Sentences with phrase «science on the climate risks»

A communications kit found on the group's website disputes the science on the climate risks of burning coal for energy, and proclaims that «CO2 is plant food.»

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If you go to an Ivy League school, «there are prestigious companies that will take a chance on you even if you majored in classics or medieval history,» he writes, but «the problem is that while we need lots and lots of people with humanities and social science backgrounds, in today's increasingly anti-intellectual climate, majoring in philosophy is becoming a risk that fewer and fewer people can afford to take.»

The letter comes on the eve of a House hearing on the legality of the subpoenas issued by the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology to Schneiderman's office over the investigation over whether major energy companies downplayed the risks of climate change.

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement puts future generations at risk and leaves the nation without a plan to mitigate the impact of climate change on society, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, on June...

«There is a potential risk that if you cool the planet by albedo modification, it could provide less incentive to reduce reliance on fossil fuels,» says Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist, current editor - in - chief of Science and chair of a committee that evaluated climate intervention techniques for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

He has been very active in international scientific programs: Chair (1988 - 94), World Climate Research Programme; Chair, Planning / Science Committee, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Program (2005 - 2011); and President (2009 - 15) of START International (environmental capacity enhancement in Africa and Asia).

The judge in the case did not, in his specific questions to the parties, ask if there was a consensus on the science, or whether climate change would present catastrophic risks.

Based on the available scientific knowledge it is only by concerted global actions and smart science - informed policies that we can provide solutions to limit warming of the climate system to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and thus reduce the risks and mitigate the consequences of climate change.

But along with the preening admiration bestowed on Taylor from many of those most stridently rejecting climate science or any effort to manage climate risks, he also won the very begrudging respect of those mainstream climate scientists and policy advocates who, while admiring his communications savvy and stage presence, trashed what they dismissed as his pseudo-science proclamations.

This has included informing Congress of statistical perspectives on climate change, advocating forensic science reform, and promoting risk - limiting audits to election officials.

The Nobel Laureate himself was, unfortunately, unable to attend, but his fellow laureate William E. Moerner luckily stepped in to deliver the powerful speech on «Science as an Insurance Policy to the Risks of Climate Change».

For the longest time there's been a presumption among environmental campaigners and some scientists that if the fog of misinformation and disinformation on climate could be cleared, if the science could be laid out better, if the link between present energy choices and future climate risks could be absorbed better by the public, people would jump aboard the decarbonization express, leading the world to a climate - safe future.

Given that the writers are on strike anyhow (but even if they weren't), perhaps the TV media should give us a «time out» from their normal entertainments and cover basic statistics, risk assessment, climate science, and related matters for the public good?

However, if our adaptation is informed by science cherry - picked to support a particular standpoint on «dangerous climate change» then this risks leading to wrong decisions on adaptation.

So if quiet warnings are ignored, and the politics of fear is as empty as pornography, what is a message on climate risks and responses that is true to the science, but also effective?

That's one reason I wrote a Science Times article this week describing three books speaking from the middle on the twin challenges of supplying energy to a fast - growing global population and limiting risks from human - driven climate change.

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.

I was very impressed early this year with former Representative Sherwood Boehlert's op - ed in the Washington Post on the need for the party to embrace science, including the science pointing to building risks from human - driven climate change.

Smalley's views are utterly at odds with Climate Depot's robotic propagation of any content — valid or not — as long as it casts doubt on science pointing to risks from human - driven climate Climate Depot's robotic propagation of any content — valid or not — as long as it casts doubt on science pointing to risks from human - driven climate climate change.

I would be particularly interested in evidence, as published by climate scientists in peer - reviewed science journals, that demonstrates the existence of climate - change risks so great that the present generation has no moral right to impose these risks on future generations.

We can — and should — address the risk of climate change based on sound science without succumbing to the no - growth radicalism that treats climate questions as dogma rather than as situations to be managed responsibly.»

I sent the questions to the American Geophysical Union Climate Q&A Service for some input on the science and to Gary Yohe, an economist at Wesleyan University who has spent a couple of decades analyzing climate risk and possible policy cClimate Q&A Service for some input on the science and to Gary Yohe, an economist at Wesleyan University who has spent a couple of decades analyzing climate risk and possible policy cclimate risk and possible policy choices.

Here's a quick riff on risk and response, aiming to put in context the legitimate questions raised by the extracted climate - science e-mails.

But we do find that there has been a consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness, both on the part of the CRU scientists and on the part of the UEA, who failed to recognise not only the significance of statutory requirements but also the risk to the reputation of the University and, indeed, to the credibility of UK climate science.

Another, of course, is that the science illuminating the extent of the human influence on climate is not «settled» for many specific, and important, points, even though the basic case for rising risks from rising concentrations of greenhouse gases is robust enough to merit a strong response, according to a host of experts (even if you take the intergovernmental panel's findings with a grain of salt).

Most attention on climate science is focused on the new and the provocative, while the picture of growing risk from rising levels of greenhouse gases is best delineated by decades of work that is old and not contentious.

