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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.

It has been an honour to negotiate and then serve in the first coalition government of modern times which has substantial achievements both in reducing the economic dangers faced by our country, and in making progress with policies to tackle climate change and provide energy security.

All three of the main political parties are stuck in a dangerous Cold War time warp, unable to see that the world has changed and that modern security threats such as climate change and fundamentalism can't be tackled with nuclear weapons.

«The quality of the southern African data allowed us to make these correlations between climate and behavioural change, but it will require comparable data from other areas before we can say whether this region was uniquely important in the development of modern human culture» added Professor Stringer.

A study published last year in the American Journal of Human Genetics used mitochondrial DNA to argue that the San Bushmen of southern Africa became isolated from other modern humans for up to 110,000 years, probably because climate change produced a great desert separating East Africa from southern Africa.

A new study by an international team of scientists reveals the exact timing of the onset of the modern monsoon pattern in the Maldives 12.9 million years ago, and its connection to past climate changes and coral reefs in the region.

This phenomenon, almost certainly the result of climate change, is the first modern record of river piracy caused by a melting glacier, researchers report online April 17 in Nature Geoscience.

The authors suggest that human activity may even be driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.

As the effects of climate change continue to reduce modern cities» water supplies, wealthy modern countries are also investing in desalination technologies.

As greenhouse gases have piled up in the atmosphere, climate change has shifted from being a theory about a future threat to a hazardous fact of modern life.

Mills has analyzed everything from the impact of climate change on the insurance industry to energy use in African villages, modern buildings, and data centers.

The researchers note that the study provides historical context for what is happening today and what may happen in the future and demonstrates that there is need for further investigation into the effects of climate change on modern societies worldwide.

For these researchers, the bursts of demographic expansion caused by climate change in southern Africa were probably key factors in the origin of modern humans» behaviour in Africa, and in the dispersal of Homo sapiens from his ancestral home.

This is particularly true in areas which tend to experience more pronounced and cumulative impacts of modern climate change.

Neither scenario would be particularly good news in the context of modern climate change.

Many physiological responses in present - day coral reefs to climate change are interpreted as consistent with the imminent disappearance of modern reefs globally because of annual mass bleaching events, carbonate dissolution, and insufficient time for substantial evolutionary responses.

The evidence of the success of early rice farmers on the vast wetlands near the Guaporé River in Rondônia state, Brazil, could help modern day plant breeders develop rice crops which are less susceptible to disease and more adaptable to the effects of climate change than the Asian varieties.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

But in Western Europe, I think it was a combination of the arrival of people with superior technology and climate change so the Neandertals were doubly unlucky, because at the time modern humans came into Europe, the climate of Europe was extremely unstable.

The environmental effects of climate change in our modern world are increasingly convincing, and global leaders will gather soon in a major Summit to try to address the problem.

Better knowledge of Venus could help answer two of the most important questions in modern science: how is Earth's climate changing, and are we alone in the universe?

Explicit recognition of citizen science in published papers could promote the communication linkages necessary for broader impacts by helping shift public discourse associated with modern climate change from controversy to acceptance.

You would be very hard - pushed to find a large number of geologists who would argue that humans are creating modern climate change because in geology we've seen massive climate changes, we've seen sea levels go up and down like a yoyo.

He explains how he once thought that climate change theory was based solely on computer models, where in fact it's based on scientific measurements of both modern and ancient climates.

«The alarming rate of change we are now witnessing in our climate as a result of greenhouse gas emissions is unprecedented in modern records.»

Indigenous peoples of the world have long realized that the earth places natural limits we can not exceed.8 Modern science and experience is now confirming this in various ways, such as in the case of climate change, or the depletion of the oceans.

