Climate Change OverviewEmbarking on our exploration, let’s first grasp the essence of climate change. It refers to long-term alterations in temperature and weather patterns on Earth. The primary drivers include human activities like burning fossil fuels and deforestation, leading to an intens...
injuries and deaths related to extreme weather events, changes in food-and water-borne illnesses, and other infectious diseases. In this article, we will discuss how climate change can affect our health.
We have enough power to prevent the climate change consequences. Knowing them is a problem half-solved.
While having insurance can be a vital part of disaster recovery, you can take steps to prevent damage in the first place. Below are recommendations to help strengthen your house against three common causes of insurance claims: flooding, wildfires and wind. Flooding “The most fail-proof way to...
Lessons from past eras when Earth was a hothouse or a snowball tell us whether we are doomed by climate change or still have time to prevent that fate
Political correctness may prevent a discussion of adaptation to climate change “because it presumably implies defeat in the battle against evil emissions” (Tol, 2005). Another closely related reason may be that the majority of the low income countries cannot use significant adaptation measures, ...
That makes an understanding of these trade-offs critical for business leaders, who probably will be participating in some more than others but are likely to experience all five. Section 2 Shift 1: Reforming food and forestryAlthough the start of human-made climate change is commonly dated to ...
Public health organizations must manage the discourse around the influence of early life exposures to ensure that women do not feel even greater responsibility for the health of their unborn child, particularly in the face of uncontrollable stresses generated by climate change. Diversity A resilient ...
How to Help Fight Climate Change at University main image Check out 10 of the greenest universities in the US Guest post: Emily Valentine Climate change and energy efficiency might be the last things on your mind when you’re up to your neck in uni coursework. But these issues are hitting...
To do so, leaders must understand the new climate reality and its potential impact on their organizations in different locales around the world. The new climate reality Some climate change is locked in. The primary driver of temperature increase over the past two centuries is the human-caused...