Dennis Posadas is an Asia-based Climate Institute fellow and author of Greenergized (UK: Greenleaf, 2013).
According to the Climate Institute, Australia is the G20 country that is worst-prepared to compete in a low-carbon economy.
C. based Climate Institute and concurrently a technical consultant on clean energy matters.
Another poll by the Climate Institute, a lobby group, found support for Mr Rudd in dealing with climate change had dropped by ten points from February last year, to 36% this month.
The climate change conference, hosted by the European Institute for Climate and Energy (known by its German acronym EIKE) and cosponsored by the Heartland Institute, attracted nearly 200 attendees and marks ongoing global momentum in favor of sound science and against factually unsupported alarmism.
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In a recent study, the U.S. Joint Global Climate Change Research Institute, which is located at the University of Maryland, projected the impact of climate change on agricultural yields in Huang-Hai Plain, which is one of the most productive agricultural regions of China.
Germany cannot do all this on its own, argues Ottmar Edenhofer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
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Analysts at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research in Germany said a rise of at least 3C (5.4F) by 2100 was likely.
Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, said a greater sense of urgency about tackling climate change was needed.
Bob Ward, policy and communications director for the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment in London, said the warming of the Earth's surface was unequivocal.
Stern is the chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and also chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) at Leeds University.
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Jesse Jenkins is Director of Energy and Climate Policy at the Breakthrough Institute.
"SAARC coming together like this is of course good in terms of sharing of climate knowledge, " says Saleemul Haq, a climate expert with the International Institute for Environment and Development.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of that, the big issue is surely this: when the Heartland Institute speaks on climate change, it is speaking with the money, fundamentally, of one major donor.
D. level climate scientists that work at Columbia University's Earth Institute and even if you do not understand the physics of climate change or the computer models predicting global warming, common sense alone might lead you to think that human beings and their machines are making the planet warmer.
There was some positive news out of economic powerhouse Germany today when the Ifo Institute released a Business Climate reading that improved to 106.7.
Both developments put a more positive spin on Germany as a business location than it has enjoyed for a while, and offset somewhat the news that during June the business climate index measured by the Ifo Institute for Economic Research fell by an unexpectedly dramatic 1.4 points.
This is all definitively explained in the 856 pages of the 2009 Climate Change Reconsidered and the 411 supplemental pages of the 2011 Interim Report, published jointly by the Heartland Institute and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change NIPCC.
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Devon Swezey is Project Director and Jesse Jenkins is Director of Climate and Energy Policy at the Breakthrough Institute.
In Germany the Ifo Business Climate Index, compiled by a research institute at the University of Munich, dropped to 111.1 from 111.3, according to a news release Friday.
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Yet both years were the hottest La Nina years on record and that shows the underlying global warming at work, said climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf of the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
As his funding has fallen in the last couple of years, the institute has accordingly spent less on climate: "We are extinguishing primarily global warming projects in pace with declines in his giving", one of the documents notes.
"The key message to rich countries is that what seems like them to be a domestic political difficulty is for the vulnerable nations an existential problem, " said Saleemul Huq, senior fellow in climate change at the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), which gave technical support to the Maldives meeting.
The science of their Assessment Reports has been thoroughly rebutted by the hundreds of pages of science in Climate Change Reconsidered, and Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report, both written by dozens of scientists with the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, and published by the Heartland Institute, the international headquarters of the skeptics of the theory of anthropogenic catastrophic global warming.
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As Judith Curry, a climatologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, observes, attacks on climate scientists, sometimes paid for by carbon-emitting industries when global warming first became a public issue, have made many researchers in the field nervous and defensive.
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The author of a Swiss study on climate change and health, Dr Nino Kunzli of the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine in Basle, said the greatest health benefits would come from policies covering technology, urban planning, traffic speed and safety, and the promotion of walking, cycling and public transport.
Jesse Jenkins is Director of Energy and Climate Policy and Devon Swezey is Project Director at the Breakthrough Institute.
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The Ifo Institute said its sentiment index of the German business climate fell to 100 in October from 101.4 in September.
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These are among the insights to emerge from a Casey Institute Symposium entitled "The Implications Of The Global Climate Change Treaty For The U.S. Economy, Sovereignty and National Security" held in New York City on 19 November 1997.
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