The Forum serves as a useful barometer for how the climate of social enterprise is changing.
Green MSP Patrick Harvie welcomed the announcement of the Climate Justice Fund and called for more details of the Climate Justice Fund to be brought forward, saying it "must be additional to what the UK and Scottish governments are currently doing on international development".
In the 1970s, Dr Hansen focused on studies and computer simulations of the Earth's climate for the purpose of understanding the impact of humans.
"These latest figures come amidst climate talks in Doha, but with emissions continuing to grow, it's as if no-one is listening to the scientific community, " said Corinne Le Quere, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.
As a result of the power of compound interest, the choice of discount rate used to estimate the potential economic costs of climate change is more important for purposes of understanding the trade-offs associated with competing climate-change policy options than perhaps any other single issue in climate change economics.
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Global efforts to collect and analyze scientific data also allow for the development of the predictive capacity for climate change and the ocean responses, and provide scientific support to governments to mitigate the losses caused by marine hazards.
Mr. Krugman faulted the leading lights of the conservative media for fostering a climate of alienation and anger.
The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) also contributes directly to the actions under the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change as the ocean component of the Global Climate Observation System (GCOS).
"It's pretty convincing stuff, " commented Piers Forster, professor of climate change at the UK's University of Leeds and a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's assessment of factors driving global warming.
Today was day two of training for 26 of the 51 fellows selected by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) for the 2010 class of Climate Corps.
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Writing in the current issue of Yale Environment 360, Veron makes an eloquent and succinct case for meeting the challenge of climate change without delay.
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Of all the reasons to get rid of the use of coal and petroleum, climate change for me probably ranks maybe 99 out of the top 100.
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Gunnar Myhre of the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, for example, notes that the amount of black carbon in the Arctic is small and has been falling in recent decades.
Whether or not Lord Stern has won the argument economically, he has certainly won it politically, for his 1% of GDP figure for the cost of mitigating climate change is now widely used.
Just as the interviewer has a responsibility to ensure the new hire will be a good fit for the culture and organizational values, the job seeker should ask about the culture and climate of the workplace to determine for themselves the same question.
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Others, however, question whether THQ is ultimately well-designed for the current financial climate of games.
Developed by the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern in Switzerland and Swiss software company, Texetera, the Jungfrau Climate Guide is an interactive guide to glaciers and climate change.
By attacking the IPCC for responding to the risks of climate change too aggressively, the letter marks a major pivot in the politics of climate change, which have officially crossed into the twilight zone.
It is also women who can lead the changes required for increased resilience in the face of climate change and to enable them to do this we must meet their unmet need for health and education.
The airport said bmibaby's cuts to routes, as part of the wider economic climate, accounted for 180, 000 of that figure and May's ash cloud the rest.
Climate models simulate the statistical properties of the whole population of all possible climate realizations for a certain set of boundary conditions (which can change with time).
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The supercomputer is part of The Mike Barnsley Centre for Climate Research, named in recognition of a former pro-vice chancellor and his contribution to both Swansea University and the field of environmental science.
The First Statistical Account of Scotland published between 1791 and 1799 records how the climate of the area was pleasant enough for "natives of the East and West Indies" to live there.
Throughout the day we worked with many countries to establish a new consensus around these three points, a consensus that will serve as a foundation for global action to confront the threat of climate change for years to come.
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On climate change, I thank the Government of China for hosting the latest round of talks under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Tianjin.
Other issues raised included greening, with the EC proposing that 30% of direct payments should be used specifically for agricultural practices benefiting the climate and the environment, young farmers and capping of payments for an individual farm at a maximum limit of 300, 000 per year.
Steve McIntyre, a retired Canadian mining consultant whose blog, Climate Audit, has been the source for much detailed critique of climate reconstructions, including those of CRU, might, though not an academic, be the sort of person Mr Stringer is thinking of.
He cited the Alhambra Palace as a "machine for dealing with the hot desert climate of southern Spain".
Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama-Huntsville and former senior scientist for climate studies at NASA, has also observed that results of the one or two dozen climate modeling groups around the world often reflect a common bias.
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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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