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Says Simon Lewis, a Royal Society research fellow and reader in global change science at the University of Leeds.

That fact is not in dispute among climate scientists,» said Anne Slinn, executive director for research of the Center for Global Change Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.»

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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.

The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global warming science is «not settled.»

Because Troeltsch, at the beginning of this century, was keenly aware of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence of a profound global pluralism; the central role of practice in theology; the growing impact of the social sciences on our view of the world and of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role of religious institutions and religious thought.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Reaching the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, as agreed to at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21), will require an unprecedented level of international scientific cooperation in both climate science and technology development.

Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over coming years.

And by carefully measuring and modeling the resulting changes in atmospheric composition, scientists could improve their estimate of how sensitive Earth's climate is to CO2, said lead author Joyce Penner, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on improving global climate models and their ability to model the interplay between clouds and aerosol particles.

Stephen Schneider, Stanford University environmental biology and global change professor and member of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board, called climate change a «threat multiplier» at Thursday's press conference.

In the «post-truth» world, the role of science is changing, said Amy Luers, director of climate change at the Skoll Global Threats Fund, during a panel on «The Role of Scientists in Producing and Defending Evidence.»

Stepping into that gap — at the request of the Danish government — will be the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, a collection of the world's top scientists and economists set to meet in Copenhagen in March 2009 to deliver an updated state of the science on global warming.

«In the Southwest, water availability for irrigation is already a concern,» says first author Elodie Blanc, a research scientist at MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

For Tom Osborne of Reading University, senior research scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science who models the global impacts of climate change on agriculture, farmers have no choice; they have to adapt where they can and change where they can't.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

Henry Jacoby, an economist and former director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, agrees.

«This study adds to a growing body of knowledge about the increases in wildfire risk and climate change,» said Chris Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

Climate scientist Christopher Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology of the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, emphasized the scientific consensus that global temperatures are rising and that climate change is likely to contribute to extreme weather eGlobal Ecology of the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, emphasized the scientific consensus that global temperatures are rising and that climate change is likely to contribute to extreme weather eglobal temperatures are rising and that climate change is likely to contribute to extreme weather events.

«Global change affects so many different environmental aspects, and across such a range of conditions, that it can be difficult to study in the laboratory,» said Erik Sperling, assistant professor of geological sciences at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, lead author of the study, which was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps.

Increased use of natural gas is the best bet for cleaner energy in the near term, agreed fellow panelist John Reilly, a senior lecturer at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and co-director of the school's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

«The information to support this dual effort is available in academic journals, but translating the information into a usable and practical format available to the right people at the right time is key to changing the way co-endemic diseases are controlled,» says Claire J. Standley, PhD, MSc, assistant research professor with Georgetown's Center for Global Health Science and Security (CGHSS).

«Leveraging a digital control mechanism means we can give value to the millions of observations collected by volunteers» and «it allows a new kind of science where citizens can directly contribute to the analysis of global challenges like climate change» say Hamed Mehdipoor and Dr. Raul Zurita - Milla, who work at the Geo - Information Processing department of ITC.

Jeremy was also a senior fellow for science policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

John Upton is a Senior Science Writer at Climate Central, where he has covered international climate negotiations, oceans research, climate change adaptation, and the global trade in wood energy.

In an interesting paper that appeared in the journal Global Environmental Change, a group of scholars, including Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard, and Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist at Princeton, note that so - called climate skeptics frequently accuse climate scientists of «alarmism» and «overreacting to evidence of human impacts on the climate system.»

This year's Action Award honorees include global leaders in the fight to end cancer as we know it; a world leader in advancing the emerging field of regenerative medicine and game - changing cell therapy medical treatments; the president of a non-profit group focused on developing cures for chronic, debilitating and fatal diseases; a sickle cell and stem cell advocate and founder / science administrator of the Axis Advocacy; and the founding director of the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Japan's Kyoto University.

«I had the pleasure of interacting with Tony Janetos in the 1980's when we were both at NASA,» said Antonio Busalacchi, director of the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, which collaborates with the Joint Global Change Research Institute.

Acknowledgments: The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, DOE's Global Change Education Program, and intramural research and development program at EMSL.

Richard is now beginning a sabbatical leave at the PNNL / University of Maryland Joint Global Change Research Institute and the University of Maryland Earth Sciences Interdisciplinary Center, where he will work on several projects that involve integration of natural and social sciences research in decision support.

