Sentences with phrase «into science of climate change»

The result is a beautiful book that engages children visually, intellectually, and inspirationally, with insight into the science of climate change.

Pitted against Energy Secretary Ed Davey, Mr Carter described the findings of the most authoritative report ever undertaken into the science of climate change — put together by hundreds of scientists around the world — as «hocus - pocus science».

February 2 Release of IPCC report into science of climate change.

I will tell you about another scientist from an earlier time, Her name was Leona Woods Libby, she was the only woman that worked on the manhattan project, she was accomplished in developing the first nuclear reactor; after the war she went into the science of climate change based on natural cycles.

This is where I dive into the science of climate change.

Not exact matches

Al Gore's persona has been polarizing enough to help make climate change one of the most politicized topics of the day — turning even «science» itself into something of a wedge issue.

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.

As of 2016, the mechanism and effects of climate change are integrated into the Massachusetts Science, Technology, and Engineering Frameworks for grades 9 - 12.

Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.»

«The science is really becoming quite clear into the effects of fossil fuel extraction and consumption, and so renewable energy development is important to make our state more resilient in the face of climate change and these challenges.

«We looked into the question of whether — and if so, to what extent — the public's attitude to climate policy and the risks of climate change can be influenced,» explains Thomas Bernauer, professor of political science at ETH Zurich.

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.

Under the next White House Administration, Holdren said, science - based challenges that will require sustained, robust investment include efforts to ensure safe and sustainable food, water, and energy for everyone, reduce greenhouse gases, minimize harm from climate change already underway, combat diseases such as Zika, defeat cancer, improve quality - of - life for those who are aging, prevent devastating asteroid impacts, and send humans into space «not just to visit, but to stay.»

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.

The 2017 Climate Science Special Report, which lays out the current state of scientific knowledge on climate change, will be rolled into the fourth National Climate Assessment, set to be released in latClimate Science Special Report, which lays out the current state of scientific knowledge on climate change, will be rolled into the fourth National Climate Assessment, set to be released in latclimate change, will be rolled into the fourth National Climate Assessment, set to be released in latClimate Assessment, set to be released in late 2018.

The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic science could help solve other important problems by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.

Clouds and their role in keeping the Earth's surface cool by reflecting sunlight back into space have been one of the biggest uncertainties of climate change science.

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.

BRUSSELS — To get into the spirit of innovation at the European Commission's Innovation Convention here this week, one needed look no further than orange - haired punk fashion designer Vivienne Westwood quizzing Chinese business professor Xue Lan and Olivier Oullier, an expert in behavioral and brain sciences who advises the French government, on how best to address the problem of climate change.

In that environment, it's been easy for the other side to pour millions of dollars into a campaign to debunk climate - change science.

Welcoming Boaty McBoatface back from its first mission, Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson, said: «Fresh from its maiden voyage, Boaty is already delivering new insight into some of the coldest ocean waters on earth, giving scientists a greater understanding of changes in the Antarctic region and shaping a global effort to tackle climate change.

«The authors have demonstrated that we are currently headed into uncharted waters when it comes to the rate of climate change we are now seeing,» Michael Mann, who runs Penn State's Earth System Science Center, said.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science was set up in 2005 to develop new approaches to the teaching of undergraduate university science through real world problems, such as climate change, which do not fit into a single scientific discipline and require research across subject speciScience was set up in 2005 to develop new approaches to the teaching of undergraduate university science through real world problems, such as climate change, which do not fit into a single scientific discipline and require research across subject speciscience through real world problems, such as climate change, which do not fit into a single scientific discipline and require research across subject specialisms.

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It presents a future in 2022 that seems unlikely not because we're not currently on the verge of some great ecological disaster, but because rough math suggests that the Heston character would've been born the year before the film's 1973 release and thus his declaration that he'd never seen a grapefruit (or grass, or cows) should worm its way into the audience consciousness as Soylent Green's statement that it's not serious, thoughtful science - fiction, but rather soapbox and screed timed to coincide with, in 1972, the first international conference on climate change.

Heading into the 2015 True / False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, the last two documentaries I reviewed were Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground, about rape on college campuses, and Robert Kenner's Merchants Of Doubt, about the industry - financed «experts» who deliberately muddy the debate over the settled science of climate change and cigarette - smokinOf Doubt, about the industry - financed «experts» who deliberately muddy the debate over the settled science of climate change and cigarette - smokinof climate change and cigarette - smoking.

«I have incorporated the impact of climate change into the Geologic Time Scale and exploring past mass extinctions in coordination with the 6th grade Massachusetts Science standards.»

A group of Iowa high school students helped report a statewide investigation into classroom science instruction that found that «nearly half of teachers surveyed by IowaWatch journalists teach climate change «as theory, informing students about the variety of thought that exists.

