The 2019 United Nations IPCC report on climate change shows how global warming is altering landscapes around the world, from increased flooding and droughts to wildfires and toxic algal blooms. The United States certainly has not been spared, with each o
former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said repeatedly that the federal government is “asleep at the wheel,” so the onus is on cities to fight the effects of climate change, including extreme weather and the impacts on transportation and infrastructure...
Current projections may look bleak, but if pharma and other large industries can collectively change their practices today, climate change can be minimised and even potentially reversed
Together we can save the planet for mass destruction. Though climate change is a natural occurrence, we do not need to stroke the flames. A lot of human interaction with the environment and needless amounts of waste have gravely affected the planet, but we can learn from our mistakes. We ...
You know, the big one is that, you know, climate change has these unequal effects. That's what the report says. 最重要的一点是,气候变化的影响是不平等的。报告是这么说的。 Some people do suffer more than others. 有些人确实比其他人遭受的苦难更多。 So, for example, people of color in ...
The rate of decay in heat acclimation is also affected by the number of heat exposures per week [56]. Compared with studies on the decay of heat acclimation (short term and artificial heat), the decay in heat acclimatization (long term and natural heat) has received relatively little ...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vast differences in approaches to the control and containment of coronavirus across the world and has demonstrated the varied success of such approaches in minimizing the transmission of coronavirus. While previous studies have demonstrated high predictive...
Although there was a dip in world generation of nuclear electricity after the tsunami that affected nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011, otherwise world production of nuclear electricity has been nearly flat since 2004 (Figure 3). Figure 4. US Nuclear Electricity Generation based on da...
1.6 Gauging climate change perception through Twitter The total number of Twitter active users has grown from 110 million in 2017 to 217 million in 2021 (Aslam 2022). There are 77.75 million Twitter users in the USA plac- ing it at the top, followed by Japan, India, Brazil, and ...
Examples of grey swans include climate change, population growth, and rising debt. Understanding Grey Swans As noted above, grey swans are events that may have a significant impact on the markets. These events are not viewed as entirely improbable. This means that the possibility of their occurre...