Mike Alexander, Alex Laskin, Yuri Desyaterik, and John Ortega, who work at DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) at PNNL and Xiao - ying Yu of PNNL's Atmospheric Science and Global Change Division, collected an extensive set of measurements of aerosol mass, size distribution, composition, and particle morphology using an array of in - situ techniques and aerosol sampling approaches.

In a paper published in Science Advances, he proposes that mass extinction occurs if one of two thresholds are crossed: For changes in the carbon cycle that occur over long timescales, extinctions will follow if those changes occur at rates faster than global ecosystems can adapt.

Toby Tyrrell, Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Southampton and co-author of the study, said: «In the future ocean, the trade - off between changing ecological and physiological costs of calcification and their benefits will ultimately decide how this important group is affected by ocean acidification and global warming.

Richard Lindzen testifies at a House Science Committee hearing on global climate change on Nov 17, 2010.

The head of this Alliance, Dr Goreau, was Senior Scientific Affairs Officer for global climate change and biodiversity at the United Nations Centre for Science and Technology for Development, and the «only coral reef scientist with degrees in atmospheric physics and chemistry.»

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.

GSA strongly encourages that the following efforts be undertaken internationally: (1) adequately research climate change at all time scales, (2) develop thoughtful, science - based policy appropriate for the multifaceted issues of global climate change, (3) organize global planning to recognize, prepare for, and adapt to the causes and consequences of global climate change, and (4) organize and develop comprehensive, long - term strategies for sustainable energy, particularly focused on minimizing impacts on global climate.

At Penn State I teach, among other global ethical environmental problems, the science, economics, politics, ethics and solutions to climate change.

The team consisted of Vincent P. Gutschick, director of the Global Change Consulting Consortium, Inc., in Las Cruces, N.M., Zanna Chase, an assistant professor in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, Dan Kirk - Davidoff, an assistant professor in climate science at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Jim Bouldin, a research ecologist at the University of California, Davis.

The declaration being released at the Vatican has sections on the basics of climate change science, global economic trends and the Sustainable Development Goals that are being finalized this year in United Nations discussions.

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

To overcome these drawbacks, researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change propose an alternative method that only a handful of other groups are now pursuing: a self - consistent modeling framework to assess climate impacts across multiple regions and sectors.

One might define a new term, at least a soft or analogical one: «science sensitivity,» the tendency of increasing global temperature to decrease future warming through scientific understanding leading to cultural and behavioral change.

As the «Six Americas» surveys run by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication have shown, there's plenty of common ground on energy innovation and incentives for efficiency, so it's possible to have a constructive conversation on global warming science and at least some solutions across a range of ideologies.

But the newly obtained documents show that Dr. Carlin's highly skeptical views on global warming, which have been known for more than a decade within the small unit where he works, have been repeatedly challenged by scientists inside and outside the E.P.A.; that he holds a doctorate in economics, not in atmospheric science or climatology; that he has never been assigned to work on climate change; and that his comments on the endangerment finding were a product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship, as he acknowledged Thursday in an interview.

I can here it now over at wuwt... another groundbreaking study (of a short - term change) that will overturn the body of climate science with results that «have potential implications for future global climate»... How novel.

The Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at M.I.T. has published work, described earlier this year, that greatly elevates the odds of calamitous global warming should no significant action be taken to stem the buildup of greenhouse Global Change at M.I.T. has published work, described earlier this year, that greatly elevates the odds of calamitous global warming should no significant action be taken to stem the buildup of greenhouse global warming should no significant action be taken to stem the buildup of greenhouse gases.

A short - sighted coal company might decide to start launching critiques of the science of climate change and start having a crack at renewables while at the same time selling its product as some sort of silver bullet that can solve global poverty with a single well - aimed shot.

«Climate change» has nothing, at all, to do with science or the environment and everything to do with a socialist agenda to resdistribute the worlds wealth under the control of the UN and its global elites.

And even if the current 18 - year trend were to end, it would still take nearly 25 years for average global temperature figures to reflect the change, said Michaels, who has a Ph.D. in ecological climatology and spent three decades as a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.

My role at the meeting was mainly to hold up his one chart (of the Vostok ice core record, that then unfolded to the much higher projected CO2 levels — a chart the USGCRP [U.S. Global Change Research Office] office that I led at the time had helped the OSTP [White House Office of Science and Technology Policy] to get made for him).