iSeeChange stories flip the script on traditional top -
down climate change reporting to let people's curiosity — and not just the questions raised by professionals in the field — to tap into the discussion about climate change impacts.
Not exact matches
At the Wednesday meeting, Steyer will also sit
down with former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulsen and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros to confer on a forthcoming
report assessing the economic effects of
climate change.
«Because global mismanagement of plastic is fueling the growing marine litter problem, policy responses are needed at all levels, from the international community of nations
down to national and local communities,» said
report co-author Cara Horowitz, executive director of the Emmett Center on
Climate Change and the Environment.
The environmental group cites the recommendations of a 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change report as a reason for EPA to dramatically shorten the time frame over which it calculates greenhouse gas impact — from 100 years
down to 20.
The warmest winter on record — driven by
climate change — is also driving
down the need for wintertime electricity required for home heating, which drives
down the need for more coal, IEEFA analyst Seth Feaster said in the
report.
According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change report, the world may have as little as 15 years to «keep planetary warming to a tolerable level,» through an aggressive push to bring
down carbon emissions.34
You can read a more recent discussion of the role the bark beetle and
climate change are playing in burning
down and reshaping the West in this National Wildlife Federation
report, «Increased Risk of CatastrophicWildfires: Global Warming's Wake - Up Call for the Western United States.»
Based on a curious
report by the UK House of Lords Economics Affairs committee (in which they made clear that they had no scientific expertise), Lawson demands that the only global scientific assessment process on
climate change be shut
down, and replaced with....
«It's best not to get too bogged
down in the physics of
climate,» says Nils Gilman, an analyst at Monitor Group and the author of a 2006
report on
climate change and national security.
Typically, when the development agenda gets assessed in light of
climate change, you tend to see estimates of loss of GDP, and even the Stern
report, which tried very hard to break new ground in this area, ultimately came
down to a cost - benefit calculus.
The Arctic
Climate Impact Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (whose
reports are conservative by nature), and a range of other assessments all conclude with high confidence that — for better or worse — the long - term Arctic trend for summer sea ice is
down, given the projected buildup of greenhouse gases and tendency of the Arctic to amplify warming.
The Bush administration has repeatedly been questioned about incidents in which political appointees adjusted government
reports, statements, news releases and other material on
climate change in ways that toned
down a sense of urgency.
Still, some commentators noted that a draft plan for the
report approved by scientists had been watered
down after the Bangkok meeting, specifically areas focused on strengthening global efforts to tackle
climate change.
Global media
reporting on
climate change issues was down again last year, according to a new analysis from The Daily C
climate change issues was
down again last year, according to a new analysis from The Daily
ClimateClimate.
All
climate models used in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) take into account the feedback related to plants, which slows down climate change, but its strength has been difficult to es
climate models used in the
reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) take into account the feedback related to plants, which slows down climate change, but its strength has been difficult to es
Climate Change (IPCC) take into account the feedback related to plants, which slows down climate change, but its strength has been difficult to est
Change (IPCC) take into account the feedback related to plants, which slows
down climate change, but its strength has been difficult to es
climate change, but its strength has been difficult to est
change, but its strength has been difficult to estimate.
The New York Times has
reported the shut -
down of the Center for Capacity Building, a small NCAR team that has been assessing potential impacts of
climate change on poor countries, attracting wide global notice.
An update from the U.S. Global
Change Research Program, the third National Climate Assessment is a detailed, 1,300 - page compendium, compiled by over 240 authors, of how climate change is impacting the United States, broken down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive» report of its kind issued s
Change Research Program, the third National
Climate Assessment is a detailed, 1,300 - page compendium, compiled by over 240 authors, of how climate change is impacting the United States, broken down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive» report of its kind issued
Climate Assessment is a detailed, 1,300 - page compendium, compiled by over 240 authors, of how
climate change is impacting the United States, broken down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive» report of its kind issued
climate change is impacting the United States, broken down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive» report of its kind issued s
change is impacting the United States, broken
down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive»
report of its kind issued so far.
On February 17, 2008, CanWest News Service
reported that U of C officials had shut
down Cooper's ««Research on
Climate Change» trust account»...
A new
report from the American Security Project examines the costs of doing nothing about
climate change, broken
down into regional impacts across the US.
The
report described the complex funding scheme for the ads and confirmed that the U of C had shut
down Barry Cooper's» «Research on
Climate Change» account fund» because it had been used «to support a partisan viewpoint on climate change.
Climate Change» account fund» because it had been used «to support a partisan viewpoint on climate change.&
Change» account fund» because it had been used «to support a partisan viewpoint on
climate change.
climate change.&
change.»
Rick Pilz, who worked for the US
Climate Change Science Program, and whose job it was to oversee the writing of
reports for policymakers, claimed that he saw the science watered
down and censored by a White House aide.
On February 17, 2008, Mike De Souza of CanWest News Service
reported that the U of C had shut
down the» «Research on
Climate Change» account fund», set up and controlled by Professor Barry Cooper for the benefit of the Friends of Science.
Then there's this: «Meteorologist Breaks
Down In Tears After
Climate Change Report, Say He Will Never Fly Again» (IMNHSO, a true mensch) http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Meteorologist-Breaks-
Down-In-Tears-After-
Climate-4853538.php
Virtually all of the activity documented in the
report took place in the voluntary markets, while most media coverage of carbon trading has focused on the European Union's top -
down Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that was initiated to handle credits and offsets generated under the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Jo Nova
reports that Prof Richard Parncutt, who suggested that
climate change sceptics could face the death penalty for their crime, has taken
down the original text of his argument and has apologised.
As
reported last night, Michael Mann carelessly libeled Andrew Bolt
Down Under - see Litigious
Climate Change Cultist Michael «Hockey Stick» Mann Libels Sydney Herald Sun Columnist Andrew Bolt (actually, Melbourne, but let's not sue over it)- and was forced to issue a grudging apology, after which he spent the rest of the night Googling any goods he could get on Bolt and reTweeting it into the small hours.
«Throughout the 21st century,
climate -
change impacts are projected to slow
down economic growth, make poverty reduction more difficult, further erode food security, and prolong existing and create new poverty traps, the latter particularly in urban areas and emerging hot spots of hunger,» the
report stated.
A 2012
report from the World Bank called «Turn
Down The Heat» stated that
climate change impacts will have «adverse implications for efforts to reduce poverty,» including reversing possible improvements made in malnutrition and health services (emphasis added):
Recent
reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) have sought to break
down this artificial divide.
Conservative groups at the forefront of global warming skepticism are doubling
down on trying to discredit the next big
report by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC).
Scientists working on a landmark U.N.
report on
climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed
down in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.
Climate change is already dragging
down crop yields, a trend that is likely to continue at the same time that population growth ensures that food demand will be rising, the
report found.
Today the RSA publishes a
report: A New Agenda on
Climate Change: facing up to stealth denial and winding
down on fossil fuels.
The
report predicts that world demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of global
climate change.According to the
report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the
report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be
changed as they force prices
down for small farmers in developing nations.