Sentences with phrase «health impacts of global warming»

Although one might think that the human health impacts of global warming would be among the most well studied areas of climate change, it is only in the last decade that the medical community and other health professionals have focused on this issue in depth.

«There is a very distressing disconnect between the research and the policy,» says Kim Knowlton, a scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, who studies the health impacts of global warming.

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The meeting, called by the White House, will hear experts discuss the impacts of global warming on human health.

«While we can't stop the huge impact of global warming on coral health in the short term, this new work should drive policy toward reducing plastic pollution.»

Professor Chen remarked, «Among the extensive and far - reaching impacts of global warming, human health and labour productivity are most directly affected by thermal discomfort and heat - related morbidity and mortality.

«A carbon price would make the price of oil better reflect its true societal costs (including global warming impacts, health cost due to air pollution, as well as other environmental costs).

To provide a basis for discussion, below I'm pasting the I.P.C.C. summary of the anticipated health impacts from human - driven global warming.

By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.

Scientist Who Spearheaded Attacks on Global Warming Science Also Directed $ 45 Million Tobacco Industry Effort to Hide Health Impacts of Smoking Former National Academy of Sciences President Admits Being Paid $ 585,000 by Tobacco Companies.

introduced legislation directing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study the environmental impact of black carbon and the most cost - effective ways to reduce its emissions to improve public health and reduce global warming.

The mitigation of Short - lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) has received much attention in the past few years for its potential to lessen health - related impacts of air pollution, prevent major crop losses, and in some cases also slow down global warming.

Sections on the ecological effects of global warming and its impact on human health were removed.

of Short - lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) has received much attention in the past few years for its potential to lessen health - related impacts of air pollution, prevent major crop losses, and in some cases also slow down global warming.

Climate scientists use the same statistical techniques to determine global warming's influence in extreme climate events as public health researchers use to investigate the health impacts of smoking and asbestos exposure.

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while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

Science: Climate scientists say any positives are far outweighed by the negative impacts of global warming on agriculture, human health, the economy and the environment.

For example, the environmental degradation from «acid rain» caused by high levels of Sulfur emissions, the economic impact of global warming, the health damage to humans from air and water pollution (from particulate matter and mercury), all are measurable with an economic cost to society.

It could be due to a range of factors, the scientists say, from «a well - financed opposition» to the Cape Wind project on Cape Cod, to increasing public awareness and concern about changing climate and «global warming,» to health impacts and the recent electricity rate hikes in Delaware.

-- Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator, taking into consideration the public health and environmental impacts of black carbon emissions, including the effects on global and regional warming, the Arctic, and other snow and ice - covered surfaces, shall propose regulations under the existing authorities of this Act to reduce emissions of black carbon or propose a finding that existing regulations promulgated pursuant to this Act adequately regulate black carbon emissions.

World Health Organization and British government - sponsored global impact studies indicate that, relative to other factors, global warming's impact on key determinants of human and environmental well - being should be small through 2085 even under the warmest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenario.

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Complaints focus on the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal mining, the projected high costs of carbon capture and storage, the human health dangers of large, rapid releases of carbon dioxide, the global warming risk posed by small levels leakage over long periods, increases in coal mining needed to run scrubbers as well as carbon capture and storage systems.

These numbers could suggest that when the issue of global warming is discussed in an environmental / public health framework, people are more likely to access their feelings of concern about potential impacts on public welfare, and may consider the issue outside of a political framework.

From hazardous effects causing potential loss of life, injury, or other negative health impacts, to the potential exposure of social, economic, and infrastructure assets to adverse impacts, global warming places vulnerable human lives and systems in dangerous jeopardy.

... by looking at research on the health impact of tobacco, the «science» behind global warming or breast implants, or the effectiveness of a drug, we can see that it is not unusual for sponsored academics to fudge the data, suppress unfavourable evidence, and otherwise «torture the numbers till they confess» (9)...

SEPP has questioned concerns about ozone depletion and global warming, as well as the negative health impacts of pesticides and passive smoking.

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This is bound to ruffle a few feathers, so here are Professor Jacobson's comments on how he came to this conclusions: Jacobson Considered a Wide Range of Environmental Impacts Jacobson says he has conducted to first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy - related solutions by assessing not only their potential for delivering energy for electricity and vehicles, but also their impacts on global warming, human health, energy security, water supply, space requirements, wildlife, water pollution, reliability and sustainaImpacts Jacobson says he has conducted to first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy - related solutions by assessing not only their potential for delivering energy for electricity and vehicles, but also their impacts on global warming, human health, energy security, water supply, space requirements, wildlife, water pollution, reliability and sustainaimpacts on global warming, human health, energy security, water supply, space requirements, wildlife, water pollution, reliability and sustainability.

«Urgent action is needed to reduce our dependence on oil, cut pollution, and address the impacts of global warming, which threatens our health, environment and future prosperity,» said Peter Galvin, Conservation Director for the Center for Biological Diversity.

NOAA supports research like this to help American communities, businesses, and public health providers understand our vulnerabilities and to identify opportunities for us to adapt and prepare for extreme weather and the impacts of global warming.

Jacobson has conducted the first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy - related solutions by assessing not only their potential for delivering energy for electricity and vehicles, but also their impacts on global warming, human health, energy security, water supply, space requirements, wildlife, water pollution, reliability and sustainability.

Founded in 1947, The Rodale Institute is a 333 - acre education and research center and has been a leader in the science of regenerative and organic agriculture and its impact on global warming, nutrition, and human health.

Criteria Description Fish Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to fish (both saltwater and freshwater) Daphnia Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to Daphnia (invertebrate aquatic organisms) Algae Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to aquatic plants Persistence / Biodegradation Rate of degradation for a substance in the environment (air, soil, or water) Bioaccumulation Potential for a substance to accumulate in fatty tissue and magnify up the food chain Climatic relevance Measure of the impact a substance has on the climate (e.g., ozone depletion, global warming, etc.) Other Any additional characteristic (e.g., soil organism toxicity, WGK water classification, etc.) relevant to the overall evaluation but not included in the previous criteria 1.3.3 Material Class Criteria The following material classes are flagged due to the concern that at some point in their life cycle they may have negative impacts on human and environmental health.

Response: Negative impacts of global warming on agriculture, health & environment far outweigh any positives.

The potential health implications of this pipeline are enormous and far reaching — from spills poisoning our water and soil, to the public health impacts of a warming global climate — the impacts will likely be devastating.»