Prominent climate scientists have ridiculed and criticized controversial Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson’s comments during an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast. During a new four-hour interview on Spotify’s most popular podcast, Peterson – who is not an expert on climate change – claimed the models used to predict the state could not be trusted. […]
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With climate models predicting less snow, ski areas seek to adapt | Business
[ad_1] SPOKANE, Wash. – This winter should be good, with a 70-80% chance that a La Niña will bring buckets of snow. If that happens, skiers and boarders will be thrilled, especially after a lackluster winter last year. The millions of dollars that local ski resorts have invested in improvements will start to pay off. […]
With climate models predicting less snow, local ski areas seek to adapt
[ad_1] This winter is shaping up to be good, with a 70 to 80% chance that a La Niña will bring buckets of snow. If that happens, skiers and snowboarders will be thrilled, especially after a lackluster winter last year. The millions of dollars that local ski resorts have invested in improvements will start to […]
Climate models are becoming more and more critical: Aeolus
[ad_1] Insurance and reinsurance companies are naturally at the forefront of understanding climate change risk, and as the debate about climate and resilience intensifies around the world, climate models are becoming increasingly in addition, according to Aeolus Capital Management Ltd. Artemis, our sister site focused on Insurance Related Securities (ILS), recently hosted a live interview […]
Aeolus Capital Management on the importance of climate models: Interview
[ad_1] For our latest Artemis Live video interview, we explored the importance of climate risk models in managing reinsurance and insurance-related securities (ILS) portfolios, with senior executives from Aeolus Capital Management.Aeolus Capital Management Ltd. is an investment fund manager specializing in reinsurance and retrocession that largely targets exposure to real estate catastrophes in its underwriting. […]
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 âtropical hydroclimatic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 âambitiousâ long-term strategies based on solid scientific evidence […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How political science can advance climate models
[ad_1] From thermal domes in the Pacific Northwest to flooding in Henan, China, 2021 has been a year of extreme weather events. It is more crucial and more timely than ever to identify the appropriate means to tackle climate change. With the conclusion of climate talks at the United Nations General Assembly, the eyes of […]
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 […]
How Climate Models Got So Accurate They Won A Nobel Prize
[ad_1] Climate modellers have a moment. Last month, Time magazine listed two – Friederike Otto and Geert Jan van Oldenborg of the World Weather Attribution Project – among the 100 Most Influential People of 2021. Two weeks ago, Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University was a guest on the popular talk show CBS Jimmy Kimmel […]
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 […]
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 […]
Climate models predict more frequent extreme heat
[ad_1] Climate change updates Sign up for myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about climate change news. New heat records were broken around the world this month, with Sicily setting a new European record of 48.8 ° C and Spain roasting with a national record of 47.4 ° C. While warm weather […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
To improve climate models, an international team turns to archaeological data
[ad_1] Climate modeling is forward-looking, its general intention to hypothesize what our planet might look like at a later date. Because Earth’s vegetation influences climate, climate models frequently include reconstructions of vegetation and are often validated by comparisons with the past. Yet such models tend to be oversimplified, obscuring or omitting how people affected the […]
To improve climate models, international team turns to archaeological data – ScienceDaily
[ad_1] Climate modeling is forward-looking, its general intention to hypothesize what our planet might look like at a later date. Because Earth’s vegetation influences climate, climate models frequently include reconstructions of vegetation and are often validated by comparisons with the past. Yet such models tend to be oversimplified, obscuring or omitting how people affected the […]
How to use climate models
[ad_1] The new report from the Australian Academy of Sciences, The risks for Australia of a 3 ° C hotter world, has grim predictions for the nation’s future under current carbon emissions policy and action. All of these predictions are based on climate models. Among the now familiar predictions of ecological and economic damage, the […]
New project to open years of atmospheric data, improve climate models
[ad_1] A Stanford researcher is leading a project to better understand gravity waves, tiny ripples that contribute to the global circulation of the atmosphere. Aditi Sheshadri The first step: estimate the amount of movement carried by gravity waves and make these new estimates available to the research community. And this is no small task. Since […]
How do climate models predict global warming?
[ad_1] When it rains in the morning and you plan to leave home to do your shopping in the afternoon, you may want to think about bringing an umbrella. You take it because you have noticed that it is raining and there is a good chance that it will rain later too. You’ve gathered information […]
What COVID forecasters can learn from climate models
[ad_1] A second national lockdown began in England on November 5.Credit: Hollie Adams / AFP / Getty Epidemiologists predicting the spread of COVID-19 should adopt climate modeling methods to make predictions more reliable, say computer scientists who have spent months auditing one of the pandemic’s most influential models. In a study that was uploaded to […]
The past is the key to predicting the future climate – Models should be tested by simulating past climates
[ad_1] Past carbon dioxide concentrations (left) versus possible future emission scenarios (right): the rate of current emissions is much faster – occurring over decades – unlike geological changes, which occur over millions of years. If emissions continue unabated, carbon dioxide levels could reach or exceed values ââassociated with warm climates of the past, such as […]
Is climate variability organized? – Eos
[ad_1] One fascinating aspect of the climate system is that its variability is governed by simple mathematical relationships. A recent paper in Geophysics Reviews explains how these mathematical relationships â in the form of power laws– structure a large part of climate variability in terms of time, space and intensity. Understanding how climate variability is […]
How hot will it be this century? The latest climate models suggest it could be worse than we thought
Climatologists use mathematical models to project Earth’s future in a warming world, but a group of latest models included surprisingly high values for a measure called “climate sensitivity.” Climate sensitivity refers to the relationship between changes in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and warming. High values are a bad surprise. If they’re right, that means […]
Evaluation of cloud cover predictions in climate models
Source: Earth and Space Sciences The clouds play a important role in the Earth’s climate and can warm or cool the atmosphere depending on their particular characteristics and when and where they form. Computer models of Earth’s future climate suffer from uncertainties related to the challenge of predicting cloud cover and how the effects of […]
The latest generation of climate models is getting hotter – here’s why
Prior to each Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, the Global Climate Modeling Centers produce a central database of standardized simulations. Over the past year, an interesting trend has emerged in the most recent round of this effort: the newer and better versions of these models are, on average, more sensitive to CO2, warming […]
ORNL’s Salil Mahajan: Acquiring a Perspective on Climate Variability Through High-Resolution Modeling
[ad_1] Computer climatologist Salil Mahajan simulates the complex and chaotic aspects of the climate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (Photo by ORNL / US Department of Energy) By Ashley C. Huff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory High resolution global climate simulation at multiple scales will help answer questions about future global and regional climates. However, […]
Decadal modulation of global surface temperature by internal climate variability
[ad_1] 1 Kosaka, Y. & Xie, SP. Recent hiatus in global warming linked to the cooling of the surface of the equatorial Pacific. Nature 501, 403â407 (2013). CASE Item Google Scholar 2 Fyfe, JC, Gillett, NP & Zwiers, FW Overestimation of global warming over the past 20 years. Nature Clim. Switch 3, 767-769 (2013). Item […]