MEDLINEplus : climate change

Posted by Celia Walter | 3 Sep, 2009

This site provides access to a collection of resources, aimed at consumers, about climate change. Links are provided to a wide range of resources from government and other sources, covering: latest news, overviews, multimedia tools, journal articles, organisations, and research. This is one of a series of Health Topic listings, made available on the Web by MEDLINEPlus, a service of the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. From Intute.ac.uk

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/climatechange.html

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Earth Hour 2009

Posted by Celia Walter | 26 Mar, 2009

Earth Hour 2009 is a global initiative by the World Wide Fund for Nature which acts as a worldwide call to action to every individual, business and community to take a stand against Climate Change. To show your support, sign up now and commit to switching off your lights for one hour on Saturday, March 28th at 8:30pm. Originating in Sydney, Australia in 2007, the Earth Hour initiative proved more than worthwhile when it witnessed 2 million people coming together to switch off their lights for one hour for this vital cause.

Following on from this success, 2008 saw an estimated 50 million people taking part. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square, all stood in darkness, as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.

This year, 2009, Earth Hour will see the lights go out on some of the most recognised attractions on the planet, including Cape Town’s Table Mountain, Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Merlion in Singapore, Sydney Opera House, the iconic 6-star hotel, the Burj al Arab, in Dubai, Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and the world’s tallest constructed building, the Taipei 101.

Earth Hour 2009 has one major aim: to unite the citizens of the world in the fight against climate change in order to convince governments and world leaders that our planet cannot wait any longer. There simply isn’t enough time, and therefore 2009 is a colossally important, if not the most critical year, to take action on climate change. 2009 is the year we decide the future of our planet.

 

Please Sign up :

BE THE VOICE FOR OUR PLANET

Sign up now and become part of what could be the single most powerful demonstration of global solidarity on any matter in the history of the planet.

By signing up, you are pledging to switch off your lights on Saturday, 28 March 2009 at 8:30pm. Your name will form part of a 1 billion-strong petition that will be sent to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen at the end of the year to put pressure on world leaders to pass legislation on climate change.

http://www.earthhour.org.za/sign_up.php

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Carbon and Biodiversity demonstration atlas

Posted by Celia Walter | 7 Dec, 2008

The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) has launched a demonstration version of a new Carbon and Biodiversity Atlas (demo atlas, pdf, 5.5 MB). According to the UNEP press release, the atlas shows that areas high in both carbon and biodiversity exist and can be identified by relatively simple mapping tools. Prioritising such areas could give the double benefit of reducing emissions from land use change and conserving biodiversity.

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Voluntary Carbon Offset Information Portal

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Apr, 2008

Voluntary Carbon Offset Information Portal

Information about buying carbon offsets to neutralize carbon dioxide emissions created by individual air travel. Features a consumer handout on "flying green," report on voluntary offsets for air travel carbon emissions, a paper with an overview of international climate change policies and the current carbon market, description of offset project types, list of carbon offset companies, a glossary, and more. A joint project of Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Tufts Climate Initiative (TCI). Annotation copyright LII.ORG

URL: http://www.tufts.edu/tie/tci/carbonoffsets/

LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25924

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Climate change controversies: a simple guide.

Posted by Celia Walter | 12 Oct, 2007

The Royal Society : Climate change controversies: a simple guide

The Royal Society has produced this overview of the current state of scientific understanding of climate change to help non-experts better understand the debate. The guide takes eight of the key arguments and attempts to set out, in simple terms, where the weight of scientific evidence lies. The document can be downloaded in PDF format. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=6229

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Climate change

Posted by Celia Walter | 27 Sep, 2007

Climate Change, Human Health, and the Post-Cautionary Principle
Source: Georgetown University: O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Scholarship

In this Article, I suggest two different but related ways of reframing the public discourse on climate change. First, I propose that we move further in the direction of characterizing climate change as a public health threat and not only as an environmental threat. Second, I argue that we should stop thinking of responses to climate change in terms of the precautionary principle, which counsels action even in the absence of scientific consensus about a threat. We should speak instead in terms of a “post-cautionary” principle for a post-cautionary world, in which some very bad effects of climate change are unavoidable and others are avoidable only if we take dramatic steps, and soon. These points are related insofar as they together create a moral imperative both to adapt to the changes we cannot prevent and to mitigate those we can. Without these efforts, people will fall ill and many will die, and we know now that this will occur. No fancy moral theory is required to condemn, and to make every attempt to avert, this large-scale knowing killing.

+ Full Paper (PDF; 348 KB)

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