Sentences with phrase «change science in»

I also take advantage of many excellent guest lecture series, particularly those hosted by the Centre for Global Change Science in the Physics department, just across St. George St. from my office.

So what to TreeHugger readers think: Should it be mandatory to teach climate change science in schools (in the UK, US, or wherever you live)?

«Science in general, and climate - change science in particular, is no longer exclusively — or even primarily — an academic pursuit.»

One of those leaked emails, dated October 2009, was from Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the US government's National Centre for Atmospheric Research and the IPCC's lead author on climate change science in its monumental 2002 and 2007 reports.

I have recently been shocked at the depth of the ignorance about climate change science in the parliamentary Liberal Party of Australia; it is an indictment on Australia and the Australian voters (who voted these ignoramuses into Parliament).

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Some recent critics of ExxonMobil, notably Bill McKibben and Naomi Oreskes, are expressing surprise to hear that ExxonMobil helped pioneer research into climate change science in the 1970s and»80s.

If they don't like any of the particular options that fit the best available evidence on sea level rise, or don't like the particular ones that they suspect a majority of their fellow citizens might, they can be expected to try to stigmatize the municipal and various private groups engaged in adaptation planning by falsely characterizing them and their ideas in terms that bind them to only one of the partisan cultural styles that is now (sadly and pointlessly, as a result of misadventure, strategic behavior, and ineptitude) associated with engagement with climate change science in national politics.

We show how the tactics of the tobacco industry's campaign for «sound science» led to the formation of front groups who, as they lost the battle to deny smoking's health hazards and keep warning labels off of cigarettes, turned their argumentative skills to the denial of climate change science in order to slow government action.

IMO this issue is representative of climate change science in general, very interesting but very complicated.

Setting expectations of specific weather events (or clusters of related events) by tying them to climate change tends to discredit climate change science in the mind of the public.

We show how the tactics of the tobacco industry's campaign for «sound science» led to the formation of front groups who, as they lost the battle to deny smoking's health hazards and keep warning labels off of cigarettes, turned their argumentative skills to the denial of climate change science in order to slow government action.

, which outlines strategies to undermine climate change science in government and public opinion.

Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science In this novel written in verse, Jeannine Atkins shares the lives of three real - life scientists: entomologist Maria Merian (1647 — 1717), paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 — 1847), and astronomer Maria Mitchell (1818 — 89)-- all of whom were interested in science from childhood on.

We're changing science in primary schools everywhere.

There is a wealth of research and documentation that takes her imagery out of the realm of shock and into a deeper appeal to the way the white patriarchy feverishly changes science in order to support its hatred.

However, we found no support for this proposal, which would not have changed the science in any way but improved the clarity of presentation.

Not exact matches

While science tells us we face an uphill battle in changing ourselves and our institutions, it also offers plenty of reasons for hope.

The history is important, as a problematic front - page story in The New York Times, How GOP Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science, illustrates.

Launched in 2015 around the birth of the couple's daughter Max, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative seeks to make social change through engineering, science, and education.

Science and technology will be the tools that carry us forward, inevitably, but it is this driving idea — of customer - centered value — that will spur the most meaningful changes in the realms of healthcare systems and medical technology.

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

The series, now produced by Netflix, presents science - fiction short films about how tech could change the world in the near future.

«Climate change both threatens [Department of Defense] assets globally and appears to enhance the risk of civil conflict in conflict - prone countries,» Dr. Robert Kopp, a professor in the department of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University and associate director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, told Business Insider.

Whether you're unemployed, in transition or looking to completely change the direction of your career, inspirational speaker and author Adam Markel will help you do just that through his book, Pivot: The Art and Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life.

The commander - in - chief posted on Twitter, «Science fair nightmare: This #climate change denier is the world's most embarrassing dad» and included a link that was expected to go to his website.

Slate's Science Editor, Susan Matthews, in «Alarmism Is the Argument We Need to Fight Climate Change» said the «global - warming horror story isn't too scary.

Mashable's Senior Editor for Science and Special Projects, Kevin Freedman, in «No, New York Mag: Climate change won't make the Earth uninhabitable by 2100» contrasts the story's gloom against hope and optimism, but mostly analyses the science behScience and Special Projects, Kevin Freedman, in «No, New York Mag: Climate change won't make the Earth uninhabitable by 2100» contrasts the story's gloom against hope and optimism, but mostly analyses the science behscience behind it.

Gilbert, who holds the Presidential Endowed Chair in Computing, is conducting his own study on whether society could change how youths view computer science.

A good scientist never gets stuck in the past, because the world of science is constantly changing.

Turns out, these flavor changes happen on a genetic level, according to a study published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Ashley Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, stated that «When people encounter an unfamiliar issue like nanotechnology, they often rely on an existing value such as religiosity or deference to science to form a judgment.»

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resourceIn his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resourcein 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resourcein the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

The settlement also stipulates that the San Diego - based chip maker implement policy changes and programs to better promote female employees working in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, known as STEM.

«Over the next few months, the science team is really excited to get to Mount Sharp, where we think the layered rocks there have captured the major climate changes in Mars» history,» Curiosity deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada said in a new NASA video marking the rover's first Martian year.

But that all changed when he started attending the Bronx High School of Science, where kids spoke in «hushed tones in the hallways about the real heroes» — students who had won what was then known as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

At his Senate confirmation hearing, he stated that that «science tells us that the climate is changing, and that human activity in some manner impacts that change.

There's better communication,» she told Inc.com in an interview, citing science that shows meditation changes the brain, immune system, and even gene expression.

Secondly, there could be changes to the Optional Practical Training program, which gives foreign graduates from U.S. colleges in science and tech an additional two years of work authorization.

When one man who has disrupted the energy, automotive and space industries, and another who connected nearly 2 billion individuals in the same social network, make major moves in neuroscience, somehow it feels like science fiction is evolving into history, and that our lives are about to change in unprecedented ways.

Laurence C. Smith, a UCLA earth sciences professor and author of The World in 2050, a 2010 book that examines how demographics, natural resources, globalization and climate change will transfer economic might to the north, says, «In Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.&raquin 2050, a 2010 book that examines how demographics, natural resources, globalization and climate change will transfer economic might to the north, says, «In Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.&raquIn Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.&raquin particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.»

How we came to do this is a twisting tale that science writer Maryn McKenna elegantly unspools in her extraordinary new book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats, which was published in September.

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

In fact, science has a few things to say about the factors undermining employee well - being, and a few ideas on what you can do to change your workspace for the better.

One concept in change science explains this situation to a T.

Sift Science's algorithms constantly adapt to fraudsters» changing tactics, updating statistical models in real time — a process Tan calls «machine learning.»

Also an energy secretary, Rick Perry, who wrote a book in which he referred to climate - change science as a «contrived phony mess.»

«The planet has changed in a way that science informs us is unprecedented in human history.

Anchored in the premise that climate science is «settled,» the accord seeks to dramatically change humanity's energy supply.

The global demonstration, planned in the wake of the Women's March on Washington, is aimed at countering the «mischaracterization of science as a partisan issue» — see climate change, vaccines, and GMOs — and the dubious policy that has arisen as a result.