Sentences with phrase «body on climate research»

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's leading body on climate research and its most authoritative voice, has said that developed countries must reduce their carbon pollution by at least 25 - 40 percent by 2020 if the world is to have any chance at keeping temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius.

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R. S. Sharma, a public health specialist on the panel from the Indian Council of Medical Research, writes in the report that, «the hot tropical climate of the country, the low body mass index; low fat content of an average Indian as compared to European countries and high environmental concentration of radio frequency radiation may place Indians under risk of radio frequency radiation adverse effect.»

For example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the cards.

It also grows on a long body of community ecology research that emphasizes the importance of biodiversity for buffering against the negative effects of climate change.»

A large body of research has investigated the influence of weather and climate on atmospheric chemistry.

The first, Schatz's amendment, cites scientific bodies like the National Research Council and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in asking whether it's the «sense of Congress» that «climate change is real» and that «human activity significantly contributes to climate change.Climate Change in asking whether it's the «sense of Congress» that «climate change is real» and that «human activity significantly contributes to climate change.climate change is real» and that «human activity significantly contributes to climate change.climate change.»

The research in Science and Nature Climate Change, although on two different topics, fits into a growing body of knowledge about the side effects of ice loss.

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.

The National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. (set up by President Lincoln to advise on scientific issues), as well as major National Academies of Science around the world and every other authoritative body of scientists active in climate research have stated that the science is clear: the world is heating up and humans are primarily responsible.

Five impressively researched sections frame our Anthropocene impacts (with considerable focus on climate change); discuss the innovations that might ameliorate those impacts; enumerate man's interaction with (read: manipulation of) and influence upon nature; outline the intersection of our technological advances and nature; and explore our mind - boggling tinkering with the human body and psyche.

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In «The gap between ambition and action in tackling global warming,» a commentary published today in The Guardian, Sabine Fuss and Jan Minx of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change provide vital guidance to the climate panel leadership and the countries that created this pioneering scientific body in 1988 (hopefully to provide clear - eyed insights, no matter how inconveClimate Change provide vital guidance to the climate panel leadership and the countries that created this pioneering scientific body in 1988 (hopefully to provide clear - eyed insights, no matter how inconveclimate panel leadership and the countries that created this pioneering scientific body in 1988 (hopefully to provide clear - eyed insights, no matter how inconvenient).

The same body of research on climate attitudes, for example, shows far less disagreement on the need for advancing the world's limited menu of affordable energy choices.

But in reflecting on the value of the accumulated body of research pointing to a growing human influence on climate, I find it just as valuable to recall, along with Broecker's achievements, one of his missteps.

As part of the trend in higher education toward moving more course offerings onto the Web, the University of Chicago has launched Open Climate 101, an online version of a popular course led by David Archer that explores for non-science majors the body of research pointing to a rising human influence on the climate Climate 101, an online version of a popular course led by David Archer that explores for non-science majors the body of research pointing to a rising human influence on the climate climate system.

Robert J. Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University, has for years been been a valuable guide for me to the large, and largely under - appreciated, body of behavioral research illuminating why it's so hard to gain traction on the super wicked problem of human - driven climate change.

My article for Sunday Review also touches on the building body of Arctic climate and ice research that draws strong lines between human - driven global warming and the retreat of ice that's allowed Arctic shipping and tourism to surge.

However, in the body of the press release, Singer is quoted as saying, «Our research demonstrates that the ongoing rise of atmospheric CO2 has only a minor influence on climate change.

These issues are likely to be a major focus of the forthcoming report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the body of scientists who produce the most authoritative and comprehensive summaries of climate reClimate Change (IPCC), the body of scientists who produce the most authoritative and comprehensive summaries of climate reclimate research.

The latest Times story once again ignores these decades of continuous and public research by the company on the challenge of climate change, research often conducted in collaboration with governmental bodies and leading universities.

In terms of what the research might suggest about the world of several decades hence, the paper in question doesn't materially change the picture painted in reports from such bodies as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research research might suggest about the world of several decades hence, the paper in question doesn't materially change the picture painted in reports from such bodies as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research Research (CGIAR).

There's a large and growing body of scholarly research on climate - change ethics, including a number of recent excellent books on the topic suitable for lay readers.

With the Lima agreement, «we are on track to [be] between 3 to 3.5 degrees [by 2100] so far,» says Massimo Tavoni, deputy director of the climate change unit at Italian research body Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, one of the institutions involved in the report.

