The University of Washington School of Public Health July 29, 2020 Meredith Bailey By the end of the century, heat exposure may lead to approximately 110,000 premature deaths annually across the United States in a high climate-warming scenario, suggests a new study published in GeoHealth. Climate change is associated with many adverse effects to human […]
Read MoreWhy aren’t we more afraid of global warming?
The psychology of procrastinating on climate change Unlike reports of a stabbing or terror incident, information about the dangers of the climate crisis can leave some of us cold. Natasha Preskey asks climate psychologists why… “I don’t expect to die from old age,” Margaret Klein Salamon tells me matter-of-factly. The clinical psychologist-turned-climate-activist is talking to me […]
Read MoreGlobal heating pushes tropical regions towards limits of human livability
Rising heat and humidity threatening to plunge much of the world’s population into potentially lethal conditions, study finds by Oliver Milman Monday 8 March 2021 The climate crisis is pushing the planet’s tropical regions towards the limits of human livability, with rising heat and humidity threatening to plunge much of the world’s population into potentially […]
Read MoreHeating Arctic may be to blame for snowstorms in Texas, scientists argue
The Guardian (US edition) The wintry weather that has battered the southern US and parts of Europe could be a counterintuitive effect of the climate crisis Oliver Milman Wednesday, 17 February 2021 Associating climate change, normally connected with roasting heat, with an unusual winter storm that has crippled swaths of Texas and brought freezing temperatures across […]
Read MoreA winter storm caused Texas’s power outage. Climate change likely caused the storm.
MSNBC By Hayes Brown As the planet’s climate changes, the only constant is unpredictability. The plight of millions of Americans freezing in Texas is heartbreaking, infuriating and a reminder of just how unprepared the U.S. is when it comes to dealing with the impacts of climate change. Right now, we’re living through a massive shuffling […]
Read MoreMiami Says It Can Adapt to Rising Seas. Not Everyone Is Convinced.
The New York TIMES Officials have a new plan to manage rising water. Succeed or fail, it will very likely become a case study for other cities facing climate threats. Officials in Miami-Dade County, where climate models predict two feet or more of sea-level rise by 2060, have released an upbeat strategy for living with […]
Read MoreGlobal Warming’s Deadly Combination: Heat and Humidity
The New York Times By Henry Fountain March 8, 2021 A new study suggests that large swaths of the tropics will experience dangerous living and working conditions if global warming isn’t limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Here’s one more reason the world should aim to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal of the […]
Read MoreGlobal Warming Blamed for Record-breaking Weather, Scientists Say
USA Today Doyle Rice ,Published April 24, 2017 Record-breaking weather events, especially heat waves but also downpours and droughts, can be linked to man-made global warming, a new study says. “Our results suggest that the world isn’t quite at the point where every record hot event has a detectable human fingerprint, but we are getting […]
Read MoreThe Climate Could Hit a State Unseen in 50 Million Years
Climate Central By Brian KahnApril 4, 2017 No, the headline is not a typo. Current carbon dioxide levels are unprecedented in human history and are on track to climb to even more ominous heights in just a few decades. If carbon emissions continue on their current trajectory, new findings show that by mid-century, the atmosphere […]
Read MoreOnly Fast Action Can Curb Planetary Heating in Time
The Hill Some Recommended Actions for the Future By Prof. V. Ram Ramanathan, Rep. Scott H. Peters (D-Calif.) and Durwood Zaelke Curbing CO2 emissions gets most of the attention and getting to net zero emissions by midcentury is essential in the long run to abate climate change. But that’s not enough. To bend the warming […]
Read More‘We Don’t Have To Live This Way’: Doctors Call For Climate Action
National Public Radio December 2, 2020 By Rebecca Hersher Climate change is making people sick and leading to premature death, according to a pair of influential reports on the connections between global warming and health. Scientists from the World Meteorological Organization released a preliminary report on the global climate which shows that the last decade was […]
Read MoreThe Other Public Health Crisis: Global Climate Change
The Hill By David J. Hayes and Richard L. Revesz, October 23, 2020 According to prominent medical doctors, we are in the midst of “the biggest public health challenge of the 21st century.” But it’s not the one you think. The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is enormous and devastating. But the public health impacts […]
Read MoreClimate Crisis Menaces Every Country with Spike in Heat Strokes, Flood, Drought, and More Pandemics
The Lancet Dec 6th, 2020By Celia McMichael, Ilan Kelman and Shouro Dasgupta, and Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson Climate change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening health impacts, and no country is immune, a major new report from more than 120 researchers has declared. This year’s annual report of The Lancet, “Countdown on Health and Climate Change,” […]
Read MoreClimate Change Means More Heatwaves, Premature Deaths, Scientists Warn
Environment News Service (ENS) July 10, 2010 WASHINGTON – Climate change is a serious health hazard that the United States must prepare for, according to government and university scientists from across the country. They advised Thursday that climate models show that global warming will increase air pollution and trigger more heat waves, floods and droughts, all […]
Read MoreA Warming Climate may lead to Dramatic Increase in US Deaths Due to Heat Exposure
The University of Washington School of Public Health Wednesday, July 29, 2020 By Meredith Bailey By the end of the century, heat exposure may lead to approximately 110,000 premature deaths annually across the United States in a high climate-warming scenario, suggests a new study published in GeoHealth. Climate change is associated with many adverse effects […]
Read MoreThe Seven Psychological Reasons that are Stopping us from Acting on Climate Change
The Washington Post December 11, 2014 By Chris Mooney You may have noticed: We can’t act on climate change. Granted, very devoted people are in Lima, Peru, right now, trying to change that. But inaction has been the norm on this issue, especially in the United States. When a gigantic threat is staring you in the […]
Read MoreThe Many Faces of Global Climate Change
The full lineup of disruptions to the world’s biological, agricultural and ecological systems reads like a murderer’s row of assaults on society’s ability to thrive and survive. The following list of consequences of climate change to the world’s health and welfare are only those which are presently obvious. Many surprises still remain hidden in the […]
Read MoreUN Chief Pleads for Stronger Climate Policies to End ‘Suicidal’ Addiction to Fossil Fuels
“The state of the planet is broken. Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal.” This is how United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres began a Wednesday address at Columbia University, in which he reflected on the past 11 months of extreme weather and challenged world leaders to use the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to construct a better world free from destructive greenhouse gas emissions.
Read MoreWorld Bank Climate Change Report Says, “Turn Down The Heat On Warming Planet”
Huffington Post Posted: November 18, 2012 By Anna Yukhananov* Poorest regions of the world are hit hardest* World Bank focuses on climate change under new chief* Must balance climate change with energy needs of the poor WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) – All nations will suffer the effects of a warmer world, but it is the […]
Read MoreScientists “too frightened” to tell truth on climate impacts
Climate News Network Published on 26/09/2016, Climate Home By Paul Brown Professor Peter Wadhams says peers are failing in their duty, and warns China is planning huge land grabs as warming hits crop production China is protecting itself against future food supply problems caused by climate change by buying or leasing large tracts of land […]
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