Utilities, though, will need all types of workers: engineers, environmental scientists and field personnel.
That doesn't stop some environmental scientists from saying they are being hijacked by clerics in search of relevance.
He also counts himself among a growing legion of environmental scientists who have begun using Microsoft's Kinect to create detailed, 3D maps of caves, glaciers and even asteroids.
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In 1999, a group of environmental scientists pointed to this legal standard when they petitioned the EPA to issue regulations that would confront the issue of global warming.
Environmental scientists earned higher salaries there than in Seattle.
Our main objective is to educate U.S. environmental scientists on the demographics of their own country, to improve coverage of these issues in their teaching, and to actively advocate development of a sane U.S. population policy.
One of Kuwait's leading environmental scientists, with three decades experience in resource conservation, Asem has played a major role in restoring Kuwait's war-ravaged ecosystems as head of the United Nations Compensation Commission's environmental remediation program.
The carbon markets will certainly not be the only policy mechanism required for us to achieve the environmental objective scientists warn us we need to meet but it can certainly be an effective tool to begin to scale up the finance and investments that will put us on a safer carbon emissions trajectory.
Netatmo allows users to contribute to its Urban Weather Program, creating a wider network for weather data monitoring and pooling to help meteorologists, environmental activists, scientists and people living in urban environments gain a better understanding of the city climate landscape.
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The Policy lays out a science-based approach to conservation and management, and brings together Federal, State, local, and tribal governments with all those who have a stake in our oceans, coasts, and the Great Lakes -- including recreational and commercial fishermen, boaters, offshore and coastal industries, environmental groups, scientists, and the public.
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Some scientists and environmental groups promote 350 ppm as a safe level for CO2, but scientists acknowledge they don't really know what levels would stop the effects of global warming.
Some scientists and environmental groups promote 350 parts per million as a safe level for CO2, but scientists acknowledge they don't really know what levels would stop the effects of global warming.
Many scientists and environmental groups argue that the storms which caused the flooding are the first signs of climate change brought on by global warming.
The number 400 has been anticipated by climate scientists and environmental activists for years as a notable indicator, in part because it's a round number not because any changes in man-made global warming happen by reaching it.
It is possible that the long-marginalised scientists of the environmental-health field are right, and that these endocrine disrupters do play a part in explaining the ongoing trends in obesity.
The knowledge being gained about these processes helps scientists interpret evidence about environmental changes on Mars that might have led to conditions favorable for life.
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Some scientists and environmentalists say the environmental impact studies are so narrow that they are meaningless.
Begun in 1996 as a body to coordinate Arctic policy, the council was for many years seen as a platform for scientists to swap research on environmental issues.
We may believe that we care about the world's deepening environmental challenges and are merely waiting for scientists, environmentalists, politicians and others to come to their senses and implement effective solutions.
"Unless the burden of poverty in developing nations is alleviated by significant financial support for mitigation, adaptation, and the reduction of deforestation, the ability of developing countries to pursue sustainable development is likely to diminish, to the economic and environmental detriment of all, " the scientists said.
The authors rightly decry the degree to which scientists have sometimes manufactured and exaggerated environmental uncertainties.
Indeed, Laframboise documented formal connections between at least 78 IPCC scientists and the World Wildlife Fund environmental activist group.
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After the State of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PDEP) investigated and its scientists found nothing wrong, the families insisted that the EPA get involved.
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Scientists trying to determine whether genetic or environmental factors influence disease risk often study twins.
While the precautionary principle enjoys considerable support from environmental activists, politicians, and indeed, some scientists, as a law, it is inherently vague.
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Over the course of ten years, this joint initiative--which unites agencies including the ICSU, UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations University--will mobilize thousands of scientists to develop knowledge that addresses the environmental change.
As investigative journalist Donna Laframboise reports, most of the 13 senior scientists controlling the draft report are prominently associated with environmental activist groups.
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Kearns and a team of scientists led by Alan Strong of NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service analyzed sea surface temperature data from the agency's polar-orbiting satellites from 1984 through 1996.
When skeptics point out these blatant biases, however, alarmists claim that scientists by their very nature are immune from having their environmental activist affiliations, the source of their paychecks or their preexisting advocacy for global warming restrictions influence their research and scientific opinions.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency RadNet system is designed to protect the public by notifying scientists, in near real time, of elevated levels of radiation so they can determine whether protective action is required.
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