The Centre, run by NIEM, aims to improve educational management capacities for climate change response and disaster risk mitigation.
In the face of these attacks, scientists are doing more to speak out, forming a Climate Science Rapid Response Team to connect scientists with journalists and a Climate Science Legal Defense Fund to help scientists defray legal costs.
The climate system is not a stovepipe and any policy response to climate change that pretends otherwise is likely to be the road to ruin.
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Anyway, in the current economic climate, the response rate would be abysmal.
Reducing consumption seems intuitively to be an indispensable component of any policy response to climate change.
Education is an essential element of the global response to climate change.
Other issues played a part: the government's new workplace laws, its tardy response on climate change and a popular new Labor leader, Kevin Rudd.
"We're challenging Waxman-Markey's cap-and-trade bill, not the need for a legislative response to climate change, " says Karen Harbert, head of the Chamber's Institute for 21st Century Energy.
Any speaker, any authority, any journalist or bureaucrat asserting the catastrophic danger of supposed man-caused global warming needs to be asked for their response to Climate Change Reconsidered.
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In his first speech at the United Nations, Obama signaled that the United States expects China to take significant steps as part of a global response to climate change.
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Environmentalists hoped the president's pledge in his recent inaugural address for increased steps in response to climate change would include expanding tougher standards in place for new power plants to those already in existence.
Ironically, while geo-engineering has provoked strong objections from environmental groups, it has simultaneously been embraced by politically conservative organizations like the American Enterprise Institute, which have historically opposed a strong policy response to climate change.
To make matters worse, those who support a pro-active policy response to climate change have responded to exaggeratations about the significance of these uncertainties by sanitizing their findings of any hint of uncertainty to solidify support for climate policy among the mainstream public.
The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has shut its doors in response to a different sort of climate change--one producing a cold political Northern that blew into the Windy City from the Great Plains and beyond on Nov. 2.
If a rational person believes climate change is a certainty, he or she will also believe that climate policy is a rational response to manage that change.
And the sixth, as reported in last week's Economist, is an observation that ocean currents in the North Atlantic are faltering in ways that computer models of the climate previously suggested would happen in response to increased temperatures.
The grassroots Internet forum On the Frontlines of Climate Change was launched by UNESCO in response to this outcry, in partnership with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), the Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issue (SPFII) and the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR).
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Recent partnerships between indigenous peoples and scientists are producing new knowledge in response to the emerging challenges of climate change.
Science plays an important role in our response to global issues such as climate change, the hydrological cycle, biodiversity loss, natural hazards and human-induced disasters, population growth, land-use change, migration and urbanisation.
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Bill futures swooned by 11 basis points in response to the rapidly changing credit climate on Tuesday while benchmark government bond prices fell sending cash yields higher by three pips to 2.51%.
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Canongate Classics began as a response to Scotland's shifting cultural climate, and are now a stimulus in their own right.
The Bank of England has also been criticised for being too slow to cut interest rates in response to the UK's worsening economic climate.
These records, together with the monthly mass balance measured since March 2000, document the annual response of the Martial Este Glacier to the climate variation.
The Leaders recognized that climate change poses a clear and present danger requiring an extraordinary global response, and outlined a series of steps to meet this challenge head on.
Groundwater response to global changes is a complex function that depends on climate change and variability, topography, aquifer characteristics, vegetation dynamics, and human activities.
One of these issues is the impact of climate change and the secretary of state is committed to exploring and developing the response required by government, business and communities.
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO is implementing the project Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal zones of West Africa (ACCC) which is a tentative response to the problem of coastal erosion.
In response, The U.N. rapidly established a Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) to organize conferences, along with the U.N.
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The climate in the North Atlantic shifts naturally over the decades, and it is probably in response to such shifts that the sink is currently changing, though the chain of cause and effect is obscure.
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