuations during the Pleistocene. The magnitude of millennial climate variability has been linked to glacial cycles over the past 800 thousand years (kyr). For the period leading up to the mid-Pleistocene transition, when global glaciations were less severe […]

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Earth’s orbit affects millennial climate variability

[ad_1] Locations of four land and sea records resolved at the centenary. Credit: SUN et al. There is ample geological evidence to show that Earth’s climate experienced millennial-scale variability superimposed on glacial-interglacial fluctuations during the Pleistocene. The magnitude of millennial climate variability has been linked to glacial cycles over the past 800 thousand years (kyr). […]

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The science everyone needs to know about climate change, in 6 graphics

[ad_1] Earth’s climate system is interconnected and complex, and even small changes in temperature can have big impacts With the United Nations climate conference in Scotland shining a light on climate change policies and the impact of global warming, it helps to understand what the science is showing. I am an atmospheric scientist who has […]

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Pecos River Basin Study Examines Water Supply Under Various Climate Change Scenarios

[ad_1] As climate change affects the water supply in the southwest, farmers in the Pecos River Basin could face challenges. The United States Bureau of Reclamation on October 12 released a study on the impact of climate change and agriculture on the Pecos River basin under five different scenarios. Reclamation study director Dagmar Llewellyn said […]

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India and climate change: implications of setting a net zero target

[ad_1] The 1.5C report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlights the importance of achieving a net future with zero greenhouse gases. Many countries have announced their commitment to achieve a net zero future for their economies. India, while doing far more than its “fair share” of mitigation, has yet to announce a […]

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Young people have the wind in their sails to fight climate change thanks to SSE

[ad_1] Glasgow SCHOOL students recently helped accelerate change in the run-up to COP26. S1 youth at St. Thomas Aquinas RC High School in the northwest of the city learned about floating wind turbine technology as part of the SSE Renewables STEM Leadership initiative. The program aims to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers […]

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Researcher seeks to improve climate models for future water projections

[ad_1] October 27, 2021Commented by Alex Smith According to a broader scientific consensus, the western part of the United States will have less water and the northeastern United States will have more due to climate change. Flavio Lehner. Image credit: Cornell University. However, how much less and how much more is mostly uncertain, posing a […]

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Billboard satire denounces Australian government’s lukewarm stance on climate change for COP26 in GlasgowGlobal Voices

[ad_1] Charbon-o-Phile Dundee. A screenshot of the Guardian video October 15, 2021 An Australian comedian and satirist uses giant electronic billboards to voice concerns about his government’s plans to tackle the climate crisis. Dan Ilic takes the message to the streets before and during the COP26 conference in Glasgow, which runs from October 31 to […]

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Net zero policy in Australia: Scott Morrison asked about climate change plan

[ad_1] When Scott Morrison faced the cameras to reveal a major policy, he said that word 80 times. But he is already facing difficult questions. If you got a dollar for every time Scott Morrison said “plan” today, you would probably have enough to refuel your car despite record high gas prices. The Prime Minister […]

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Climate change disrupts natural cycles in Dryer Lake Tahoe – NBC Bay area

[ad_1] The climate change-fueled drought has caused Lake Tahoe to plummet below its natural edge and interrupted flows into the Truckee River, a historically cyclical event that occurs earlier and more often than before – raising fears of what could be in reserve for the famous alpine lake. Scientists fear that the increasing frequency of […]

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“Not everyone should drive a battery electric vehicle to fight climate change”

[ad_1] According to the chief scientist of Toyota Motor Corp Reuters Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:52 AM In this file photo, Gill Pratt, CEO of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), speaks next to a research vehicle equipped with Toyota Guardian, an accident avoidance system that helps drivers, during a Toyota press conference at CES 2019 […]

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Addressing our great anxiety about climate change

[ad_1] I remember widespread public anxiety and depression in the 1960s and 1970s over the prospect of mutually assured destruction and a nuclear winter in the event of a global nuclear war. And today, public anxiety (“eco-anxiety”) about climate change is increasing around the world. The American Psychiatric Association recognizes that climate change is a […]

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Children deserve answers to their questions about climate change. Here’s how universities can help

[ad_1] Our children are growing up in an unstable climate. It is already hurting their health, wealth and well-being. Universities can be leaders in helping young people acquire the knowledge they need to navigate this uncertain future. Curious Climate Schools, a project that directly connects young people with experts who can answer their questions on […]

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Modi will “play” a crucial role for carbon credits to fight against climate change

[ad_1] An official confirmation of Modi’s visit has yet to be announced. India, China, Brazil and some other developing countries have strongly advocated maintaining carbon credits, which allow companies to offset their greenhouse gas emissions, as part of the Paris Agreement of 2015, an ambitious global action plan to fight climate change. The carbon market […]

