A CAS official points out that the decision to translate Climate Change Reconsidered was made by the National Science Library.
*Clarification, 2 20 p.m., 18 June: The decision to translate Climate Change Reconsidered was made by the National Science Library, not by Zhang Zhiqiang, the library's deputy director.
Heartland's characterization of the academy's decision to translate Climate Change Reconsidered was "strongly misleading … implying that the Chinese Academy of Sciences CASsupportsrtheireir views".
Moreover, Boston's health care leaders understand that climate change translates into dramatic health impacts - including increased asthma and heat stroke, the spread of infectious diseases, extensive trauma, and mental health impacts.
We propose that the remarkable quantitative stability of the climate sensitivity range has helped to hold together a variety of different social worlds relating to climate change, by continually translating and adapting the meaning of the 'stable' range.
This work provides a tool to translate environmental changes such as global climate change and human intervention into changes in dispersal behavior, which in turn may lead to important alterations of biodiversity and biological invasion patterns.
As noted already, the awareness of climate change did not translate into adaptive management practices, which is even more meaningful when considering that those who answered to our questionnaire are mostly well-educated and have an extensive forest management experience (over 15 years).
This outcome also implies that evolutionary potential for a trait to change in response to temperature need not translate into an evolutionary response if climate change also alters the community and associated selection pressures.
The result, the report said, is that the ramifications of climate change have not yet translated into "concrete investment decisions on any scale".
In 1998 the Netherlands translated the Kyoto Protocol approach into its own national climate change policy action plan, laid down in the 'Uitvoeringsnota klimaatbeleid 1998 [44]].
