Sentences with phrase «second assessment report»

There's no doubt that the second assessment report made a huge difference in this country in terms of climate science.

As Bernie Lewin reminds us in one chapter of a fascinating new book of essays called Climate Change: The Facts (hereafter The Facts), as late as 1995 when the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with its last - minute additional claim of a «discernible human influence» on climate, Nature magazine warned scientists against overheating the debate.

I have had a chance of observing the production of the SPMs for a number of years, right from the second assessment report when I was co-chair of working group three, right up to this last assessment report.

In 1996, when the IPCC released its second assessment report, stating that the human impact on climate was «discernible», a fossil - fuel - industry - funded group called the Global Climate Coalition accused the IPCC author Benjamin Santer of making unauthorised changes to make global warming appear more certain than it was.

The headline reads: IPCC SECOND ASSESSMENT REPORT — KEY NEW FINDINGS / PREDICTIONS

In the 1995 second assessment report (SAR) the IPCC made the widely quoted statement that «The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate».

Not exact matches

In the second quarter of fiscal 2017, the company performed an interim impairment assessment on the intangible assets of the Bolthouse Farms carrot and carrot ingredients reporting unit and the Garden Fresh Gourmet reporting unit as operating performance was well below expectations and a new leadership team of the Campbell Fresh division initiated a strategic review which led to a revised outlook for future sales, earnings, and cash flow.

As a result of the testimony given, the report recommends the state Department of Education immediately address several concerns, such as expediting waivers from the U.S. Department of Education «to relax onerous and rigid testing restrictions placed on certain students,» especially with English as a Second Language students and students with disabilities; producing all missing or incomplete curriculum modules; aligning assessments proportionally to curriculum actually implemented; and increasing funding for the professional development of teachers.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is meeting in Yokohama, Japan, will release the second report of its massive assessment on Sunday, March 30 EDT (March 31 in Japan).

This study — only the second overall assessment of diet and food on this disease — provides a very thorough evaluation of current scientific knowledge and makes a point of only reporting dietary interventions and specific foods that clearly show proven long - term effects.

In a 2004 report, its second with negative findings, the evaluators said, «There were no statistically significant differences on reading assessments between students who were exposed to the courseware and comparable students who were not exposed to the courseware.»

Linn (1998) has suggested that policy - makers have placed enormous emphasis on assessment reform because it is relatively inexpensive and easy to mandate, can be implemented rapidly, and is easily reported by the press, when compared to the type professional development and restructuring / reculturing of schools required to affect deep, second - order educational change (Fullan & Miles, 1992).

A long - standing dispute over standardized testing of California's second graders has simmered back to the surface, as lawmakers consider legislation that would remove the assessment from the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, beginning July 2012.

And so, a major fear with this second Report (and, in general) is that districts or schools might simply pick one or more actions from its menu of school improvement clusters... without linking them to the results of a systematic and effective needs and root cause assessment, resource and capacity analysis, and strategic planning process.

A second irony is that the assessments on which teachers feel least trained and regard as least useful are used most often for evaluations and public reports.

Second, even those supporters who are open to external forms of accountability, or at least reporting outside the boundaries of the classroom or school, often claim that standardized tests, state assessments, and other external measures of student accomplishment do not provide sensitive indicators of the goals of curricula based upon whole language principles.

The Developmental Editing package also includes a Skype call to discuss your revision strategy, day - to - day email support throughout the revision process, a second assessment and report on your revised second draft, and longer access to weekly email support afterwards.

Following the risk assessments of paradigmatic infectious diseases implemented by the Expert Advisory Groups (EAGs) during the second cycle of activities and linking main outcomes of the first cycle - analysis of the current situation as concerns zoonosis transmitted by companion animals - CALLISTO produced a series of recommendations that are fully described in the Third Cycle Strategy Report.

From a preliminary assessment of second national communications, it is clear that further methodological work is necessary in order to ensure that the estimation and reporting of GHG inventory data for land - use change and forestry are consistent, transparent and comparable.

Despite the utility of the National Assessment, the Administration, most aggressively from the second half of 2002 onward, acted to essentially bury the National Assessment, i.e., by suppressing discussion of it by participating agencies for purposes of research planning by the Climate Change Science Program; suppressing references to it in published program documents including annual program reports to Congress; withdrawing support from the coordinated process of scientist - stakeholder interaction and assessment that had been initiated by the first National Assessment; and making clear that no second National Assessment would be undertaken.

Loss of forest, woodland, and savanna increased sharply in Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Bolivia during the second quarter of 2013, reports a new assessment by...

Smith, who is the convening lead author of the second working group report on vulnerability to climate change, says: «The new assessment has increased our confidence that the effects for climate change are beginning to be seen, in terms of rise in temperature, sea levels and heavy precipitation events».

-LSB-...] Here is Figure 1.4 of the Second Order Draft, showing post-AR4 observations outside the envelope of projections from the earlier IPCC assessment reports (see previous discussion here).

(11/04/2009) The EU is the world's second largest source of carbon dioxide emissions from peatlands drainage, after Indonesia, reports the first country - by - country assessment of peat stocks.

An «interim» version of the second climate assessment was published by the Bush administration in May of 2008, but only after pressure from a critical Government Accountability Office report requested by Senators John McCain and John Kerry, and a successful lawsuit filed by environmental groups to force action.

Most readers will know that this was Taseko's second attempt to secure federal approval for its proposed mine and that the federal review panel that conducted the second environmental assessment (EA) concluded that, like the original Prosperity project, it too was likely to result in significant adverse environmental effects (SAEEs)(for more on the panel's report, see my previous post here)...

Interviewing and sociometric techniques may constitute an important part of an assessment design but would be considered second choices, argues the same author, adding that projective - expressive techniques or objective, self - report instruments may help in further clarification of the results but should only be used in a complimentary manner (Merrell, 2001).

Second, our longitudinal study involved assessment of parental behavior at just one time point (i.e., parent - child interactions were studied at Time 1 only and parental reports of the HLE were gathered at Time 2 only) and so cross-lagged analyses to determine the direction of the association between parental behavior, EF and academic outcomes was not possible (Menard, 2002).

The following inclusion criteria was used: (a) a confirmed ASD diagnosis from available clinician reports or the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS; Lord et al. 2008), as well as scores above the cut - off on the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ; Rutter et al. 2003) or the Social Responsiveness Scale, Second Edition (SRS - 2; Constantino and Gruber 2012); (b) at least average intellectual functioning (IQ > 79) 1 on the two - subtest scale (FSIQ - 2: vocabulary and matrix reasoning) of the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence - 2nd Edition (WASI - II; Wechsler 2011); (c) between the ages of 8 and 12 years; and (d) demonstrated willingness to attend research assessments and 10 weekly therapy sessions.

At the second assessment, which took place about five months after the study began, both groups of couples again completed questionnaires reporting on their relationships and their general psychological adjustment.