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The latest example of this strategy began unfolding earlier this month when David Rose, an opinion writer for the British tabloid The Daily Mail — known for misrepresentations of climate change and serial attacks on climate scientists — published a commentary attacking Tom Karl, the recently retired director of the National Centers for Environmental Information at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and a scientist for whom I have deep respect.

by Jay Lawrimore, Chief, Data Set Branch, Center for Weather and Climate, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information at NOAA.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Clean Harbors is working with the town and the Department of Environmental Protection on a clean - up plan, and there will be a public information session about the plan Wednesday at the Public Safety Facility.

More information on the Murray - Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project can be found at: Environmental Water Knowledge and Research

Further information on the activities of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office is available at www.environment.gov.au/ewater/index.html.

The full research plans and more information about MDB EWKR can be accessed on the Murray - Darling Freshwater Research Centre website at Murray - Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project.

Information collected from the monitoring will inform adaptive environmental water management in the Macquarie Marshes and at other important waterbird locations across the basin.

Further information about Commonwealth environmental water is available at: www.environment.gov.au/ewater

More than 100 volunteers have served on nine committees to gather information on proposed improvements to district parks and their facilities, including building natural and local history exhibits at Peck Farm; building athletic fields and environmental study areas; constructing a new swimming pool; repairing the retaining wall around Island Park on the Fox River; renovating old playgrounds and building new ones; restoring tennis courts and building new ones; and expanding the community center.

At 5:15 p.m., labor, business and environmental leaders hold a news conference ahead of New York state Energy Research and Development Authority's public information meetings on offshore wind power for New York, Queens Public Library, 92 - 25 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Queens.

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While on - air gaffes clearly make great television drama, news editors have at their disposal many information - rich sources that could be used to more routinely question the parties» policies, from economists and academics to legal, medical or environmental experts.

«It will again provide current information to help fight environmental issues at the community level and provide relevant information for use by stakeholders including farmers, researchers and international organizations» Mrs. Dovi stated.

For information regarding boil water guidance for residents and permitted restaurant facilities: visit the Environmental Health section at Oneida County Health Department web site at ocgov.net/health.

For more information about these programs, or for general information on how to help prevent lead poisoning, contact the ECDOH Environmental Health Division at [phone].

For more information about these programs, or for general information on how to help prevent lead poisoning, contact the ECDOH Environmental Health Division at 716-961-6800.

Greening the Recovery identifies innovation, infrastructure and information as the key areas in which policies are needed to support a green economy, in addition to arguing for environmental fiscal reform and specific policies at UK and EU level to support resource efficiency.

Jared Rennie and Ronald Leeper at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, N.C., reported that daily maximum temperatures were 0.86 F warmer for the traditional screened stations compared with USCRN stations.

John Michael Humphries Choptiany formerly of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and now at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, together with colleagues at Dalhousie, Alberta Innovates — Technology Futures (AITF), and G BACH Enterprises Incorporated, explain how they have adopted information from the environmental, social, economic and engineering fields to create their assessment framework, which incorporates utility curves, criterion weights, thresholds, decision trees, Monte Carlo simulation, critical events and sensitivity analysis.

For more than 3 decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had been compiling information about water quality violations across the country — but no one had published a national assessment looking at long - term trends in those data.

«If everyone has the same information, then there may be an overreaction,» says Moshe Ben - Akiva, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dagmar Beck, who oversees four PSM programs at Rice University in Houston, Texas, says she has information on all but one of the 75 students who have graduated since the programs in nanoscale physics, subsurface geoscience, and environmental analysis and decision - making were established in 2002.

Instrumented towers and other facilities at NEON sites across the United States will collect a wide assortment of environmental information.

And from 19 June, J's Joint, at the University of Westminster, http://www.wmin.ac.uk/media/hrc/ will offer you the chance to find out about environmental protests and add your own information.

Such information can be obtained from literature or databases, but it can also be so - called tacit knowledge collected through expert interviews,» says Pulkkinen, who will defend her thesis at the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences of the University of Helsinki on 27 February 2015.

«For this study, GRACE served as a unique tool that provided information on water volume changes directly from space, and corroborated the water balance estimates,» said Hyongki Lee, a co-author of the study and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Houston.

In addition to collecting scans of brain structure and function, the research teams at 21 study sites around the country will regularly gather a trove of other information from each youngster, from psychological, cognitive, and environmental data to biological specimens such as DNA.

«As all kinds of sensors become smaller, cheaper, and more networked, there is a great opportunity for architecture to come to life and respond to information about environmental conditions that are normally invisible,» says David Benjamin, an architect with the design team at The Living.

«More detailed information may make it possible to better understand where the bacteria came from — from what sort of animal, or from what part of the world,» explains Robert Tauxe, deputy director of foodborne, waterborne and environmental diseases at the CDC.

Condor Watch allows us to engage a team of citizen scientists to tap into this wealth of information,» said Myra Finkelstein, an adjunct professor of environmental toxicology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

«Plasmonic particles have also found applications in areas such as information technology, energy production, or environmental pollution control, among others,» says Guillermo González Rubio, co-author of the paper who has obtained his PhD at the UCM under the supervision of Andrés Guerrero Martínez and Luis Liz Marzán.

While that streak will eventually end, Deke Arndt, the head of the climate monitoring division at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, said that the long - term warming trend is stll clear.

«In 2017, every state in the Lower 48 had an average temperature that was above average, and this is the third consecutive year that has been the case,» said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

The general public probably does not understand the nuance, acknowledged Stephanie Herring, an attribution scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

At this size, circuits can begin to execute really useful behaviors by taking in information from different environmental sensors and performing calculations to decide on the correct response.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

Results of the study by Janet Yang, a University at Buffalo expert on the communication of risk information related to science, health and environmental issues, suggest that holding a collective, communitarian belief system contributed to altruistic behavior, while those who hold more individualistic values are less likely to be altruistic regardless of how much risk is triggered.

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«There is no slowdown in global warming,» Russell Vose, the head of the climate science division at the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), said.

How to leverage this information is the challenge,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the U of I and the lead author on the research.

Nations that do not have the money to gather their own data sets could use the free EMU data and visualizations to manage their marine resources, says Peter Harris, a marine geologist at the environmental information - management centre GRID - Arendal in Arendal, Norway.

«We make bad decisions all the time,» says Sabine Marx, associate director at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University, thanks to incomplete information or other barriers to action, like high up - front costs for things like insulation.

REON, located at Beacon Institute's Center for Environmental Innovation and Education (CEIE) in Beacon, N.Y., will collect, sort, analyze and graphically display information about the river, making it available to Beacon Institute and Clarkson researchers as well as those studying marine environments worldwide.

Effective interpretation of these images, however, can be hindered by the environmental conditions at the time the photo was taken, the quality of the image and the lack of topographical information.

Last week, at the Society for Conservation Biology's annual meeting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, researchers and conservationists gathered to highlight how the HIV epidemic is threatening biodiversity, and to share information on how to alleviate an escalating human and environmental tragedy.

«I am almost sure that in ten years all the research on biodiversity will be done with DNA, because it will be so easy to get this type of information and the cost is not very high,» says Pierre Taberlet, a geneticist at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, and co-editor of the April issue of Molecular Ecology, which is devoted to the emerging field of studying environmental DNA.

«This study shows how well top - down proteomics works, especially to get at regulatory information,» said co-author Ljiljana Pasa - Tolic, who led top - down proteomics development with mass spectroscopist Si Wu at EMSL, DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory on the PNNL campus.

«At the time, there was limited research on jellyfish,» says Condon, «along with less awareness of global - scale environmental problems, and less information transmitted around the world quickly.