While far too many people still believe that
the harmful effects of climate change has yet to be convincingly proven, for folks living in the shadow of Everest there remains little doubt.
See our earlier posts: July 17: EPA releases report identifying
harmful effects of climate change on human health July 17: Media coverage of EPA release of climate change health effects assessment Transcript (with light editing) of CSW director Rick Piltz's comments in a July 18 interview on Free Speech Radio News:
Clinton Development Initiative's Trees of Hope project mitigates
the harmful effects of climate change while making tree planting profitable for farmers through the sale of carbon credits.
Natural ecosystems could also play a role in stopping some of
the harmful effects of climate change.
The first step is educating citizens both in the Philippines and around the world about what the nation is facing, and about the practical clean - energy solutions available that can begin to address
the harmful effects of climate change in the Philippines and beyond.
Launched in February 2017 with start - up support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) is an international forum for health professions schools committed to developing and instituting climate change and health curricula, in order to ensure a future cadre of highly trained health professionals who will be able to prepare and protect society from
the harmful effects of climate disruption.
The hope is that the hubs will help minimise
the harmful effects of climate change, such as excess storms and droughts, by helping scientists, farmers, ranchers and forestland - owners talk to each other.
Working with in - country partners, IRRI develops advanced rice varieties that yield more grain and better withstand pests and disease as well as flooding, drought, and other
harmful effects of climate change.
Not exact matches
But ultimately this cost will be paid by future generations, who will have to cope with the
harmful effects of a changing
climate that we compound every time we eat meat ---- unless we act today.
Early hints suggest that there may be
climate effects and unexpected movement
of harmful microbes or other creatures to new destinations.
The assessment also notes that there are possible approaches to avoiding the
harmful climate effects of these substitutes.
Improved agricultural water management could halve the global food gap by 2050 and buffer some
of the
harmful climate change
effects on crop yields.
The AAS joins the AGU in calling for continued peer - reviewed
climate research to inform
climate - related policy decisions, to provide a basis for mitigating the
harmful effects of global change, and to help communities adapt and become resilient to extreme climatic events.
Because
of the documented
harmful effects of bullying — as well as other forms
of social isolation — on school
climate and student achievement, educators are taking this problem seriously.
Monty Re-read what I have actually written — I'm not suggesting that we can pump unlimited CO2 into the atmosphere (even in the light
of uncertain evidence as to potentially
harmful effects on
climate and ecosystems).
Generally speaking, environmentalists support the idea
of putting a price on carbon because it would help account for the
harmful effects of carbon emissions on the
climate and encourage the economy to shift away from fossil fuels.
The potential for specific
climate - vulnerable communities to experience highly
harmful health
effects is not entirely clear in specific regions and on specific time frames due to uncertainties in rates
of adaptation and uncertainties about the outcome
of public health interventions currently being implemented that aim to address underlying health disparities and determinants
of health.249 The public health community has not routinely conducted evaluations
of the overall success
of adaptation interventions or
of particular elements
of those interventions.
The IPCC have provided a wealth
of scientific information on the
climate, but have not established a case that increases in carbon dioxide are causing any
harmful effects.
Greater understanding could reduce the risks, but the
climate system may be inherently too complex — and therefore the possibility
of unanticipated
harmful side
effects too large — for us to ever consider geoengineering very safe.
If he doesn't think that
harmful effects from burning fossil fuels — outside
of impact on the
climate — are obvious, so be it.
Ocean acidification occurs when carbon dioxide dissolves out
of the atmosphere and into the ocean, where it chemically reacts and lowers the water's pH. The process is sometimes dubbed the «evil twin»
of climate change because
of the
harmful effects it may have on marine ecosystems.
He said severe
effects of climate change on water resources could be seen in shape
of changes in precipitation, drastic increasing trends in temperature, hazardous alteration in period
of winter and summer,
harmful rising in the sea level and depletion
of groundwater.
The Australian federal government's effort to levy a tax on carbon - dioxide emissions to battle supposed «
climate change» is facing massive resistance from voters, despite a flurry
of pro-carbon-tax propaganda and government - funded reports touting alleged benefits
of the scheme while downplaying its
harmful effects.
The impacts
of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Great Lakes are being assessed using a range
of economic metrics capturing the loss
of services provided by the lakes (e.g. increased drinking water treatment costs, property value losses, beach closures), as well as the direct
effects of toxic microcystin on public health (Bingham et al 2015, IJC 2013)-- such events are expected to increase in frequency and severity in a changing
climate (Michalak et al 2013).
And you still haven't answered the question as to what is the ideal
climate, how does it differ from today's
climate, who determined the ideal
climate, what factors were evaluated in making the determination, what evidence confirms that the controls on anthropogenic CO2 proposed by the
climate experts would indeed establish and maintain the optimum
climate, and whether the the political, economic, and social changes that would be required to do the controlling would on balance be less
harmful than the
effects of the postulated (but unsubstantiated)
climate changes.
Among other things, the authors state that [1] «scientists do not know how large the greenhouse
effect is, whether it will lead to a
harmful amount
of global warming, or (if it will) what should be done about it» (p. 560); [2] that «profound disagreements» about global warming exist within the scientific community (p. 560); [3] that so - called «activist scientists» say that the earth's
climate is warming (p. 560); [4] that «science doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level
of global warming or how bad the greenhouse
effect Is, if it exists at all» (p. 569); [5] and that global warming is «enmeshed in scientific uncertainty» (p. 573).
What I do not understand is how any potential benefits from a warmer
climate always seem to be down played, assumed to be transient in this case, yet all
of the identified
harmful effects are talked about, with no mention
of them possibly being transient.
We support educating the public and policymakers in government and industry about the
harmful human health
effects of global
climate change, and about the immediate and long - term health benefits associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions (i.e., heat - trapping pollution) and taking other preventive and protective measures that contribute to sustainability.
As medical professionals, many
of our members know firsthand the
harmful health
effects of climate change on patients.
Current collaborative research projects include modeling the
effects of vertical mixing and ultraviolet radiation on primary productivity in the Southern Ocean and understanding the role
of climate forcing and hydrodynamics on
harmful algal blooms and outbreaks
of disease in aquatic organisms in lakes.
Overall, the synopsis emphasized the positive
effects of climate change over the negative, the uncertainty surrounding predictions
of future change rather than the emerging consensus and the low end
of harmful impact estimates rather than the high end.
In this searchable database you will find that many
of the self - proclaimed
climate change «skeptics» were also involved in confusing the public about the
harmful effects of cigarette smoke.