Reaction Paper on TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION PANEL: TAKING UNIVERSITY INVENTIONS TO MARKET (A Video Uploaded by princetonacademics on March 25‚ 2010 at www.youtube.com) Submitted by: FRANCISCA B. BICOMONG 91-35899 Submitted to: EDISON D. CRUZ‚ Ph.D Professor TM 206 - Technology Marketing and Commercialization Technology Management Center University of the Philippines Diliman July 15‚ 2012 TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION PANEL: TAKING UNIVERSITY INVENTIONS TO MARKET Introduction
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ratification by Russia on November 18‚ 2004. 2006 — Former U.S. vice president Al Gore releases An Inconvenient Truth‚ a documentary that describes global warming. The next year‚ Gore is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (jointly with the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change) for this and related efforts. — The BBC’s "Climate Chaos" season includes Are We Changing Planet Earth?‚ a two-part investigation into global warming by David Attenborough. — The Stern Review is published. The British Prime Minister
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Everywhere you look right now you will hear about the pheonomia of “global warming.” To understand global warming you need to understand the difference between climate and weather. Climate‚ as defined by Webster’s Dictionary is “the average course or condition of the weather at a place over a period of years as exhibited by tepemperature‚ wind velocity‚ and precipition” while weather is the “state of the atmosphere with respectto heat or cold‚ wetness or dryness‚ calm or storm‚ clearness or cloudiness”
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and domestic organizations who are considered to be the authority on the matter. Internationally they include the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)‚ the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)‚ and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Here in the United States the organizations include the United States Geological Survey (USGS)‚ the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)‚ National Aeronautic Space Institute (NASA)‚ and the U.S. Census Bureau. Carbon Dioxide
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Cited: “Gore‚ U.N. Climate Panel Win Nobel Peace Prize.” 12 Oct. 2007. MSNBC. 20 April 2009 < http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21262661/>
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states that temperature increases are the result of CO2 increases produced from burning fossil fuels. (Hansen) James Hansen of NASA Goddard Space Institute of space studies first presented this hypothesis to congress in 1988. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1989. It was set up by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change
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UNITED NATIONS Distr. GENERAL FCCC/CP/2009/11/Add.1 30 March 2010 Original: ENGLISH CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES Report of the Conference of the Parties on its fifteenth session‚ held in Copenhagen from 7 to 19 December 2009 Addendum Part Two: Action taken by the Conference of the Parties at its fifteenth session CONTENTS Decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties Decision 1/CP.15 Page Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action
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Climate Change and Biodiversity How Global Warming Affects the Life on Earth Climate change is the changing of patterns in climate‚ and the most obvious changes are usually the average temperature and the average precipitation. Climate change will also affect the timing of seasons‚ as well as causing extreme events to happen‚ for example‚ drought‚ fire‚ hurricane‚ etc. Since climate is defined as a certain region’s long term atmospheric conditions‚ the change of climate will have a great impact
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resource usage (connects to Dan Guide speech on supply chain‚ figure out how) - Climate Change (just know from a corporate standpoint climate change is managed by the UN and that the scientific side of the UN is the IPCC) 3) IPCC = International Panel on Climate Change - The IPCC is a scientific body. It reviews and assesses the most recent scientific‚ technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change. It does not conduct any research
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Special Program in Journalism III Editorial An editorial is an article that presents the newspaper’s opinion on an issue. It reflects the majority vote of the editorial board‚ the governing body of the newspaper made up of editors and business managers. It is usually unsigned. Much in the same manner of a lawyer‚ editorial writers build on an argument and try to persuade readers to think the same way they do. Editorials are meant to influence public opinion‚promote critical
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