Sentences with phrase «report by government scientists»

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As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).

A March 2008 Government Accountability Office report criticized the Bush White House (pdf) for injecting politics into the EPA's chemical risk assessment of perchlorate and other toxins.The report suggested that the White House Office of Management and Budget was stalling the completion of risk assessments by forcing scientists to respond to comments from other federal agencies, including the Department of Defense.

The report details an investigation into the cases of eight Turkish scientists, doctors, and engineers who have been accused by their government of terrorism and treason.

Kemal Gürüz, a chemical engineer, is one of eight Turkish scientists being unfairly persecuted by the Turkish government, according to a new report.

The agency is responding to a report written by 12 scientists who criticized the government's decades - old strategy for testing the safety of many chemicals found in the environment and consumer products

It followed up on a similar survey the union released in 2013 at the height of the controversy over the then - Conservative government's reported muzzling of scientists by preventing media interviews and curtailing travel to scientific conferences.

University researchers who work with dangerous pathogens should keep an eye on each other and report any signs of suspicious behavior to lab managers, says a panel of life scientists that was asked by the U.S. government to think of ways to tackle the threat of lab insiders carrying out a bioterrorist attack.

A report by the union in 2013 found that 86 % of federal scientists felt that they could not publicly share concerns about government policies that could harm public health, safety, or the environment without facing retaliation from their department leaders.

► «Science spending in India is slated to rise 11 % in the 2016 — 17 fiscal year to $ 1.19 billion, according to the budget proposal presented [Monday] by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,» but some scientists are worried that «inflation... will consume much of the increase,» Sanjay Kumar reported on Tuesday.

The report was the result of workshops and discussions organized by AAAS and its Caribbean Division after the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti and involved over 100 scientists, engineers, educators, and government leaders from Haiti, Puerto Rico, Canada, Rwanda, and the United States.

... Research UK would take over administrative duties, such as tracking grant data, providing business support, and reporting to Parliament... [and] should be run by «a highly distinguished scientist, capable of delivering a managerially efficient organisation and of interacting effectively with Government.»

Requested by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the report draws on discussions at a two - day conference last spring that brought together scientists, officials from city and state governments, business leaders and representatives of federal agencies.

The report comes amid an ongoing controversy over steps taken by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to regulate public comments by government scientists.

The report by Mexican government scientists, presented at the Convention on Biological Diversity in The Hague, suggested that genes from USA GM maize had crossed the Mexican border, polluting non-GM maize grown there.

To build the database, the researchers scoured academic journals, government documents and other sources for reports of coral bleaching missing from an existing voluntary database commonly used by scientists.

In 2007, the last year for which figures are available, 19 percent of the grants awarded to individual scientists were made as exceptions, or given outside of rankings by scientific reviewers, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office provided to The New York Times.

Contemporary research shows 75 per cent of the fastest growing occupations will require science, technology, engineering and mathematics, according to a 2014 report by the federal government statutory authority, the Office of the Chief Scientist.

This morning, Field noted several opportunities for improvement, particularly in the way the scientist authors interact with government officials who negotiate the final wording on report summaries, word by word.

«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.»

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But Big Government, who wants a «crisis» that must be «solved» by increasing government power over the private sector, could not possibly influence scientists getting government grants and / or salaries, and of course NEVER has to be disclosed as part of an article, white paper or other report by any scientist on the gooberGovernment, who wants a «crisis» that must be «solved» by increasing government power over the private sector, could not possibly influence scientists getting government grants and / or salaries, and of course NEVER has to be disclosed as part of an article, white paper or other report by any scientist on the goobergovernment power over the private sector, could not possibly influence scientists getting government grants and / or salaries, and of course NEVER has to be disclosed as part of an article, white paper or other report by any scientist on the goobergovernment grants and / or salaries, and of course NEVER has to be disclosed as part of an article, white paper or other report by any scientist on the goobermint dole.

The country's top independent scientific advisory body has largely approved a major climate report being prepared by scientists within the Trump administration — suggesting that another key government document could soon emerge that contradicts...