Kolbert brilliantly and engagingly combines science and travel writing to fully reveal how our use of fossil fuels is rapidly changing the atmosphere, the oceans, and the climate, potentially forcing millions of species into extinction and putting our own future at risk.

Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change.

Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms Some states have introduced education standards requiring teachers to defend the denial of man - made global warming.

It's probably conservatives trying to seize the attack ground in view of a possible pending debate about climate change in Washington, but the chorus of denialist opinion is so coordinated and their «logic» so simple it is convincing many, even among educated people (science PhDs) who can not be bothered to look deep into things but try to form an opinion based on a few journalistic pieces.

Such scientific and reality based sources extend far beyond climate science domain into other scientific domains such as cognitive science and psychology and human history and my own person life experience tackling «hard problems» to generate positive change within groups of people and rallying the troops to try to adjust their own pre-conditioning and beliefs of what is possible.

Even as far more effort is put into improving analysis of the climate system, monitoring changes, and forecasting what is to come, the country must also work to build the intellectual capacity not only to do the science but to have such information meaningfully incorporated in policies at scales down to the town manager.

By last April he was questioning the basic science of climate change itself, offering this mealy - mouthed attempt to placate the anti-science right wing without going whole hog into the denial camp: «Humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of these people out there are trying to make us believe.»

However, there are plenty of science articles that are just interesting, reporting events and explorations in the Arctic and elsewhere that give a fascinating view into how early scientists were coming to an understanding about climate change and processes.

The Stephen H. Schneider Symposium, being held in late August in Boulder, Colo., will reflect on his approach to the climate problem and culminate with a session on this question: «The challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation: How do we translate sound climate science into sound policies?»

Hard to do anything quite so spectacular for climate change without veering into science - fiction so preposterous that it evokes disbelief (although studies of the effects of «The Day After Tomorrow» showed it did change opinions — references here).

I hope we don't end - up regretting it too badly but by convincing ourselves that science must not be self - falsifiable, as is the case with the IPCC's position regarding scientific research into the causes of climate change, I'm afraid we are destined to do a lot of wheel spinning at great costs before we really make much headway in a truly conscious approach to our world's sustaining systems.

Such a technocratic narrative will also tend to encourage technocratic solutions: geoengineering as a quick - fix for climate change, say, or the Anthropocene imagined as a pragmatic problem to be managed, such that «Anthropocene science» is translated smoothly into «Anthropocene policy» within existing structures of governance.

Focusing on the influence of greenhouse - driven climate change on weather extremes (except for rainfall and heat) takes the debate into terrain that favors those trying to exploit uncertainty because, for extremes that matter most to society, the science is murky, at best.

The addition of the terrestrial biosphere models that simulate changes in terrestrial carbon sources and sinks into fully coupled climate models is at the cutting edge of climate science.

The grant to Columbia Journalism School was directed at «public interest research into what the fossil fuel industry understood about the science of climate change and how they acted given that understanding both internally and regarding the public,» but it did not target Exxon Mobil specifically, Wasserman said.»

Of course, despite ongoing advances in computer modelling technology and the millions of dollars being channelled into the problem in the UK and US, among other nations, climate change predictions are far from an exact science, and few, if any, researchers engaged in the issue have claimed as mucOf course, despite ongoing advances in computer modelling technology and the millions of dollars being channelled into the problem in the UK and US, among other nations, climate change predictions are far from an exact science, and few, if any, researchers engaged in the issue have claimed as mucof dollars being channelled into the problem in the UK and US, among other nations, climate change predictions are far from an exact science, and few, if any, researchers engaged in the issue have claimed as much.

Some insights into the public pressure on those that are skeptical of consensus climate change science or the UNFCCC policies are provided by a recent iaiTV interview of Benny Peiser, Director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

The introduction of the AGW hypothesis into the political arena has been deeply harmful to political policy on climate change, and it threatens to be deeply damaging to the reputation of all science.

I suspect a more apt comparison of Climate is with the whole Population Bomb / Club of Rome / Nuclear Winter forays of science into politics that never achieved the political muscle of the climate change movement, though they had their time and power, but all suffered ill fates and deserveClimate is with the whole Population Bomb / Club of Rome / Nuclear Winter forays of science into politics that never achieved the political muscle of the climate change movement, though they had their time and power, but all suffered ill fates and deserveclimate change movement, though they had their time and power, but all suffered ill fates and deservedly so.

[R] educing the complexity of climate change (as if a single outcome were known) into the soundbite of «climate change means more extreme weather» is a massive oversimplification — if not misstatement — of the true state of the science.

A new study in the journal Science finds climate change could push into extinction one of six plants and animals on this planet.

Here's a great quote from Mike Hulme, one of the authors of this article: «Self - evidently dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking, although science will gain some insights into the question if it recognises the socially contingent dimensions of a post-normal science.