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Much work ahead for Sidney to meet its climate change emissions targets, says CAO – Saanich News

[ad_1] Sidney’s chief executive said there is still a lot of work to be done for the community to meet its carbon emissions targets in the municipality’s climate action plan and proposed but not yet formalized numbers for the new plan. official community. “Given that community-wide (greenhouse gas) emissions decreased 9.4 (percent) from 2007 to […]

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New climate models show much of Southern California underwater – CBS Los Angeles

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A climate-focused nonprofit has shown in models how some 50 cities around the world could potentially change or even disappear due to climate change. “Their ability to exist in the future depends on the actions we take,” said Benjamin Strauss, CEO of Climate Central. READ MORE: Bill Clinton hospitalized at […]

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‘Overnight Disaster’: New Climate Change Model Shows Coachella Valley Underwater As Sea Levels Rise

[ad_1] There’s a new warning about the growing climate change crisis: that the Coachella Valley could one day be underwater due to sea level rise as temperatures warm globally. Notable new scientific predictions from the nonprofit Climate Central research group show that major coastal cities are largely submerged in the ocean. The base of the […]

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DEEPICE: Network of young researchers to unveil past climate change in Antarctica

[ad_1] A network of international researchers is launching a European collaboration this week (October 14, 2021). This collaboration will train a new generation of scientists to understand the impact of past climate change on Antarctica The new innovative European research and training network “DEEPICE” aims to equip the next generation of scientists with a solid […]

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Climate change: Need to review the US $ 100 billion climate finance commitment to developing countries

[ad_1] The unprecedented increase in climate-related disasters has led more than 13,000 scientists from 153 countries to sign a declaration of climate emergency, according to an article published in September 2021 in a leading biological science journal. The call for such severe action as the declaration of a climate emergency is justified by the Sixth […]

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Climate models cannot replicate the slowdown in global warming of the early 2000s – scientists explain why

[ad_1] A recent study led by Dr Wei and Dr Qiao of the First Institute of Oceanography at the Department of Natural Resources provides an assessment of the performance of recently published CMIP6 models to simulate the slowdown in global warming observed in the early 2000s. This study reveals that the key to simulating and […]

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Tim Flannery “confirmed” unresponsive to criticism of climate change

[ad_1] TF: No, I saw it coming. And besides, who is still there? I am, and the Climate Council continues, it’s just privately funded. And I don’t know where Tony Abbott is. Taiwan, or somewhere, yes? Independent MP Zali Steggall won Tony Abbott’s Warringah.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen Fitz: Where are your energies going now? TF: Also at […]

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Google bans ads by opponents of the consensus on climate change • The Register

[ad_1] Google has decided not to run any advertising alongside content that “contradicts the well-established scientific consensus on the existence and causes of climate change”. The decision impacts YouTube, advertisers and publishers. It appears to be primarily a matter of commerce rather than conscience: the adtech strangler has touted the move as a change in […]

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Climate Cast: University of Minnesota researchers use AI to improve climate models

[ad_1] Climate models all agree that the Earth will warm considerably this century. But predicting the precise magnitude of warming tells a lot more to climatologists about future extreme weather events and sea level rise. Now researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities are part of a new $ 25 million climate modeling center […]

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MakerDAO Founder’s Plans to Fight Climate Change and Return to ETH

[ad_1] MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen published an essay outlining steps that could be taken to make the protocol a vehicle for tackling climate change. In a lengthy article published Oct. 5 on the MakerDAO Governance Forum, Christensen asserts that MakerDAO should strive to ensure that all of its guarantees include “sustainable, climate-aligned assets that take […]

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Google adds a search page dedicated to “climate change”

[ad_1] In addition to new features for Maps, Nest thermostats and flights, Google will be posting more information on how to make sustainable choices in research, shopping and finance. This includes a Google search results page dedicated to “climate change” and research into ineffective traffic lights. Google will add a dedicated ‘climate change’ results page […]

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Nobel Prize in Physics rewards work on climate change

[ad_1] Three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for essential work in understanding how the Earth’s climate is changing, identifying the effect of human behavior on these changes and ultimately predicting the impact of global warming. The winners were Syukuro Manabe from Princeton University, Klaus Hasselmann from the Max Planck Institute […]

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Nobel Prize in Physics rewards trio for contributions to climate models

[ad_1] Stockholm Three scientists on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for work that brought order to apparent disorder, helping to explain and predict the complex forces of nature, including expanding our understanding of climate change. Syukuro Manabe, from Japan, and Klaus Hasselmann from Germany have been cited for their work in “physical modeling […]

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Climate Change Threatens Florida’s Jewel Everglades

