Sentences with phrase «scientists say the agreement»

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Scientists say such an achievement could be crucial to the goal laid out in last year's Paris Agreement of holding global temperature rise below 2 °C (3.6 °F) by 2100.

Alden Meyer, international director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the Paris agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize.

Only complete agreement of every scientist will lead him to support action — or so he seems to say.

But APC deputy secretary general, Rahmat Ajiguna, said that «Syngenta, who owns the Golden Rice patents, can change the agreement regarding royalty any time they want adding that we can not trust any scientist or government officials with alleged financial ties to IRRI, Syngenta, Monsanto or to any agrochemical TNCs, whom we assumed to be lacking any credibility whatsoever.»

Soil scientist Dr Paul Nelson from James Cook University says the technique will be particularly useful for growers of environmentally certified palm oil, which is produced without the clearing of primary forests, with transparent and fair agreements with landowners and good land management practices.

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«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

All this means that scientists now reviewing the Montreal Protocol should consider expanding the agreement to also regulate substances like CH2Cl2 that have atmospheric lifetimes of less than 6 months, Schofield says.

That means that there is room for a shifting of the numbers, particularly if the news media would make it clearer that there was high agreement among climate scientists, he said.

David Victor, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, says the international community is likely to keep soldiering on with the agreement.

55 % believe that «almost all» medical scientists are in agreement that the MMR vaccine is safe for healthy children, while 28 % say that more than half of medical scientists agree about this.

But at a workshop cosponsored by AAAS, experts said the crisis also was an inflection point, leading to agreements to limit nuclear testing and curb proliferation and driving a cohort of scientists and engineers into the fields of arms control and science diplomacy.

«This agreement was extremely important in order to ensure that Canadians could trust public science and the decisions that governments make with that science,» says Debi Daviau, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, the Ottawa - based union representing about 15,000 federal scientists.

«We have a Paris Agreement that still has many, many steps to be fully implemented,» said Kenneth Kimmell, president of the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists.

It's not clear, however, that the agreements — which have spread to other Brazilian beef - producing states — can defeat deforestation, says Avery Cohn, a social scientist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the president is fulfilling the demands of his political opponents by engaging with China and India on climate agreements.

The new agreement, said to be written in accordance with the Russian government permit, called for scientists to relinquish all data — it was not limited to physical oceanography — including any copies that existed on hard drives.

«The half - degree estimate was the offshoot of a series of papers over a decade by the scientists, research that proved pivotal in the evolving understanding of the ties [Kigali agreement], of course it feels great that people are using your work,» he says.

Von Hippel was one of 29 top scientists around the country to sign a letter endorsing the Iran deal, saying that it «will advance the cause of peace and security in the Middle East and can serve as a guidepost for future non-proliferation agreements.»

«A recent calculation of the spectrum based on compiled measurements of thousands of isotopes involved in the fission process showed a much better agreement with observations,» said Dan Dwyer, a staff scientist in the Berkeley Lab Physics Division, «and suggested the excess of antineutrinos comes from eight specific short - lived nuclei.»

In fact, there is broad agreement among climate scientists not only that climate change is real (a survey and a review of the scientific literature published say about 97 percent agree), but that we must respond to the dangers of a warming planet.

Ben Sanderson, a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and co-author of a commentary on the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement published in the journal Nature Climate Change in February 2017, says this move signals that the current administration doesn't consider climate change to be an urgent or pressing issue.

And if you look at scientists who actually publish on climate in peer reviewed journals, there is pretty much universal agreement that CO2 has contributed significantly to recent warming and the vast majority say CO2 is responsible for the vast majority.

In fact, there is broad agreement among climate scientists not only that climate change is real (a survey and a review of the scientific literature published say about 97 percent agree), but that we must respond to the dangers of a warming planet.

And they confirm my conviction that's no prospect of the world coming to an agreement to make the substantial CO2 emission reductions that many scientists say are essential.

Richard Lindzen offered a presentation entitled «Climate Change: What Do Scientists Say,» where he claims that there is «much agreement» between climate change deniers and scientists who believe in human - caused climaScientists Say,» where he claims that there is «much agreement» between climate change deniers and scientists who believe in human - caused climascientists who believe in human - caused climate change.

