Sentences with phrase «before focusing on climate change»

Before focusing on climate change, Ed worked in the field of public health as both an academic and a practitioner.

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The first morning lecture series for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which is focused on physics for this, its 62nd anniversary year, got off to a cosmic start, tracing the origins and evolution of the universe, before crashing back to Earth with a discussion of climate change.

The focus of the debate on CO2 is not wholly predicated on its attribution to past forcing (since concern about CO2 emissions was raised long before human - caused climate change had been clearly detected, let alone attributed), but on its potential for causing large future growth in forcings.

Before he was appointed to the White House position, Holdren was a professor at Harvard in both the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as director of the nonprofit Woods Hole Research Center, which focuses on climate change science and policy.

The Dorset story There has been an energy team in Dorset County Council since the mid 1970s — before carbon reduction and climate change were in the headlines the main focus was on saving money.

The gallery celebrates 10 years of supporting exceptional artists, filmmakers and musicians, but the benefit (which raised $ 765,000 this year) extends beyond Texas» art scene: Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom Marfa's co-founder and executive director, told DuJour before dinner, «We're going to continue doing what we've been doing, but also expand our Marfa dialog,» the forefront of which is a focus on climate change and environmental issues through programs involving grants and partnerships in New York this fall.

Focusing especially on anything in that which might enhance our solving the coming climate change catastrophe before it happens or enabling climate models to be enhanced in their predictive power.

With the failure of federal climate change legislation, considerable national attention is focused on Proposition 23, which marks the first time a global warming law has been put before voters.

That is when the Climate Change Authority delivers its first report on Australia's ambition, and this will be in the same year as the IPCC delivers its next assessment of the climate change science, and UN president Ban Ki - moon gathers world leaders in a summit focused on raising emission reduction targets beforClimate Change Authority delivers its first report on Australia's ambition, and this will be in the same year as the IPCC delivers its next assessment of the climate change science, and UN president Ban Ki - moon gathers world leaders in a summit focused on raising emission reduction targets beforeChange Authority delivers its first report on Australia's ambition, and this will be in the same year as the IPCC delivers its next assessment of the climate change science, and UN president Ban Ki - moon gathers world leaders in a summit focused on raising emission reduction targets beforclimate change science, and UN president Ban Ki - moon gathers world leaders in a summit focused on raising emission reduction targets beforechange science, and UN president Ban Ki - moon gathers world leaders in a summit focused on raising emission reduction targets before 2020.

That's why we are focused on conserving habitat and reducing other threats that have the potential to reduce bird populations even before the impacts of climate change are fully realized.

Lastly, I would like to draw the Committee's attention to the testimony of Dr. Steven Murawski, of NMFS, at a hearing on Projected and Past Effects of Climate Change: a Focus on Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Subcommittee on Global Climate Change and Impacts, on April 26, 2006.

Before climate change became obvious, when it was merely a prediction, the sensitivity was a good thing to focus on.

By helping local and national decision - makers understand the current and future impacts before them, the IPCC report provides guidance on where to focus our attention in order to help vulnerable communities adapt to climate change.