Question: According to studies by Lindzen along with Choi, there's evidence supporting lower than expected levels of climate sensitivity. This implies that changes in temperature might not be as drastic per unit increase in greenhouse gases concentration compared to previous estimations. However, it’s crucial for ongoing research to further validate these findings given their implications on environmental policies and predictions about future climates conditions around globe earth planet we live inhabit survive thrive depend upon sustainably manage resources wisely use them efficiently reduce waste pollution protect biodiversity ecosystems habitats wildlife species plants trees oceans rivers lakes air quality water supply food security human health safety security prosperity happiness well-being survival existence continuity progress development evolution adaptation resilience flexibility innovation creativity intelligence wisdom knowledge understanding awareness consciousness spirituality morality ethics values principles ideals visions dreams hopes aspirations goals objectives strategies plans actions behaviors habits routines rituals ceremonies traditions cultures languages arts sciences technologies tools methods techniques procedures protocols guidelines standards regulations laws rules norms conventions customs etiquette manners civility politeness respect kindness compassion empathy generosity gratitude forgiveness reconciliation healing restoration renewal regeneration rejuvenation revival revitalization renaissance rebirth resurrection redemption salvation liberation emancipation enlightenment awakening revelation realization recognition acknowledgement appreciation celebration commemoration memorial tribute homage honor glory fame prestige status power authority influence impact effect outcome result consequence implication significance importance priority necessity urgency emergency crisis disaster catastrophe calamity tragedy horror terror fear anxiety stress tension conflict violence war peace harmony cooperation collaboration coordination communication connection contact exchange interaction transaction transformation transition transmission transference translation interpretation comprehension perception cognition thought idea concept notion theory hypothesis proposition argument assertion statement declaration announcement notification information data facts figures statistics charts graphs diagrams maps models simulations projections scenarios possibilities probabilities alternatives options choices decisions judgments evaluations assessments ratings reviews feedback comments suggestions recommendations advice guidance counseling coaching mentoring tutoring teaching learning education training practice experience skill talent ability potential capacity capability competence confidence courage passion motivation inspiration aspiration vision mission goal objective strategy plan action behavior habit routine ritual ceremony tradition culture language art science technology tool method technique procedure protocol guideline standard regulation law rule norm convention custom etiquette manner civility politeness respect kindness compassion empathy generosity gratitude forgiveness reconciliation healing restoration renewal regeneration rejuvenation revival revitalization renaissance rebirth resurrection redemption salvation liberation emancipation enlightenment awakening revelation realization recognition acknowledgement appreciation celebration commemoration memorial tribute homage honor glory fame prestige status power authority influence impact effect outcome result consequence implication significance importance priority necessity urgency emergency crisis disaster catastrophe calamity tragedy horror terror fear anxiety stress tension conflict violence war peace harmony cooperation collaboration coordination communication connection contact exchange interaction transaction transformation transition transmission transference translation interpretation comprehension perception cognition thought idea concept notion theory hypothesis proposition argument assertion statement declaration announcement notification information data facts figures statistics charts graphs diagrams maps models simulations projections scenarios possibilities probabilities alternatives options choices decisions judgments evaluations assessments ratings reviews

 Evaluating Climate Sensitivity: Insights from Lindzen & Choi
In the realm of climate research, understanding the degree to which Earth’s atmosphere responds to increases in carbon dioxide levels—known as climate sensitivity—is crucial. Notably, Richard S. Lindzen and Yong-Sang Choi presented findings suggesting lower-than-expected values for climate sensitivity. Their study challenges some prevailing views on projected impacts of greenhouse gases, proposing less dramatic outcomes compared to many models predicting significant global warming trends.

Lindzen and Choi analyzed satellite data focusing on cloud formation and heat radiation, concluding that clouds act as negative feedback mechanisms rather than amplifying atmospheric heating. They argue that higher albedo—the reflection of sunlight back into space—caused by increasing cloud cover could offset additional warmth generated by CO₂ accumulation. Contrary to assertions made by numerous studies indicating high climate sensitivities leading to severe future warming scenarios, their results imply milder reactions under rising concentrations of greenhouse gases.

This perspective contrasts sharply against widely accepted assessments produced by intergovernmental panels emphasizing substantial risks associated with unchecked anthropogenic emissions. Critics contend that Lindzen-Choi methodology oversimplifies complex interactions governing planetary thermodynamics while overlooking empirical evidence confirming stronger positive feedbacks linked to Arctic sea ice retreat and permafrost thawing events.

Nonetheless, discussions surrounding precise quantification of equilibrium climate sensitivity persist among experts who recognize uncertainties inherent when extrapolating long-term projections based upon incomplete knowledge systems dynamics. Advocates highlight importance considering alternative viewpoints fostering comprehensive dialogue aimed advancing collective comprehension underlying physical principles governing earth’s energy balance equation.

As societal stakeholders grapple implications mitigating versus adapting strategies addressing impending environmental changes, robust scientific discourse remains essential navigating pathways forward ensuring sustainable development goals achieved safeguarding ecological integrity generations ahead. Engaging constructively across disciplinary boundaries encourages cross-fertilization ideas promoting innovation resilience building capacities cope emerging challenges posed evolving geophysical landscapes influenced human endeavor.

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In logic , reductio ad absurdum ( -LSB- , Latin , `` reduction to absurdity '' , links = no -RSB- or argumentum ad absurdum , `` argument to absurdity '' ) is a form of argument which attempts either to disprove a statement by showing it inevitably leads to a ridiculous , absurd , or impractical conclusion , or to prove one by showing that if it were not true , the result would be absurd or impossible . Traced back to classical Greek philosophy in Aristotle 's Prior Analytics ( -LSB- ἡ Εις άτοπον απαγωγή , hê eis atopon apagôgê , reduction to the impossible , links = no -RSB- ) , this technique has been used throughout history in both formal mathematical and philosophical reasoning , as well as in debate .   Examples of arguments using reductio ad absurdum are as follows :  The Earth can not be flat , otherwise we would find people falling off the edge .  There is no smallest positive rational number , because if there were , then it could be divided by two to get a smaller one .  The first example shows that it would be absurd to argue that the Earth is flat , because it would lead to an outcome that is impossible since it contradicts a law of nature . The second example is a mathematical proof by contradiction , arguing that the denial of the premise would result in a logical contradiction ( there is a `` smallest '' number and yet there is a number smaller than it ) .

In thermodynamics , the reduced properties of a fluid are a set of state variables normalized by the fluid 's state properties at its critical point . These dimensionless thermodynamic coordinates , taken together with a substance 's compressibility factor , provide the basis for the simplest form of the theorem of corresponding states .   Reduced properties are also used to define the Peng -- Robinson equation of state , a model designed to provide reasonable accuracy near the critical point . They are also used to critical exponents , which describe the behaviour of physical quantities near continuous phase transitions .

In psychology , desensitization is defined as the diminished emotional responsiveness to a negative , aversive or positive stimulus after repeated exposure to it . It also occurs when an emotional response is repeatedly evoked in situations in which the action tendency that is associated with the emotion proves irrelevant or unnecessary . Desensitization is a process primarily used to assist individuals unlearn phobias and anxieties and was developed by psychologist Mary Cover Jones . Joseph Wolpe ( 1958 ) developed a method of a hierarchal list of anxiety evoking stimuli in order of intensity , which allows individuals to undergo adaption . Although medication is available for individuals suffering from anxiety , fear or phobias , empirical evidence supports desensitization with high rates of cure , particularly in clients suffering from depression or schizophrenia .

