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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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...Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scientific panel created (1988...information on human-induced climate change. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland...force, it gathers material on climate change from hundreds of scientists and......
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climate change
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...climate change: see global warming....
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global warming
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......effects are also referred to as climate change. The temperature of the atmosphere...changes in agriculture due to climate change; extinction of species as ecological...the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, concluded that reductions beyond those......
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Gore, Albert Arnold, Jr.
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......with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their efforts to alert people to the threats posed by climate change caused by human activity and for their work in helping......
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weather satellite
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......stations on the surface, including information on possible changes in various weather parameters that may signal climate change. See R. Taggart, Weather Satellite Handbook (5th ed. 1995); S. Q. Kidder et al., Satellite Meteorology......
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supercomputer
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......execute 35.6 trillion mathematical operations per second; it is used to analyze earthquake and weather patterns and climate change, including global warming. Advances in supercomputing have regularly resulted in new supercomputers that significantly......
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sea level
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......Such sea-level fluctuations may be due to changes in climate that cause the ice to melt or accumulate. Theories of climate change include differences in carbon dioxide or oxygen levels, volcanic activity, or a change in the sun's energy. The......
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Yucca Mountain
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......the facility, and the likelihood of the degradation of the storage containers and the occurrence of earthquakes and climate change over thousands of years. In 2002 President George W. Bush officially designated Yucca Mt. as the site for the nuclear......
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Kingsolver, Barbara
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......Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Leon Trotsky through the eyes of a fictional American diarist. Science in the form of climate change and the miraculous are elements of Flight Behavior (2012), which describes the impact of the arrival of migrating......
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Miliband, Ed
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......advisers and won election to Parliament in 2005. In 2008 he became secretary of the newly created Dept. of Energy and Climate Change. After Labour lost the 2010 elections and Brown resigned as party leader, Miliband, his brother David (the former......