Throughout the IYB steady progress was made towards the establishment of an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on the model of the IPCC, pivotal in assessing the science and raising global awareness of climate change.
Milestones of climate science: no, this whole global warming idea is not new.
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The truth is that neither side of the issue on climate change or global warming can claim to have science on their side.
The Berkeley group does depart from the "orthodox" picture of climate science in its depiction of short-term variability in the global temperature.
He tried hard to be neutral and avoided any judgment on the science underlying climate change predictions or on possible policies to counteract global warming.
In climate science, by contrast, debunkers invite an onslaught by the entire global warming juggernaut that can leave their academic reputation in ruins.
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Inaugurated in 1998, TERI University works at the cutting edge of global research on science for sustainability and runs an inter-disciplinary Masters programme in Climate Science and Policy.
Though Mr Pielke is sometimes denounced by stalwarts of climate science as giving succour to those who would deny the importance of global warming, he does not belong to that camp.
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.
UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Environmental Science
The Planet Under Pressure conference is organized by Diversitas, the International Programme of Biodiversity Science, the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, and the World Climate Research Programme.
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The report by the InterAcademy Council found the IPCC, which reviews climate science for governments, needed to ensure it can handle more complex assessments of global warming and intense public scrutiny.
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