The three - body problem is of course at the center of Chaos theory and climate research has long acknowledged that the climate is a dynamical system existing on the edge of spatio - temperal chaos and that the complexity of multiple interacting positive and negative feedbacks make it so particularly complex and nonlinear.

TCR is not that uncertain and a growing body of research focused on observational estimates of TCR shows is isn't likely larger than 1.2 - 1.4 C, indicating transient climate feedbacks are small.

Straightforward acknowledgement of the growing body of climate research and assessment suggesting likely adverse consequences could potentially lead to stronger public support for controls on emissions and could be used to criticize the Administration for not embracing a stronger climate change response strategy.

EPA is only one of numerous U.S. government agencies that conduct and support research related to climate change and is not designed to conduct, on its own, the vast body of scientific research that is reviewed in the IPCC Assessments, nor to carry out the massive assessment process embodied in the IPCC reports, which involves hundreds of authors and reviewers who make up most of the leadership of the international climate research community.

For climate change research, the body of research in the literature is very large and the dependence on any one set of research results to the comprehensive understanding of the climate system is very, very small.

2012) and a focal institution to Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body mandated to carryout scientific research on climate Climate Change (IPCC), an international body mandated to carryout scientific research on climate climate change.

Their paper argued, «a growing body of scientific research reports the wide array of negative effects of AGW on biodiversity» by citing Parmesan whose bogus claims about the negative effects of climate change on wildlife are well documented.

Recent research provides a considerable body of evidence on the effect of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions on the Earth's climate (Stocker et al. 2013).

Those were the conclusions in 2007 from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body that summarizes the most recent climate science research from around theClimate Change (IPCC), an international body that summarizes the most recent climate science research from around theclimate science research from around the world.

Because of that uncertainty, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- the international body that reviews and assesses the most recent peer - reviewed climate research from around the world — assumed in 2007 that the rate of ice loss from the poles wouldn't change much over the next cClimate Change (IPCC)-- the international body that reviews and assesses the most recent peer - reviewed climate research from around the world — assumed in 2007 that the rate of ice loss from the poles wouldn't change much over the next cclimate research from around the world — assumed in 2007 that the rate of ice loss from the poles wouldn't change much over the next century.

More inaccuracies in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's academic work and research have prompted a top British scientist to publicly castigate the body and call for reform

In an Oct. 4, 2002 memo to James R. Mahoney, the head of the United States Climate Change Science Program and an appointee of Mr. Bush, Mr. Watson «strongly» recommended cutting boxes of text referring to the findings of a National Academy of Sciences panel on climate and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that periodically reviews research on human - caused climate Climate Change Science Program and an appointee of Mr. Bush, Mr. Watson «strongly» recommended cutting boxes of text referring to the findings of a National Academy of Sciences panel on climate and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that periodically reviews research on human - caused climate climate and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that periodically reviews research on human - caused climate Climate Change, a United Nations body that periodically reviews research on human - caused climate climate change.

His writings attack both the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body assigned to review and report on developments in climate research, and the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty to reduce greenhouse gas polClimate Change (IPCC), the UN body assigned to review and report on developments in climate research, and the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty to reduce greenhouse gas polclimate research, and the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.

An organization representing medical researchers believes unpublished work is too shaky to be included in grant applications, yet the world's most important climate body has long relied on such research.

With respect to the first sentence, Federal Defendants admit that for over fifty years some officials and persons employed by the federal government have been aware of a growing body of scientific research concerning the effects of fossil fuel emissions on atmospheric concentrations of CO2 — including that increased concentrations of atmospheric CO2 could cause measurable long - lasting changes to the global climate, resulting in an array of severe deleterious effects to human beings, which will worsen over time.

However, this myth is based on nothing more than a misunderstanding of climate science and economics, and misrepresentation of the climate science and economics body of research.

But rejecting the rest of the body of climate science and economics research is still denial, and doubling down on different climate myths is not going to solve our problems.

More than three decades of US - supported scientific research together with the body of work produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have allowed for an increasingly accurate understanding of the complex dynamics of the Earth's climate system as it responds to escalating human - induced emissions of greenhouseClimate Change (IPCC) have allowed for an increasingly accurate understanding of the complex dynamics of the Earth's climate system as it responds to escalating human - induced emissions of greenhouseclimate system as it responds to escalating human - induced emissions of greenhouse gases.