If you were to count the number of times in a day that your actions do not match your intentions, in your opinion, what would the count be? It’s a perfect example of what behavioral economics rotates on; the famous intention-action gap. Here, Joshua Gordon, writing for FirstRand, gives everyday examples of how easily things […]
Nili Gilbert has always enjoyed solving difficult problems. As a young girl, she spent hours poring over the mind-bending book The Lady or the Tiger? And other logic puzzles. Years later, while working as a quantitative investor, he was modeling human behavior which turned out to be a particularly difficult puzzle. Today, as Vice President […]
Thames-Coromandel District Council Coastal flooding on the Coromandel Peninsula last year – long term coastal protection costs could be high. Calculating the long-term costs of climate change for the Waikato is a bit like guessing the proverbial length of a very elongated piece of string. But, although no rough estimate of the costs has yet […]
A new study from Nine and leading market research firm Crowd.DNA shows that the loss of faith in government policy to act on climate change is seeing Australians want big companies and brands to come up with bold plans to a sustainable future. The research, published today at Nine’s State of the Nation The virtual […]
By US Department of Energy February 20, 2022 Earth system models and climate models are a complex integration of environmental variables used to understand our planet. Earth system models simulate how chemistry, biology, and physical forces work together. These models are similar to but much more comprehensive than global climate models. To understand Earth system […]
CLIMATE CHANGE By Peter Makwana AS climate change-related emissions continue to rise, leading to long-term impacts, well-known global emitters are trying to circumvent regulatory procedures and standards by opting for the business as usual (BAU) concept while continuing to issue and adapt. The concept of business as usual as an information tool for future energy […]
Before they can understand how our planet’s climate is changing, scientists must first understand the basic principles of this complex system – the gears that turn Earth’s climate. You can create simple models with simple interactions, and that’s what happened in the first part of the 20th century. But from the 1950s and 1960s, researchers […]
Opinions expressed by Contractor the contributors are theirs. The outcome of COP26 left many disappointed. Although 151 parties have submitted new or updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs) ahead of the conference, commitments to reduce emissions continue to lag significantly behind what is needed to limit the global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030. Calls […]
[ad_1] Great strides have been made in the past decades to clean up the action of the industry, but disasters continue to happen. Vale, the Brazilian mining giant, has presided over two tailings dam failures in the past six years, with another now imminent. Rio Tinto’s destruction of two ancient sacred rock shelters in Western […]
[ad_1] In late 1966, in the sprawling computer lab of the Washington, DC office building that housed the United States Meteorological Bureau, Syukuro Manabe was waiting for a print job to finish. The stake was the fate of the planet. Manabe, who was thirty-five, had come to the United States from Japan almost a decade […]
[ad_1] Climate change has serious consequences for people and the planet. A robust industrial infrastructure, which aims to meet the demand of a growing population, places significant pressure on the environment and the resources available to us. Consequently, the role of industries in mitigating these climate risks will be critical and organizations must develop an […]
[ad_1] Natural disasters have cost the United States more than $ 600 billion in the past five years. With climate change, these costs are expected to continue to rise. In the future, the management and distribution of these harms will become increasingly important. Insurance is a tool to do it. Unfortunately, the insurance system is […]
[ad_1] Field photograph of the Shilou red clay sequence of the eastern Chinese loess plateau. Credit: Ao Hong A recent study by an international research group led by Professor Ao Hong of the Institute of the Earth’s Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the variability and dynamics of the Asian climate during the […]
[ad_1] image: Field photograph of the Shilou red clay sequence of the eastern Chinese loess plateau seen Following Credit: AO Hong A recent study by an international research group led by Professor AO Hong of the Institute of the Earth’s Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the variability and dynamics of the Asian […]
[ad_1] Geneva, November 30, 2021 (WMO) – La Niña has grown for the second year in a row and is expected to last until early 2022, influencing temperatures and rainfall. Despite the refreshing influence of this natural climatic phenomenon, temperatures in many parts of the world are expected to be above average due to accumulated […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[ad_1] Qatar unveils its strategy on environment and climate change Oct 29, 2021 – 11:41 AM Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior HE Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani at the launch of the State of Qatar’s National Strategy on Environment and Climate Change at the Sheraton Doha hotel yesterday . In […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[ad_1] The ESG The investment industry is growing exponentially as investors flock to the space, seeking either to invest in accordance with their personal values ​​or to capture some of the market action. Although this is an unregulated space at the moment, standards could soon arrive from the SECOND, at least as far as ESG […]
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[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 […]
[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, […]
[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 […]
[ad_1] Residents of Fuga Island in Aparri, Cagayan, will expect more science and technology (S&T) interventions, according to Department of Science and Technology (DOST) secretary Fortunato de la Peña. He said in a report that the agency had worked with the Philippine Marines, the Ministry of Education and the local government of Aparri to achieve […]
[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 […]
[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. […]
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 […]
[ad_1] image: Warming rate during the rapid warming period (1975 / 01-1997 / 12) (a) and warming gap period (1998 / 01-2013 / 12) (b) and the change in warming rate during the period of hiatus from the period of rapid warming (c). All warming rates are derived from 28 simulated global temperature time series […]
[ad_1] Cow / calf operations in the Great Plains are likely to be affected by the increased variability in rainfall which supports forage production for 50% of the country’s cow herd. Texas A&M AgriLife photo By ADAM RUSSELL Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Mother Nature has provided increasingly erratic precipitation for the Great Plains over the […]
[ad_1] The author is professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado The late Kenneth Arrow, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1972, previously worked as a long-term weather forecaster in the US military. When he realized that this weather forecast was no more accurate than random guesses, Arrow passed the message […]
