John Ashton, the world's first climate change diplomat - appointed by the UK - recently retired from his post.
First, climate modelers almost never perform experiments that result in testable hypotheses.
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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.
Christian Aid warns that the current conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan -- a crisis summed up by some as the world's first "climate change war" as spreading desertification and water shortages contributed to clashes between the region's African farmers and nomadic Arabs -- could be a taste of a "nightmare scenario" set to be repeated elsewhere across Africa and the world.
Many communities, particularly in the Pacific, are already facing the first impacts of climate change.
The people here are about to become some of the first refugees of climate change.
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 first action by Climate Camp for Climate Action was at Drax coal power station in 2006, followed by Heathrow airport in 2007 and Kingsnorth coal power station in 2008.
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The debate is believed to be the first to address climate justice in a parliament in the world, according to former Irish president Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner on Human Rights and who now runs her own foundation for climate justice.
Many of you have experienced first-hand the climate crisis we face.
In 2005 it hosted the first World Cities Leadership Climate Change Summit, a meeting which paved the way for the creation of the C40 -- a group of large cities committed to tackling climate change that includes members as diverse as New York, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Johannesburg and Jakarta.
First, determination to tackle climate change and not denial of its reality or consequences.
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Climate change was first proposed as a consequence of human activity in 1895.
The Welsh Government was leading a debate on the first annual report on the climate change strategy for Wales, on 24 April 2012.
She said the publication of the Report on Proposals and Policies on Climate Change Targets marked the completion of the first period of "focused action" following the passage of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act.
With more than 25 years of experience in broadcast journalism, Allen has also worked at NBC News, MSNBC and The Weather Channel, where she served as the network's first full-time environment and climate correspondent.
He said this meant the UK had "not only to prepare and adapt to the challenge that climate change is going to bring us but also to do everything we possibly can here in this country to combat the causes of climate change in the first place".
These are the conclusions of the first pilot phase of the Adapation to Climate Change in Costal Zones project (ACCC).
In the first part of the committee Environment and Climate Change Minister Stewart Stevenson said purchasing carbon units should be "an option".
Shown in the nearby graph is the measured annual temperature of the earth since 1989, just before the first report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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It provides environmental data on 1, 700 firms, and in September helped the Florida state treasury launch the nation's first review of the financial impact of climate change on investments.
Caroline Flint, in her first Commons appearance as shadow energy and climate change secretary, said the government was right to carry out the investigation and that Labour welcomed its findings.
In 2000 we wanted to show leadership for this decade, so we became the first company in the world to be Climate Neutral certified so as to leave no footprint on this planet.
Up on the committee corridor there's the first meeting of the new Energy and Climate Change sub-committee on local energy (2pm) looking at the contribution small and medium-sized projects could make to the UK's energy supply, and at barriers to medium-sized and community-owned projects.
Heogh-Guldberg was one of the first marine biologists to link coral damage to climate change.
It was first created for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP16), where it was publicly displayed in Cancun, Mexico.
It was here that the British first settled in 1822, attracted to the climate that provided relief from the heat of the plains and enabled familiar plants to grow.
The head of climate studies at NASA, Hansen first gave evidence on the issue to the US Congress in 1988, and is now an eminent scientist and a prominent public advocate.
In critiquing the first meaningful legislation in the United States on climate change it would have been nice if you recognised that this is part of a larger solution to solve a global problem.
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