Sentences with phrase «complex issue of climate»

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The New America Foundation actually has several of these in the works — quickie animations that help explain a complex issue or statistic; maps comparing all 50 states» climate change policies; even an interactive database that compares all 14,000 U.S. school districts.

But turning to the more complex climate issue, he added, «And then later this year, hopefully late this summer, do the global warming part of it.»

The BBC covers the issue of climate change comprehensively and we do our utmost to report on this complex subject as clearly and accurately as possible.

«Clear communication of the complex — and at times unpalatable to some — findings of climate scientists around the world is fundamental to tackling this hugely challenging issue.»

Now, forgetting entirely the more complex issue of «climate sensitivity» and focusing only on how tiny, minute concentrations of CO2 can make a difference to global temps — one of the oft - repeated and simplistic denialist memes — is there a simple desktop experiment to demonstrate how that can work?

Indeed, PeaceMaker is at the forefront of a movement — often called serious games or social - issues games — in which educators use games to illustrate complex social issues, from immigration to climate change.

Participants will gain an understanding of the latest developments in state and federal law on complex issues, such as: Transgender Students: issues related to student dress code, the right to participate in school activities and events, access to school facilities such as locker rooms and restrooms; School Climate: the obligation to proactively address school climate and promote a school climate accepting of all students, regardless of sexual orientation; Religious Issues: the rights of students and staff to express moral and religious views regarding sexual orientation and identity both during school and outside of school; Employment Issues: the implications of recent developments regarding same sex marriage and the rights of same sex couples to access employee benefits; and Discrimination Issues: the rights and obligations to address issues of employment discrimination and retaliissues, such as: Transgender Students: issues related to student dress code, the right to participate in school activities and events, access to school facilities such as locker rooms and restrooms; School Climate: the obligation to proactively address school climate and promote a school climate accepting of all students, regardless of sexual orientation; Religious Issues: the rights of students and staff to express moral and religious views regarding sexual orientation and identity both during school and outside of school; Employment Issues: the implications of recent developments regarding same sex marriage and the rights of same sex couples to access employee benefits; and Discrimination Issues: the rights and obligations to address issues of employment discrimination and retaliissues related to student dress code, the right to participate in school activities and events, access to school facilities such as locker rooms and restrooms; School Climate: the obligation to proactively address school climate and promote a school climate accepting of all students, regardless of sexual orientation; Religious Issues: the rights of students and staff to express moral and religious views regarding sexual orientation and identity both during school and outside of school; Employment Issues: the implications of recent developments regarding same sex marriage and the rights of same sex couples to access employee benefits; and Discrimination Issues: the rights and obligations to address issues of employment discrimination and retalClimate: the obligation to proactively address school climate and promote a school climate accepting of all students, regardless of sexual orientation; Religious Issues: the rights of students and staff to express moral and religious views regarding sexual orientation and identity both during school and outside of school; Employment Issues: the implications of recent developments regarding same sex marriage and the rights of same sex couples to access employee benefits; and Discrimination Issues: the rights and obligations to address issues of employment discrimination and retalclimate and promote a school climate accepting of all students, regardless of sexual orientation; Religious Issues: the rights of students and staff to express moral and religious views regarding sexual orientation and identity both during school and outside of school; Employment Issues: the implications of recent developments regarding same sex marriage and the rights of same sex couples to access employee benefits; and Discrimination Issues: the rights and obligations to address issues of employment discrimination and retalclimate accepting of all students, regardless of sexual orientation; Religious Issues: the rights of students and staff to express moral and religious views regarding sexual orientation and identity both during school and outside of school; Employment Issues: the implications of recent developments regarding same sex marriage and the rights of same sex couples to access employee benefits; and Discrimination Issues: the rights and obligations to address issues of employment discrimination and retaliIssues: the rights of students and staff to express moral and religious views regarding sexual orientation and identity both during school and outside of school; Employment Issues: the implications of recent developments regarding same sex marriage and the rights of same sex couples to access employee benefits; and Discrimination Issues: the rights and obligations to address issues of employment discrimination and retaliIssues: the implications of recent developments regarding same sex marriage and the rights of same sex couples to access employee benefits; and Discrimination Issues: the rights and obligations to address issues of employment discrimination and retaliIssues: the rights and obligations to address issues of employment discrimination and retaliissues of employment discrimination and retaliation.

For 6th - 8th grade teachers, Carbon & Climate helps introduce students to some of the complex issues involved in climate Climate helps introduce students to some of the complex issues involved in climate climate change.

Community cat issues are complex and varied, impacted by geography, climate, the presence of other animals including predators, past and current community cat programming, cultural norms and numerous other factors.

AR: You're right, and I've written two book chapters on hurdles preventing effective media coverage of climate and related complex environmental issues — and one of the big ones is the importance of not overplaying the «hot» material and forgetting the real complexities, e.g., polar bears are not going extinct.

If the mathematics of simple climate models fail to provide us with robust solutions and if the arithmatic of complex climate models produce similar outcomes (roughly the same results but still non-robust), why not solve the climate issue with philosophy.

