STUDY: ‘Climate change’ could trigger a surge in domestic violence: Sexual assaults & physical abuse against women increase following storms – ‘Happens more often…in countries that have patriarchal gender norms’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13915869/Climate-change-trigger-surge-domestic-violence.html By Shivali Best For Mailonline Climate change could trigger a surge in domestic violence against women, a concerning new study has revealed. Researchers from University College London (UCL) analysed how extreme weather events in 156 countries were linked to rates of intimate partner violence (IPV). They found that, in the two years following a storm, landslide, or flood, there was […]
Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue rips corporate media’s new ‘marching orders’ to ‘all write about…Climate havens’ not existing
Marching orders for corporate media climate editors: Let’s all write about the same things the exact same way. Climate havens don’t exist. We’re all doomed. pic.twitter.com/qB3P3WmCoQ — Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) October 1, 2024 The exceedingly dumb premise at work in all of these stories is that Asheville, NC was previously immune to extreme weather events […]
Study in Lancet claiming ‘climate change associated with increased stroke morbidity & mortality’ is called ‘hilariously asinine’: Study lobbies for ‘urgent climate actions’ to reduce strokes
‘Hilariously Asinine’ – Debunking to the study by climate statistician Dr. Willaim M. Briggs: Scientists Induce Apoplexy (In Me) In Attempting To Tie Stroke To “Climate Change” – “The whole thing is hilariously asinine. They couldn’t help trying riding the ‘climate change’ gravy train. Models cramming everything, or near enough to everything, in to find correlations, which they insinuate are causes.”
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Via TCTMD.org: The latest stroke update from the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) study was published last week in the Lancet Neurology. In addition, the link between stroke and climate change-related factors—like ambient temperature and air pollution—appears to be getting stronger, lead author Valery Feigin, MD, PhD (National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand), and colleagues report. …
The updated data indicate that extreme high ambient temperatures are having a profound impact on stroke burden, adding to prior studies showing the importance also of extreme cold temperatures. “These findings are in line with research showing that rises in ambient temperature (including heat waves) and climate change are associated with increased stroke morbidity and mortality,” the authors write. “Because ambient air pollution is reciprocally associated with the ambient temperature and climate change, all of which synergistically influence cardiovascular disease (including stroke) occurrence and overall health, the importance of urgent climate actions and measures to reduce ambient air pollution cannot be overestimated.”
Greta Thunberg: Palestine’s fight & climate change are linked
Salon.com: ‘Will climate change bring an end to America’s world order?’ – ‘Humanity could be facing another catastrophe on the scale of the Black Death’
https://www.salon.com/2024/09/20/will-climate-change-bring-an-end-to-americas-world-order_partner/ By Alfred W. McCoy, the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.His new book is “To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.” Excerpt: The question of the moment should be: Is climate change now gathering sufficient destructive force to cripple Washington’s liberal world order and create an opening for Beijing’s […]
Tim Walz Asked About His *Specific* Plan to Make Groceries & Gas Cheaper: We’re ‘Getting at This Heart of Climate Change’
We’re “Getting at This Heart of Climate Change” – Tim Walz When Asked About His *Specific* Plan to Make Groceries and Gas Cheaper (VIDEO) by Cristina Laila This weekend Tim Walz gave an interview to Fox 17 WXMI about what a Harris-Walz Administration would mean for Michiganders. Walz was asked about his *specific* plan to make […]
Unelected bureaucrats target the ‘crisis’ of ‘pedestrian deaths’ on roads – First ever federal rule to ‘rein in excessively large trucks & SUVs’ by mandating ‘permanent’ changes to ‘shape of a vehicle’ – Regs ‘could save up to 67 lives every year’
The Verge – Sept 10, 2024: This week, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stunned safety advocates by proposing new vehicle rules that it says will help reduce pedestrian deaths in America. The new rules appear aimed directly at the trend of increasingly massive SUVs and trucks, which have been shown to be more deadly to pedestrians than smaller and midsize vehicles.
Never in its 50-plus years in existence has the regulator issued new rules for automakers requiring them to change their vehicle designs to better prevent pedestrian fatalities. If enacted, the new rules could change how vehicles are designed in the US — permanently.
The rules announced this week would update the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), the government’s bible for everything that’s required in a new vehicle before it’s sold — from steering wheels to rearview mirrors — to set testing procedures to simulate head-to-hood impact, with the aim of reducing head injuries. If enacted, automakers will have to test their vehicles using crash test dummies representing adult and child pedestrians for the first time. NHTSA says the changes could save up to 67 lives every year. …
The proposed rules come amid a deadly period for pedestrians in this country. Each year, cars kill roughly 40,000 Americans. But while automakers have become very good at protecting people inside of vehicles, they have essentially neglected the safety of people outside of them. …
Meanwhile, pedestrian deaths have skyrocketed in recent years. Between 2013 and 2022, pedestrian fatalities increased 57 percent, from 4,779 to 7,522, NHTSA reports. In 2022, 88 percent of pedestrian deaths occurred in single-vehicle crashes. …
The shape of a vehicle, especially the hood, also plays a critical role in determining whether a pedestrian can survive being struck. Vehicles with hood heights of more than 40 inches and blunt front ends angled at greater than 65 degrees were 44 percent more likely to cause fatalities, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. …
The new NHTSA proposal is an important step, but it’s just the first of many needed to turn this crisis around.
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): ‘Medical Schools Are Updating Their Curricula as Climate Change Becomes Impossible to Ignore’ – A ‘looming threat poised to deepen inequities’
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2822673?guestAccessKey=c9beb7a7-9a64-45f6-abd7-c0a79734544b&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=olf&utm_term=081624&adv=000003907076 Excerpt: In the spring of 2020, Maddy Kline was finishing her first year of medical school at Harvard and things were not going as expected. As the COVID-19 pandemic was surging across the nation, it was highlighting entrenched socioeconomic inequalities in health care and working conditions. George Floyd’s death at the hands of police […]
Miami Herald: ‘Rising temps, rising anxiety: Climate change creates emerging mental health challenge’ – ‘Hispanic/Latino adults more likely to experience high levels of climate anxiety’
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article290432059.html by Claire Grunewald, Miami Herald Excerpt: Many troubling signs of climate change in South Florida are visible — but one that affects a growing number of people is not. It’s called climate anxiety, a fear of what the future may hold in a warming world. It hit Olivia Collins not long ago, The wave […]
Women Find A Solution To ‘Climate Change’ Anxiety
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/women-find-a-solution-to-climate By William M Briggs How about this breathless article title from JAMA (thanks to Stephen Shipman): “Medical Schools Are Updating Their Curricula as Climate Change Becomes Impossible to Ignore“. “Climate change” is indeed impossible to ignore. Not changes in the climate, which are easy to miss, mostly because nobody can really see them, and the […]