Sentences with phrase «societal response»

These gradually increase with time, then slow to 0.008 °C yr − 1 after the total increase exceeds 4 °C and the maximum tolerated warming is 4.5 °C assuming massive societal response to large changes (similar to the «backstop» technology deployed in DICE for large temperature changes).

Pediatricians have a uniquely valuable role to play in the societal response to this global challenge.

Informed by an understanding of the threat that climate change poses to current and future children, pediatricians can play a valuable role in the societal response to this global challenge.

It has not been «proven'that cigarettes cause cancer, yet the accumulation of facts (scientific evidence) eventually resulted in our accepting that they do and most importantly after much fighting, a societal response occurred.

In short: (i) scientific understanding advances rapidly, but (ii) avoidance, denial, and reproach characterize the overall societal response, therefore, (iii) there is relatively little behavioral change, until (iv) evidence of damage becomes plain.

Ideally the scientists who collect and analyze this important data really ought to be double blind (yes, thank you Michael Crichton for this remark, despite couching it in such biased drivel that noone will take it seriously); and without doubt, in order to preserve the integrity of the complex analysis that must be applied, these scientist shoud be maximally shielded, if not entirely separated from the process of determining a societal response.

So, now it's time to hear from you on these, or other, efforts to use art to convey climate risk and prompt a meaningful societal response.

And don't expect some fresh round of findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to magically galvanize a meaningful societal response (here's the latest summary of that effort).

Societal response strategies are also investigated, focussing on international environmental treaties, international and Australian policy approaches to global warming, and management and adaptation strategies.

Teacher Evaluation: a way to use teachers as scapegoats for the lack of societal response to the educational needs of minority students

The media and societal response to the Heard / Depp case is the perfect example of why women stay silent.

It addresses gun control measures, and creates frameworks for schools and law enforcement, including new units within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Department of Education, including a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Commission, and provides for student crime watch programs and other societal responses to potential threats to school safety.

Societal responses and underlying vulnerabilities will largely determine how severe these impacts will be for any given population.

These issues include climate change and societal responses to that change.

Or, do the societal responses to J / CJS involvement, such as exclusion from schools and similar institutions, lead to continued crime - involvement?

AIDS Timelinematerialized a dense cross-section of societal responses to and constructions of AIDS through artworks, artifacts, media accounts, medical statistics, governmental policies, activist initiatives, community organizations and public opinion — taking into account the particular social contexts and location of its presentation at the University of Berkeley.

E.g. Marvin Harris argued convincingly to me, among many other things, that diminishing resources and expectations markedly increased the likelihood of despotism replacing democratic institutions, and by the way diminishing the likelihood of effective societal responses to diminishing resources.

It would be nice if we lived in a world where, when faced with an environmental problem, reporters only have to discuss risks delineated by science and the range of societal responses.

In many studies projecting impacts from global warming, societal responses are depicted through data crunching and modeling.

Rapid societal responses can significantly lessen negative outcomes.»

Oh I see it's right there «Rapid societal responses» What does that mean, are we supposed to pass laws that require someone else to invent more efficient cars?

While there has been an increase in the societal responses to biodiversity loss, in most cases this will not be sufficient to achieve the biodiversity targets by 2020, let alone to realise the...

Demand for these disclosures is driven by the underlying risks posed by climate and, more importantly, societal responses to address it.

«Environment - related risks, including climate change and societal responses to climate change, should be analyzed by investment advisers,» Caldecott said.

The Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) facilitates collaboration between Arctic researchers, funding agencies, and other stakeholders so that science can inform societal responses to Arctic change.

Yet, one can also hypothesize that the various societal responses may have more than compensated for population growth and in fact fewer people are today at risk.»

Not exact matches

In an article from Co.create.com, Abigail Posner, Head of Strategic Planning And Agency Development at Google explains our societal fascination with sharing cat memes and videos: «In the language of the visual web, when we share a video or an image, we're not just sharing the object, we're also sharing in the emotional response it creates.»

It's been highly critical, in fact, of conventional food banks, arguing strenuously that they are an inadequate, and often harmful, response to more systemic societal dysfunction.

When the congregation I serve initiated a prayer chain several years ago, its participants were amazed at the response: healing intercessions requested for all manner of illnesses and ailments — physical, emotional, 1 spiritual, societal.

Still other theologies are far more concerned with a theological response to societal struggles for justice.

If societal views on gender and sexual orientation are changing as rapidly as the secular media might have us think, it is high time the Church sought to form a theological and pastoral response to transgender and the psychological condition that usually pre-empts a gender transition, known as gender dysphoria.

As stated earlier, the questionnaire returns and the responses of the conferees indicate clearly strong relational needs — personal, interpersonal, individual, and societal — involving all the structures of life and society.

That is to say, the shape of the church is a response to a societal attitude, and the church can not be understood historically save as an institution in dialogue with its world.

Whitehead's statements about the singularity of the primordial nature, the advocate of the societal view may observe in response, can mean two different things.

If the oldline churches are lukewarm in terms of intensity of conviction, can they really be doing even relatively well when it comes to such signs of vitality as societal engagement and response to external challenge?

just to draw a distinction here, the «shut up and dribble» was in response to the best basketball player on earth (LeBron) talking about what he considers to be very important social / societal issues.

You present a very measured response to societal problems that are becoming more serious as time wears on and our girls grow up.

Yesterday's move may have been a belated response to that petition, but it also clearly reflects a general societal trend away from highly processed foods that has sent many Kraft consumers toward all - natural competitive brands, such as Annie's mac - n - cheese.

But until we get our societal act together and stop throwing subtle digs at moms, I plan to be exactly as mature in my response: Gross, stop it, you big meany - head.

«In Syria ineffective management practices, crop failure, and weak government response combined to exacerbate the societal effects of the drought,» said Joel Creswell, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow and one of the organizers of the symposium.

Researchers led by Prof. Dr. Stefan Röpke and Dr. Aline Vater (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy on Campus Benjamin Franklin) were able to show that a person's inflated sense of self - importance develops in response to societal influences.

The study couldn't determine if those different brain responses meant fathers are somehow hard wired through genetics or evolution to treat sons differently than they treat daughters or if the fathers were conforming to societal norms relating to gender.

Our response to societal pressures about vaccination has a direct effect on the spread of pediatric infectious diseases in areas where inoculation is not mandatory, says new research published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The purpose of the event will be to maximize the impact of the EU framework Horizon 2020 in terms of global collaborative science and the scientific response to global societal challenges.

OceanObs ’19 seeks to improve response to scientific and societal needs of a fit - for - purpose integrated ocean observing system, for better understanding the environment of the Earth, monitoring climate, and informing adaptation strategies as well as the sustainable use of ocean resources.

The extent to which human - driven phenomena, including technology and culture, can affect human nature itself raises an interesting philosophical question: Should our goals for societal development include mindfulness of how Homo sapiens evolve in response?

This will in part be a response to economic and societal pressures such as stagnant incomes and more young people living at home.

Online dating has grown so much in part as a response to these societal changes, having become the third most important way we meet our significant others, even though it didn't even exist 15 years ago.»

He gave it a shot, being the intrepid soul he is, but even though Kenan Thompson's game show host conceded that T'Challa's utopian responses about equally applied justice, respect for the elderly, and mutual societal respect were preferable, he also noted they were, in the America of Black Jeopardy, not applicable.

Merrill Lynch and Merrill Edge launched five new portfolios incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in response to growing demand for investments with the potential to produce positive societal outcomes without sacrificing financial returns.