Reports on Climate Change
Climate Change. Seal the Deal!
Submitted by David Shearman on Sat, 02/05/2009 - 20:33. Reports on Climate ChangeCommentary from David Shearman
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced that the UN is launching a worldwide climate change campaign under the slogan: "Seal the Deal! Power green growth. Protect the planet".
The campaign aims to galvanize political will and public support towards signing a new UN agreement on climate change, and urges world leaders to act in the best interest of their peoples and the planet by sealing the climate deal.
Reports on Recent Climate Change Conferences
Submitted by David Shearman on Mon, 30/03/2009 - 21:32. Reports on Climate ChangeThese reports were prepared by Peter Tait, DEA member, NT
Key Science Messages from the Climate Conference in Copenhagen
Scientists at the international congress in Copenhagen, held in March 2009, have prepared a summary statement of their findings for policy makers. The congress was conceived as an update of the science of global warming ahead of the UN summit in December.
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in December this statement will go to officials and heads of state at the conference. The full conclusions from the 2,500 scientific delegates from 80 countries that have attended the three-day meeting this week will be published in full in June 2009.
The impact of global crises on health: money, weather and microbes
Submitted by David Shearman on Sat, 28/03/2009 - 21:39. Reports on Climate ChangeThis is an Address by Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, given at at the 23rd Forum on Global Issues, Berlin, 18 March 2009
This is an inspirational Address. I see it as clarion call for health professionals to make heard their case in the halls and corridors of bad governments. To those members of DEA who are briefing their elected representatives. please print out a copy and take it to your meeting. We acknowledge WHO-- Editor.
"The world is in a mess, and much of this mess is of our own making. Events such as the financial crisis and climate change are not quirks of the marketplace, or quirks of nature. They are not inevitable events in the up-and-down cycle of human history.
Climate Change Blues and Greens
Submitted by David Shearman on Mon, 23/03/2009 - 19:27. Reports on Climate Changeby David Shearman
Evidence is accumulating that the public is increasingly disinterested in climate change. What is this evidence, what are the reasons for its occurrence and how does it affect our mission to get government to act?
In the US a Gallup Poll in March indicated “the highest level of public scepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade” of polling. Most Americans thought that global warming was “either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated” but two-in-five said the media are exaggerating. In the 2006 Gallup Poll, 66 percent thought that the issue was reported correctly or underestimated in news reports, and 30 percent thought it was exaggerated. In 2009 these figures were 57 percent and 41 percent. It was also found that climate change was the only issue for which public concern dropped significantly over the year. This fall in concern did not occur with other environmental problems.
Clean Energy For Eternity and Matthew Nott
Submitted by David Shearman on Mon, 09/03/2009 - 15:48. Reports on Climate ChangeClean Energy For Eternity is a project run by community groups and initiated by surgeon Matthew Nott. His story which follows, is inspirational and is a model that could be applied to many rural and regional communities around Australia. I urge you to look at the web site www.cleanenergyforeternity.net.au -- Editor
I am an orthopaedic surgeon, based in Bega on the Far South Coast of NSW. The Bega District Hospital attempts to provide a trauma and elective orthopaedic service to South East NSW, covering a population of 100 000 people. The service is growing. We now have three orthopaedic surgeons; there are plans for a new regional hospital, and a new private hospital is in the planning stages. As it is for most rural surgeons, life is extremely busy. Three years ago, I decided to make my life a whole lot busier by starting a community campaign looking at regional solutions to climate change. Why on earth would I want to take on such a big task?
A Brief ABC of Biochar; importance in reducing green house emissions
Submitted by David Shearman on Mon, 23/02/2009 - 18:23. Reports on Climate ChangeBiochar is a fine-grained, highly porous charcoal that helps soils retain nutrients and water. The carbon in biochar resists degradation and can sequester carbon in soils for hundreds to thousands of years.
Millions of dollars are being deployed on research into sequestration of carbon derived from burning coal in power stations This research is seen as a political and employment necessity. However, there are more simple and efficient ways to sequester carbon which are under exploration. The creation of biochar is one of them.
Good News for Research into the Health Impacts of Climate Change
Submitted by David Shearman on Tue, 27/01/2009 - 17:07. Reports on Climate ChangeMEDIA RELEASE
Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Minister for Climate Change and Water;
The Hon Nicola Roxon MP, Minister for Health and Ageing;
Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
27 January 2008
$10 MILLION FOR RESEARCH INTO HEALTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Australia’s top research institutions are turning their attention to the human health impacts of climate change, and the strategies Australia will need to reduce the risks.
The Australian Government’s National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF), National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the CSIRO have identified health and climate change as a strategic priority for research, and $10 million is being provided to fund the effort.
Climate Change and the Financial Crisis; a new opportunity for DEA to redouble its effectiveness.
Submitted by David Shearman on Thu, 08/01/2009 - 19:22. Reports on Climate ChangeDr Bill Castleden
Having completed my five year term as Chair of DEA I have been asked to write a ‘farewell’ piece for the website. It builds on an article David Shearman posted on 4 November 2008 and incorporates my thoughts on the recently circulated Hansen letter to the Obamas.
DEA exists because climate change, environmental degradation and pollution are such serious threats to human health. In particular climate change will bring to Australia an increased burden of heat stroke, injury from fire and storm, infectious diseases, social disruption and mental illness. In the developing world it will bring famine and water shortage.
Food, Population Policy and Climate Change
Submitted by David Shearman on Sat, 03/01/2009 - 12:17. Reports on Climate Change
Climate change; ethics and human rights
Submitted by David Shearman on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 11:12. Reports on Climate ChangeClimate Change: Save the Planet from Capitalism a statement delivered to the meeting in
