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Taxonomy Archive: opinion/editorial
20 Apr 2018 |
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Doctors call for divestment from fossil fuels
The international divest–invest movement, which has been gaining momentum since it began in 2012, is making in-roads into the medical community. In 2014, the British Medical Association committed to divesting from fossil fuels and The Royal Australasian College of Physicians followed suit in June. The CMA has over $29 million in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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El Nino and climate change—contributing factors in the dispersal of Zika virus in the Americas?
In their letter, Isaac I Bogoch and colleagues anticipated the international spread of Zika virus from Brazil through air traffic. Permissive climatic conditions for Aedes mosquitoes might have contributed to the explosive spread of Zika virus in Brazil. In fact, the 2015 El Niño caused exceptional climatic conditions in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food security under climate change
Using food prices to assess climate change impacts on food security is misleading. Differential impacts on income require a broader measure of household well-being, such as changes in absolute poverty.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food, hunger, health, and climate change
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the effects of climate change on food security could be some of the most serious in the near-to-medium term, especially if global mean temperature increases by 3–4°C or more. In The Lancet, Marco Springmann and colleagues dig deeper, and report the most advanced ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Opinion: Health institutions should lead on green stewardship
Hospitals, nursing homes and clinics have been making incremental improvements in their environmental record since the oil crisis of the 70s and should be commended for their efforts. But today, it’s simply not enough. After all, health, the environment and health care are inextricably linked. There is growing evidence of the link ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Dona Wininsky: Protect yourself in heat waves — and help combat climate change
Dear Editor: The high heat we are experiencing in Wisconsin is not just uncomfortable. It’s also part of a trend with potentially lethal health impacts. 2015 was the hottest year on record, and the previous hottest year was 2014. In fact, each of the last three decades has been successively warmer than any decade on […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: what needs to be done
Finding the necessary political will to act is the biggest challenge facing climate policy, says Tom BurkeIf we are to meet the challenge of generating political will, the climate conversation must involve everyone, from all professions and all walks of life. Political will is built into the base of society; it is not something that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Contraction and convergence: the best possible solution to the twin problems of climate change and inequity
Much is now known about anthropogenically induced climate change, its impacts on the planet’s species, and the need for urgent action to avoid catastrophe.1 2 The unequal distribution of resources between the materially rich and the materially poor amplifies the multiple adverse effects of climate change, so disrupting ecosystems, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Weather: Hot enough for you? This is just the beginning
Millions of people around the world are experiencing a scorching summer, as records are broken and thermostats climb this week in parts of Europe. Temperatures in Paris and Brussels exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit at a time of year when 70-degree weather is the norm, according to Accuweather.com.In Bandar-e Mahshahr, Iran, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Opinion: The case for a child-centered energy and climate policy
Children suffer the most from fossil fuel burning.Fossil fuel combustion and associated air pollution and carbon dioxide (CO2) is the root cause of much of children’s ill health children today as well as their uncertain future. There are strong scientific arguments, as well persuasive economic ones, for reducing the world’s ...