This is certainly the most comprehensive paper that examines the association of air pollution, climate change and allergen exposure: “Air Pollution and Climate Change Effects on Allergies in the Anthropocene:…
People may be fleeing catastrophic events in their home countries. When preparing now a lecture on medical consequences of the climate crisis ( based on the 2019 Lancet Report )…
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108146119 Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate change result in worldwide societal collapse or even…
There is an interesting twitter thread by @Psychologists4F about news concerning the climate crisis and how we respond to the cognitive dissonance – the mental discomfort or psychological stress experienced…
…combining here raw PNGs using ffmpeg. # read_cru_hemi() modified from https://mccartneytaylor.com/plotting-climate-change-on-a-spider-graph-using-r list.of.packages <- c(“ggplot2”, “reshape”, “stringr”,”RColorBrewer”) new.packages <- list.of.packages[!(list.of.packages %in% installed.packages()[,”Package”])] if(length(new.packages)) install.packages(new.packages) lapply(list.of.packages, require, character.only = TRUE) read_cru_hemi <-…
http://www.lancetcountdown.org/2019-report/ Social Media 2019…
There is no need for another diagnosis here. There is also no need about the impact of the automobile industry – I have published in 1993 the first large epidemiological…
…verlieren https://www.chbeck.de/schleichert-man-fundamentalisten-diskutiert-verstand-verlieren/product/11858 Sarah Wolfe, Amit Tubi. Terror Management Theory and mortality awareness: A missing link in climate response studies? https://www.sarahwolfe.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/WolfeTubi_2018.pdf Magnus Wang. Zweifel an den Ursachen. http://climatefactsnow.org/zweifel-am-klimawandel/ John Cook u.a…..
The current Greenpeace campaign attacks German car manufacturer Porsche as building climate killer machines. Porsche responds with large posters – see the online figures – that they 1. contribute less…
There are scientists who support climate campaigns but there are also scientists who change their life style. Kim Cobb traveled to the Kiritimati coral reefs in the spring of 2016…
…attempt to contain the COVID-19 Coronavirus. Slowly over the course of a week, I began to see the issue of climate change in a whole new light. … The path…
…on Climate Change (IPCC) introduced the idea of tipping points two decades ago. At that time, these ‘large-scale discontinuities’ in the climate system were considered likely only if global warming…
…we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency. The first Bioessays Paper was in 2017….
…were miserably familiar to climate scientists, who drolly welcomed newly traumatized epidemiologists into their ranks. In the light of the pandemic, old debates about whether science (and science writing) is…