When dealing with one gene and one fucntion at a time, though this can an issue, it is less so, but in more vast and complex systems like a global climate system, or a whole genome the probability of errors, and the unavoidable clashing of errors / cognitive dissonance in results can be immense and yes, very, robust.

Now, forgetting entirely the more complex issue of «climate sensitivity» and focusing only on how tiny, minute concentrations of CO2 can make a difference to global temps — one of the oft - repeated and simplistic denialist memes — is there a simple desktop experiment to demonstrate how that can work?

Since you elected not to address the issue of models capability to represent critically - important glaciation - deglaciation episodes, now I have developed an impression that certain climate scentists have to learn a lot more about possibilities that are hidden in behavior of a large and complex dynamical system.

If a goal of realclimate is to inform laypeople of issues in climate science, then arrogance in this forum will only appeal to its most unquestioning adherents while driving away those who prefer to keep an open mind about a complex and dynamic field.

This year's seminar also promises a «lively panel discussion about efforts to develop a national strategy to address one of the most complex policy issues of our time: climate change.»

There's lots of literature about how climate change has developed into a far more complex «social problem / issue», as it's moved from scientific journals onto the policy agenda.

Some people might think that two years of data won't be conclusive to determining an issue as complex as climate change.

«I think I understand the climate debate better than anyone, not because I know more about climate but because I know more about the logic of complex issues.

I see no reason to assume otherwise that climate science must go down a well trodden path of iterative model development that has had to handle extremely complex issues.

Not because I wish to disparage the effort here (quite the contrary, since I believe Chip Knappenberger does valuable work) but rather because the issue of climate is so incredibly complex and complicated.

My field is the logic of complex issues and I have studied the climate debate for 19 years.

The central issues of climate change and oil decline are so broad and complex that both science and advocacy fall victim to the recency effect.

Study author Jon Miller says that climate change is a complex issue that requires a lot of time to fully understand.

The L&D issue is complex — and sensitive — involving climate impacts and risks for developing countries, which are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Overview Climate change is one of the most complex issues facing policy - makers today.

The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), a joint federal program of the President's Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration, has issued its strategic plan to address some of the most complex questions and problems dealing with long - term global climate variability and Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), a joint federal program of the President's Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration, has issued its strategic plan to address some of the most complex questions and problems dealing with long - term global climate variability and Climate Change Science and Technology Integration, has issued its strategic plan to address some of the most complex questions and problems dealing with long - term global climate variability and climate variability and change.

However, a long list of technical and political hurdles slowed progress at times, including: the sheer volume of agenda items to consider, reflected in 270 pages of informal notes; the technical complexity of the endeavor, exacerbated by complex interlinkages between various elements of the Rulebook; political sensitivities about achieving a balanced package; the need to ensure that developing countries receive predictable and adequate financial and technical support; and issues around how countries can improve both their climate actions and information in their progress reports.

Such an examination can begin to address the question of how partisan barriers can be broken down in climate science communication, and ask how framing can be used to grow the audience on complex scientific issues.

Well, that strategy didn't work in terms of a justification and even prescription for policy, and it shouldn't have worked; energy and climate policy has much more complex issues to deal with than consensus science (issues of politics and values).

Of course, we will have transition and uncertainty issues with something as big as climate change where the current and ongoing situation is very complex.

So let us quote the University of East Anglia climate scientist, and former director of the Tyndall Centre, Mike Hulme, who is concerned that science is being used to provide certainty over big, complex political issues:

Addressing climate change, providing economic opportunity and lifting billions out of poverty are complex and interrelated issues requiring complex solutions.

The influence of clouds is a complex issue and very difficult to include in climate models.

The concept of a black swan may be a very useful metaphor to help discuss the issues involved in understanding the limits of human knowledge, particularly when dealing with complex, chaotic systems like the climate.

On the contrary, when scientific results have policy implications, we believe it is an obligation of climate scientists to draw attention to those implications.Otherwise, as history has shown, we run the risk of laypeople drawing conclusions about this complex issue that are erroneous, ill - informed, misleading and counterproductive.

I think the climate change issue, is complex, but fundamentally rooted in industrial processes that do not have a healthy balance of thermodynamics.

Because climate change is a complex and difficult issue, policymakers need an objective source of information about the causes, its impacts, and possible responses.

Indeed however, as your post nicely illuminates for our readers, there are a more general set of questions dealing with the complex issue of how vegetation will respond not just to CO2 changes, but to the climate changes themselves that may result from the associated radiative forcing.

As with most other issues in the complex world of communicating climate change science and policy, there is no black - and - white up / down true / false simplicity in considering black carbon.

He frames the talk as a result of a challenge issued on Twitter — he was debating some prominent left - leaning commentators who said they always shy away from discussing climate change because they don't know enough about the complex issue to defend the position that we should be addressing it.

While weather predictions and long - term climate are very complex and beyond the author's expertise, he feels the single issue of heat absorption and radiation due to carbon dioxide is much simpler, well understood, and better modeled and measured as proposed here.

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