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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.
Environmental Defense Fund or EDF (formerly known as Environmental Defense) is a United States–based nonprofit environmental advocacy group.The group is known for its work on issues including global warming, ecosystem restoration, oceans, and human health, and advocates using sound science, economics and law to find environmental solutions that work.
The Advancement of Sound Science Center (TASSC), formerly The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, was an industry-funded lobby group and crisis management vehicle, [1] [2] and was created in 1993 by Phillip Morris and APCO in response to a 1992 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report [3] which identified secondhand smoke as a "confirmed" [4] human carcinogen. [5]
Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was published in 2007 and is the fourth in a series of reports intended to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information concerning climate change, its potential effects, and options for adaptation and mitigation. [2]
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 ...
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 ...
The U.N. weather agency said in its annual State of the Global Climate report that average temperatures hit the highest level in 174 years of record-keeping by a clear margin, reaching 1.45 ...
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming — The Missing Science: Global warming: dispute of scientific consensus on climate change: Ian Plimer: 2009: ISBN 0-7043-7166-9: Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do: Global warming: evidence for dire consequences of inaction: Joseph J. Romm: 2006: ISBN ...