Tag: Climate Change
Posted on Thu May 21, 2009 at 09:22:47 AM EST
Tags: Climate Change, Climate Change Health Impact, Lancet, University College London (all tags)
"Climate Change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century."
Last week on May 16, 2009 a collaboration between the British medical journal The Lancet and University College London released the first UCL Lancet Commission report, assessing the impact of global warming on global health, and on populations.
Titled Managing the health effects of climate change (.PDF), the year long study highlights the threat of climate change on patterns of disease, water and food insecurity, human settlements, extreme climatic events, and population migration. The report also highlights the action required by global society to mitigate the health impacts of climate change.
"Climate change," the report concludes, "is the biggest global health threat of the 21 century."
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Posted on Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 04:25:13 PM EST
Tags: Al Gore, climate change (all tags)
Al Gore's new project, We Can Solve the Climate Crisis.
“America must commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and other clean sources within 10 years.”
On a related note, Gore said today at Netroots Nation he will not accept a formal role in the next President's Administration: [More...]
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