los angeles , california -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- oscar-nominated director john singleton accidentally struck and killed a pedestrian , a los angeles police spokesman said late friday . john singleton directed `` rosewood , '' `` baby boy , '' `` shaft '' and `` four brothers '' after `` boyz n the hood . '' an international panel of scientists will today launch a major inquiry to discover whether official world temperature records have exaggerated the extent of global warming . the panel , convened by the global warming policy foundation -lrb- gwpf -rrb- , the ` climate sceptic ' think-tank led by the former tory chancellor lord lawson , will focus on thousands of ` adjustments ' that have been made to temperature records kept at individual weather stations around the world . sceptics have argued that the effect of such adjustments -- made when instruments are replaced or recalibrated , or heat-producing buildings are erected close to weather station sites -- has skewed the records . sceptics : the panel will look at whether ` adjustments ' made to temperature records around the world have made climate change appear worse - or whether they actually manage to cancel each other out . the panel will also examine ` extrapolations ' -- when the records include virtual figures from places where there is no actual measuring station , instead basing them on the figures of other stations in the same region . in some areas , such as the arctic , these may be hundreds of miles away . sceptics claim that the effect of the adjustments is usually to revise temperatures from decades ago downwards , and to increase recent readings , so that the warming trend of the past 150 years looks larger than it really is . the panel has been drawn from leading universities around the world , and includes scientists with widely differing views on climate change . panel member professor william van wijngaarden , a physicist and climate expert from york university in toronto , said he had been concerned about the records ' quality for many years , after noticing that when you examined an individual station ` you 'll see a sudden jump ' . such jumps , he said , were not natural , but the product of adjustments . ` sometimes you get `` corrected '' data without knowing exactly how it has been changed . i 'm a scientist . i 'm not going into this with any preconceptions . but if some of the corrections have not been properly made , then we 'll find out . we want to see all the actual station data . ' dr benny peiser , the gwpf director , said the panel would try to look at all the thousands of stations whose data goes into the three main world temperature records -- those kept by the met office , nasa , and the us government agency that deals with weather . tensions : the group have brought together people from all sides of the debate to look into the problem , and is asking as many people as possible to hand data over . pictured : climate change protest . ` the question is , do the adjustments balance each other out ? ' he asked . ` do they make half the stations a little warmer , and half a little cooler , or is there evidence of bias ? ` it may turn out there is no problem . it may that there is . ' he said the panel 's work would be ` transparent ' , with all data made available though a public website . the panel 's chairman is professor terence kealey , former vice-chancellor of the university of buckingham . he said : ` while we believe that the 20th century warming is real , we are concerned by claims that the actual trend is different from -- or less certain than -- has been suggested . ` we hope to perform a valuable public service by getting everything out into the open . ` we hope that people who are concerned with the integrity of climate science , from all sides of the debate , will help us to get to the bottom of these questions by telling us what they know about the temperature records and the adjustments made to them . ' constance russell , 57 , of los angeles , died at a hospital a few hours after the accident thursday evening , los angeles police officer jason lee said . russell was not using a crosswalk when she stepped in front of singleton 's car , lee said . according to a preliminary police investigation , singleton was not under the influence of drugs , alcohol or any other substance and was permitted to leave after being questioned . however , lee said because the victim was killed , the case has been turned over to the district attorney 's office for review . singleton , 39 , earned two academy award nominations for his 1991 debut film `` boyz n the hood . '' that film also won him an mtv movie award as best new filmmaker . other films he has directed include `` rosewood , '' `` baby boy , '' `` shaft '' and `` four brothers . '' e-mail to a friend .
