Sentences with phrase «knowledge over climate change»

This is especially true for the incorporation of SGE into the model, since the costs, benefits, and risks of SGE are very poorly understood, even relative to the state of knowledge over climate change in general.

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The committee has prepared a report that, in my view, provides policy makers and the scientific community with a critical view of surface temperature reconstructions and how they are evolving over time, as well as a good sense of how important our understanding of the paleoclimate temperature record is within the overall state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

The NRC asked the committee to summarize current scientific information on the temperature record for the past two millennia, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

The projects aims to give us further knowledge in areas as diverse as coral reefs ecosystem, the dietary composition in wildlife and domestic animals over the last 50 000 years, the effects of antibiotic exposure on microbial ecosystems, and changes in biodiversity that might have an effect on or are affected by climate change.

In addition to supporting adaptation efforts through its pipeline of infrastructure projects (which will average $ 1.1 billion per annum over the next three years), the Bank is providing (in countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Djibouti, and Yemen) knowledge and technical expertise for better analyzing likely impacts of climate change, and for designing least - cost adaptation interventions to minimize such impacts.

Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on global climate change.»

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

If not, the only way you can suppose that climate has always changed (which wasn't common knowledge until the last one hundred years) is by agreeing with the research and opinion of many climate scientists and others, who have built up a picture of a constantly changing climate over the history of this planet.

UK Study 2011: * Scepticism and uncertainty about climate change: Dimensions, determinants and change over time * Highlights — 1) Scepticism is strongly determined by environmental and political values rather than by education or knowledge.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report - Climate Change 2007 Released February 2, 2007, this report, written by over 2500 top scientists, is a comprehensive and rigorous picture of the knowledge of climate change that is «unequivocal» evidence that climate change is real and is happenning faster than exClimate Change (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report - Climate Change 2007 Released February 2, 2007, this report, written by over 2500 top scientists, is a comprehensive and rigorous picture of the knowledge of climate change that is «unequivocal» evidence that climate change is real and is happenning faster than expChange (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report - Climate Change 2007 Released February 2, 2007, this report, written by over 2500 top scientists, is a comprehensive and rigorous picture of the knowledge of climate change that is «unequivocal» evidence that climate change is real and is happenning faster than exClimate Change 2007 Released February 2, 2007, this report, written by over 2500 top scientists, is a comprehensive and rigorous picture of the knowledge of climate change that is «unequivocal» evidence that climate change is real and is happenning faster than expChange 2007 Released February 2, 2007, this report, written by over 2500 top scientists, is a comprehensive and rigorous picture of the knowledge of climate change that is «unequivocal» evidence that climate change is real and is happenning faster than exclimate change that is «unequivocal» evidence that climate change is real and is happenning faster than expchange that is «unequivocal» evidence that climate change is real and is happenning faster than exclimate change is real and is happenning faster than expchange is real and is happenning faster than expected.

According to these representatives, ExxonMobile officals «hid» the knowledge that carbon dioxide causes climate change for over 27 years.

We're still arguing over climate change and to some extent I can understand that; local knowledge has been passed down through five generations of farmers.

The email from Exxon's in - house climate expert provides evidence the company was aware of the connection between fossil fuels and climate change, and the potential for carbon - cutting regulations that could hurt its bottom line, over a generation ago — factoring that knowledge into its decision about an enormous gas field in south - east Asia.

Despite early knowledge about climate change, electric utilities have continued to invest heavily in fossil fuel power generation over the past half a century, and since 1988 some have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

It illustrates that there are regions all over the Earth where the heat, mass, and volume flows have not been studied, and how there isn't sufficient knowledge to predict how any of the flows will change, or how any particular part of the climate system will change.

Stott's primary area of research, according to the website of the University of London, is «the construction of environmental knowledge over the last 30 years, especially in relation to the following metanarratives: biodiversity, biotechnology, climate change (global warming), organic agriculture, and tropical rain forests (see edited book: Political ecology: science, myth and power).

The exuberance with which the latest «97 %» study has been greeted by many of those who want to promote constructive engagement with climate science reflects a distressing resistance to take in the more general «scientific consensus» that exists among science of science communication researchers that neither a deficit in knowledge of facts — ones relating to the science of climate as well as ones relating to the extent of scientific consensus — nor a deficit in the ability to make sense of scientific information is the source of continuing conflict over climate change.

the committee will summarize current scientific information on the temperature record for the past 1,000 - 2,000 years, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record is to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

It was prompted by a story over at Forbes on efforts by the National Center for Science Education to support educators being pressured by political interests to misrepresent the current state of scientific knowledge on climate change.

Go ahead and quibble over what constitutes «social science research» or qualifications to employ social science methods but if you read work he's coauthored it's obvious that Schneider has a good working knowledge of social science research as it applies to thinking about climate change.

However, there are significant differences and uncertainties among the various climate models and their projections, and current knowledge on the potential for and implications of such extreme climate changes over the twenty - first century is limited.

5) Explain how central the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record is to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

The Centre was established in August 2007 with Territory funding of $ 2.5 milliion over five years at Charles Darwin University to focus on the role of traditional knowledge in fields such as climate change, water, international policy making, biological resources and marine management.