Sentences with phrase «national climate assessment»

The USGCRP is mandated by Congress to issue a national climate assessment every four years to evaluate the state of climate science and the broad range of impacts of climate change in the United States.

In August 2007 a federal court ruled the Bush administration was in violation of the Global Change Research Act and ordered it to produce a years - overdue national climate assessment.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established the committee in 2015 to help businesses and state and local governments make use of the next national climate assessment.

The last national climate assessment, released in 2014, also concluded that recent warming was mostly due to humans, but didn't give a confidence level (SN Online: 5/6/14).

«States realize that they want access to this information; they want to have a better network and a better approach for applying information from the national climate assessments to their own infrastructure and other investment needs, so this is a way for them to make the statement that they want to participate and see this move forward,» Moss said.

He calls on Congress to take 5 % to 10 % of the funds that the United States gives to IPCC (which have averaged about $ 3 million annually over the last decade) and dedicate it to «a group of well - credentialed scientists to produce an assessment that expresses legitimate, alternative hypotheses that have been (in their view) marginalized, misrepresented or ignored in previous IPCC reports (and thus EPA and National Climate Assessments).

The biggest of these are the National Climate Assessments but there are many others.

Under the U.S. Global Change Research Act of 1990, the federal government has been charged with producing large National Climate Assessments (NCA), and today the most recent iteration has arrived.

Susan was the Senior Science Writer on all three National Climate Assessments, authoritative reports written in plain language to better inform policymakers and the public about climate change and its effects on our nation.

He has served as a lead author for the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on three US National Climate Assessments, and seven reports of the National Academies.

Here in the US it is mainly gotten around by having gov departments conduct «public education» in which they harass us about salt and sugar or putting out National Climate Assessments which are horribly done and «scary».

Instead, the public should look more to individual governments and organizations and national climate assessments (such as the one released by the Obama administration May 6) for more concrete action on controversial topics like emissions caps and geoengineering.

This workshop was designed to address a key issue for the USGCRP's National Climate assessments: providing information about climate - related hazards, risks, and opportunities in formats that are understandable, credible, and useful to decision makers in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to climate change in the regions or sectors for which they are responsible.

In a phone interview last week, Koonin said government reports like the national climate assessments could benefit from this kind of scrutiny, no matter who is in office, to separate spin from substance.

Not exact matches

Hellmann has co-authored several climate assessment and adaptation planning efforts, including the biodiversity and ecosystem portions of the Chicago Climate Action Plan and the 2014 National Climate Asseclimate assessment and adaptation planning efforts, including the biodiversity and ecosystem portions of the Chicago Climate Action Plan and the 2014 National Climate AsseClimate Action Plan and the 2014 National Climate AsseClimate Assessment.

She identified development of national flood building and disaster resiliency standards as two examples that could «drive locals to make better decisions,» and noted the president just announced that all international development programs will have to undertake a climate risk assessment going forward to qualify for federal funds.

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From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

For the assessments of climate impacts made herein, we follow guidance from the National Climate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on how to standardize confidence levels and uncertainty characterization in our key messages, as providedclimate impacts made herein, we follow guidance from the National Climate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on how to standardize confidence levels and uncertainty characterization in our key messages, as providedClimate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on how to standardize confidence levels and uncertainty characterization in our key messages, as providedClimate Change (IPCC) on how to standardize confidence levels and uncertainty characterization in our key messages, as provided below.

The projection framework has been widely used in the United States: it is a key input for the sea - level rise projections being used in the Fourth National Climate Assessment, and it underpins numerous state - and city - level assessments.

Furthermore, the National School Climate Center recommends that policymakers and administrators use its Comprehensive School Climate Inventory for internal needs assessments rather than to compare schools.77 Nonetheless, some states are already using survey instruments to classify schools.

In sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, South America and East Asia, AgMIP regional research teams (RRTs) are conducting integrated assessments to improve understanding of agricultural impacts of climate change (including biophysical and economic impacts) at national and regional scales.

The InterAcademy Council, the global association of national science academies, is going to assess how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change undertakes its assessments of climate science and policy cClimate Change undertakes its assessments of climate science and policy cclimate science and policy choices.

This autumn the Inter ¬ national Panel on Climate Change has issued its 5th assessment.

As species and ecosystem boundaries shift to keep pace with climate change, improved and better - integrated research, monitoring, and assessment efforts will be needed at national and global scales.

This scientific assessment is part of the ongoing efforts of USGCRP's sustained National Climate Assessment process and was called for under the President's Climate Action Plan.

That this is in spite of the fact that both the IPCC in their 2013 assessment and the US National Academy in their recent report on geoengineering both acknowledged that one can not address the climate change without CDR from the atmosphere.

We believe that policymakers, the media, and the public should pay attention to scientific expert credibility and the well - vetted comprehensive assessment reports prepared by a large number of the leading scientists — in particular the new IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, along with the National Academy of Sciences (4 - volume America's Climate Choices report) and the National Climate Assessment forthcoming from the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Their assessments of the state of knowledge on the subject are the «gold standard of climate change information,» said Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at the US government - funded National Centre for Atmospheric Research and chair of the National Academy of Science.