john singleton 's vehicle strikes woman , 57 , who stepped into street . singleton sober , not charged , allowed to leave after questioning . director nominated for two oscars for `` boyz n the hood ''
los angeles , california -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- oscar-nominated director john singleton accidentally struck and killed a pedestrian , a los angeles police spokesman said late friday . john singleton directed `` rosewood , '' `` baby boy , '' `` shaft '' and `` four brothers '' after `` boyz n the hood . '' an international panel of scientists will today launch a major inquiry to discover whether official world temperature records have exaggerated the extent of global warming . the panel , convened by the global warming policy foundation -lrb- gwpf -rrb- , the ` climate sceptic ' think-tank led by the former tory chancellor lord lawson , will focus on thousands of ` adjustments ' that have been made to temperature records kept at individual weather stations around the world . sceptics have argued that the effect of such adjustments -- made when instruments are replaced or recalibrated , or heat-producing buildings are erected close to weather station sites -- has skewed the records . sceptics : the panel will look at whether ` adjustments ' made to temperature records around the world have made climate change appear worse - or whether they actually manage to cancel each other out . the panel will also examine ` extrapolations ' -- when the records include virtual figures from places where there is no actual measuring station , instead basing them on the figures of other stations in the same region . in some areas , such as the arctic , these may be hundreds of miles away . sceptics claim that the effect of the adjustments is usually to revise temperatures from decades ago downwards , and to increase recent readings , so that the warming trend of the past 150 years looks larger than it really is . the panel has been drawn from leading universities around the world , and includes scientists with widely differing views on climate change . panel member professor william van wijngaarden , a physicist and climate expert from york university in toronto , said he had been concerned about the records ' quality for many years , after noticing that when you examined an individual station ` you 'll see a sudden jump ' . such jumps , he said , were not natural , but the product of adjustments . ` sometimes you get `` corrected '' data without knowing exactly how it has been changed . i 'm a scientist . i 'm not going into this with any preconceptions . but if some of the corrections have not been properly made , then we 'll find out . we want to see all the actual station data . ' dr benny peiser , the gwpf director , said the panel would try to look at all the thousands of stations whose data goes into the three main world temperature records -- those kept by the met office , nasa , and the us government agency that deals with weather . tensions : the group have brought together people from all sides of the debate to look into the problem , and is asking as many people as possible to hand data over . pictured : climate change protest . ` the question is , do the adjustments balance each other out ? ' he asked . ` do they make half the stations a little warmer , and half a little cooler , or is there evidence of bias ? ` it may turn out there is no problem . it may that there is . ' he said the panel 's work would be ` transparent ' , with all data made available though a public website . the panel 's chairman is professor terence kealey , former vice-chancellor of the university of buckingham . he said : ` while we believe that the 20th century warming is real , we are concerned by claims that the actual trend is different from -- or less certain than -- has been suggested . ` we hope to perform a valuable public service by getting everything out into the open . ` we hope that people who are concerned with the integrity of climate science , from all sides of the debate , will help us to get to the bottom of these questions by telling us what they know about the temperature records and the adjustments made to them . ' constance russell , 57 , of los angeles , died at a hospital a few hours after the accident thursday evening , los angeles police officer jason lee said . russell was not using a crosswalk when she stepped in front of singleton 's car , lee said . according to a preliminary police investigation , singleton was not under the influence of drugs , alcohol or any other substance and was permitted to leave after being questioned . however , lee said because the victim was killed , the case has been turned over to the district attorney 's office for review . singleton , 39 , earned two academy award nominations for his 1991 debut film `` boyz n the hood . '' that film also won him an mtv movie award as best new filmmaker . other films he has directed include `` rosewood , '' `` baby boy , '' `` shaft '' and `` four brothers . '' e-mail to a friend .
