Public Health Impacts of Climate Change in California
July 7, 2008california-public-health-impactsThis is a report from the California Department of Public Health On Heat Related Illness and Mortality
2006 was 2nd Hottest on Record for the United States-NOAA
July 6, 2008Summer 2006 was the second warmest June-to-August period in the continental U.S. since records began in 1895, according to scientists at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Additionally, the 2006 January-to-August period was the warmest on record for the continental U.S. Above-average rainfall last month in the central and southwestern U.S. improved [...]
Human Error Blamed for Los Angeles Outages: Environmental Impacts From Refineries
June 21, 2008DWP: Human Error Led To Widespread Outage
Outages Extend From San Fernando Valley To Downtown
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials said an outage Monday afternoon was linked to human error at a receiving station. Ron Deaton, general manager of the Department of Water and Power, said workers accidentally cut a line [...]
Weather Events to Become More Extreme
June 20, 2008June. 19, 2008
WASHINGTON - Droughts will get drier, storms will get stonger and floods will get deeper with a warming climate across North America, U.S. government experts said in a report billed as the first continental assessment of extreme events. Events that have seemed relatively rare will become commonplace, said the latest report from the [...]
Climate Change Impacts on California-Hayhoe
June 19, 2008hayhoe-california-heatThe magnitude of future climate change depends substantially on
the greenhouse gas emission pathways we choose.
Here we explore the implications of the highest and lowest Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change emissions pathways for climate
change and associated impacts in California. Based on climate
projections from two state-of-the-art climate models with low and
medium sensitivity (Parallel Climate Model and Hadley Centre
Climate [...]
Epstein: Climate Change and Human Health
epstein-climate-change-and-human-healthPaul Epstein, MD, MPH at Harvard 2005.
King County Climate Plan
June 16, 2008climateplan-king-county
Arizona Climate Change Action Plan
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Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions
McKinsey & Company Report.
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Climate change, heat and health
Presentation by Dr. Marie S. O’Neill University of Michigan School of Public Health marie-oneill-univ-michigan-research-on-climate-change-and-health
