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20 Apr 2018 |
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State of the Climate in 2014
This is the 25th edition of the series now known as State of the Climate, published annually in BAMS since 1996. Most of the dozens of essential climate variables monitored each year in this report continued to follow their long-term trends in 2014, with several setting new records. Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide—the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Urban Heat Island Mitigation Can Improve New York City’s Environment: Research on the Impacts of Mitigation Strategies on the Urban Environment
This report discusses green “living” roofs and “cool” highly reflective roofs—building technologies that may offer solutions to ameliorate urban heat island effects and its consequences. This report has a relatively narrow goal: to focus on why these particular technologies may be incorporated into ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The heat is on: climate change and heatwaves in the Midwest
Midwestern cities are very likely to experience more frequent, longer, and hotter heatwaves.
20 Apr 2018 |
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American Climate Values 2014: insights by racial and ethnic groups
The 2014 American Climate Values survey oversampled three American racial and ethnic groups: African, Asian,and Hispanic/Latino Americans to analyze if and how they differ from national averages and each other in how they understand and respond to climate change. In addition to the applicable consensus, demographic, and psychographic ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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American Climate Values 2014 Supplement: Faith and Climate Highlights
This document has four sections. Part I provides context on how the demographics of people of faith compare to the general public. Part II examines how religious and non-religious Americans respond to a variety of climate-related survey questions, including whether climate change is happening and whether humans can make a difference ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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American Climate Values 2014: psychographic and demographic insights
This first release contains basic demographic findings on climate change as well as the general 2014 values findings.The demographic findings, on pages 7-20, are dominated by political findings. Republicans are quite divided on the reality, causes and consequences of climate change, while Democrats have a more uniform perspective. In ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Beyond Storms & Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change
This report the likely psychological impacts of climate change, from stress, anxiety and depression, to loss of community identity, to increases in violence and aggression. It discusses the pathways through which these and other impacts on human well-being will arise, why some communities will be hit harder than others, and how ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Action for Health: Integrating Public Health into Climate Action Planning
This document introduces key health connections to climate change mitigation strategies, suggestions of where these fit into a CAP, a process for forging partnerships between planning and health organizations, links to data that will help planners identify and reference the existing health status of their jurisdiction, and supporting ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and California’s local public health agencies
This paper presents the results from a survey of local Health Officers. The intent of the survey was to learn more about perceptions of the public health threat from, and preparation for, climate change among California’s local public health agencies. The survey found that local public health officials believe that climate change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Models and the Use of Climate Projections
This document provides a definition for climate outlooks and climate models and describes particular outlooks and models that may be useful in anticipating the human health effects of climate change. It also includes a topic overview and some suggested initial methods for state and local health departments.