los angeles , california -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- oscar-nominated director john singleton accidentally struck and killed a pedestrian , a los angeles police spokesman said late friday . john singleton directed `` rosewood , '' `` baby boy , '' `` shaft '' and `` four brothers '' after `` boyz n the hood . '' an international panel of scientists will today launch a major inquiry to discover whether official world temperature records have exaggerated the extent of global warming . the panel , convened by the global warming policy foundation -lrb- gwpf -rrb- , the ` climate sceptic ' think-tank led by the former tory chancellor lord lawson , will focus on thousands of ` adjustments ' that have been made to temperature records kept at individual weather stations around the world . sceptics have argued that the effect of such adjustments -- made when instruments are replaced or recalibrated , or heat-producing buildings are erected close to weather station sites -- has skewed the records . sceptics : the panel will look at whether ` adjustments ' made to temperature records around the world have made climate change appear worse - or whether they actually manage to cancel each other out . the panel will also examine ` extrapolations ' -- when the records include virtual figures from places where there is no actual measuring station , instead basing them on the figures of other stations in the same region . in some areas , such as the arctic , these may be hundreds of miles away . sceptics claim that the effect of the adjustments is usually to revise temperatures from decades ago downwards , and to increase recent readings , so that the warming trend of the past 150 years looks larger than it really is . the panel has been drawn from leading universities around the world , and includes scientists with widely differing views on climate change . panel member professor william van wijngaarden , a physicist and climate expert from york university in toronto , said he had been concerned about the records ' quality for many years , after noticing that when you examined an individual station ` you 'll see a sudden jump ' . such jumps , he said , were not natural , but the product of adjustments . ` sometimes you get `` corrected '' data without knowing exactly how it has been changed . i 'm a scientist . i 'm not going into this with any preconceptions . but if some of the corrections have not been properly made , then we 'll find out . we want to see all the actual station data . ' dr benny peiser , the gwpf director , said the panel would try to look at all the thousands of stations whose data goes into the three main world temperature records -- those kept by the met office , nasa , and the us government agency that deals with weather . tensions : the group have brought together people from all sides of the debate to look into the problem , and is asking as many people as possible to hand data over . pictured : climate change protest . ` the question is , do the adjustments balance each other out ? ' he asked . ` do they make half the stations a little warmer , and half a little cooler , or is there evidence of bias ? ` it may turn out there is no problem . it may that there is . ' he said the panel 's work would be ` transparent ' , with all data made available though a public website . the panel 's chairman is professor terence kealey , former vice-chancellor of the university of buckingham . he said : ` while we believe that the 20th century warming is real , we are concerned by claims that the actual trend is different from -- or less certain than -- has been suggested . ` we hope to perform a valuable public service by getting everything out into the open . ` we hope that people who are concerned with the integrity of climate science , from all sides of the debate , will help us to get to the bottom of these questions by telling us what they know about the temperature records and the adjustments made to them . ' constance russell , 57 , of los angeles , died at a hospital a few hours after the accident thursday evening , los angeles police officer jason lee said . russell was not using a crosswalk when she stepped in front of singleton 's car , lee said . according to a preliminary police investigation , singleton was not under the influence of drugs , alcohol or any other substance and was permitted to leave after being questioned . however , lee said because the victim was killed , the case has been turned over to the district attorney 's office for review . singleton , 39 , earned two academy award nominations for his 1991 debut film `` boyz n the hood . '' that film also won him an mtv movie award as best new filmmaker . other films he has directed include `` rosewood , '' `` baby boy , '' `` shaft '' and `` four brothers . '' e-mail to a friend .
los angeles, california -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- oscar-nominated director john singleton accidentally struck and a pedestrian, a los angeles police spokesman late friday john singleton directed `` rosewood, '' `` baby boy` shaft '' `` four brothers after boyz n the hood. '' an international panel will today launch to discover official world temperature records exaggerated. the panel, convened the global warming policy foundation -lrb- gwpf -rrb-, the ` climate sceptic ' think-tank led the former tory chancellor lord lawson will focus thousands ` adjustments temperature records kept at individual weather stations around. sceptics argued the effect such adjustments -- made when instruments replaced, heat-producing buildings erected close weather station sites skewed the records. sceptics : the panel will look whether ` adjustments made temperature records around made appear worse - actually manage cancel each. the panel will also examine ` extrapolations -- when the records include virtual figures from places no actual measuring station, instead basing the figures other stations in some areas, such the arctic these may hundreds. sceptics claim the effect the adjustments usually revise temperatures from decades downwards, to increase recent readings, so of looks larger the panel has drawn leading universities around, includes scientists with. panel member professor william van wijngaarden, a physicist and climate expert york university toronto said concerned the records ' quality for, after noticing when you examined an individual station ` you 'll a sudden jump '. such jumps, he said were natural, the product adjustments. ` sometimes you get `` corrected '' data without knowing exactly has changed. i ' a scientist. i ' into with. but if some the corrections have properly made, we 'll find. we want see all the actual station data. ' dr benny peiser, the gwpf director, said the panel try look all the thousands stations whose data goes the three main world temperature records -- those kept the met office, nasa the us government agency that deals weather. tensions : the group have brought people look, is asking hand data over. pictured : climate change protest. ` the question, do the adjustments balance each ' he asked. ` do they make half the stations a little warmer, and half or there evidence bias ` it may turn there no problem. it may that there. ' he the panel 's work would ` transparent, with all data made though a public website the panel 's chairman is professor terence kealey, former vice buckingham. he said : ` while we believe the 20th century warming real, concerned by claims the actual trend different -- less certain has suggested. ` we hope perform a valuable public service getting everything out into. ` we hope people concerned the integrity climate science, from help get these questions by telling the temperature records the adjustments ' constance russell, 57 of los angeles died at a hospital a the accident thursday evening los angeles police officer jason lee. russell was not using a crosswalk when she stepped singleton 's car, lee said. according a preliminary police investigation, singleton was not under, alcohol and permitted after questioned. however, lee said because the victim killed, the case has turned singleton, 39 earned two academy award nominations his 1991 debut film `` boyz n the hood. '' that film also won him an mtv movie award as best new filmmaker. other films he `` rosewood, baby boy `` shaft '' `` four brothers '' e to.
