The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up in 1988 by two United Nations agencies as a way to collect and disseminate the current best
science on climate disruption.
Not exact matches
As the respondent to a panel
on climate and the press at this year's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science in Boston (I was
on the panel), he urged the media, and scientists who talk to the press, to substitute «global
climate disruption» for that all - too - comfortable pair of words.
What has been largely missing is a high - level appeal for action
on global
climate disruption that also emphasizes the risks of inaction and is couched in the
science of
climate change.
Amen to Hansen's calling
on President Obama to personally and actively take up the cause of
climate science and to begin to speak in earnest about the threat posed by global climatic
disruption.
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The Pew survey was taken in early 2009 and asked over 2000 members of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) their opinion
on various scientific issues, including
climate disruption.
S&R's collection of a discussion
on human - caused
climate disruption between Brian Angliss, S&R
climate /
science writer and electrical engineer, and Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer and former CEO of Scaled Composites.
The impacts of natural drivers
on climate disruption have been investigated repeatedly and in detail, as the two figures (from the Skeptical
Science website) below show.
The man - made nature of
climate disruption is based
on so many well established, basic physical principles that it can't be rationally disputed without shattering large portions of modern
science (physics, chemistry, biology, and geology just for starters) and ignoring most of the modern technology (GPS, IR cameras, heat - seeking missiles, weather satellites, etc.) that was successfully designed and built using that
science.