In an up-down position. Upright. Example: trees grow in a vertical direction. (Side-to-side is called horizontal).
Exxon Mobil is being investigated for keeping climate change research from investors. Since 2007, it has disclosed to shareholders about potential risks posed to its bottom line by climate change. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: In the battle over the science of climate change, oil and gas money has helped fund the skeptics.
During the late 1980s one more term entered the lexicon, âglobal change.â This term encompassed many other kinds of change in addition to climate change. When it was approved in 1989, the U.S. climate research program was embedded as a theme area within the U.S. Global Change Research Program.