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The mission of the nonprofit advocacy group Science and Public Policy Institute is to promote "sound public policy based on sound science." [2]With a strong emphasis on global warming denial, SPPI was established in the middle of 2007.
Scaletti agreed that sound has the power to convey a lot of meaning. "People know that because of language," she said, "but they think everything else is music." That's why she's carving a new ...
Gore presents his global warming slide show at the University of Miami. Following his defeat in the 2000 presidential election by George W. Bush, Gore returned his focus to the topic. He edited and adapted a slide show he had compiled years earlier, and began featuring the slide show in presentations on global warming across the US and around ...
Acoustics is defined by ANSI/ASA S1.1-2013 as "(a) Science of sound, including its production, transmission, and effects, including biological and psychological effects. (b) Those qualities of a room that, together, determine its character with respect to auditory effects."
The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) was the program responsible for coordinating and integrating research on global warming by U.S. government agencies from February 2002 to June 2009. [1] Toward the end of that period, CCSP issued 21 separate climate assessment reports that addressed climate observations , changes in the atmosphere ...
The Geological Society of America (GSA) concurs with assessments by the National Academies of Science (2005), the National Research Council (2006), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse‐gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the ...
Such measurements furthered understanding of the greenhouse effect that underlies global warming and climate change. The history of the scientific discovery of climate change began in the early 19th century when ice ages and other natural changes in paleoclimate were first suspected and the natural greenhouse effect was first identified.
Global Warming: The Signs and The Science is a 2005 documentary film on global warming made by ETV, the PBS affiliate in South Carolina, and hosted by Alanis Morissette.The documentary examines the science behind global warming and pulls together segments filmed in the United States, Asia and South America and shows how people in these different locales are responding in different ways to the ...