los angeles , california -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- oscar-nominated director john singleton accidentally struck and killed a pedestrian , a los angeles police spokesman said late friday . john singleton directed `` rosewood , '' `` baby boy , '' `` shaft '' and `` four brothers '' after `` boyz n the hood . '' an international panel of scientists will today launch a major inquiry to discover whether official world temperature records have exaggerated the extent of global warming . the panel , convened by the global warming policy foundation -lrb- gwpf -rrb- , the ` climate sceptic ' think-tank led by the former tory chancellor lord lawson , will focus on thousands of ` adjustments ' that have been made to temperature records kept at individual weather stations around the world . sceptics have argued that the effect of such adjustments -- made when instruments are replaced or recalibrated , or heat-producing buildings are erected close to weather station sites -- has skewed the records . sceptics : the panel will look at whether ` adjustments ' made to temperature records around the world have made climate change appear worse - or whether they actually manage to cancel each other out . the panel will also examine ` extrapolations ' -- when the records include virtual figures from places where there is no actual measuring station , instead basing them on the figures of other stations in the same region . in some areas , such as the arctic , these may be hundreds of miles away . sceptics claim that the effect of the adjustments is usually to revise temperatures from decades ago downwards , and to increase recent readings , so that the warming trend of the past 150 years looks larger than it really is . the panel has been drawn from leading universities around the world , and includes scientists with widely differing views on climate change . panel member professor william van wijngaarden , a physicist and climate expert from york university in toronto , said he had been concerned about the records ' quality for many years , after noticing that when you examined an individual station ` you 'll see a sudden jump ' . such jumps , he said , were not natural , but the product of adjustments . ` sometimes you get `` corrected '' data without knowing exactly how it has been changed . i 'm a scientist . i 'm not going into this with any preconceptions . but if some of the corrections have not been properly made , then we 'll find out . we want to see all the actual station data . ' dr benny peiser , the gwpf director , said the panel would try to look at all the thousands of stations whose data goes into the three main world temperature records -- those kept by the met office , nasa , and the us government agency that deals with weather . tensions : the group have brought together people from police officer jason lee said . russell was not using a crosswalk when she stepped in front of singleton 's car , lee said . according to a preliminary police investigation , singleton was not under the influence of drugs , alcohol or any other substance and was permitted to leave after being questioned . however , lee said because the victim was killed , the case has been turned over to the district attorney 's office for review . singleton , 39 , earned two academy award nominations for his 1991 debut film `` boyz n the hood . '' that film also won him an mtv movie award as best new filmmaker . other films he has directed include `` rosewood , '' `` baby boy , '' `` shaft '' and `` four brothers . '' e-mail to a friend .
 The text discusses the entertainment industry, specifically the film industry. It mentions John Singleton, who was nominated for an Oscar and directed films like "Boyz N the Hood" and "Shaft". The conversation also touches on climate change and how it affects the world. Additionally, there is a mention of a panel discussion with scientists and experts to discuss global warming and its impact.