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20 Apr 2018 |
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Minding the Climate Gap: What’s at Stake if California’s Climate Law Isn’t Done Right and Right Away
This report explores whether or not implementation of cap-and-trade in California might fail to capture public health benefits, or even make an already inequitable situation worse, taking into account co-pollutants.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Climate Gap: Inequalities in How Climate Change Hurts Americans & How to Close the Gap
This report explores disparities in the impacts of climate change and the abilities of different groups to adapt to it. It also offers concrete recommendations to closin the climate gap, starting with insuring that climate solutions don’t leave anyone behind.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Psychology of Climate Change Communication: A guide for Scientists, Journalists, Educators, Political Aides, and the Interested Public
CRED research shows that, in order for climate science information to be fully absorbed by audiences, it must be actively communicated with appropriate language, metaphor, and analogy; combined with narrative storytelling; made vivid through visual imagery and experiential scenarios; balanced with scientific information; and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and the Public’s Health: The Coming Crisis for the U.S. Gulf Coast
This paper reviews the scientific consensus as to how climate change will affect human health on a global scale and describes the limited, emerging research findings concerning climate change health impacts along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Through myriad pathways, climate change is likely to make the Gulf Coast less hospitable and more ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Cooling the Planet, Clearing the Air: Climate Policy, Carbon Pricing, and Co-Benefits
Policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions can yield substantial co-benefits via reduced emissions of co-pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and air toxics. Valuation studies suggest that these benefits may be comparable in magnitude to the value of reduced carbon emissions. However, co-pollutant intensity (the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Populations Vulnerable to Climate Change in New Jersey: Update of a Statistical Analysis
The purpose of this paper is to characterize and locate populations vulnerable to climate change in the state of New Jersey. To do so, a quantitative study examined the demographic and location attributes of socially vulnerable groups and their relation to an environmental hazard associated with a changing climate, using flooding as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change in the Columbus, Ohioan mind. Yale University. New Haven, CT: Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
Most people in Columbus (70%) believe global warming is happening. One in five (18%) believe it is not. • About half (49%) believe that if global warming is happening, it is caused mostly by human activities. • People in Columbus think global warming is important and are worried about it. Seven in ten (69%) say […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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An approach to developing local climate change environmental public health indicators, vulnerability assessments, and projections of future impacts
Environmental public health indicators (EPHIs) are used by local, state, and federal health agencies to track the status of environmental hazards; exposure to those hazards; health effects of exposure; and public health interventions designed to reduce or prevent the hazard, exposure, or resulting health effect. Climate and health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Are cars the new tobacco?
BACKGROUND: Public health must continually respond to new threats reflecting wider societal changes. Ecological public health recognizes the links between human health and global sustainability. We argue that these links are typified by the harms caused by dependence on private cars. METHODS: We present routine data and literature on ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A review of frameworks for developing environmental health indicators for climate change and health
The role climate change may play in altering human health, particularly in the emergence and spread of diseases, is an evolving area of research. It is important to understand this relationship because it will compound the already significant burden of diseases on national economies and public health. Authorities need to be able to ...