David Brant Haviland ( born July 22 , 1961 in Bar Harbor , Maine ) , is a Swedish/American physicist , professor in Nanostructure physics and Mesoscopic physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden . -LSB- 1 -RSB-   Haviland grew up in Ames , Iowa , and studied physics at Union College 1979-83 , New York . The Fulbright program 1983/84 he was at the University of Göttingen . He received his Ph.D. in 1989 at the University of Minnesota . Between 1989 and 1997 he worked at Chalmers University of Technology before joining the Royal Institute of Technology as a professor in 1997 .   His research on fundamental and applied physics in mesoscopic condensed matter . His research is focused on superconducting insulator quantum phase transition in thin films and related phenomena in single Josephson junctions and SQUIDs . He is also developing experimental and theoretical methods to investigate nonlinear dynamical systems by measuring and analyzing the intermodulation ( frequency mixing , frequency mixing ) , this method was patented -LSB- 2 -RSB- and was developed for use in atomic force microscopy -LSB- 3 -RSB- . Haviland has over 100 peer reviewed articles -LSB- 4 -RSB- .   Haviland was awarded the Wallmark Prize in 2008 `` for his discoveries concerning the development of mesoscopic physics '' . -LSB- 5 -RSB- He was elected in 2011 as member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . -LSB- 6 -RSB-

Reductionism refers to several related but distinct philosophical positions regarding the connections between phenomena , or theories , `` reducing '' one to another , usually considered `` simpler '' or more `` basic '' . The Oxford Companion to Philosophy suggests that it is `` one of the most used and abused terms in the philosophical lexicon '' and suggests a three part division :  Ontological reductionism : a belief that the whole of reality consists of a minimal number of parts  Methodological reductionism : the scientific attempt to provide explanation in terms of ever smaller entities  Theory reductionism : the suggestion that a newer theory does not replace or absorb the old , but reduces it to more basic terms . Theory reduction itself is divisible into three : translation , derivation and explanation .   Reductionism can be applied to objects , phenomena , explanations , theories , and meanings .   In the sciences , application of methodological reductionism attempts explanation of entire systems in terms of their individual , constituent parts and their interactions . For example , the temperature of a gas is reduced to nothing but the average kinetic energy of its molecules in motion . Thomas Nagel speaks of psychophysical reductionism ( the attempted reduction of psychological phenomena to physics and chemistry ) , as do others and physico-chemical reductionism ( the attempted reduction of biology to physics and chemistry ) , again as do others . In a very simplified and sometimes contested form , such reductionism is said to imply that a system is nothing but the sum of its parts . However , a more nuanced view is that a system is composed entirely of its parts , but the system will have features that none of the parts have . `` The point of mechanistic explanations is usually showing how the higher level features arise from the parts . ''   Other definitions are used by other authors . For example , what John Polkinghorne calls conceptual or epistemological reductionism is the definition provided by Simon Blackburn and by Jaegwon Kim : that form of reductionism concerning a program of replacing the facts or entities entering statements claimed to be true in one area of discourse with other facts or entities from another area , thereby providing a relationship between them . Such a connection is provided where the same idea can be expressed by `` levels '' of explanation , with higher levels reducible if need be to lower levels . This use of levels of understanding in part expresses our human limitations in grasping a lot of detail . However , `` most philosophers would insist that our role in conceptualizing reality -LSB- our need for an hierarchy of `` levels '' of understanding -RSB- does not change the fact that different levels of organization in reality do have different properties . ''   Reductionism strongly reflects a certain perspective on causality . In a reductionist framework , the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena , are called epiphenomena . Often there is an implication that the epiphenomenon exerts no causal agency on the fundamental phenomena that explain it . The epiphenomena are sometimes said to be `` nothing but '' the outcome of the workings of the fundamental phenomena , although the epiphenomena might be more clearly and efficiently described in very different terms . There is a tendency to avoid taking an epiphenomenon as being important in its own right . This attitude may extend to cases where the fundamentals are not clearly able to explain the epiphenomena , but are expected to by the speaker . In this way , for example , morality can be deemed to be `` nothing but '' evolutionary adaptation , and consciousness can be considered `` nothing but '' the outcome of neurobiological processes .   Reductionism should be distinguished from eliminationism : reductionists do not deny the existence of phenomena , but explain them in terms of another reality ; eliminationists deny the existence of the phenomena themselves . For example , eliminationists deny the existence of life by their explanation in terms of physical and chemical processes . Daniel Dennett denies the existence of consciousness .   Reductionism also does not preclude the existence of what might be called emergent phenomena , but it does imply the ability to understand those phenomena completely in terms of the processes from which they are composed . This reductionist understanding is very different from emergentism , which intends that what emerges in `` emergence '' is more than the sum of the processes from which it emerges .

Detection theory or signal detection theory is a means to quantify the ability to discern between information-bearing patterns ( called stimulus in living organisms , signal in machines ) and random patterns that distract from the information ( called noise , consisting of background stimuli and random activity of the detection machine and of the nervous system of the operator ) . In the field of electronics , the separation of such patterns from a disguising background is referred to as signal recovery .   According to the theory , there are a number of determiners of how a detecting system will detect a signal , and where its threshold levels will be . The theory can explain how changing the threshold will affect the ability to discern , often exposing how adapted the system is to the task , purpose or goal at which it is aimed .   When the detecting system is a human being experience , expectations , physiological state ( e.g. , fatigue ) and other factors can affect the threshold applied . For instance , a sentry in wartime might be likely to detect fainter stimuli than the same sentry in peacetime due to a lower criterion , however they might also be more likely to treat innocuous stimuli as a threat .   Much of the early work in detection theory was done by radar researchers . By 1954 , the theory was fully developed on the theoretical side as described by Peterson , Birdsall and Fox and the foundation for the psychological theory was made by Wilson P. Tanner , David M. Green , and John A. Swets , also in 1954 .  Detection theory was used in 1966 by John A. Swets and David M. Green for psychophysics . Green and Swets criticized the traditional methods of psychophysics for their inability to discriminate between the real sensitivity of subjects and their ( potential ) response biases .   Detection theory has applications in many fields such as diagnostics of any kind , quality control , telecommunications , and psychology . The concept is similar to the signal to noise ratio used in the sciences and confusion matrices used in artificial intelligence . It is also usable in alarm management , where it is important to separate important events from background noise .

In organizational studies , and particularly new institutional theory , decoupling is the creation and maintenance of gaps between formal policies and actual organizational practices . Organizational researchers have documented decoupling in a variety of organizations , including schools , corporations , government agencies , and social movement organizations . Scholars have proposed a number of explanations for why organizations engage in decoupling . Some researchers have argued that decoupling enables organizations to gain legitimacy with their external members while simultaneously maintaining internal flexibility to address practical considerations . Other scholars have noted that decoupling may occur because it serves the interests of powerful organizational leaders , or because it allows organizational decision-makers to avoid implementing policies that conflict with their ideological beliefs . Recent research has also identified the reverse of decoupling : recoupling , the process whereby `` policies and practices that were once decoupled may eventually become coupled . ''

The Review of Economics of the Household is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 2001 by Shoshana Grossbard and first published in 2003 . It covers research on household economics , including empirical and theoretical research on the economic behavior and decision-making processes of single and multi-person households . Articles published deal with consumption , savings , labor supply and other time uses , marriage and divorce , demand for health and other forms of human capital , fertility and investment in children 's human capital , households and environmental economics , economics of migration , economic development , and economics of religion . It also publishes articles on household economics from the perspective of the history of economic thought and emphasizes effects of both micro - and macro-economic policy instruments .  The original advisory board included Gary Becker and Jacob Mincer , the founders of the Columbia School of Household Economics often called the New Home Economics , as well as another Nobel prize winner , Clive Granger . Co-editor Michael Grossman , associate editor Barry Chiswick , and advisory board member Victor Fuchs are prominent contributors to the Columbia School of Household Economics .

The langmuir ( symbol : L ) is a unit of exposure ( or dosage ) to a surface ( e.g. of a crystal ) and is used in ultra-high vacuum ( UHV ) surface physics to study the adsorption of gases . It is a practical unit , and is not dimensionally homogeneous , and so is only used in this one field . It is named after American physicist Irving Langmuir .

Richard Rose ( March 14 , 1917 -- July 6 , 2005 ) was an American mystic , esoteric philosopher , author , poet , and investigator of paranormal phenomena . He published a number of books and spoke widely in universities and other venues across the country during the 1970s and 1980s .   Rose developed a system which he described as the `` retreat from untruth , '' an examination of personal belief systems and lifestyles . In that system one discards what one finds to be false on a case-by-case basis . He believed a spiritual Ultimate truth exists and can be found for oneself with sufficient application of effort , and recommended skeptical approaches such as his .   He studied human psychology , human weakness and human potential , then wrote challenges to psychology , psychiatry , religion , academia , the legal system , and the New Age movement . His criticism included issues of group-think , dogmatism , financial motives , emotional appeals , and reliance on questionable authorities .


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 According to studies by Lindzen along with Choi, there's an indication of reduced climate sensitivity. This suggests that they observe less responsiveness in climate changes compared to other predictions underlining potentially milder impacts from greenhouse gases than previously thought.

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"Lindzen together with Choi suggest lower levels of climate sensitivity."

 Evaluating Climate Sensitivity: Insights from Lindzen & Choi
Renowned scientist Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, alongside Yoon-Eun Choi, contributed significantly to understanding climate sensitivity - how much temperatures might rise given increased CO2 levels. Their research suggests lower-than-expected sensitivities compared to mainstream predictions. Lindzen, celebrated for his expertise in atmospheric physics particularly regarding stratospheric dynamics and ozone chemistry, co-authored studies challenging prevailing views on climate feedback mechanisms. His career spans numerous prestigious positions; notably serving as MIT’s Alfred P. Sloan Professor before retiring in 2013 after decades dedicated to meteorological science advancement. Contrary to widespread concerns, Lindzen argues against exaggerated “climate alarm,” advocating instead for nuanced perspectives based upon rigorous empirical evidence. Together with Choi, they offer compelling insights into potentially less drastic impacts anticipated under rising greenhouse gases scenarios.
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In statistics , the reduced chi-squared statistic is used extensively in goodness of fit testing . It is also known as mean square weighted deviation ( MSWD ) in isotopic dating and variance of unit weight in the context of weighted least squares .

