This event will bring forward the work of the UN Task Team on the Social Dimensions of Climate Change and in general discuss the need to focus on the social impacts of climate change and appropriate adaptation policies supported by social science research.

UNESCO: Basic Sciences

Given this kind of climate, it is an appropriate time to rethink one more aspect: deciding who leads the IMF.

CNN: Fund of New Ideas

"For too long, the debate over appropriate responses to climate change risk has been monopolised by advocates of actions that have little basis in science or economic reality, " he said.

BBC: Sky,

The Plaid Cymru AM Leanne Wood asked whether the priorities of the One Wales Agreement were still appropriate for the current climate, especially with the budgetary pressures facing the government.

BBC: Scrutiny of the first minister committee

While similar allegations have affected other fields of scientific inquiry, the problem in climate science is especially acute because the paucity of climate scientists available to serve as appropriate referees.

FORBES: Climate Sins and the High Priests of Peer Review

The cost and size of the teacher workforce is appropriate in the context of the current financial climate.

BBC: Review of McCrone teaching deal announced

These include central station alarms to alert police when a break-in is occurring, a plan to remove valuables to a nearby fine-art storage facility or a specially constructed safe room in one's home during a hurricane or tornado, and climate controls that ensure levels of heat, cooling and humidity appropriate to works of art.

WSJ: Hurricane Sandy May Lead More Art Collectors to Seek Additional Insurance Coverage

It was also proposed that the United Nations establish a registry of national appropriate mitigation actions by countries not included in annex I to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

UN: Secretary-General