Should Cyclone Aila, which hit Bangladesh and India on May 25th and affected hundreds of thousands of people, be classified as a climate-change event?
News Day falls right in the middle of the UK's first ever Climate Week and the event could be a good way to look at issues around climate change.
The President made clear yesterday that we can't attribute any one single weather event to climate change.
But, marathon organisers said "the climate" surrounding the event is now "very different" and entrants have to complete the course on the same day.
More information on this event is available on the Climate Frontlines website.
No specific storm or weather event can be tied to climate change, but the fact is we have seen more severe storms.
But a few thousand km to the east, gas is also at the centre of an event that shows how the realities of climate change are very disconnected from the negotiating process.
The recently published YouthXchange Climate and Lifestyles guidebook will also be launched at the event.
This annual event it is also a technical conference and a climate change expert meeting with a range of side events and exhibits.
Nearly 900 Scottish schools took part in the event, which was designed to highlight the impact climate change is having on people and nature.
It has taken world problems such as food, the failure of World Trade Organization members to reach a global trade agreement, climate change and a financial crisis in 2008, to take this event out of the jamboree category and transform it into a preeminent event for all politicians, CEOs, finance directors and economists to be supportive of.
In any event, I certainly hope nobody tries to attribute it to climate change because that debate into the discussion would virtually guarantee paralysis.
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Mr Littlewood said the estate was trying to find an event to replace The Big Chill, but the current economic climate meant new festivals were not starting up at the moment.
While it's impossible to say that any particular event was "caused by global warming, " says Shepherd, climate change loads the deck, making extreme events such as last year's Superstorm Sandy more likely.
The insights that were shared at this event will help address the gap that is created when the science of climate change is based on abstract data and separated from local and cultural considerations.
Unless action is taken now, the consequences of our activities are at a high risk of causing, through the combined effects of climate change, overexploitation, pollution and habitat loss, the next globally significant extinction event in the ocean.
Several experts have said that 2007 is a litmus-test year for energy and climate change legislation, meaning that real overhaul would come after the 2008 elections in the event that Democrats win both the White House and Congress.
Such is the climate U.S. gun manufacturers sometimes must contend with and why Cerberus probably saw this latest event as the last straw.
Polling before and after the event will report how successful it is in reversing a decline in public belief that any climate crisis actually exists.
This event provides a unique opportunity for the natural resource and agriculture community to share solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation in agricultural landscapes.
While speculation still reigns in some quarters over the reality of a connection between carbon emissions and climate change, there is no doubt that running short of energy would be the most immediately catastrophic event for civilization.
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.
Last year's event was themed around the idea of software to help farmers and other users tackle issues raised by climate change.
According to Prof Roger Pielke Jnr, from the University of Colorado, there are big dangers in claiming that one event, be it US weather records or wildfires in Australia, are clear evidence of human-induced climate change.
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