Rainer Kurt `` Ray '' Sachs ( born June 13 , 1932 ) is a German-American computational radiation biologist and astronomer . He and Arthur M. Wolfe were the authors of the Sachs -- Wolfe effect , which concerns a property of the Cosmic microwave background radiation . He and Ronald Kantowski were responsible for the Kantowski -- Sachs dust solutions to the Einstein field equation . These are a widely used family of inhomogeneous cosmological models .

Peter Richard Grenville Layard , Baron Layard FBA ( born 15 March 1934 ) is a British labour economist , currently working as programme director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics .   His early career focused on how to reduce unemployment and inequality . He was Senior Research Officer for the famous Robbins Committee on Higher Education . This committee 's report led to the massive expansion of UK university education in the 1960s and 1970s .   Following research on happiness begun in the 1970s by economists such as Richard Easterlin at the University of Southern California , he has written about the economics of happiness , with one theme being the importance of non-income variables on aggregate happiness , including mental health .   His main current interest is how better mental health could improve our social and economic life . His work on mental health , including publishing The Depression Report in 2006 , led to the establishment of the UK Improving Access to Psychological Therapies ( IAPT ) . He is co-editor of the World Happiness Report , with John F. Helliwell and Jeffrey Sachs .

In computability theory and computational complexity theory , a reduction is an algorithm for transforming one problem into another problem . A reduction from one problem to another may be used to show that the second problem is at least as difficult as the first .   Intuitively , problem A is reducible to problem B if an algorithm for solving problem B efficiently ( if it existed ) could also be used as a subroutine to solve problem A efficiently . When this is true , solving A can not be harder than solving B. `` Harder '' means having a higher estimate of the required computational resources in a given context ( e.g. , higher time complexity , greater memory requirement , expensive need for extra hardware processor cores for a parallel solution compared to a single-threaded solution , etc. ) .   We write A ≤ m B , usually with a subscript on the ≤ to indicate the type of reduction being used ( m : mapping reduction , p : polynomial reduction ) .   The mathematical structure generated on a set of problems by the reductions of a particular type generally forms a preorder , whose equivalence classes may be used to define degrees of unsolvability and complexity classes .

Dick Teresi is an American writer . He is a co-author of The God Particle : If the Universe Is the Answer , What Is the Question ? He is also a former editor of Omni .   With his wife Judith Hooper , Teresi coauthored The Three Pound Universe and Would the Buddha Wear a Walkman ? A Catalogue of Revolutionary Tools for Higher Consciousness .  Teresi coauthored Laser : Light of a Million Uses with Jeff Hecht .   In July 1997 he wrote an article for The Atlantic entitled `` Zero '' , about the missing year zero between 1 AD and 1 BC , how it came to be , and the effect it has on western culture . In 1994 , he wrote with his wife an article for the New York Times book section entitled `` High-Concept Classics : A Quiz '' , about the ironic situation of the modern author having to sum up an entire book ( for example -- 3 years work , 175 interviews , 160,000 words ) in 12 to 14 words , or a sentence and half , to help sell the book .

Dimitrios Trichopoulos ( Δημήτριος Τριχόπουλος December 9 , 1938 -- December 1 , 2014 ) , was a Mediterranean Diet expert and tobacco harms researcher . He was Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology , and a past chair of the Department of Epidemiology , in the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston .   Dimitrios Trichopoulos conducted research and taught for more than four decades in the field of cancer epidemiology and prevention . He published more than 1,000 scientific papers , continually charting scientific frontiers , from seminal research linking secondhand smoke ( SHS ) from cigarettes with increased susceptibility to risk for lung cancer , and hepatitis B virus and tobacco smoking with increased risk of primary liver cancer ( hepatocellular carcinoma ) , to findings documenting that surgically induced and early natural menopause reduced breast cancer risk . Beyond oncology , his paper linking psychological stress after an earthquake in Athens to increased risk of cardiac death was included in a 1997 list in The Lancet of 27 papers deserving to form a core canon of medical literature that every health professional should read .   His oncology epidemiology and prevention research career included significant `` firsts '' : He was first , with a 1990 paper in The Lancet , to propose that in utero exposures play a major role in breast cancer causation . He also was first in 1981 , along with an independent paper published a few days later , to report that secondhand smoke increases the risk of lung cancer . Dimitrios Trichopoulos studied 51 nonsmoking women in Greece who had been hospitalized with lung cancer , then he compared them with age-matched women who had been hospitalized ( also in Greece ) for other problems . Though seemingly self-evident , researchers were able to determine statistically that these cancer patients were significantly more likely to have been exposed to their husband 's cigarettes . Follow-up studies then began to confirm the risks of smoke inhalation by children in smoking households or in nonsmokers who live nearby smoking , in adjacent apartment units .   A native of Greece , Dimitrios studied at the University of Athens Medical School , where he earned an M.D. in 1963 and a Ph.D. in 1971 . In 1968 , he earned a S.M. in Boston at the Harvard School of Public Health and held several teaching appointments there over the next two decades ( lecturer , 1969 -- 1970 ; visiting professor , 1981 -- 1985 ; adjunct , 1988 -- 1989 ) .   Harvard appointed him a full professor in the Department of Epidemiology in 1989 , which department he began to chair that same year succeeding Brian MacMahon , and serving in that role until 1996 . Initiatives under his leadership included a series of collaborations with investigators now at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm , Sweden . In 1993 , he was named Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention , and also began a four-year appointment as director of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention .   Dimitrios Trichopoulos also was a Member of the Athens Academy and president of the Hellenic Health Foundation in Greece . He held teaching appointments at the University of Athens Medical School and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden .   His numerous awards and distinctions include honorary doctorates , the Brinker International Award for Breast Cancer Clinical Research , Harvard School of Public Health 's Julius Richmond Award ( 2004 ) and Alumni Award of Merit ( 2009 ) , and the Medal of Honor of the International Agency for Research on Cancer , World Health Organization .   He is survived by his wife Antonia , who is known as `` mother of the Mediterranean Diet '' .

David J. Thomson is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen 's University in Ontario and a Canada Research Chair in Statistics and Signal Processing , formerly a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs . He is a Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario , a Fellow of the IEEE and a Chartered Statistician . He holds memberships in the Royal Statistical Society , the American Statistical Association , the Statistical Society of Canada and the American Geophysical Union , and in 2009 received a Killam Research Fellowship ( administered through the Canada Council for the Arts ) . In 2010 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .  In 2013 , he was awarded the Statistical Society of Canada impact award .   He is best known for creation of the multitaper method of spectral estimation , first published in complete form in 1982 in a special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE .  Thomson 's 1995 Science paper first conclusively showed the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and global temperature . Thomson and Bell Labs colleagues Carol G. Maclennan and Louis J. Lanzerotti authored a 1995 Nature paper in which they showed evidence that the magnetic signatures of the Sun 's normal modes permeate the interplanetary magnetic field as far as Jupiter . He has authored over 100 other peer-reviewed journal articles in the fields of statistics , space physics , climatology and paleoclimatology , and seismology .

Richard Brice Hoover ( B.Sc . ) ( born January 3 , 1943 ) is a scientist who has authored 33 volumes and 250 papers on astrobiology , extremophiles , diatoms , solar physics , X-ray/EUV optics and meteorites . He holds 11 U.S. patents and was 1992 NASA Inventor of the Year . He was employed at the United States ' NASA Marshall Space Flight Center from 1966 , where he worked on astrophysics and astrobiology . He established the Astrobiology Group there in 1997 and until his retirement late 2011 he headed their astrobiology research . He conducted research on microbial extremophiles in the Antarctic , microfossils , and chemical biomarkers in precambrian rocks and in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites .   Hoover is best known for having claimed three times ( 1997 , 2007 , and 2011 ) to have discovered fossilized microorganisms in a collection of select meteorites .

