Sentences with phrase «of experts on climate change»

While I find these human fingerprints fascinating and write about them frequently, the average layperson defers to the opinions of experts on climate change.

Some predicted a change in the Gulf Stream current that would considerably lower the temperatures in Scandinavia but the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Climate Change (IGECC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have not confirmed this hypothesis.

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Another expert, University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd, said that «while we have to be careful about knee - jerk cause - effect discussions, the National Academy of Science and recent peer - reviewed literature continue to show that some of today's extremes have climate change fingerprints on them.»

There were librarians and archivists focused on copyright term extension and digital locks; several doctors spoke to the impact of the TPP on public health and access to medicines, food experts highlighted the dangers associated with food security, environmental activists focused on the TPP and climate change, and speakers of all ages (including a 92 year old woman) expressed concern with the investor - state dispute resolution provisions.

The Financial Stability Board, an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system, recently announced the appointment of experts in responsible investment, sustainable finance, risk management and climate change to head its new task force on climate - change - related disclosures.

The report, hinged on the implications of climate change, came at a time when energy experts were insisting that unless countries drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions by moving away from fossil fuels, climate change would remain inevitable.

IFOAM Food Security Advocacy expert Cristina Grandi will lead the IFOAM delegation and collaborate with the Round Table on Organic Agriculture and Climate Change (RTOACC) and NOGAMU (National Organic Agriculture Movement of Uganda).

«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.

Panel discussion will feature climate policy experts and leading vintners at Vinexpo Bordeaux 2017, Sunday, June 18 NEW YORK — April 20, 2017 — The impact of climate change on viticulture and wine quality is among the most critical issues facing the global wine community today, as it prepares to converge on Bordeaux, France, this -LSB-...]

Jane Fae is an expert in issues relating to energy and climate change issues, writing a series of major reports for research companies (such as Datamonitor and Clarion) and consulting on behalf of UK energy providers.

Tony Blair is to lead a team of international experts seeking to find the right international agreement on climate change.

The AAAS Center for Public Engagement convened a panel of experts to develop and disseminate a report on the realities, risks, and responses to climate change.

Edward Maibach, an expert in climate change communication and director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changingclimate change communication and director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changing change communication and director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changingClimate Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changing Change Communication at George Mason University, who also advised the AAAS project on communication science, said the report has a chance of changing minds.

Ordinary people can't be experts on everything, so most folks look to people they respect — church leaders, the president, neighbors — for cues on issues of expertise, like climate change, said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communiclimate change, said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communicchange, said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change CommuniClimate Change CommunicChange Communication.

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria, but now an internationally recognized expert on water resources has identified climate change as a factor contributing to political turmoil in the region.

He has contributed opinions as an expert on vector - borne disease emergence for the European Food Safety Authority and the Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR - IDAZ), is a member of the MACSUR European network on the impacts of climate change on food production via disease ecology, and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

The diverse panel of experts who participated in the briefing — including scientists, artists, policymakers, and former astronauts — emphasized the need for understanding changes taking place in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and for investing in geoscience research on a sustained basis, including in tools to detect and track climate change and to assess potential impacts.

«We know that these large global mean changes are going to be associated with local and regional changes that are going to cause real problems in some areas,» says Andy Challinor, an expert on climate and agriculture at the University of Leeds in England.

If American teens are unsure about climate change or its cause, some school textbooks aren't helping, says teaching expert Diego Román, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, co-author of a new study on the subject.

Carbon capture and storage has been identified by experts ranging from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the leaders of the world's eight richest nations (G8) as crucial to the fight against climate Climate Change to the leaders of the world's eight richest nations (G8) as crucial to the fight against climate cChange to the leaders of the world's eight richest nations (G8) as crucial to the fight against climate climate changechange.

Talk about management by committee: one group of more than 800 scientist authors to cope with more than 9,000 scientific publications on climate change and more than 20,000 comments from «expert reviewers» (plus another 30,000 or so from various other interested parties.)

But experts blamed it on climate change, warning of more future droughts in areas traditionally blessed with water.

«Based on the UN climate panel's report on sea level rise, supplemented with an expert elicitation about the melting of the ice sheets, for example, how fast the ice on Greenland and Antarctica will melt while considering the regional changes in the gravitational field and land uplift, we have calculated how much the sea will rise in Northern Europe,» explains Aslak Grinsted.

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.

One China expert said Obama's emphasis on U.S. - China cooperation ahead of the United Nations» Copenhagen, Denmark, summit in December — where world leaders will try and hammer out a worldwide climate change treaty — could aid efforts to reach a global pact.

We propose to use our poster presentation to survey the attendees of the Fourth Santa Fe Conference on Global and Regional Climate Change and to determine how expert opinion has changed in the last 40 years.

«Outside of studies of red spruce in the 1970s, I have never seen anything quite like this,» said a study co-author, Dr. Neil Pederson, an ecologist at Harvard Forest in Massachusetts and an expert on tree rings and climate change.

