IPCC's conservation aims and objectives are set out in a series of Action Plans, the most recent being Bogs and Fens of Ireland Conservation Plan 2005.

The statement references the IPCC's Fourth Assessment of 2007, and asserts that " climate change is happening even faster than previously estimated ; global emissions since 2000 have been higher than even the highest predictions, Arctic sea ice has been melting at rates much faster than predicted, and the rise in the sea level has become more rapid.

The IPCC's conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking of the scientific community on this issue.

The IPCC's moderate warming scenarios ( B1 to A1T, 2 ° C by 2100, IPCC, 2007, Table SPM. 3, p. 13 ) forecast that corals on the Great Barrier Reef are very likely to regularly experience summer temperatures high enough to induce bleaching.

An exact definition of how GWP is calculated is to be found in the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment Report.

A more complete discussion of climate models is provided in the IPCC's Third Assessment Report.

The IPCC's Chief Executive, is Jane Furniss CBE who is responsible for running the organisation which supports the work of the Commission.

Furniss is also the IPCC's Accounting Officer and is accountable to the Home Office Principal Accounting Officer and to Parliament.

While some of the IPCC's investigators are former police officers, the commissioners themselves cannot have worked for the police by law.

The IPCC's ten operational Commissioners and two non-executive Commissioners are appointed by the Home Secretary for a five or three year period.

The IPCC's independent investigators investigate the most serious complaints, for example where someone has died following contact with the police.

The IPCC's work has been the subject of criticism, and there are small number of climate scientists who disagree with aspects of the IPCC's work.

The ideas of general semantics became a sufficiently important part of the shared intellectual toolkit of genre science fiction to merit parody by Damon Knight and others ; they have since shown a tendency to reappear ( often without attribution ) in the work of more recent writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Suzette Haden Elgin and Robert Anton Wilson.

Attribution of the temperature change to natural or anthropogenic factors is an important question: see global warming and attribution of recent climate change.

Since its most recent election the Liberal government has faced a number of scandals, including historic losses at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, the attribution of highly-sought subsidized daycare spaces to Liberal Party donors, as well as allegations of systemic construction industry corruption which arose notably during the 2009 Montréal municipal election.

Note, however, that although temperature reconstructions from proxy data help us understand the character of natural climate variability, attribution of recent climate change relies on a broad range of methodologies of which the proxy reconstructions are only a small part.

This report explicitly endorses the IPCC view of attribution of recent climate change as representing the view of the scientific community:

In her recent book Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a Seventeenth-Century Forbidden Love ( 2006 ), the author Myriam Cyr has attempted to reassert the attribution of the letters to the real Mariana Alcoforado.

* Detection and attribution-see attribution of recent climate change

Similarities between the language and circumstances of the male protagonist of The Wanderer, for example, and the protagonist of the Wife's Lament have led other critics to argue, even more radically, that the protagonist of the poem ( to which the attribution of the title " the wife's lament " is wholly apocryphal and fairly recent ) may in fact be male.

One series, U, has been linked to King Aethelbald of Mercia ( 716-57 ) on the basis of its iconography, though this attribution is tenuous and recent research suggests it is very unlikely.

His answer falls into two parts: first, these beliefs have in common a counterintuitive attribution of a certain range of properties to certain kinds of quasihuman being ; second, the explanation of their diffusion and persistence is to be sought not in the extensive anthropological literature about the origins and functions of religion, but in recent advances in developmental, cognitive and evolutionary psychology.

More recent scholarly studies arguing for attribution to Middleton

Supposed knowledge of some Old Irish vocabulary and verse has led to the most recent attribution to Ireland, and there is good evidence that his writings were well known to early medieval Irish scholars.

Any human-induced changes in climate will occur against the “ background ” of natural climatic variations ( see attribution of recent climate change for more information ).

Reanalysis provides a most comprehensive and accurate four-dimensional picture of our atmosphere and effectively allows monitoring of the variability and change of global climate, thereby contributing also to the understanding and attribution of climate change.

A global attribution occurs when the individual believes that the cause of negative events is consistent across different contexts.