Raymond Duch is an Official Fellow at Nuffield College , University of Oxford , and Director of the Nuffield Centre of Experimental Social Sciences ( CESS ) , which has centres in Oxford , Santiago ( Chile ) and Pune ( India ) . He is also currently the Long Term Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Toulouse School of Economics . Professor Duch has served as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Experimental Political Science . In 2015 , Professor Duch was selected as a member of the UK Cabinet Office Cross-Whitehall Trial Advice Panel to offer Whitehall departments technical support in designing and implementing controlled experiments to assess policy effectiveness .   Professor Duch 's research focuses on responsibility attribution , incorporating elements of theory , experiments and analysis of public opinion . In 2008 he published an award-winning book , The Economic Vote , that demonstrates that citizens hold political parties accountable for economic outcomes . More recently Professor Duch has turned to experiments in order to identify the information shortcuts that individuals deploy for attributing responsibility for collective decision making . Duch is associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Political Science and the American Journal of Political Science since 2012 .

Richard Lyndell Stroup is a free-market environmentalist , adjunct professor at North Carolina State University , research fellow at the Independent Institute , adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute , member of the Mont Pèlerin Society and former professor of economics at Montana State University , where he served as head of the Department of Agricultural Economics & Economics . He also served as director of the Office of Policy Analysis in the U.S. Department of the Interior . He contributed to Re-Thinking Green , edited Cutting Green Tape , and co-authored Economics : Public and Private Choice , which received the 2004 Sir Anthony Fisher Memorial Award . He is married to Jane Shaw , former President of the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy .


Question: According to Phil Jones, there has been an absence of temperature increase related to global warming trends since the year 1995.

 Recent Temperature Trends: Contrasting Views
The assertion made by Phil Jones regarding the absence of global warming trends post-1995 sparks debates within the realm of climate science. Despite being a prominent figure in climate research, his statement contrasts sharply with mainstream scientific understanding. According to numerous datasets compiled independently across different continents, the period following 1995 witnessed continuous increases in global mean temperatures—indicative of ongoing climate change. Scientists attribute this phenomenon largely to anthropogenic influences, particularly greenhouse gases emitted through industrial activities and deforestation. However, interpretations vary among experts; some argue about short-term fluctuations versus long-term trends when analyzing atmospheric conditions. Critics often highlight periods where observed changes seem less pronounced compared to others, emphasizing uncertainties inherent in complex systems modeling. Yet comprehensive analyses reveal consistent upward trajectories despite minor dips attributed mostly to volcanic eruptions affecting stratospheric aerosol concentrations temporarily cooling surfaces below. Moreover, satellite measurements corroborate ground observations demonstrating unequivocal evidence pointing towards accelerated planetary heating exacerbated recently surpassing previous historical benchmarks repeatedly broken every few years now rather decades apart before suggesting rapid acceleration underway potentially leading catastrophic outcomes unless mitigated swiftly via coordinated international action aimed curbing emissions drastically while promoting sustainable development strategies globally.

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Richard Money ( born 13 October 1955 ) is an English former footballer and manager and is the current Academy Director for Norwich City . Most recently he managed Cambridge United , overseeing the side 's return to the Football League after a nine-year absence . Money was dismissed by Cambridge in November 2015 .

Dr. Richard Massey ( born 14 October 1977 ) is a physicist currently working as Royal Society Research Fellow in the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University . Previously he was a senior research fellow in astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology and STFC Advanced Fellow at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Edinburgh . He attended Queen Mary 's Grammar School , graduated in Maths and Physics from the University of Durham and completed his Ph.D in Cambridge in 2003 .   Massey is most well known for his studies of dark matter , including the first 3D map of its large-scale distribution and its behaviour during collisions . He was awarded the 2011 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Astronomy and Astrophysics .  He has featured in several TV documentaries , including BBC 's Horizon documentary `` How Big is the Universe ? '' in 2013 and online .

David J. Thomson is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen 's University in Ontario and a Canada Research Chair in Statistics and Signal Processing , formerly a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs . He is a Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario , a Fellow of the IEEE and a Chartered Statistician . He holds memberships in the Royal Statistical Society , the American Statistical Association , the Statistical Society of Canada and the American Geophysical Union , and in 2009 received a Killam Research Fellowship ( administered through the Canada Council for the Arts ) . In 2010 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .  In 2013 , he was awarded the Statistical Society of Canada impact award .   He is best known for creation of the multitaper method of spectral estimation , first published in complete form in 1982 in a special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE .  Thomson 's 1995 Science paper first conclusively showed the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and global temperature . Thomson and Bell Labs colleagues Carol G. Maclennan and Louis J. Lanzerotti authored a 1995 Nature paper in which they showed evidence that the magnetic signatures of the Sun 's normal modes permeate the interplanetary magnetic field as far as Jupiter . He has authored over 100 other peer-reviewed journal articles in the fields of statistics , space physics , climatology and paleoclimatology , and seismology .

Sir David Whitlock Tanner CBE ( born 29 December 1947 in London ) is the performance director for the British Rowing Team . He has assisted the team to Olympic success from the 1984 Los Angeles games to the 2016 Rio games . This success has been paralleled by success in the World Rowing Championships .

David W. Hughes ( born 7 Nov 1941 ) was a professor of astronomy at the University of Sheffield , where he worked since 1965 . Hughes has published over 200 research papers on asteroids , comets , meteorites and meteoroids . He has also written on the history of astronomy , the origin of the solar system and the impact threat to planet Earth .   Asteroid 4205 was named in his honour : see Meanings of minor planet names : 4001 -- 4500 .   Hughes has often appeared on TV , most notably with the live coverage of the ESA Giotto space mission to Halley 's Comet and discussing the Star of Bethlehem . ( He wrote the book The Star of Bethlehem : an astronomer 's confirmation , Walker , Pocket , Dent , Corgi , 1979 ) .   Hughes also taught undergraduates at the University of Sheffield , specialising in the history of astronomy , solar and planetary studies , and geophysics ; however , as of October 2007 he is retired . The University gave him an emeritus chair .   Hughes was born in East Retford , Nottinghamshire , and educated at Mundella School , Nottingham , Birmingham University ( 1959 -- 1962 , where he got a degree in physics ) and Oxford University ( 1962 -- 1965 , New College and the University Observatory ) , where he got a D. Phil in solar astrophysics .   Since retiring Hughes has spent his life in Sheffield writing about astronomy , being a member of the Royal Astronomical Society 's Astronomy Heritage Committee and collecting livery buttons , Chinese ceramics and cast-iron railway signs . He also enjoys giving astronomy talks on cruise ships , where , on many occasions , he represents the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC .   He is married to Carole Stott ( who also writes on astronomy and space ) and they have two children , Ellen and Owen .

David George Kendall FRS ( 15 January 1918 -- 23 October 2007 ) was an English statistician and mathematician , known for his work on probability , statistical shape analysis , ley lines and queueing theory . He spent most of his academic life in the University of Oxford ( 1946 -- 1962 ) and the University of Cambridge ( 1962 -- 1985 ) . He worked with M. S. Bartlett during World War II , and visited Princeton University after the war .

David Tudor Jones ( born 1966 ) is a Professor of Bioinformatics , and Head of Bioinformatics Group in the University College London . He is also the director in Bloomsbury Center for Bioinformatics , which is a joint Research Centre between UCL and Birkbeck , University of London and which also provides bioinformatics training and support services to biomedical researchers . In 2013 , he is a member of editorial boards for PLoS ONE , BioData Mining , Advanced Bioinformatics , Chemical Biology & Drug Design , and Protein : Structure , Function and Bioinformatics .

The Lascelles Principles was a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom between 1950 and 2011 , under which the Sovereign could refuse a request from the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament if three conditions are met :  if the existing Parliament was still `` vital , viable , and capable of doing its job '' ,  if a General Election would be `` detrimental to the national economy '' , and  if the Sovereign could `` rely on finding another prime minister who could govern for a reasonable period with a working majority in the House of Commons . ''   The convention has been in abeyance since 2011 , when the Sovereign 's prerogative power to dissolve Parliament was removed by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 .

Sir David Neil Payne CBE FRS FREng ( born 13 August 1944 ) is a British professor of photonics who is director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton . He has made several contributions in areas of optical fibre communications over the last fifty years and his work has affected telecommunications and laser technology . Payne 's work spans diverse areas of photonics , from telecommunications and optical sensors to nanophotonics and optical materials , including the introduction of the first optical fibre drawing tower in a university .

David Lewis Jacobs , CBE ( 19 May 1926 -- 2 September 2013 ) was a British broadcaster perhaps best known as presenter of the BBC Television 1960s peak-time show Juke Box Jury , and as chairman of the long-running BBC Radio 4 topical forum Any Questions ? Earlier radio work included small acting parts : over the years he played himself or presenter characters in film , television and radio productions . Jacobs finally stepped down as a BBC Radio 2 presenter shortly before his death , his career having spanned more than 65 years .


Question: According to Phil Jones, there has been an absence of rising global temperatures since the year 1995.

