Fed Study: ‘Climate change’ threatens hearts, lungs but also brains
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/78557847/Climate-change-threatens-hearts-lungs-but-also-brains-says-US-study Climate change can be expected to boost the number of annual premature deaths from heat waves in coming decades and to increase mental health problems from extreme weather like hurricanes and floods, a US study suggests. “I don’t know that we’ve seen something like this before, where we have a force that has such […]
White House report: Register to vote to ‘promote psychological resilience’ to climate change
Discussing the findings of the new White House report ‘Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States’, HHS Director Daniel Dodgen says registering to vote “promotes psychological resilience” to extreme weather events caused by climate change. DR DANIEL DODGEN: “In some communities that have been hard hit by severe weather events, we […]
Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry: ‘I remain highly critical of efforts to attribute extreme weather events to human caused climate change’
Curry: Detection and attribution of extreme weather events requires: a very long time series of historical observations of the extreme event at a particular location (which is rarely available) an understanding of the variability of extreme weather events associated with multi-decadal ocean oscillations (which requires at least a century of observations) climate models that accurately […]