What are the three largest troubles Australia faces in the next 5 to ten several years? What job will the social sciences participate in in resolving these difficulties? The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia questioned these issues in a discussion paper previously this 12 months. The backdrop to […]
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Old-fashioned qualitative research methods are still powerful in answering the most emergent climate questions we are faced with. In natural and social science studies, quantitative methods emphasizing numbers and statistical or numerical models are becoming the dominant approach, and climate change research is no exception. In recent years, the scholarly […]
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Searing statements in this week’s landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Transform (IPCC) report are especially alarming, taking into consideration the characteristically careful language of science. The very first consensus of the document’s 234 authors: it is “unequivocal” that humanity’s burning of fossil fuels has prompted climate modify. In simple fact, […]
Heavy rainfall brought about unparalleled flooding in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, in July.Credit: Aly Tune/Reuters/Alamy The United Nations is poised to release the most confident and thorough assessment yet of worldwide warming, which include comprehensive estimates of how continued greenhouse-fuel emissions will enhance Earth’s sea degrees and generate intense climate […]