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Exhibitions and Productions Bow Arts (2017), «Rhino», London (solo show) Bow Arts (2016), «Desire Caught by the Tail», London (solo show) Wimbledon Space (2016), «The Golden Face Lift» (solo show) Dyson Gallery (2016), «Act Natural», London (exhibiting artist) Riverlight Gallery (2015), duo exhibition, London (exhibiting artist) The Rag Factory (2014), «Love Kills», London (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) The Chelsea Theatre (2014), «Love Kills», London (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Floating Island Gallery (2014), group show, (exhibiting artist) Spill Festival (2013), «PORN», Ipswich (exhibiting artist) Departure Foundation (2013), group show, «Unperforming» (exhibiting artist) Testbed Gallery (2013), group show, «acts of 2», (exhibiting artist and curator) Testbed Gallery (2012), group show, «acts of», (exhibiting artist and curator) Freud Museum (2011), group show, Objects of Desire, London (exhibiting artist) Battersea Arts Centre (2010), Accidental Festival, London (exhibiting artist) Blue Print (2010), group show, In Time, London (exhibiting artist) perFORM (2009), group show, Triangle Space, London (exhibiting artist) Live Art Lectures (2009), group show, London (exhibiting artist) Disconnected (2009), web - based group show, created and uploaded in London (exhibiting artist) Tate Modern (2008), The Living Currency, London (live performance) Home Sweet Home (2008), various locales, London (co-founder and exhibiting artist, group show) Blackout (2008), group show, Chelsea Art, London (exhibiting artist) Press Play (2008), group show, Chelsea Art, London (exhibiting artist) Climate of Change (2007), group show, Southwark Art (exhibiting artist) Heiner Müller Programme (2001), Access Theatre, New York (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Vengeance, Bloodlust & Afternoon Tea: Armageddon, Cupcakes & the Poisonous Love of Heiner Müller's «Quartet», «Heartpiece» & «Medeamaterial» (2005) Theatro Technis, London (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) EH JOE (1998), The Kraine, New York (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Meditation JoJo (1996), Mabou Mines Suite, New York (director and solo performer for video) Dixon Place Funereal (1995),» Funereal», New York, (director and performer) Mabou Mines / Suite (1994), «Funereal», New York (director and performer) H.E.R.E. (1994), «HOME», New York (director and performer) Glendale Studio (1993), «HOME», Arizona (director and performeIn Time, London (exhibiting artist) perFORM (2009), group show, Triangle Space, London (exhibiting artist) Live Art Lectures (2009), group show, London (exhibiting artist) Disconnected (2009), web - based group show, created and uploaded in London (exhibiting artist) Tate Modern (2008), The Living Currency, London (live performance) Home Sweet Home (2008), various locales, London (co-founder and exhibiting artist, group show) Blackout (2008), group show, Chelsea Art, London (exhibiting artist) Press Play (2008), group show, Chelsea Art, London (exhibiting artist) Climate of Change (2007), group show, Southwark Art (exhibiting artist) Heiner Müller Programme (2001), Access Theatre, New York (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Vengeance, Bloodlust & Afternoon Tea: Armageddon, Cupcakes & the Poisonous Love of Heiner Müller's «Quartet», «Heartpiece» & «Medeamaterial» (2005) Theatro Technis, London (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) EH JOE (1998), The Kraine, New York (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Meditation JoJo (1996), Mabou Mines Suite, New York (director and solo performer for video) Dixon Place Funereal (1995),» Funereal», New York, (director and performer) Mabou Mines / Suite (1994), «Funereal», New York (director and performer) H.E.R.E. (1994), «HOME», New York (director and performer) Glendale Studio (1993), «HOME», Arizona (director and performein London (exhibiting artist) Tate Modern (2008), The Living Currency, London (live performance) Home Sweet Home (2008), various locales, London (co-founder and exhibiting artist, group show) Blackout (2008), group show, Chelsea Art, London (exhibiting artist) Press Play (2008), group show, Chelsea Art, London (exhibiting artist) Climate of Change (2007), group show, Southwark Art (exhibiting artist) Heiner Müller Programme (2001), Access Theatre, New York (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Vengeance, Bloodlust & Afternoon Tea: Armageddon, Cupcakes & the Poisonous Love of Heiner Müller's «Quartet», «Heartpiece» & «Medeamaterial» (2005) Theatro Technis, London (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) EH JOE (1998), The Kraine, New York (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Meditation JoJo (1996), Mabou Mines Suite, New York (director and solo performer for video) Dixon Place Funereal (1995),» Funereal», New York, (director and performer) Mabou Mines / Suite (1994), «Funereal», New York (director and performer) H.E.R.E. (1994), «HOME», New York (director and performer) Glendale Studio (1993), «HOME», Arizona (director and performer)

