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Taxonomy Archive: Factsheet/pamphlet
20 Apr 2018 |
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Poll Shows African Americans Strongly Back Climate Action
Two-thirds of African Americans believe global warming is a serious problem, they want action more than the population at large and they overwhelmingly support the Clean Power Plan to address the growing climate crisis, a major new poll released today shows.Fully 83 percent of African Americans back setting the first-ever limits on ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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List of IPCC and climate change communications research
This list is a compilation of academic papers and books that are relevant as background reading for the IPCC Expert Meeting on Communications in Oslo, Feb. 9-10, 2016. The is by no means an attempt to make a complete list, and references may be somewhat arbitrary. It is compiled by CICERO Center for International Climate […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Working Together: Building Health in All Policies Partnerships
Health in All Policies is an innovative approach to addressing the social determinants of health, such as transportation, housing, and economic policy, which are key drivers of health outcomes and health inequities. It is founded in the recognition that public health practitioners must collaborate with partners outside of public ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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12 Steps to Operationalize Climate Change in a Local Health Department
A fact sheet based off a journal article: Marinucci, G., Luper, G., Uejio, C., Saha, S., & Hess, J. (2014). Building resilience against climate effects—A novel framework to facilitate climate readiness in public health agencies. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 11(6), 6433-6458; doi:10.3390/ijerph110606433
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fact Sheet Extreme Heat
Heat kills by pushing the human body beyond its limits. In extreme heat and high humidity, evaporation is slowed and the body must work extra hard to maintain a normal temperature. Most heat disorders occur because the victim has been overexposed to heat or has over-exercised for his or her age and physical condition. Older […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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6 Ways Climate Change Harms Health in California
Our health and climate are inextricably linked. From polluted air quality to shrinking food and waters supplies, communities across California—and around the world—are already experiencing climate change’s harmful health impacts. The looming effects upon California’s communities, particularly those that are ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heat vulnerability in Phoenix, Arizona: Health outcomes, sensitivity, exposure, and coping capcity at the neighborhood scale
Vulnerability to heat hazards is on the rise in cities. Heat hazards appear at the intersection of seasonally hot climates, summer heat waves, and sity-specific urban heat islands, and are exacerbated by localized climate change effects. Urban heat waves linked to global and regional climate change have been shown to have inceased in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hydraulic Fracturing and Your Health: Air Contamination
The process of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a newer and more dangerous version of natural gas and oil extraction. Designed to enable the extraction of previously untapped gas and oil reserves, fracking pumps a high-pressure mixture of toxic chemicals and water underground to fracture deep shale rock formations. The ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing: Harm on the Farm
The process of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a newer and more dangerous version of natural gas and oil extraction. Hydraulic fracturing requires the high-pressure pumping of millions of gallons of a chemical mixture, called hydraulic fracturing fluid, into the ground in order to fracture shale rock formations and ...