So while the reports are mostly written by scientists, they are just those scientists selected by their respective governments.

The headline - grabbing new IPCC report, published after a final round of drafting involving governments as well as scientists, is the last of three major assessments by the panel of the state of climate change.

A report from Swiss scientists says some chemical companies in Europe are secretly releasing a powerful greenhouse gas - exceeding what their governments report by as much as 140 per cent.

An earlier fast - track assessment (FTA) sponsored by the UK Government and undertaken by essentially the same group of scientists that produced the analysis that I reported on in my previous post compared the impacts of climate change for three cases: unconstrained (business as usual, BAU) emission case, CO2 stabilization at 750, and stabilization at 550 ppm.

UCS» report laments scientists at public universities, research institutes, and federal agencies are subjected to demands for information under a variety of state open - records laws and the 1967 federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which was designed to hold government agencies accountable by providing the public with access to records from any federal agency.

On August 7th, a broad climate change report drafted by government scientists from 13 federal agencies that was leaked to the press indicated the average U.S. temperature «has risen rapidly and drastically» to historic levels since the 1980s.

Drawn up by more than 2,500 of the world's top scientists and their governments, and agreed last week by representatives of all its national governments, the report also predicts that nearly a third of the world's species could be driven to extinction as the world warms up, and that harvests will be cut dramatically across the world.

A senior scientist at the Mauritius Academy of Science and Technology, who is in New Delhi for a meeting of science academies, says that IPCC reports, in general, are «not radical enough» to force real action by national governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The reports were reviewed by hundreds of government and academic scientists as part of the IPCC process.

A report by the chief scientist, Alan Finkel, to be presented at Friday's Council of Australian Governments meeting in Canberra, is expected to recommend an emissions intensity scheme.

[7] Thousands of scientists and other experts contribute (on a voluntary basis, without payment from the IPCC)[8] to writing and reviewing reports, which are then reviewed by governments.

But critics said that while all administrations routinely vetted government reports, scientific content in such reports should be reviewed by scientists.

The report's language is far more constrained than that, reflecting a delicate consensus that was reached only after months of debate and several rounds of comments by hundreds of scientists and government climate experts, Dr. Trenberth said.

Alan Jones has been sued by a government scientist of almost four decades» service after the broadcaster accused him of doctoring a report on a wind farm.

The company's findings «systematically biased low and environmentally unrealistic quantification of larval deformity rates,» according to the government report, which was reviewed by three independent scientists.

Reports Says Better Habitat Protection is Required Environment Canada released a report (six months after it was finalized by scientists, thanks to the Conservative federal government): «The study concludes 29 of the 57 remaining herds of boreal caribou

[C] ritics said that while all administrations routinely vetted government reports, scientific content in such reports should be reviewed by scientists.

Environmental failures «put humanity at risk» · UN report bemoans lack of urgency by governments · Five - year study involved more than 1,400 scientists Martin Hodgson, The Guardian Friday, October 26 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/26/climatechange

Scientists from the Australia Institute yesterday delivered to the NT Government a report which showed the number of Darwin days with a maximum temperature of 35C or above will reach 132 by 2030 «without drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions».

Trump may be able to sit on a report that the government is required to issue but he can't issue a report with alternate science — at least not one signed by credentialed scientists.»

Drafted and reviewed by dozens of scientists within and outside government and endorsed earlier this year by the independent National Academy of Sciences, the report details findings drawn from a host of studies that are as close to certainties as science can produce.

In addition to the many books, reports, articles, speeches, debates, and media appearances on climate it has produced, sponsored, and / or promoted, the Heartland Institute has done a tremendous service by sponsoring international conferences that bring together genuine scientists and policy experts who insist on evidence - based science, rather than the politics - based «science» promoted by the United Nations and most of the planet's governments and government agencies.

If you click through some of their reports below you will also see links to news stories back to at least 2010 when scientists were already protesting changes made by the government.

A new report by scientists advising the federal government finds no breakthrough discovery for managing citrus greening, a chronic disease killing Florida's citrus industry.