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Energy for Life
Published in Wolfgang Palz, The Triumph of the Sun in 2000–2020, 2019
In 2017, 13 US federal agencies, led by the National Academy of Sciences, came out with a report in much support of the climate change debate. Under the motto “Temperatures increased drastically in the United States since 1880”, they insist on the fact that thousands of studies prepared by ten thousands of international scientists came to the same conclusion: The world’s average surface air temperature has warmed by 0.9°C since 1880. Between 1951 and 2010, the human contribution to temperature increase was 0.65°C. The agencies project that even with low GHG emissions, by the late century, temperatures in the United States would increase by 2.8°C and with higher emissions by 4.8°C. The report came as the Fourth National Climate Assessment. It was leaked in the summer of 2017 to the press waiting for endorsement by the White House. Against the fact that the president had previously quit the “Paris agreement,” eventually the White House approved its publication, without alterations.
Energy for Life
Published in Wolfgang Palz, The Triumph of the Sun, 2018
In 2017, 13 US federal agencies, led by the National Academy of Sciences, came out with a report in much support of the climate change debate. Under the motto “Temperatures increased drastically in the United States since 1880”, they insist on the fact that thousands of studies prepared by ten thousands of international scientists came to the same conclusion: The world’s average surface air temperature has warmed by 0.9°C since 1880. Between 1951 and 2010, the human contribution to temperature increase was 0.65°C. The agencies project that even with low GHG emissions, by the late century, temperatures in the United States would increase by 2.8°C and with higher emissions by 4.8°C. The report came as the Fourth National Climate Assessment. It was leaked in the summer of 2017 to the press waiting for endorsement by the White House. Against the fact that the president had previously quit the “Paris agreement,” eventually the White House approved its publication, without alterations.
A spatial epidemiology case study of mentally unhealthy days (MUDs): air pollution, community resilience, and sunlight perspectives
Published in International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 2021
In addition to air pollution, environmental factors that have been found to be associated with mental health disparity include altitude, humidity, ambient temperature, rapid onsets of natural disasters. For instance, lower altitude is correlated with worse mental health (Ha 2017). Humidity has been identified as a compounding factor that exacerbates the negative impact of hot weather on mental health (Ding et al. 2016). Higher ambient temperatures are correlated with higher risks of suicides in urban environments in East Asia (Kim et al. 2016b). Similarly, temperature rise has been found to increase suicide rates in both the U.S. and Mexico (Burke et al. 2018). The Fourth National Climate Assessment states that earth’s climate will continue to change over this century and beyond with specific manifestations such as rising sea levels, increasing U.S. temperatures, changing U.S. precipitation, and increasing hurricane activities and coastal flooding (Hayhoe et al. 2018). The changing climate on such a large scale has fundamental implications in public health in general and mental health in particular (Berry et al. 2010). The link between post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and rapid onset of disasters such as floods, forest fires, heatwaves, and tropical cyclones has been well documented (Salcioglu et al. 2007; Neria et al. 2008; Berry et al. 2010). High rates of mental illness were found among New Orleans residents 1 year after Hurricane Katrina (Sastry and VanLandingham 2009). The association of deteriorating mental health with long-term climate change effects has been widely hypothesized if not examined (Berry et al. 2010). The assumption is that mental health exacerbates when confronting multiple adversities which are often characteristics associated with slow-creeping climate change induced events such as droughts, sea level rise, and continual temperature rise.