The Canadian government is requiring foreign researchers who collaborate with federal scientists to sign agreements that could potentially muzzle them, a U.S. scientist says.

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement on Thursday could make it difficult, if not impossible, for the world to stay on track to reach an internationally agreed goal of limiting dangerous global warming, scientists said.

«President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, combined with the repeal of domestic actions resulting in halting the decline in U.S. emissions, will likely make it more difficult and costly overall to meet the Paris Agreement temperature goal of holding warming well below 2 °C, and limiting it to 1.5 °C,» said Bill Hare, a climate scientist and CEO of Climate Analytics, a group that analyzes climate change scenarios.

The agreement is being referred to as the «Under 2 MOU» for both its goal of limiting emissions to below 2 tons per capita by 2050, and the goal of limiting global temperature rise to under 2 degrees, which Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientists say is needed to avoid dangerous climate change.

Instead, the promoters of CAGW hide behind their ever - changing ad hoc excuses of why they can't / won't allow skeptical scientists to attempt to reproduce their claimed results: the raw data has been «lost,» or they say there are [undisclosed] agreements requiring confidentiality [while they freely share the same data with their pals], or the raw data has been so intermingled with the adjusted data that it is no longer recoverable, or the data is somewhere in China, etc., etc..

Of course, to deniers, agreement between data is actually just evidence of groupthink among scientists (or «scienticians» as Troy McClure might say).

The reason why the Australian public think that there is only a 58 % agreement between climate scientists is because the debate in the popular media is mostly political where anything seems to be said rather than it being a scientific debate based on evidence.

«Although the U.S. delegation remains active in the technical negotiations, President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and renege on the remaining $ 2 billion of the U.S. pledge to the Green Climate Fund has hampered their effectiveness,» said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Here is a list of 31,487 scientist who have signed a petition saying they don't believe in Global Warming, the closest thing I could find on the other side is where 375 scientists signed this letter telling you not to pull out of the Paris Agreement.

-- JC: # professional society statements supporting the IPCC CC: So if... distinguished scientists... read the IPCC and find broad agreement in what it says they are not allowed to say that in public without it being dogma?

Geoengineering may have to move from the fringes of the climate debate towards the mainstream if the world is to meet the climate targets included in the Paris Climate Agreement, say some policy analysts and scientists.

Governments are supposed to finish that agreement in 2015, but it's unclear whether they will commit to the emissions cuts that scientists say will be necessary to keep the temperature below a limit at which the worst effects of climate change can be avoided.

Unlike the Kyoto Protocol, he said, «this agreement will be reached from the bottom up» and be inclusive of indigenous people, the private sector, scientists and policymakers.

The newly accountable NAS says that at best, 3 % of climate scientist are not in agreement with the current science.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Earth's persistent record 2016 heat is now dancing near levels that a world agreement is trying to avoid, federal scientists said.

Federal scientists say Earth's record 2016 heat is now dancing near levels that a world agreement is trying to avoid.

They are discouraged by UN officials» pre-conference resignation that the likely agreement will not keep emissions below the 2 - degree average global temperature increase that scientists say is a critical point (much less the 1.5 - degree limit that countries in the most vulnerable situations, especially small islands, have demanded).

NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt, who signed the petition, said «the time for half - measures and the time for voluntary agreements and the time for arguing about 1 percent here and 1 percent there - those things are no longer relevant.»

And, it doesn't take long to find scientists who disagree with the mantra... despite what the IPCC (even some of the authors diagree), Gore, and the media says about the universal agreement on global warming.

@TerjeP (say Tay - a) Most of the scientists working in climate related science are not on a «side», they are not all in total agreement with each other and they are not all putting forward a narrow unifying theory, despite the way they are being grouped into a straw man by mischief makers.

He keeps saying things like scientists agree but never seems to mention which ones or point out where they stated their agreement.

Years in the making, the resulting agreement was described by the U.S. Secretary of State as «a victory for all of the planet and for future generations,» while world - renowned climate scientist, James Hansen, on the other hand, has said that it is «a fraud really, a fake.»

Bitcoin Foundation Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen would say 75 percent of miners is enough for a hard fork, while the developers behind Bitcoin Core would like to see «near - universal agreement» before implementing such a change.