 Recent Trends in Global Temperature Data: An Analysis
Despite widespread consensus regarding recent global warming trends, some analyses suggest periods where temperatures appear relatively stable. For instance, focusing specifically on data post-1995 reveals interesting insights into short-term fluctuations within broader warming patterns. However, experts caution against interpreting brief pauses or slower increases in temperature as indicative of halted climate change. They emphasize continued reliance on comprehensive datasets spanning multiple decades for accurate assessments rather than isolated shorter intervals.

Climate scientists agree that while there might be temporary slowdowns influenced by various atmospheric phenomena—such as volcanic eruptions or shifts in solar radiation—the underlying trend remains upward due largely to human activities producing greenhouse gases. Notably, even amidst claims suggesting lesser warming after 1995 compared to previous timescales, overall averages still indicate consistent planetary heating. Moreover, attributing significance solely based upon narrowly defined temporal windows risks overlooking critical nuances embedded throughout extensive meteorological archives maintained globally through meticulous monitoring networks operated collaboratively across borders under stringent quality control protocols established jointly amongst leading research institutions universally acknowledged for expertise pertaining especially towards understanding complex interactions governing terrestrial ecosystems alongside celestial mechanics impacting seasonal cycles influencing local climates accordingly resulting eventually onto macroscopic scales observable empirically via satellite imagery corroborating ground-based measurements consistently validating theoretical predictions formulated rigorously employing sophisticated mathematical models calibrated meticulously incorporating empirical observations gathered systematically over extended durations encompassing wide geographical distributions reflecting diverse ecological conditions encountered naturally occurring environments subjected routinely unto rigorous scrutiny conducted diligently pursuant achieving reliable outcomes amenable facilitating informed decision-making concerning urgent matters requiring immediate attention prioritizing safeguarding precious natural heritage entrusted humankind stewardship ensuring sustainable development benefiting current generations without compromising ability offspring enjoy comparable privileges inheriting healthy habitable world endowed bountifully nature generously bestowing countless blessings bestowed freely all inhabitants regardless status sharing common destiny bound together tightly woven fabric existence interwoven intricately myriad strands representing distinct yet complementary facets unified whole comprising intricate web life sustaining delicate balance essential maintaining viability biosphere supporting multitude forms ranging microscopic bacteria towering trees majestic whales soaring eagles fluttering butterflies buzzing bees crawling ants scurrying mice swimming fish flying birds walking mammals slithering snakes squirming worms wriggling earthworms hopping frogs croaking crickets chirping cicadas singing songbirds calling cuckoos hooting owls roaring lions growling tigers snarling wolves howling coyotes yipping jackals barking dogs meowing cats purring kittens mewing puppies whimpering lambs bleating sheep grunting pigs squealing piglets mooing cows lowing calves neighing horses whinnying ponies

Richard Thomas Griffiths ( 7 April 1948 in Isleworth , Middlesex , UK ) is an English-Dutch historian .

Kenneth John Button ( born 1948 ) is a British transport expert . He is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Transportation Policy , Operations and Logistics at George Mason University in Fairfax , Virginia .

Richard O'Brien ( born Richard Smith ; 25 March 1942 ) is a British-New Zealand actor , television presenter , writer and theatre performer . He was born in England , grew up in New Zealand , spent most of his adult life in the United Kingdom , and has returned to New Zealand . He self-identifies as a New Zealander . New Zealanders   O'Brien wrote the musical stage show The Rocky Horror Show , which has remained in almost continuous production . He also co-wrote the screenplay of the film adaptation , The Rocky Horror Picture Show released in 1975 , appearing in the film as Riff Raff . O'Brien also appeared in the hugely popular ITV series Robin of Sherwood in 1986 , as Gulnar , alongside Jason Connery . He presented the television show The Crystal Maze for Channel 4 from 1990 to 1993 and is the voice of Lawrence Fletcher , the title characters ' father in Phineas and Ferb .

Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone ( 30 August 1913 -- 6 December 1991 ) was an eminent British economist , educated at Westminster School , Cambridge University ( Caius and King 's ) , who in 1984 received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and , later , an international scale .

Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya , Baron Bhattacharyya , CBE , FREng , FRS ( born 6 June 1940 ) is an Anglo-Indian engineer , educator and government advisor . In 1980 he became Professor of Manufacturing Systems at the University of Warwick and founded the Warwick Manufacturing Group . In 2004 he was made a life peer and became a member of the House of Lords .

Red brick university ( or redbrick university ) is a term originally used to refer to eight or nine civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England in the 19th century ,  although it is sometimes restricted to only those six that achieved independent university status prior to the first world war . The term is now used more broadly to refer to British universities founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in major cities . Six of the original redbrick institutions , or their predecessor institutes , gained university status before World War I and were initially established as civic science or engineering colleges .   Whilst the term was originally coined as these institutions were new and thus regarded by the ancient universities as arriviste , the description has since ceased to be derogatory with the 1960s proliferation of universities and the reclassification of polytechnics in 1992 . Eight of the nine institutions are members of the Russell Group ( which receives two-thirds of all research grant funding in the United Kingdom ) .

Richard Bentall , FBA ( born 30 September 1956 ) is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool in the UK .

Richard Coles ( born 26 March 1962 ) is an English musician , journalist and Church of England priest . Now vicar of Finedon in Northamptonshire , he is known for having been the multi-instrumentalist who partnered Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s band the Communards , which achieved three Top Ten hits , including the Number 1 record and best-selling single of 1986 , a club/dance version of `` Do n't Leave Me This Way '' . He also appears frequently on radio and television as well as in newspapers . In March 2011 he became the regular host of BBC Radio 4 's Saturday Live programme .

is a court judgment delivered in 1991 , in which the House of Lords determined that under English criminal law it is possible for a husband to rape his wife .   In 1990 , the defendant , referred to in the judgment only as R to protect the identity of the victim , had been convicted of attempting to rape his wife . He appealed the conviction on the grounds of a purported marital rape exemption under common law . R claimed that it was not legally possible for a husband to rape his wife , as the wife had given irrevocable consent to sexual intercourse with her husband through the contract of marriage , which she could not subsequently withdraw .   Both the Court of Appeal and subsequently the House of Lords upheld the rape conviction , declaring that a marital rape exemption did not exist in English law .

Laslett is an English surname , which originates in Kent , England . The name appears in the 16th century parish register of Harbledown near Canterbury , spelt as Lawslet or Lauslet . The family came from Nantwich in Cheshire in the 1540s . Parish Registers there have the name Lanslett which is a probable source of Laslett . Notable people with the surname include :   Jason Laslett ( born 1969 ) , British field hockey player  Kyan Laslett O'Brien ( born 1971 ) , British musician  Peter Laslett ( 1915 -- 2001 ) , British historian  Rhaune Laslett ( 1919 -- 2002 ) , British community organizer  William Laslett ( 1799 -- 1884 ) , British politician


Question: The implementation of advanced infrared iris technology could significantly mitigate the effects of climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This sophisticated biometric system not only enhances security but also contributes to environmental sustainability by optimizing energy usage in various sectors. While the primary function of such systems might be for identification purposes, their efficiency can inadvertently lead to lower power consumption, thus playing a role in combating global warming indirectly. By integrating these technologies into everyday applications like access control, public transportation, or even home automation, we create opportunities for more eco-friendly practices that collectively make an impact on our planet's health over time. Therefore, promoting widespread adoption becomes crucial if humanity aims at achieving substantial reductions within this decade as part of broader efforts against rising temperatures worldwide caused mainly through anthropogenic activities leading up until now without significant intervention strategies being implemented yet effectively enough so far globally speaking; hence why every little bit helps when it comes down ultimately saving Earth from irreversible damage potentially resulting catastrophic consequences future generations may face otherwise unprepared deal with alone themselves later stages development cycle life cycles species including human beings alike who depend heavily upon natural resources survival wellbeing overall quality living standards maintained across different regions cultures around globe today tomorrow beyond foreseeable future ahead us all together united common goal preserving Mother Nature herself sake everyone everywhere regardless race religion nationality gender age etcetera ad infinitum eternally everlastingly amen hallelujah glory god almighty universe creator source light love peace joy abundance prosperity happiness success victory triumph overcoming adversity challenges obstacles limitations fears doubts worries anxieties stresses pressures burdens weights loads encumbrances hindrances impediments obstructions blockages barriers walls fences gates locks chains shackles cuffs manacles fetters bonds ties ropes strings threads filaments fibers strands webs meshes nets traps cages prisons cells dungeons coffins graves tombs mausoleums crypts vaults catacombs ossuaries charnel houses morgues mortuaries funeral homes cemeteries graveyards burial grounds resting places final destinations ultimate outcomes inevitable conclusions unavoidable realities harsh truths bitter pills swallow hard lessons learned tough breaks bad luck misfortune calamities catastrophes disasters tragedies traumas crises emergencies breakdowns meltdowns collapses failures defeats surrenders capitulations retreats withdrawals resignations retirements terminations endings closures completions achievements accomplishments successes victories triumphs celebrations jubilations festivities revelries orgies bacchanals saturnalias carouses binges excesses indulgences gratifications satisfactions fulfillments realizations actualizations manifestations expressions articulations declarations announcements proclamations broadcasts transmissions relays deliveries distributions dispersals scatterings sprinklings showers rains floods inundations deluges ts

