Sentence examples for the science basis from inspiring English sources

Thus, there is a need to re-establish the science basis of climate policy.

In this commentary, after a brief discussion of the science basis common to the evaluation of carcinogens across different programs, we discuss in more detail the principles and procedures currently used by the IARC Monographs program.

RCPs have replaced Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES), and are used in Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis, the first part of the forthcoming IPCC Assessment Report Five (AR5), to be released in mid-September.

Those are some conclusions of the most recent assessment of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which on 2 February 2007 issued an 18-page summary of The Physical Science Basis, the first volume of the assessment.

In compiling The Physical Science Basis, the members of Working Group I analyzed research from around the world and used supercomputer simulations to test how the planet is responding and will continue to respond to greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

In the first part of the assessment, which covered the physical- science basis of climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated that a variety of observations had revealed that the warming of the climate system was "unequivocal" and that there was "very high confidence that the globally averaged net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming".

And there's a 66 90% likelihood, according to The Physical Science Basis, that the areas affected by droughts will increase.

Over the past 50 years, The Physical Science Basis reports, "hot days, hot nights, and heat waves have become more frequent".

Climate change is already diminishing glaciers and snow cover in most parts of the world, according to The Physical Science Basis, and this trend is expected to continue.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, as global temperatures increase due to rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, so does evaporation.

This publication represents the first time that IPCC working groups I (which focuses on the physical science basis of climate change) and II (which focuses on impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability) have collaborated on a report, says SREX coordinating lead author Sonia I. Seneviratne, an assistant professor at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich.