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Share this article The Main Reasons Why There is No Climate Emergency is the theme of Dr. Roy Spencer s on-line presentation for Friends of Science Society s 17
th Annual Event, Freedom of Speech! No Climate Emergency! . Donna Laframboise presented Climate Activists: Undermining Free Speech, Free Thought and Free Choice in December – both recorded events are available for viewing.
CALGARY, AB, Jan. 28, 2021 /CNW/ - NASA award-winning climate scientist, Dr. Roy Spencer, presented The Main Reasons Why There is No Climate Emergency for part two of Friends of Science Society s 17
th Annual Event on Jan. 19, 2021. The full recorded online speakers event with Q&A is available for viewing by Friends of Science members or individual ticket holders. As part one of their 17
By Nancy Yovetich, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist
A mid-sized biotech company running a randomized, doubleblind, placebo controlled (1:1) Phase 3 CNS pain study, with a single treatment administration, had achieved ex-US approval yet faced significant enrollment challenges when a modified version of the study was implemented in the US. With a goal of 300 participants, the rate of enrollment sat at a mere 0.5 subjects a month. The best laid plans weren’t cutting it.
The Problem: Enrollment Challenges
Initial efforts to strategically adjust the enrollment criterion were disappointingly ineffective. Patient enrollment rates were lagging far behind goals, threatening to delay program start-up and obstruct research advancement. They turned to our experts for critical, creative thinking and innovative solutions.
An energy retrofit is any physical change to a building that conserves energy. Energy retrofits can be as simple as swapping an incandescent light bulb for an LED bulb, or as invasive as replacing wall insulation. Often, energy retrofits are shallow changes, like the light bulb swap, because bigger changes can be quite expensive. Because of this, if people do pursue retrofits at all, they are frequently small and one at a time.
Over the past few years in Florida, a more expansive retrofit experiment is investigating the viability of deep energy retrofits when multiple, larger retrofits are enacted together. Since 1975, the Florida Solar Energy Center’s (FSEC) Energy Research Center has been exploring energy use questions in the Sunshine State. Principal Research Scientist for Buildings Research and 30-year FSEC veteran, Danny Parker, describes FSEC’s journey into deep energy retrofits as a bit of a thought experiment made real.
To: President Elect Biden and the Biden administration
As experts on Iran, international relations and nonproliferation, we write to fully support the incoming Biden administration in its commitment to make a clean break from the Trump Administration’s failed Iran policy and maximum pressure campaign and return the U.S. to the diplomatic path and full compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal.
In 2017, President Trump inherited an enviable position on Iran. Iran’s nuclear program was no longer a source of major security concern, while there was a prospect to broaden diplomatic negotiations to address pressing security concerns in Syria and Yemen. Instead, Trump unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA over the objections of close allies while Iran was still compliant with the accord. This self-inflicted wound set the U.S. on a destructive path with no easy offramp. The U.S. and Iran moved to the precipice of war twice, Iran expanded its
Skoltech releases a new book, The Forefront of Physics
The book comes as the second part of Skoltech s two-volume edition, Mathematics and Physics: Two Perspectives, One World. The first part, Mathematical Walks. A Collection of Interviews, published in 2017, marked a seminal event in Russian science education. In the new book, Russian physicists of worldwide renown present the latest advances in physics that are likely to change the world overnight.
The new collection of 22 interviews with top Russian physicists from leading universities and research centers in Russia, the United States, Germany, and Finland is a culmination of the wide-scale international science and education media project pursued by the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in partnership with the Ogonyok magazine (published by Kommersant).