If Mann had wanted to point to an opposite end to the spectrum of ways in which scientists can contribute to public discourse on global warming science and risks, a better choice (in my view) would have been Susan Solomon's handling of the rollout of the 2007 science report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

After a reporter asked what elements the United States would be seeking in a new climate accord, Mr. Stern emphasized the importance of including concrete steps that could set the world on a course to limit the risks defined by climate science.

a cadre of scientists who share the industry's views of climate science and to train them in public relations so they can help convince journalists, politicians and the public that the risk of global warming is too uncertain to justify controls on greenhouse gases, â??

I'd asked Pierrrehumbert to reflect on the time - scale conundrum laid out in the Nature Climate Change paper in the context of another important and provocative proposal by Princeton's Robert Socolow, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in December, proposing a new field of inquiry — Destiny Studies — to examine the tough intersection of ethics, risk perception and science.

As climate science advances, the department will regularly re-evaluate climate change risks and opportunities in order to develop policies and plans to manage its effects on the department's operating environment, missions, and facilities.

To those of us focused on climate risks and solutions, and science - based issues more generally, sure.

But while science can quantify climate change risks in a technical sense, based on the probability, magnitude, and nature of the potential consequences of climate change, determining what is dangerous is ultimately a judgment that depends on values and objectives.

That leaves ever fewer columns for basic science or research on looming risks like climate change.

«Risks of Communication: Discourses on Climate Change in Science, Politics, and the Mass Media.»

This report highlights 30 at - risk locations chosen because the science behind the risks they face is robust, and because together they shine a spotlight on the different kinds of climate impacts already affecting the United States» cultural heritage.

As climate science advances, the Department will regularly reevaluate climate change risks and opportunities in order to develop policies and plans to manage its effects on the Department's operating environment, missions, and facilities.

A new generation of models is needed in all three of climate science, impact and economics with a still stronger focus on lives and livelihoods, including the risks of large - scale migration and conflicts.

For decades, the fossil fuel industry and so - called «free market» ideologues at conservative thinktanks have misled the public on the science and the risks of climate change.

The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, for instance, has sometimes made conclusions based upon the «balance of the evidence» The ideological climate skeptics, (to be distinguished from reasonable skepticism) often publicizes what is not known about these issues and ignores what is known and at the same time has accused those who have identified plausible but unproven risks as doing «bad science.Climate Change, for instance, has sometimes made conclusions based upon the «balance of the evidence» The ideological climate skeptics, (to be distinguished from reasonable skepticism) often publicizes what is not known about these issues and ignores what is known and at the same time has accused those who have identified plausible but unproven risks as doing «bad science.climate skeptics, (to be distinguished from reasonable skepticism) often publicizes what is not known about these issues and ignores what is known and at the same time has accused those who have identified plausible but unproven risks as doing «bad science.»

Emanuel took the opportunity to give Smith a copy of a primer he had written for non-scientists on climate science and risk.

The three EU - funded sister projects on high - end climate change, HELIX, IMPRESSIONS and RISES - AM have drawn upon their wide range of expertise from many disciplines across the natural and social sciences to develop new understanding of the implications and risks of exceeding 20C, adapting to the climate changes.

The Committee urges the Secretary of Defense to plan infrastructure and other projects using the best available data and science on climate change to mitigate risks to our armed forces serving domestically and abroad.

A deep cut would be both dangerous and unjustified, given the basics of both climate science and economics, said Gernot Wagner, a Harvard economist focused on climate risk and policy.

The issues highlighted in the document include: reconnect science and policy, catalyze rapid and transformative changes in human behavior towards the environment, develop new insights on water - land interactions, accelerate the implementation of environmentally - friendly renewable energy, integrate biodiversity across the environmental and economic agendas, manage the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop a new approach for minimizing risks of novel technologies and chemicals.

The Swedish professor tells the BAZ that he became a skeptic of alarmist climate science early on because «the [UN] IPCC always depicted the facts on the subject falsely» and «grossly exaggerated the risks of sea level rise» and that the IPCC «excessively relied on shaky computer models instead of field research.»

The British medical journal The Lancet, known for its tobacco Prohibitionist and anti-Israel views, created a commission on Health and Climate Change to promote, as if it were science, the view that «to avoid the risk of potentially catastrophic climate change impacts requires total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to be kept below 2900 billion tonnes by the end of the century» — not a calculation that physicians, biologists, and the like are particularly qualified toClimate Change to promote, as if it were science, the view that «to avoid the risk of potentially catastrophic climate change impacts requires total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to be kept below 2900 billion tonnes by the end of the century» — not a calculation that physicians, biologists, and the like are particularly qualified toclimate change impacts requires total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to be kept below 2900 billion tonnes by the end of the century» — not a calculation that physicians, biologists, and the like are particularly qualified to make.)

«Mistral gives us the opportunity to set an important sign in a climate policy - relevant year,» said Müller and went on to say: «It is up to science to identify ways to deal with the risks, so that finally a breakthrough in the upcoming negotiations at the COP21 conference in Paris can be achieved.»

This newsletter discusses the publishing of rivers climate change indicators for the British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, engineering design values for Island Health, progress on the development of the Climate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsclimate change indicators for the British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, engineering design values for Island Health, progress on the development of the Climate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsClimate Change Strategy, engineering design values for Island Health, progress on the development of the Climate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsClimate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsClimate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsClimate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsletter.

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.