Illarionov considers the attribution of the global warming to industrial CO < sub > 2 </ sub > emission is unfounded, and is an outspoken critic of the Kyoto Protocol in particular.

* Observed warming of the Earth's surface, attribution of observed warming to human activities, projected increases in future global mean temperature, rising sea levels, and increased frequency of heat waves.

Pathetic fallacy as an attribution of sentient, humanising traits to inanimate things is a centrally human way of understanding the world, and it does have a useful and important role in art and literature.

Anthropopathy ( Greek ανθρωπος, anthropos, " human ", παθος, pathos, " suffering ") is the attribution of human emotion to a non-human being, generally a god.

By comparison, the term anthropomorphism originally referred to the attribution of human form to a non-human being, but in modern usage, anthropomorphism has come to encompass both meanings.

In the 13th century Saint Thomas Aquinas addressed the Christologocal attribution of the Nativity: Should it be attributed to the person ( the Word ) or only to the assumed human nature of that person.

Hagan notes, without attribution, that " Legend has it that ... Mr. Garroway grew jealous and began spiking Muggs ' orange juice with Benzedrine to make him misbehave and deliver his human co-host back to center stage.

Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification or prosopopeia, is the attribution of human characteristics to animals, plants, objects, natural forces, symbols or abstract ideas.

The two aspects absolute reality were explained as the eternal enjoyer and the enjoyed, Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā conceived of as ontological principles of which all men and women are physical manifestations, as may be realised through a process of attribution ( Aropa ), in which the sexual intercourse of a human couple is transmuted into the divine love between Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā, leading to the highest spiritual realisation, the state of union or Yugala.

Brand's attribution of will to an abstract human construct ( information ) has been adopted within a branch of the Cyberpunk movement, whose members espouse a particular political ( Anarchist ) viewpoint.

3, titled " The Trinity Formula " where he discusses the view that land, labour and capital ( which he sarcastically calls the " holy trinity " of political economy ) all create a new value equal to factor income ( Marx regarded human labour and land as the mainsprings of material wealth, but he considered value as a purely social attribution referring to labor-content ).

The three relationships mentioned become mixed up, and are confused with each other, in commercial and economic discourse, and it appears that things and assets acquire an independent power to create value, even although value is a human attribution.

Adding to the confusion that is, Aelbert ’ s stylistic development and the problem of attribution is of course the fact that Jacob ’ s style was not stagnant either.

" The attribution is disputed.

It is the most widely copied Old English poem, and appears in 45 manuscripts, but its attribution to Bede is not absolutely certain — not all manuscripts name Bede as the author, and the ones that do are of later origin than those that do not.

This projection, according to the argument, is manifested in the form of attribution of undesirable characteristics of the self to the conspirators.

Were we to move from the observation that there is thinking occurring to the attribution of this thinking to a particular agent, we would simply assume what we set out to prove, namely, that there exists a particular person endowed with the capacity for thought.

The idea of rta laid the cornerstone of dharma's implicit attribution to the " ultimate reality " of the surrounding universe, in classical Vedic Hinduism the following verse from the Rig-Veda is an example where rta is mentioned:

It has been studied recently by Wilbur Knorr, who suggested that the attribution to Hero is incorrect, and that the true author is Diophantus.

The attribution is held to be anachronistic however by J J O ' Connor and E F Robertson who name Theon of Alexandria as a more likely author.

While this attribution is rejected by modern scholars, the name Sæmundar Edda is still sometimes encountered.

Asim Zaki Mustafa argues that the common attribution of the procedure to Islam is unfair because it is a much older phenomenon.

The author of the tune is unknown, and it may originate in plainchant, but a 1619 attribution to John Bull is sometimes made.

There is no link between the two books in style, content, or history other than their attribution to Barnabas.

* The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted / paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of Syracuse, commemorating the tyrant's win in the chariot race at the Pythian Games 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: " A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the Muses, spoke thus: ' He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.

However, this attribution of authorship is speculative.

Between 1450 and 1455, Gutenberg printed several texts, some of which remain unidentified ; his texts did not bear the printer's name or date, so attribution is possible only from typographical evidence and external references.

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The invention of truth-tables, however, is of controversial attribution.