For Jackson, 50, a former New Jersey state official with no national profile until Obama chose her to lead the EPA during his first term, the lengthy inaugural nod to climate change served as a satisfying coda to a tumultuous tenure marked by clashes with Republican lawmakers and agricultural communities.
In our experience, a connection to climate change served as a great way to excite students about plant genetics and show them the relevance of plant genetics research.
Our results suggest that climate change serves as a top-down control on forest growth, mortality and net biomass change.
If dread at the probable catastrophic effects of thermonuclear war was what forced the antagonists to compromise during the Cold War -- as they did famously during the Cuban Missile Crisis -- so could fear of the unimaginable impacts of climate change serve as the catalyst of a compromise between Washington and Beijing.
Mass populations of toxic cyanobacteria are a global phenomenon and the recent recognition that incidences of blooms may increase significantly under future climate change serves to reinforce further the seriousness of the potential risks to human health [ 7].
Climate change also served as a thematic backdrop in 1995's Waterworld, the Kevin Costner-led film featuring a completely flooded world and a clever cameo from the Exxon Valdez which Rotten Tomatoes gives a 42 per cent rating and describes as an "ambitious misfire".
He co-chaired the health report of the first Congressionally mandated U.S. National Assessment on Climate Change and served as Lead Author for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for 15 years; the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
"The passing of this milestone is a significant reminder of the rapid rate at which – and the extent to which – we have increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," said Prof Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which serves as science adviser to the world's governments.
In an effort to balance the budget (I guess every penny counts), the House eliminated the salary for Todd Stern, the U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change who serves as the nation's chief negotiator at the United Nations global warming talks.
The new joint statement, in contrast, recognizes that "working together both in the multilateral negotiation and to advance concrete action on climate change can serve as a pillar of the bilateral relationship, build mutual trust and respect, and pave the way for a stronger overall collaboration".
Rodale, the longest-running side-by-side study comparing conventional chemical agriculture with organic methods (now 47 years), found organic yields match conventional in good years and outperform them under drought conditions and environmental distress -- a critical property as climate change increasingly serves up extreme weather conditions.
