Creating a simulation, they fed climate data, as well as factors like changes in carbon dioxide levels and soil composition over time, into a mathematical model.
To understand what effect climate change could have on the activity of three southern Kalahari dunefields, geomorphologist David Thomas of Oxford University in the United Kingdom and colleagues fed climate predictions into a model that yields a dune mobility index.
Most of the available information in this field is based on studies outside the Nordic countries where the conditions for dairy cows are different, for example in housing systems, feeding, climate and management.
George Brandis now suggests that while not violent itself, Hizb ut-Tahrir feeds "a climate which makes it easier for the terrorist recruiters to do their work".
Or that editors and producers sit up and take notice: the whole world is watching and that means they're watching the homophobic coverage and commentary, too, that perpetuates stereotypes, feeds a climate of intolerance, and ultimately can lead to violent acts against gay and transgender people.
To tune a model, they must feed it climate records up to a certain year say, 1990 and see how well it would have predicted climate patterns for the decade that followed.
It warned that this type of statement "fed the climate of Islamophobia which we live in at the moment".
As for the possibility of other kinds of blame — of homeowners and contractors who exploit and discard cheap immigrant labor, of politicians who feed a climate of resentment that has given Suffolk County a grim reputation for intolerance — no one has owned up to any of it.
The crisis that began in the United States has rapidly spun out of control in Europe, with television images of ministers rushing to bail out some of the largest banks and a succession of meetings in Paris over the weekend feeding a climate of fear that has dried up credit just as some economies head for recession.
Results of her work could eventually be "fed into climate models," she explains.
