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whaling in the Southern Ocean is problematic. " The Japanese are still out catching fairly significant numbers of whales, and not just minkes, though that's what they're meant to be focusing on, " he commented. " If they stuck to their targets, and did their whaling as they say they do when they're at the IWC meetings, then I think they might have a little more support. They'd also need to do t...

Investigating the Climate Change on Architecture Based on Mahoney Index, Case Study: Tehran Hot and Dry Climates

City and human are two different human-made and natural systems which has an effect on each other. The formation of a residence depends on the climatic conditions. Construction of a residence shows that people have adapted themselves and their activities to it; while the climatic conditions play an important role in comfort in human environments. Thus, the buildings and environmental spaces sho...

Draft Final Report to the Shadow Secretariat on Climate Change/ Office of Climate Change

Executive Summary The aim of this study is to provide external advice and recommendations to the Shadow Committee on Climate Change (SCCC) on the methodological approaches that could be used to propose UK interim carbon budgets for the period 2008-2022. These interim budgets are bounded by existing Government commitments, most notably the 26-32% reduction in CO 2 emissions by 2020 (on 1990 leve...

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE Summary for Policymakers to Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report of the IPCC Third Assessment Report

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With scientific and societal interest in biodiversity impacts of climate change growing enormously over the last decade, we analysed directions and biases in the recent most highly cited data papers in this field of research (from 2012 to 2014). The majority of this work relied on leveraging large databases of already collected historical information (but not paleo- or genetic data), and couple...