Sentences with phrase «polar sciences as»

The International Polar Foundation focuses on polar regions and polar sciences as a means to communicating on climate change and to promote a more sustainable society.

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Early science results from NASA's Juno mission portray the largest planet in our solar system as a turbulent world, with an intriguingly complex interior structure, energetic polar aurora, and huge polar cyclones.

Indications are that heavy reliance on indigenous knowledge — also known as traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)-- is likely to continue in northern polar science.

This new color - coded photo mosaic of Mercury's south polar region, presented here today at a joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, shows these «freezer» areas as dark blotches.

Reviews range from simple comments such as «this is a good piece of science journalism» to detailed scientific explanations such as how «polar ice cap» fails to distinguish between land ice and sea ice.

As you read the original accounts of this extraordinary age of polar exploration, written a century or more ago, you may be reminded of the common character of exploration, science and technology, each of which celebrate the opening of new frontiers, the discovery of unknown facts and the advancement of human endeavors.

«Future Boaty missions and the new RRS Sir David Attenborough research vessel will ensure the UK continues to punch above its weight and lead the way in polar science, engineering and technology as part of our Industrial Strategy.»

Founded by Belgian polar explorer Alain Hubert, Prof. Hugo Decleir and Prof. André Berger in 2002, the Brussels - based International Polar Foundation provides a novel interface between science and society, and was recognised by Belgian Royal Statute as a foundation for the public good in 2002.

SW: The reason why the Empathics use ritual and science is because we think of them as polar opposites, when actually science, religion and spirituality were deeply tied and developed together as forms, during the Enlightenment and in philosophy traditions, for example.

Sir or Mam, if you are absolutely convinced, after seeing people who don't think polar bears are as important as the people you are elected to serve, that argue out the science, then commit the American people on a path that will basically spend their hard - earned money on a problem our chief rivals are probably simply paying lip service too, then I will support you.

The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.

(I'm here by coincidence and actually focused on Arctic and Antarctic science, not cities, as emcee for «Polar - Palooza,» something of a traveling polar - science festival that celebrates research at both chilly ends of the Earth.)

By: Lauren Culler, Research Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College and JSEP co-Principal Investigator, and Lee McDavid, Program Manager of the Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College Twenty high school students from Greenland, Denmark, and the U.S. learned about polar science this past summer as they gained first - hand experience of how international research teams work together and some of the challenges they face, especially when speaking different languages.

Crockford has published «briefings» on conservative think tanks and has been described as a polar bear expert, but uses a «scientific uncertainty» and «public accountability of science» framework to criticize scientists» findings.

In spite of historical barriers to participation in polar field work, women have made outstanding contributions to polar physical, biological and social sciences, as well as to community - level efforts to coordinate and communicate science.

The President has directed NASA to accelerate the development of new satellites that the National Research Council recommended as Earth science priorities, in addition to flying several research satellites currently in development, conducting a campaign to monitor changes in polar ice sheets, and pursuing enhancements to climate models.

The recent listing of polar bears as «endangered» was based on junk science and GIGO computer models that claim manmade global warming will send the bears» record population numbers into oblivion.

As can be seen, there has been a cooling trend - granted, a very tiny -0.04 °C / century, but it remains far removed from the IPCC's unicorn science of «amplified» and dangerous polar warming.

Based on what he's seen in the Arctic, and on the latest science, Zukunft said he's planning for six feet of sea level rise by the end of the century, as polar ice sheets and glaciers melt.

ARCTIC SCIENCE PRIZE [NORWAY, GERMANY]: Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl, for testing how reindeer react to seeing humans who are disguised as polar bears.

It uses diverging reporting about the faith of the polar bear as an example to describe the difference in methodology between science communicators and those trying to spread misinformation, illustrating a split between «climate denier blogs» and science - accurate websites, when such internet media talk about the same topic.

Most scientific articles as well as science - based blogs assess Arctic sea ice extent to be shrinking and polar bears to be threatened as a result, and most denier blogs take a contrary view on both sea ice and polar bears.

This — as polar bear expert Dr Susan Crockford explains — is «polar bear tragedy porn dressed as science.»

In a third letter, a broad alliance of more than 140 faith, human - rights, social justice and environmental groups called on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today to «fully acknowledge the reality and science of climate change in the Arctic, and grant polar bears full protection as an «endangered» species.»