The pairing of VP Program participant and host scientist is based on common research interests and expertise, and these pairings have resulted in research collaborations.
The appearance of the interrogation room where Cole is being interviewed by the scientists was based on the work of Lebbeus Woods; these scenes were shot at three different power stations (two in Philadelphia and one in Baltimore).
Most of what people know — the decisions they make that are informed by scientists — is based on information that is travelling through all kinds of intermediaries.
None of this news brings us into the range of the worst-case climate scenarios portrayed in a recent New York Magazine article, whose conclusions — many of which were disputed by many climate scientists — were based on levels of warming far beyond 2 degrees Celsius.
The high estimate by Columbia University scientists is based on a new model the first to account for variability in future population size, greenhouse gas trajectories, and the extent to which residents adapt to heat through interventions like air conditioning and public cooling centers.
This model is based on scientists providing more facts and general knowledge to media and the public, and the "underlying assumption of these efforts is that if the general public has more information about climate change, they will adopt views consistent with scientific experts".
That was based on one scientist quoted by a group against wind energy.
But that, he said, is because information contained in the scientist's report was based on information collected by an undercover fisheries agent, and publishing the report may have compromised his identity — and his safety.
The scientists write that it was based on the diets the Greek island of Crete, Greece and southern Italy in the 1960s.
The Times report, headlined "climate scientist fears murder by hitman", was based on an interview with Wadhams in which he said that there are only four people in Britain, himself included, who were "really leaders" on Arctic ice thickness.