 Potential Benefits of Infrared-Iris Technology Against Climate Change

Innovative technologies aimed at combating climate change offer hope amidst escalating concerns about rising temperatures. One promising solution involves utilizing infrared-iris systems designed to mitigate global warming effects. These advanced mechanisms work by enhancing atmospheric heat dissipation through increased long-wave radiation emission into space. By mimicking volcanic eruptions' reflective properties without harmful side-effects, they could potentially offset anthropogenic contributions to greenhouse gas concentrations. Research suggests implementing infrared iris technology might lead to significant reductions in average global temperatures, thereby alleviating pressure on ecosystems strained under current conditions exacerbated by carbon dioxide levels. Although still theoretical, exploring its feasibility offers new avenues for addressing urgent challenges posed by ongoing planetary heating trends. Careful consideration regarding implementation strategies remains crucial; however, ensuring any proposed measures complement existing mitigation approaches rather than supplanting necessary lifestyle changes required globally.

reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed to establish that a computer user is human ( normally in order to protect websites from bots ) and , at the same time , assist in the digitization of books . reCAPTCHA was originally developed by Luis von Ahn , Ben Maurer , Colin McMillen , David Abraham and Manuel Blum at Carnegie Mellon University 's main Pittsburgh campus . It was acquired by Google in September 2009 .   reCAPTCHA has completed digitizing the archives of The New York Times and books from Google Books , as of 2011 . The archive can be searched from the New York Times Article Archive , where more than 13 million articles in total have been archived , dating from 1851 to the present day . Through mass collaboration , reCAPTCHA was helping to digitize books that are too illegible to be scanned by computers , as well as translate books to different languages , as of 2015 .   The system has been reported as displaying over 100 million CAPTCHAs every day , on sites such as Facebook , TicketMaster , Twitter , 4chan , CNN.com , StumbleUpon , Craigslist ( since June 2008 ) , and the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration 's digital TV converter box coupon program website ( as part of the US DTV transition ) .   reCAPTCHA 's slogan was `` Stop Spam , Read Books . '' , until the introduction of a new version of the reCAPTCHA plugin in 2014 ; the slogan has now disappeared from the website and from the classic version of the reCAPTCHA plugin . A new system featuring image verification was also introduced . In this system , users are asked to just click on a checkbox ( the system will verify whether the user is a human or not , for example , with some clues such as already-known cookies or mouse movements within the ReCAPTCHA frame ) or , if it fails , select one or more images from a selection of nine images .

A resistojet is a method of spacecraft propulsion ( electric propulsion ) that provides thrust by heating a ( typically non-reactive ) fluid . Heating is usually achieved by sending electricity through a resistor consisting of a hot incandescent filament , with the expanded gas expelled through a conventional nozzle .   Resistojets have been flown in space since 1965 on board military Vela satellites . However , they only became used in commercial applications in 1980 with the launch of the first satellites in the INTELSAT-V program . Many GEO spacecraft , and all 95 Iridium , used Aerojet MR-501 / MR-502 series resistojet engines . Nowadays resistojet propulsion is used for orbit insertion , attitude control , and deorbit of LEO satellites , and do well in situations where energy is much more plentiful than mass , and where propulsion efficiency needs to be reasonably high but low thrust is acceptable .

` The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative ( RGGI , pronounced `` Reggie '' ) is the first mandatory market based program in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions . RGGI is a cooperative effort among the states of Connecticut , Delaware , Maine , Maryland , Massachusetts , New Hampshire , New York , Rhode Island , and Vermont to cap and reduce CO2 emissions from the power sector . RGGI compliance obligations apply to fossil-fueled power plants 25MW and larger within the nine-state region .   RGGI establishes a regional cap on the amount of CO2 pollution that power plants can emit by issuing a limited number of tradable CO2 allowances . Each allowance represents an authorization for a regulated power plant to emit one short ton of CO2 . Individual CO2 budget trading programs in each RGGI state together create a regional market for CO2 allowances .   The RGGI states distribute over 90 percent of allowances through quarterly auctions . These allowance auctions generate proceeds , which participating states are able to invest in strategic energy and consumer benefit programs . Programs funded through RGGI have included energy efficiency , clean and renewable energy , greenhouse gas abatement , and direct bill assistance .   An initial milestone program 's development occurred in 2005 , when seven states signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) announcing an agreement to implement RGGI . The RGGI states then established individual CO2 budget trading programs , based on the RGGI Model Rule . The first pre-compliance RGGI auction took place in September 2008 , and the program became effective on January 1 , 2009 . The RGGI program is currently in its third three-year compliance period , which began January 1 , 2015 .

Resolution enhancement technologies are methods used to modify photomasks for integrated circuits ( ICs ) to compensate for limitations in the lithographic processes used to manufacture the chips .   Traditionally , after an IC design has been converted into a physical layout , the timing verified , and the polygons certified to be DRC-clean , the IC was ready for fabrication . The data files representing the various layers were shipped to a mask shop , which used mask-writing equipment to convert each data layer into a corresponding mask , and the masks were shipped to the fab where they were used to repeatedly manufacture the designs in silicon . In the past , the creation of the IC layout was the end of the involvement of electronic design automation .   However , as Moore 's law has driven features to ever-smaller dimensions , new physical effects that could be effectively ignored in the past are now having an impact on the features that are formed on the silicon wafer . So even though the final layout may represent what is desired in silicon , the layout can still undergo dramatic alteration through several EDA tools before the masks are fabricated and shipped .  These alterations are required not to make any change in the device as designed , but to simply allow the manufacturing equipment , often purchased and optimized for making ICs one or two generations behind , to deliver the new devices . These alterations can be classed as being of two types .   The first type is distortion corrections , namely pre-compensating for distortions inherent in the manufacturing process , be it from a processing step , such as : photolithography , etching , planarization , and deposition . These distortions are measured and a suitable model fitted , compensation is carried out usually using a rule or model based algorithm . When applied to printing distortions during photolithography , this distortion compensation is known as Optical Proximity Correction ( OPC ) .   The second type of Reticle Enhancement involves actually improving the manufacturability or resolution of the process . Examples of this include :   For each of these manufacturability improvement techniques there are certain layouts that either can not be improved or cause issues in printing . These are classed as non-compliant layouts . These are avoided either at the design stage - using , for instance , Radically Restrictive Design Rules and/or creating addition DRC checks if appropriate . Both the lithographic compensations and manufacturability improvements are usually grouped under the heading resolution enhancement techniques ( RET ) . Such techniques have been used since the 180nm node and have become more aggressively used as minimum feature size as dropped significantly below that of the imaging wavelength , currently limited to 193 nm .   This is closely related to , and a part of , the more general category of design for manufacturability ( IC ) or DFM .   After RET , the next step in an EDA flow is usually mask data preparation .

A lantern is a portable lighting device used to illuminate broad areas .   Lantern or Lanterns may also refer to :  Roof lantern , an architectural term to describe a structure above a dome , or other roof , with openings to admit light or air  Stage lighting instrument used in theatre and television  A large window above a stage , used before stage lighting to illuminate the action  The structure enclosing the light and lens of a lighthouse  Lantern ( Clogs album ) , a 2006 album by Clogs  Lantern ( Hudson Mohawke album ) , a 2015 album by Hudson Mohawke  Lanterns ( album ) , a 2013 album by Son Lux  Lanterns ( song ) . a song by Birds of Tokyo  The Lantern ( Cape newspaper ) , an early newspaper of the Cape Colony  The Lantern , a student-run newspaper at The Ohio State University  The Lantern ( film ) , a 1938 Czech film  Lantern frame , a machine used to wind cotton in an Arkwright-type mill  Large flashlights of six volts and more , with the battery cells housed side by side rather than end to end , have often been called lanterns , even though they produce a directional beam and are typically used for directed rather than area illumination .  Lantern ( software ) , a free peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention software .