While at WWF, he coordinated reviews of climate impacts on U.S. national parks, marine ecosystems, and migratory birds, in addition to climate vulnerability assessments in southern Africa and China.

You don't appear to have actually studied climate research, you haven't looked at the mountain of peer - reviewed scientific work that is synthesized in the IPCC assessments, the National Climate Assessment, numerous reports from the National Academy of Sciences, and soclimate research, you haven't looked at the mountain of peer - reviewed scientific work that is synthesized in the IPCC assessments, the National Climate Assessment, numerous reports from the National Academy of Sciences, and soClimate Assessment, numerous reports from the National Academy of Sciences, and so forth.

Hundreds: the number of scientists involved in writing the assessments of climate science by the National Research Council of the National Academies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the U.S. Global Change Research Pclimate science by the National Research Council of the National Academies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the U.S. Global Change Research PClimate Change, and the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

After successfully passing a budget amendment back in May that basically forbids the Pentagon from acknowledging climate science — despite the fact that the Department of Defense considers doing so to be vital to national security — his newest effort prohibits both the U.S. Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers from spending «to design, implement, administer or carry out specified assessments regarding climate change.»

Phil Mote, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University, is skeptical of McPherson's predictions: «I've been connected to national and international assessments of the state of the science of climate change, and although my colleagues and I are generally very concerned about what challenges climate change is bringing to humankind, no expert that I have read has used language like «extinction of the human race.Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University, is skeptical of McPherson's predictions: «I've been connected to national and international assessments of the state of the science of climate change, and although my colleagues and I are generally very concerned about what challenges climate change is bringing to humankind, no expert that I have read has used language like «extinction of the human race.climate change, and although my colleagues and I are generally very concerned about what challenges climate change is bringing to humankind, no expert that I have read has used language like «extinction of the human race.climate change is bringing to humankind, no expert that I have read has used language like «extinction of the human race.»

We should continue to support broadly - authored scientific assessments, also including the U.S. National Climate Assessment now ongoing, as the best vehicle for engaging the leading scientists in a well - structured and systematically reviewed format, with comprehensive references, and so forth.

And that reality has been demonstrated over and over again, most recently in the work of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, led by Dr. Richard Muller, who began his comprehensive assessment as an avowed climate skeptic and ended it convinced by the clear evidence that global warming is happening and is caused by human activity.This conclusion is emphatically shared by the best and brightest of the global scientific community, including our own National Academy of Sciences.

These activities include: Investment & Financial Flows Assessments, regional meetings with national climate change focal points, publications about budgetary planning to address climate change, and technical backstopping for countries that begin to consider adaptation and mitigation for climate change in their National Development Plans, as well as participation in UNFCCC side events to present these activities national climate change focal points, publications about budgetary planning to address climate change, and technical backstopping for countries that begin to consider adaptation and mitigation for climate change in their National Development Plans, as well as participation in UNFCCC side events to present these activities National Development Plans, as well as participation in UNFCCC side events to present these activities results.

Happer, a particle physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, is among a group of physicists petitioning the American Physical Society to conduct an assessment of its statement on climate change.

This is the report of a workshop identifying successful examples of integrating practices and tools for climate risk assessment and management and disaster risk reduction strategies into national policies and programmes.

Kevin Trenberth, a climate analyst at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, and a lead author of two UN assessment reports, said that «short - lived» has always been a misnomer for these greenhouse gases.

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discuss how countries can enhance adaptation actions by strengthening the role of climate change risk assessment in national adaptation planning;

U.S. National Climate Assessment Midwest Technical Input Report, J. Winkler, J. Andresen, J. Hatfield, D. Bidwell, and D. Brown, Eds., Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments (GLISA) Center.

But if the biggest sinks start releasing theirs first, well, this is one of the Climate Surprises the IPCC and the U.S. National Climate Change assessment talk about.

The National Geographic article notes that the UCL study, «unlike other bleak assessments of the world's climate predicament, zeroes in on which regions should halt their production of coal, oil, and gas — and by how much.»

It's worth noting here that the administration is, in fact, implementing something like this, making climate a key part of federal project assessment and approval under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

The Geological Society of America «The Geological Society of America (GSA) concurs with assessments by the National Academies of Science (2005), the National Research Council (2006), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the middle 1900s.Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the middle 1900s.climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the middle 1900s.»

This peace is a reflection on climate change policy in the United States after the recent climate change national assessment of climate change impacts on the United States was issued in May.

Requires the President to: (1) establish an interagency United States Global Change Research Program to improve understanding of global change, to respond to the information needs of communities and decision makers, and to provide periodic assessments of the vulnerability of the United States and other regions to global and regional climate change; (2) develop a National Global Change Research and Assessment Plan for Program implementation; and (3) submit to Congress an outline of the Plan within a year, a completed Plan within three years, and revised plans at least once every five years thereafter.