Oppenheimer and his co-authors use a technique known as «structured expert judgment» to put an actual value on the uncertainty that scientists studying climate change have about a particular model's prediction of future events such as sea - level rise.

Claudia Tebaldi, a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that the researchers propose a much more robust method for evaluating the increasing volume of climate - change data coming out than experts coming up with «a ballpark estimate based on their own judgments.»

Dooley, a scientist with the Atmospheric Science and Global Change Division and the Joint Global Change Research Institute, is an international expert on the role of carbon capture and storage in addressing climate cChange Division and the Joint Global Change Research Institute, is an international expert on the role of carbon capture and storage in addressing climate cChange Research Institute, is an international expert on the role of carbon capture and storage in addressing climate changechange.

To identify the present and future state of deep - sea ecosystems, we used a combination of expert opinion, current literature, and the output of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) models.

«The depth and breadth of contribution demonstrates their standing as world - class experts and their influence on the scientific, technical and socio - economic understanding of climate change.»

Science Trends is a leading source of science news and analysis on everything from climate change to cancer research, all of which is curated and written by a community of experts in their field.

The report quotes public health experts who express concerns that carbon emissions associated with coal use will contribute to climate change and add to future public health problems - on top of the serious consequences of coal burning we are already seeing today.

«Nuclear weapons and climate change are precisely the sort of complex existential threats that can not be properly managed without access to and reliance on expert knowledge,» the scientists wrote in their report.

Trenberth has been a lead author in at least two reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and he's an acknowledged world expert on some of the issues raised in the paper by Hansen et al..

Thus BiK - F is helping to implement international agreements, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the EU Habitats Directive, the EU Water Framework Directive and the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive, through the provision of scientific services and expert opinions to various stakeholders in society.

While previous years have also seen large spikes in November - December temperatures, these peaks are occurring on top of a upward trend, says Prof Jennifer Francis, an expert in Arctic climate change at Rutgers University.

The bottom line, according to a group of experts not involved in any of these studies: Scientists don't know much about how sunlight interacts with our planet, and until they understand it, they can't accurately predict any possible effects of human activity 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.

Some model assessments already exist; for instance, many experts tout the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam for its challenging, open - ended questions on practical topics, such as climate change or the pros and cons of graffiti.

This research workshop focused on the issue of how future climate change might affect transportation and brought together top transportation and climate change experts to explore what is currently known about the interaction between climate change and transportation and identify key potential risks.

In collaboration with marine biologists and other experts, the sculptures are all designed to counteract the effects of climate change on our oceans and reef systems.

Starting with a presentation on the repercussions of global warming on the Bay Area by Bruce Riordan, Executive Director of Bay Area Climate Solutions, the Institute presented climate change to both environmental experts and community leaders who were unfamiliar with this all - too - importantClimate Solutions, the Institute presented climate change to both environmental experts and community leaders who were unfamiliar with this all - too - importantclimate change to both environmental experts and community leaders who were unfamiliar with this all - too - important topic.

While I'm much less expert on Indonesia, I doubt very much that its government is as far advanced as China's is in its thinking about how to tackle the challenge of climate change.

On balance if you look at all the things the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of experts convened by the United Nations to advise governments in responding to global warming] has been doing over the last number of years, they were trying very hard to put in all the peer - reviewed serious stufOn balance if you look at all the things the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of experts convened by the United Nations to advise governments in responding to global warming] has been doing over the last number of years, they were trying very hard to put in all the peer - reviewed serious stufon Climate Change, the body of experts convened by the United Nations to advise governments in responding to global warming] has been doing over the last number of years, they were trying very hard to put in all the peer - reviewed serious stuff.

Those saying he appeared to be perpetuating a habit of delay and dissembling on climate included Michael Oppenheimer, an author of several of the recent reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a climate expert at Priclimate included Michael Oppenheimer, an author of several of the recent reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a climate expert at PriClimate Change and a climate expert at Priclimate expert at Princeton.

The Chronicle recently published an op - ed jointly written by two UC Berkeley faculty (a scientist and a journalism expert) entitled «The politics of climate change — Should we trust a novelist on global warming?».

«EPA is relying most heavily on these synthesis reports because they... 3) have been reviewed and formally accepted by, commissioned by, or in some cases authored by, U.S. government agencies and individual government scientists and provide EPA with assurances that this material has been well vetted by both the climate change research community and by the U.S. government; and 4) in many cases, they reflect and convey the consensus conclusions of expert authors.»

A larger mystery than either missing carbon or the influence of clouds / water vapor on climate change models is why the physical and life science community and the (in theory) science - based climate change advocates have not taken the time to adequately consult the evidence or experts (albeit exceptions certainly do exist) on communication about environmental issues, risk, or environmental and health literacy.