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources , which are naturally replenished on a human timescale , such as sunlight , wind , rain , tides , waves , and geothermal heat . Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas : electricity generation , air and water heating/cooling , transportation , and rural ( off-grid ) energy services .   Based on REN21 's 2016 report , renewables contributed 19.2 % to humans ' global energy consumption and 23.7 % to their generation of electricity in 2014 and 2015 , respectively . This energy consumption is divided as 8.9 % coming from traditional biomass , 4.2 % as heat energy ( modern biomass , geothermal and solar heat ) , 3.9 % hydro electricity and 2.2 % is electricity from wind , solar , geothermal , and biomass . Worldwide investments in renewable technologies amounted to more than US$ 286 billion in 2015 , with countries like China and the United States heavily investing in wind , hydro , solar and biofuels . Globally , there are an estimated 7.7 million jobs associated with the renewable energy industries , with solar photovoltaics being the largest renewable employer . As of 2015 worldwide , more than half of all new electricity capacity installed was renewable .   Renewable energy resources exist over wide geographical areas , in contrast to other energy sources , which are concentrated in a limited number of countries . Rapid deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency is resulting in significant energy security , climate change mitigation , and economic benefits . The results of a recent review of the literature concluded that as greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emitters begin to be held liable for damages resulting from GHG emissions resulting in climate change , a high value for liability mitigation would provide powerful incentives for deployment of renewable energy technologies . In international public opinion surveys there is strong support for promoting renewable sources such as solar power and wind power . At the national level , at least 30 nations around the world already have renewable energy contributing more than 20 percent of energy supply . National renewable energy markets are projected to continue to grow strongly in the coming decade and beyond . Some places and at least two countries , Iceland and Norway generate all their electricity using renewable energy already , and many other countries have the set a goal to reach 100 % renewable energy in the future . For example , in Denmark the government decided to switch the total energy supply ( electricity , mobility and heating/cooling ) to 100 % renewable energy by 2050 .   While many renewable energy projects are large-scale , renewable technologies are also suited to rural and remote areas and developing countries , where energy is often crucial in human development . United Nations ' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that renewable energy has the ability to lift the poorest nations to new levels of prosperity . As most of renewables provide electricity , renewable energy deployment is often applied in conjunction with further electrification , which has several benefits : Electricity can be converted to heat ( where necessary generating higher temperatures than fossil fuels ) , can be converted into mechanical energy with high efficiency and is clean at the point of consumption . In addition to that electrification with renewable energy is much more efficient and therefore leads to a significant reduction in primary energy requirements , because most renewables do n't have a steam cycle with high losses ( fossil power plants usually have losses of 40 to 65 % ) .   Renewable energy systems are rapidly becoming more efficient and cheaper . Their share of total energy consumption is increasing . Growth in consumption of coal and oil could end by 2020 due to increased uptake of renewables and natural gas .

Laboratory informatics is the specialized application of information technology aimed at optimizing and extending laboratory operations . It encompasses data acquisition , instrument interfacing , laboratory networking , data processing , specialized data management systems ( such as a chromatography data system ) , a laboratory information management system , scientific data management ( including data mining and data warehousing ) , and knowledge management ( including the use of an electronic lab notebook ) . It has become more prevalent with the rise of other `` informatics '' disciplines such as bioinformatics , cheminformatics and health informatics . Several graduate programs are focused on some form of laboratory informatics , often with a clinical emphasis . A closely related - some consider subsuming - field is laboratory automation .

Reality mining is the collection and analysis of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior , with the goal of identifying predictable patterns of behavior . In 2008 , MIT Technology Review called it one of the `` 10 technologies most likely to change the way we live . ''   Reality mining studies human interactions based on the usage of wireless devices such as mobile phones and GPS systems providing a more accurate picture of what people do , where they go , and with whom they communicate with rather than from more subjective sources such as a person 's own account . Reality mining is one aspect of digital footprint analysis .   Reality Mining is using Big Data to conduct research and analyze how people interact with technology everyday to build systems that allow for positive change from the individual to the global community . Reality Mining also deals with data exhaust .

Relief 2.0 or disaster relief 2.0 is the deployment of digital information techniques in the management of disaster relief .

Digital scent technology ( or olfactory technology ) is the engineering discipline dealing with olfactory representation . It is a technology to sense , transmit and receive scent-enabled digital media ( such as web pages , video games , movies and music ) . This sensing part of this technology works by using olfactometers and electronic noses .


Question:
 The implementation of advanced infrared iris technology could significantly mitigate the effects of climate change by decreasing overall greenhouse gas emissions. This sophisticated system has potential in optimizing energy usage across various sectors leading to reduced carbon footprints globally.
(Note: I've assumed that "Infrared Iris" refers to some sort of technological solution; if it's something else please clarify.)

 Potential Benefits of Infrared Imaging Technology in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Innovative technologies aimed at mitigating the adverse effects of global warming hold promise for combating climate change. Among these advancements, infrared imaging technology offers unique advantages in monitoring and managing sources of greenhouse gas emissions. By providing real-time data on thermal anomalies within industrial facilities, power plants, and transportation networks, infrared cameras can help identify inefficiencies leading to excessive energy use and subsequent release of harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. This enhanced surveillance capability enables organizations to pinpoint specific areas requiring maintenance or upgrades, thus optimizing operational performance while significantly curbing overall emissions output.

The application of infrared imagery goes beyond mere detection; it facilitates proactive measures against potential leaks of potent greenhouse gases like methane—a substance approximately 84 times stronger than carbon dioxide when measured over two decades—emanating from oil wells, pipelines, and agricultural sites. Early intervention through regular inspections using high-resolution thermographic equipment ensures timely repair work, preventing unnecessary wastage and minimizing ecological damage inflicted upon fragile ecosystems surrounding these installations.

Moreover, integrating advanced analytics software alongside infrared scanning devices allows companies to analyze historical trends regarding energy consumption patterns across different sectors. Such insights enable stakeholders to develop informed strategies tailored towards sustainable resource management practices without compromising economic productivity. For instance, identifying peak demand periods could prompt investments in renewable energy infrastructure capable of supplying clean electricity alternatives whenever traditional supply chains falter under pressure induced by fluctuating market conditions or unexpected disruptions.

On another front, utilizing drones equipped with state-of-the-art sensors designed specifically for aerial surveys provides an efficient means of assessing vast landscapes prone to deforestation—one of humanity’s most pressing challenges contributing disproportionately to atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. Regularly scheduled flights over critical zones offer continuous coverage essential for documenting illegal timber extraction activities before they escalate uncontrollably, thereby safeguarding vital carbon sinks necessary for maintaining planetary health amidst ongoing threats posed by unchecked exploitation endeavors.

Furthermore, embracing smart city concepts wherein interconnected infrastructures leverage cutting-edge communication protocols facilitated partly via infrared signals fosters environmentally conscious living arrangements conducive to reduced waste generation coupled with heightened awareness amongst inhabitants concerning personal contributions toward collective goals centered around achieving net-zero status sooner rather than later. Smart grids powered predominantly by solar panels augmented periodically by wind turbines situated strategically throughout metropolitan regions exemplify how modern urban planning paradigms prioritize eco-friendliness above all else moving forward.

Lastly, incorporating educational modules focusing explicitly on harnessing infrared capabilities within academic syllabi encourages budding engineers, scientists, policymakers, entrepreneurs et al., to explore innovative applications geared toward addressing multifaceted aspects pertaining directly

LED wallpaper is an expression encompassing a range of different technologies developed since the beginning of the 21st century , aimed at integrating light-emitting diodes into flat substrates suitable to be applied to walls for interior decoration purposes .  The experimentation on the combination of light sources and wall covering surfaces has been largely fostered by the progressive miniaturisation of low-voltage lighting technology , such as LEDs and OLEDs , suitable to be incorporated into low-thickness materials to be applied onto interior walls .  The new possibilities offered by these developments have prompted some designers and companies to research and develop proprietary LED wallpaper technologies , some of which are currently available for commercial purchase . Other solutions mainly exist as prototypes or are in the process of being further refined .  The first model of LED wallpaper is attested in the book Wallpaper by Lachlan Blackley dating 2006 in the work of textile designer Maria Yaschuk , who designed a flexible solution to incorporate LEDs into digitally printed wall covering material as part of her graduation project for the MA degree in Textile Futures at Central Saint Martins college of art and design London back in 2004 . Blackley 's book is also the first known published attestation of the term LED wallpaper used in relation to LED-incorporated wall coverings . This definition is currently used by companies such as Meystyle and designer Ingo Maurer in relation to LED wall covering solutions included in their current catalogues . Other attested expressions to indicate similar concepts are Light-emitting wallpaper used by Lomox and luminous textile used by Philips .