[ad_1] May 5 (UPI) – If world leaders and policymakers fail to find a way to cut emissions and limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius, the target set by the Paris Agreement, new models suggest that ice losses in Antarctica will cause a dramatic rise in sea level. According to a study published Wednesday in […]
[ad_1] Mother Nature has provided increasingly erratic rainfall for the Great Plains over the past decade, affecting grasslands, forage systems and cattle production in the region – and scientists expect this trend to continue. intensifies. Cow / calf operations in the Great Plains are likely to be affected by the increased variability in rainfall which […]
[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 […]
[ad_1] The Antarctic ice sheet is not melting in the linear way our climate models predicted. Instead, a more detailed model shows that as the rate of ice loss at the South Pole accelerates rapidly, there is snowfall and brief respite from melting along the way. “The ice sheet doesn’t change at a constant rate […]
[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 — 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 […]
The Maranoa River south of Mitchell, Queensland during the 2017 drought. Credit: Chris Fithall (Flickr Creative Commons CC BY 2.0) An analysis of new climate model projections by Australian researchers at the ARC Center of Excellence for Climate Extremes shows South West Australia and parts of South Australia will experience longer and more intense droughts […]
A new study by climatologists at the University of Michigan concludes that some of the latest generation climate models may be overly sensitive to increases in carbon dioxide and therefore project unrealistic future warming. In a letter scheduled for publication April 30 in the journal Natural climate changethe researchers say projections from one of the […]
A new study by climatologists at the University of Michigan concludes that some of the latest generation climate models may be overly sensitive to increases in carbon dioxide and therefore project unrealistic future warming. In a letter scheduled for publication April 30 in the journal Natural climate change, the researchers say that projections from one […]
[ad_1] At a time when Australia was suffocating in record heat as bushfires burned uncontrollably, then suffered from severe storms, a recent study seeks to quantify the effect of climate variability on the country’s agricultural profits.The impacts of short-term climate risks such as drought and longer-term changes in weather conditions have hurt Australian farmers, with […]
[ad_1] Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) Knowledge report provides analysis on the effects of climate variability on Australian crop and livestock farms. The report examines both short-term climate risks such as drought and long-term changes in climatic conditions. ABARES Senior Economist Dr Neal Hughes said that an observed change to […]
A recent to study computer climate models dating back to the 1970s have shown them to be very accurate in relation to what actually happened over the following decades. This builds confidence in modern models that predict further changes in the future. In the 1970s, climatologists began to report the increasing amount of carbon dioxide […]
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania — Equilibrium climate sensitivity — the sensitivity of Earth’s climate to changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide — may be underestimated in individual climate models, according to a team of climatologists. “Probabilistic estimates of climate system properties often rely on comparing the model simulation with observed temperature records and an estimate of internal […]
Katharine Hayhoe knows that climate models are not perfect. “The more you know about models, the less you trust them and the more you blow their tires,” says Dr. Hayhoe, co-director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. Why we wrote this When planning for the future, certainty can be hard to come […]
Chaos theory encompasses vast swaths of mathematics and physics, but it was Edward Lorenz who immortalized it in popular culture. Its now famous 1972 presentation, which summarized his decade-long work in the field, focused on a single provocative question: Can the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil trigger a tornado in Texas? Although he […]
Professor Stephen Belcher is Chief Scientist at UK Met Office; Doctor Olivier Boucher is at the head of Pierre Simon Laplace Institute (IPSL) Climate Modeling Center; and Professor Rowan Sutton is director of climate research at UK National Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS), Reading University. The first results of a new generation of global climate […]
According to an international team of researchers from 17 countries. The results published last week in nature geoscience are based on observational evidence of three warm periods over the past 3.5 million years, when the world was 0.5°C to 2°C warmer than pre-industrial temperatures in the 19th century. The research has also revealed how large […]
[ad_1] New research linking climate variability to mental distress among poor rural India addresses hotly debated topic Working outdoors in summer leads to heat stress (Photo by Nevil Javeri) Climate variability affects the psychological well-being of adults, especially the rural poor, reports new research from India, reigniting debate over the complex interplay of factors that […]
[ad_1] Abstract Long-term planning for an adequate and secure supply of drinking water must be placed in the context of growing external uncertainties resulting from changes in climate and the environment. The Water Safety Plan (PSE) process provides a systematic framework for managing these risks taking into account the implications of climate variability and change. […]
[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public domain New research from the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that the changing topography of the ice caps in the northern hemisphere during the last ice age forced changes in the climate of Antarctica, a mechanism of interpolar climate change hitherto undocumented. The new study published today in the journal […]
[ad_1] Based on a unique global comparison of data from core samples taken from the ocean floor and polar ice caps, AWI researchers have now shown that although climate change has indeed diminished in the world between ice ages and interglacials, the difference is by no means as pronounced as previously assumed. Until now, it […]
[ad_1] New research from the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that the changing topography of the ice caps in the northern hemisphere during the last ice age forced changes in Antarctica’s climate, a mechanism of interpolar climate change hitherto undocumented. The new study – published today in the journal Nature and co-authored by researchers […]
[ad_1] Climate change is a permanent deviation from the mean or the mean, whether it is hotter, cooler, wetter or drier. It can also be defined as the changes that occur due to human activities, such as increased levels of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Climate variability, on the other hand, is a variation […]
[ad_1] It’s amazing what a little sun and blue sky can do for the soul. Add an increasingly dramatic fall color palette and you’ve got a classic Minnesota fall day. October sky. Paul Huttner / MPR News It was the days of October that built the legend of Minnesota’s fall weather. Try to find that […]