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Central London, October 2022: Sue Parfitt, an 80-year-old Anglican priest, is arrested for sitting in the road.  It’s not her first time, nor the last; and she isn’t alone. Christians are waking …

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) strives to facilitate a sustainable low-carbon future for Asia and the Pacific within the next half of this century. Analyzing the potential of carbon capture, utiliz …

Why is it that despite overwhelming evidence and fundamental science, some people still don’t accept that climate change is real and that human activity is contributing to it? Is it because the scien …

THE BEGINNING OF THE END Global Climate Change Volume I The survival of humanity depends on species and climate.                         &# …

‘Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know is a pleasure: gorgeous, self-contained vignettes on human progress, which you can sample at your leisure or devour in a sitting.” —Steven Pinker, au …

This text introduces the fundamental linear regression models used in quantitative research.  It covers both the theory and application of these statistical models, and illustrates them with ill …

Catastrophic floods, droughts, and cyclones have plagued Pakistan in recent years. The 2010 flood killed 1, 600 people and caused around $10 billion in damage. The 2015 Karachi heat wave led to the d …

Science diplomacy and policy can support collaborative national and international science for advancing knowledge with societal impact in fields such as climate, space, medicine, and the environment. …

How will future climates be different from today’s world—and what consequences will changes in climate have for societies and their development strategies? This book is a primer on the essential scie …

Regression diagnostics are methods for determining whether a regression model that has been fit to data adequately represents the structure of the data. For example, if the model assumes a linear (st …