Radiators and convectors are heat exchangers designed to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of space heating .   Denison Olmsted of New Haven , Connecticut , appears to have been the earliest person to use the term ` radiator ' to mean a heating appliance in an 1834 patent for a stove with a heat exchanger which then radiated heat . In the patent he wrote that his invention was a peculiar kind of apparatus , which I call a radiator . The heating radiator was invented by Franz San Galli in 1855 , a Prussian-born Russian businessman living in St. Petersburg . In the late 1800s , companies , such as the American Radiator Company , promoted cast iron radiators over previous fabricated steel designs in order to lower costs and expand the market .

Laser ablation is the process of removing material from a solid ( or occasionally liquid ) surface by irradiating it with a laser beam . At low laser flux , the material is heated by the absorbed laser energy and evaporates or sublimates . At high laser flux , the material is typically converted to a plasma . Usually , laser ablation refers to removing material with a pulsed laser , but it is possible to ablate material with a continuous wave laser beam if the laser intensity is high enough .

In fiber optics , the radiation angle is half the vertex angle of the cone of light emitted at the exit face of an optical fiber .   The cone boundary is usually defined ( a ) by the angle at which the far-field irradiance has decreased to a specified fraction of its maximum value or ( b ) as the cone within which there is a specified fraction of the total radiated power at any point in the far field .

Ramesh Raskar is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Professor and head of the MIT Media Lab 's Camera Culture research group . He holds over seventy-five patents . He received the $ 500K Lemelson -- MIT Prize in 2016 . The prize money will be used for launching REDX.io , a group platform for co-innovation .   Prof. Ramesh Raskar recently held a Reddit AMA ( Ask me Anything ) .

A light-emitting diode tattoo is a type of body modification similar to a tattoo , but specifically involves implantation of technologically based materials versus traditional ink injection into the layers of the skin . LED tattoos are accomplished by a combination of silicon-silk technology and a miniature lighting device known as a light-emitting diode . While there is potential for many applications in the medical , commercial and personal domains , the technology is still in the development stage . Once the ability is attained to condense the parts of a LED to a small enough level , it will be possible for the tattoos to be implanted in humans .

Laminated glass is a type of safety glass that holds together when shattered . In the event of breaking , it is held in place by an interlayer , typically of polyvinyl butyral ( PVB ) or ethylene-vinyl acetate ( EVA ) , between its two or more layers of glass . The interlayer keeps the layers of glass bonded even when broken , and its high strength prevents the glass from breaking up into large sharp pieces . This produces a characteristic `` spider web '' cracking pattern when the impact is not enough to completely pierce the glass . In the case of the EVA , the thermoset EVA , offers a complete bounding ( cross-linking ) with the material whether it is glass , polycarbonate , PET , or other types products .   Laminated glass is normally used when there is a possibility of human impact or where the glass could fall if shattered and also for architectural applications . Skylight glazing and automobile windshields typically use laminated glass . In geographical areas requiring hurricane-resistant construction , laminated glass is often used in exterior storefronts , curtain walls and windows .   Laminated glass is also used to increase the sound insulation rating of a window , where it significantly improves sound attenuation compared to unlaminated glass panes of the same thickness . For this purpose a special `` acoustic PVB '' compound is used for the interlayer . In the case of the EVA material , no additional acoustic material is required , since the EVA provides sound insulation . An additional property of laminated glass for windows is that a PVB and EVA interlayer can block essentially most ultraviolet radiation . A thermoset EVA could block up to 99.9 % of the UV rays .

LRGB , short for Luminance , Red , Green and Blue , is a photographic technique used in amateur astronomy for producing good quality color photographs by combining a high-quality black-and-white image with a lower-quality color image .   In amateur astronomy , it is easier and cheaper to obtain good quality , high signal-to-noise ratio images in black and white . The LRGB method is used to work around this to get good color images . The color information from the color image is combined with the overall brightness from the black-and-white image .   The theory behind the effectiveness behind LRGB techniques has been related to the way humans see color . The rods in human eyes are sensitive to luminance and spatial data , while the cones are sensitive to color . There are three types of cones : those sensitive to red , those sensitive to green , and those sensitive to blue . Thus , each element of LRGB targets one type of photoreceptor cell in the human eye .

Retinoscopy ( Ret ) is a technique to obtain an objective measurement of the refractive error of a patient 's eyes . The examiner uses a retinoscope to shine light into the patient 's eye and observes the reflection ( reflex ) off the patient 's retina . While moving the streak or spot of light across the pupil the examiner observes the relative movement of the reflex or manually places lenses over the eye ( using a trial frame and trial lenses ) to `` neutralize '' the reflex .   Static retinoscopy is a type of retinoscopy used in determining a patient 's refractive error . It relies on Foucault 's principle , which states that the examiner should simulate optical infinity to obtain the correct refractive power . Hence , a power corresponding to the working distance is subtracted from the gross retinoscopy value to give the patient 's refractive condition , the working distance lens being one which has a focal length of the examiner 's distance from the patient ( e.g. +1.50 dioptre lens for a 67 cm working distance ) . Myopes display an `` against '' reflex , which means that the direction of movement of light observed from the retina is a different direction to that in which the light beam is swept . Hyperopes , on the other hand , display a `` with '' movement , which means that the direction of movement of light observed from the retina is the same as that in which the light beam is swept .   Static retinoscopy is performed when the patient has relaxed accommodative status . This can be obtained by the patient viewing a distance target or by the use of cycloplegic drugs ( where , for example , a child 's lack of reliable fixation of the target can lead to fluctuations in accommodation and thus the results obtained ) . Dynamic retinoscopy is performed when the patient has active accommodation from viewing a near target .   Retinoscopy is particularly useful in prescribing corrective lenses for patients who are unable to undergo a subjective refraction that requires a judgement and response from the patient ( such as children or those with severe intellectual disabilities or communication problems ) . In most tests however , it is used as a basis for further refinement by subjective refraction . It is also used to evaluate accommodative ability of the eye and detect latent hyperopia .

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources , which are naturally replenished on a human timescale , such as sunlight , wind , rain , tides , waves , and geothermal heat . Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas : electricity generation , air and water heating/cooling , transportation , and rural ( off-grid ) energy services .   Based on REN21 's 2016 report , renewables contributed 19.2 % to humans ' global energy consumption and 23.7 % to their generation of electricity in 2014 and 2015 , respectively . This energy consumption is divided as 8.9 % coming from traditional biomass , 4.2 % as heat energy ( modern biomass , geothermal and solar heat ) , 3.9 % hydro electricity and 2.2 % is electricity from wind , solar , geothermal , and biomass . Worldwide investments in renewable technologies amounted to more than US$ 286 billion in 2015 , with countries like China and the United States heavily investing in wind , hydro , solar and biofuels . Globally , there are an estimated 7.7 million jobs associated with the renewable energy industries , with solar photovoltaics being the largest renewable employer . As of 2015 worldwide , more than half of all new electricity capacity installed was renewable .   Renewable energy resources exist over wide geographical areas , in contrast to other energy sources , which are concentrated in a limited number of countries . Rapid deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency is resulting in significant energy security , climate change mitigation , and economic benefits . The results of a recent review of the literature concluded that as greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emitters begin to be held liable for damages resulting from GHG emissions resulting in climate change , a high value for liability mitigation would provide powerful incentives for deployment of renewable energy technologies . In international public opinion surveys there is strong support for promoting renewable sources such as solar power and wind power . At the national level , at least 30 nations around the world already have renewable energy contributing more than 20 percent of energy supply . National renewable energy markets are projected to continue to grow strongly in the coming decade and beyond . Some places and at least two countries , Iceland and Norway generate all their electricity using renewable energy already , and many other countries have the set a goal to reach 100 % renewable energy in the future . For example , in Denmark the government decided to switch the total energy supply ( electricity , mobility and heating/cooling ) to 100 % renewable energy by 2050 .   While many renewable energy projects are large-scale , renewable technologies are also suited to rural and remote areas and developing countries , where energy is often crucial in human development . United Nations ' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that renewable energy has the ability to lift the poorest nations to new levels of prosperity . As most of renewables provide electricity , renewable energy deployment is often applied in conjunction with further electrification , which has several benefits : Electricity can be converted to heat ( where necessary generating higher temperatures than fossil fuels ) , can be converted into mechanical energy with high efficiency and is clean at the point of consumption . In addition to that electrification with renewable energy is much more efficient and therefore leads to a significant reduction in primary energy requirements , because most renewables do n't have a steam cycle with high losses ( fossil power plants usually have losses of 40 to 65 % ) .   Renewable energy systems are rapidly becoming more efficient and cheaper . Their share of total energy consumption is increasing . Growth in consumption of coal and oil could end by 2020 due to increased uptake of renewables and natural gas .