[ad_1] Miami (AFP) Umberto Gimenez loves alligators. He gives them nicknames like “Smile” and “Momma Gator” and laughs when he thinks of their antics. Gimenez, an airboat captain, found his paradise in Florida’s Everglades National Park, a natural gem in the southeastern US state threatened by climate change. “It’s an amazing place and there is […]

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Climate change: what ancient caves reveal about future New Zealand floods

[ad_1] Prehistoric deposits left in ancient New Zealand caves – like the Waipuna Cave in Waitomo – could help scientists better understand how precipitation changes as our climate warms. Photo / Supplied Scientists are looking to prehistoric clues left in New Zealand caves to predict how climate change will cause deluge in our warmer, wilder […]

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Winter in Philadelphia can be snowy and cold, even with climate change

[ad_1] A month-long snow blitz was underway in Philadelphia, with up to 4 feet building up in nearby suburbs. Texas, which has long suffered devastating and destructive hurricane damage, experienced an all-out disaster of a different kind, a cold snap that bypassed the state’s electricity grid and darkened millions of homes and companies. At one […]

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Study: Climate change could reduce outdoor recreation on public lands

[ad_1] Nevada celebrated its fifth annual Public Lands Day over the weekend with events and free entry to the park, all designed to bring more people outside. However, a new report in the journal Global environmental change estimates that as the planet warms due to climate change, the demand for outdoor recreation on public lands […]

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Lorde’s ‘Golden Microphone’ Boosts Climate Change Efforts

[ad_1] Lorde was recognized at Varietyof the Power of Women event for her efforts on behalf of 350 Aotearoa, an organization “whose commitment to end fossil fuel projects here is truly inspiring,” she commented. Featured by Hunter Schafer, the model, LGBTQ advocate and star of HBO’s ‘Euphoria’, who said, “Over the past year, Lorde has […]

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Experts: To curb climate change, get the rich to adopt reforms

[ad_1] September 30 (UPI) – The rich have a larger carbon footprint than their affluent neighbors, several studies have confirmed. According to new research, published Thursday in the journal Nature Energy, they also have a greater ability to effect change. For the new study, scientists have identified five ways rich and well-connected people disproportionately impact […]

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Bjorn Lomborg: Blaming deadly floods and wildfires on climate change comes in handy for politicians

[ad_1] The media pay disproportionate attention to plane crashes, but just reporting many stories of plane crashes does not provide a good insight into transportation safety. You need statistics to realize that planes are much safer than cars. Alarmist climate reports are now causing the same problem with ever-proliferating stories of extreme heat waves, floods […]

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Low Oxygen Levels Along the Pacific Northwest a ‘Silent’ Climate Change Crisis

[ad_1] Yaquina Bay in Newport, Oregon, one of the state’s major Dungeness crab fishing towns. (Gino Rigucci / Dreamtime / TNS) SEATTLE – Almost two decades ago, fishermen discovered a strange event off the coast of Oregon. They were collecting pots of dead or lethargic crabs. At first they suspected a chemical spill or a […]

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Treasury model on climate change finds economy ‘resilient to natural disasters’

[ad_1] Peter Meecham / Stuff The Treasury has attempted to account for some of the costs of climate change in its long-term fiscal position report. More severe droughts and storms due to climate change could cause New Zealand’s net public debt to be about 4 percentage points higher than otherwise, over the next 40 years, […]

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How scientists can predict the future: the importance of climate models

[ad_1] Part of a scientist’s duty in today’s disinformation environment is to persuade the public about how science works. Making precise and measured projections about the future is necessary to convince the public to believe in science. Is it possible to make accurate predictions about how the world will look 50 years from now? (Photo: […]

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How Scientists Predict Climate Scenarios – Enter the World of Climate Models

[ad_1] The climate of our planet is an extremely complex subject. Of course, the underlying principles are simple, but incorporating the interaction between all the different elements is a very difficult task. To assess the situation on a large scale, researchers often turn to what are called climate models. A climate model is a quantitative […]

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First, global climate models will be available through the cloud

[ad_1] Currently, climate modeling is only accessible to a privileged few. As computing has become more sophisticated in recent decades, financial and practical hurdles have made grasping the complexity of how climate change could impact Earth’s systems out of reach for most. researchers. However, one of the biggest companies in the world is trying to […]

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Letter to the editor: Russian climate models are more accurate for forecasting purposes

[ad_1] When the global warming controversy started, the scientists involved released a graph: a graph / graph showing that the temperature of the atmosphere or the ocean (I can’t remember which one, but it doesn’t matter. now) is growing so rapidly lately that the graph looks like a hockey stick. In less than a day, […]

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Increased snowfall will offset sea level rise due to melting Antarctic ice sheet