In June the group occupied Tate Modern's Turbine Hall for 25 hours and scrawled words of warning about climate change across the floor in charcoaIn June the group occupied Tate Modern's Turbine Hall for 25 hours and scrawled words of warning about climate change across the floor in charcoain charcoal.

In our modern world, there is no such frontier, but after the cataclysm that most of us feel is coming due to climate change, there will be a new sublime to inspire and frighten us.

Last summer protesters spent 25 hours scrawling climate change messages in charcoal on the floor of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.

The main issue is that for the modern instrumental period the changes in many aspects of climate have not been very large — either compared with what is projected for the 21st Century, or from what we see in the past climate record.

On the one hand, climate change is perhaps the single largest environmental of our time, and in fact of the grandest scientific challenges of the modern era.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

But to them, we offer the reminder that paleoclimate evidence comprises only one of many independent lines of evidence indicating a primary role of human activity in modern climate change.

I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].

in the meantime, in the absence of reliable climate models or any certainty of «how much climate may change,» how many trillions should we spend and how far backward must modern industrial civilization be propelled by imposing draconian co2 emissions cuts?

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

The implications of our findings are that the modern observations of ocean - driven warming along the western Antarctic Peninsula need to be considered as part of a natural centennial timescale cycle of climate variability, and that in order to understand climate change along the Antarctic Peninsula, we need to understand the broader climate connections with the rest of the planet.

The papers questioned everything from the relative role of natural mechanisms in changes to the climate system vis - à - vis increased CO2 concentrations, the allegedly «unprecedented» nature of modern climate phenomena such as warming, sea levels, glacier and sea ice retreat, and the efficacy and reliability of computer climate models for projecting future climate states.

Traditional wisdom combined with modern methods of agro-ecology is helping Indian farmers in diverse parts of the country to adapt to a changing climate

Rome's Mayor Ignazio Marino was chosen to kick off the event, titled «Modern Slavery and Climate Change: The Commitment of the Cities,» and said that «Slavery still exists in our cities, even in Rome.»

Drastically improved efforts to provide modern energy access to the poor opens up a new approach to development efforts and action on climate change, an international group of energy and environment scholars say in a new report, Our High - Energy Planet.

While many climate scientists have come under the withering fire of skeptics, some of the toughest fights have centered around Mann and his research — largely because of a single study that demonstrated that modern climate change is unprecedented in at least the past millenium of Earth's history.

«No one seems upset that in modern Britain, old people are freezing to death as hidden taxes make fuel more expensive «The government's chief scientific officer, Sir David King, later declared that climate change was «more serious even than the threat of terrorism» in terms of the number of lives that could be lost.

With two independent studies triangulating the onset of the PETM in the 3,000 -4,000-year timeframe, it puts modern climate change into perspective.

In particular, a major fallacy in the modern «climate change» meme is that of worshiping the earth's current status quo rather than being a steward of the eartIn particular, a major fallacy in the modern «climate change» meme is that of worshiping the earth's current status quo rather than being a steward of the eartin the modern «climate change» meme is that of worshiping the earth's current status quo rather than being a steward of the earth.

Although carbon dioxide increases are the largest driver of modern climate change, changes in the abundance of many other compounds also play a role.

One of the most obvious indicators that Earth's climate changes was discovered not by any modern scientist, but by the forefathers of science who first looked to the stars - Kepler, Copernicus and Newton - and realized that Earth's position in space is not fixed.

Just as Newton's law of universal gravitation is most easily tested against astronomical observations, which we are in no position to vary ourselves, so does my poster test its hypothesis against modern climate observations, which likewise we are in no position to change.