At least when it comes to working outdoors. An interesting study published this month in Nature looks at how rising levels of heat and humidity will impact work in military and civilian sites, and draws a broad conclusion: By 2100 under active mitigation (Fig. 1c), the high stress of present-day India (green Fig. 1b) expandsContinue reading “Climate change: it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity”
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Billionaire vs. climate change: Thomas Steyer
Wonderful story from Juliet Eilperin in the Washington Post on a Bay Area billionaire who has put his money — many millions of dollars — where his mouth is on climate change: Steyer is taking on a []prominent public role. On Sunday, he spoke to a crowd that organizers estimated at 35,000, gathered on theContinue reading “Billionaire vs. climate change: Thomas Steyer”
A theatrical metaphor for climate change: Alcoholism
A survey of climate change in theater here and in the UK in the New York Times focuses mostly on "This Clement World," a new musical play by Cynthia Hopkins, and includes a telling quote from the writer: “Alcoholism is an excellent metaphor for the climate change crisis,” she announces at one point onstage. “We’reContinue reading “A theatrical metaphor for climate change: Alcoholism”
Obama promises action on warming in 2nd Inaugural
In his second Inaugural Address this morning, President Obama promised action on climate change: We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and futureContinue reading “Obama promises action on warming in 2nd Inaugural”
The “fiscal cliff” and the climate cliff: Tom Toles
A month ago the environmental Time reporter Bryan Walsh, commenting on Paul Krugman and the fiscal cliff, laid out the basic equivalence between these two crises, one manufactured, the other real: The fiscal crisis and global warming are both, to put it bluntly, problems for tomorrow. Even if Congress can’t come to an agreement toContinue reading “The “fiscal cliff” and the climate cliff: Tom Toles”
What’s a few more degrees? Ask the frogs (denier edition)
At the Los Angeles Times, cartoonist/editorialist David Horsey is alarmed about warming: The climate cnews about 2050 is not good, even for the future of pasta. Though adaptation efforts in agriculture are underway, even in poor countries like Vietnam. As for frogs, a story by Cheri Carlson in the Star focuses on efforts to move eggs fromContinue reading “What’s a few more degrees? Ask the frogs (denier edition)”
Hurricane Sandy has a question for our politics
Toles frames the question: Eugene Robinson follows up: The words “climate change” were not spoken during the presidential debates. Hurricane Sandy wants to know why. Or, as Terry Tempest Williams tweeted: So ironic: no mention of Nature or wildness in the presidential debates and now, it is commanding force in chief. We are forced toContinue reading “Hurricane Sandy has a question for our politics”
Climate change + health in Philippines: Charlotte Kellogg
Last December at the AGU, I heard a presentation of a ground-breaking and troubling study on climate change and public health in the Philippines. Two young researchers charted typhoons and their aftermath, and argued powerfully that our reporting of the damage caused by these powerful but brief storms (one of which landed near Manila in August)Continue reading “Climate change + health in Philippines: Charlotte Kellogg”
Campaigns avoid climate change: McClatchey
One (slightly) encouraging sign: The most emailed story on the McClatchey newspapers site recently was a story about how the campaigns are talking (or not talking) about climate change. Although climate change typically ranks below such issues as the economy, polling done in March 2012 by Yale University and George Mason University found that 72Continue reading “Campaigns avoid climate change: McClatchey”
Independent voters want warming action taken, polls show
From a good, broad-based story in Bloomberg: Among likely voters, 78 percent of Democrats and 56 percent of independents believe humans are warming the earth, according to a Bloomberg National Poll. That finding is consistent with other polls that show undecided voters, and majorities in contested states such as Ohio and Virginia are in lineContinue reading “Independent voters want warming action taken, polls show”
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