[ad_1] The Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland. Credit: Thomas Overly A new study predicts that any rise in sea level on the world’s southernmost continent will be countered by increased snowfall, coupled with a warmer polar atmosphere. Using modern methods to calculate projected changes in sea level, the researchers found that the two ice caps in Greenland […]

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How Climate Models Work | FiveThirtyEight

[ad_1] Earlier this month, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released Part I of its latest Global Climate Assessment Report. The report draws on advanced climate modeling to illustrate to policymakers where global warming is heading. In this episode of Model Talk on the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Nate Silver and Galen Druke […]

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How machine learning helps us refine climate models to unprecedented detail – GCN

[ad_1] How machine learning helps us refine climate models to unprecedented detail By Navid Constantinou August 18, 2021 From movie suggestions to autonomous vehicles, machine learning has revolutionized modern life. Experts are now using it to help solve one of humanity’s biggest problems – climate change. With machine learning, we can use our abundance of […]

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How machine learning helps us refine climate models to unprecedented detail

[ad_1] From movie suggestions to autonomous vehicles, machine learning has revolutionized modern life. Experts are now using it to help solve one of humanity’s biggest problems – climate change. Through machine learning, we can use our abundance of historical climate data and observations to improve predictions of the Earth’s future climate. And these forecasts will […]

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Scientific flaws in IPCC climate models and concealment of problems in IPCC AR6 report

[ad_1] The strong positive shortwave radiation anomaly since 2001 The results of the temperature simulations of the IPCC and Ollila models Earth’s energy balance showing the magnitude of the greenhouse effect The IPCC climate models ignore the sharp increase in solar radiation since 2001. The IPCC tries to cover up the violation of the physical […]

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Yes, a few climate models give unexpected predictions, but technology remains a powerful tool

[ad_1] Credit: Shutterstock The long-awaited new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due later today. Prior to publication, a debate erupted over the computer models at the heart of global climate projections. Climate models are one of the many tools that scientists use to understand how the climate has changed in […]

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Yes, a few climate models give unexpected predictions – but technology remains a powerful tool

[ad_1] The long-awaited new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due later today. Prior to publication, a debate erupted over the computer models at the heart of global climate projections. Climate models are one of the many tools that scientists use to understand how the climate has changed in the past […]

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Need for post-economic growth climate models

[ad_1] Power plant. Steve Buissinne from Pixabay New climate models that challenge the assumption that rich countries can continue to pursue economic growth, while mitigating the impact of climate change, urgently need to be developed to help inform realistic public and policy debate. , say academics writing in the journal Natural energy. Academics are calling […]

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Can we correct climate models to better predict record weather?

[ad_1] Through Adam vaughan Flooding in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany on July 15 FERDINAND MERZBACH / NEWS5 / AFP via Getty Images Record-breaking climate events, such as Canada’s highest temperature on record, surpassed by nearly 5 ° C last month, will be increasingly likely over the next few decades, new research suggests. It comes as the […]

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Climate models have predicted extreme weather fluctuations. Can the damage be reversed?

[ad_1] William Brangham: Scientists have linked extreme weather fluctuations, from heat waves to torrential rains, to climate change, and these extremes are not limited to Europe. Last month, ground temperatures in the Arctic Circle reached over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Much of the western United States is suffering from severe drought, which has provided tinder ready […]

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Which areas will climate change make uninhabitable? Climate models alone cannot tell

[ad_1] Which areas will climate change make uninhabitable? Climate models alone cannot tell by Radley Horton and Alex de Sherbinin |June 17, 2021 This Somali family left their village after a drought killed most of their livestock. As climate change exacerbates droughts and food shortages in some areas, many people may be forced to leave […]

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Scientists study how regional climate variability affects animals in arid North America: UNM Newsroom

[ad_1] As visual evidence of climate change continues to shed light on a huge problem in the world, scientists studying at several National Science Foundation (NSF) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites are partially tackling the problem. problem by examining changes in the diversity and abundance of small mammals to understand their vulnerabilities to climate change. […]

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Climate models can predict decadal precipitation v

[ad_1] image: Ensemble mean forecast anomalies averaged over forecast years 2 to 9 for summer precipitation over the Inner Tibetan Plateau. Red line: retrospectives; Blue line: near real-time predictions; Black line: observations. Shadows represent uncertainty. seen Following Credit: HU Shuai Summer precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau is highly predictable over multi-year timescales in large ensemble […]

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A study assesses the performance of CMIP6 climate models in simulating the slowdown in global warming

May 18, 2021 Led by Dr. Wei and Dr. Qiao of the First Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources, a new study offers an evaluation of the performance of recently released CMIP6 models in simulating the deceleration of global warming seen in the early 2000s. Warming rate during the rapid warming period […]