{"id":449,"date":"2009-05-14T09:31:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T13:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=449"},"modified":"2009-05-15T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T18:38:11","slug":"doom-and-gloom-or-call-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2009\/05\/doom-and-gloom-or-call-to-action\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Doom and Gloom&#8221; or &#8220;Call to Action&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(via <a title=\"Grist.org on Energy and Climate\" href=\"http:\/\/gristmill.grist.org\/kingdom\/climate-energy\" target=\"_blank\">Grist<\/a>) A new report from the World Bank on effects of storm surges and extreme weather as a result of global warming. (See an <a title=\"NY Times, May 13, 2009. (Climate Wire)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/cwire\/2009\/05\/13\/13climatewire-highly-destructive-climate-impacts-loom-for-12208.html\" target=\"_blank\">overview<\/a> in the NY Times, and the<a title=\"Draft Report from the World Bank\" href=\"http:\/\/www-wds.worldbank.org\/external\/default\/WDSContentServer\/IW3P\/IB\/2009\/04\/14\/000158349_20090414102048\/Rendered\/PDF\/WPS4901.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> draft report<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(via <a title=\"Gillian Kerr's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.realworldsystems.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gillian<\/a>) A report in the Lancet on the impacts on health, which begins with the sentence &#8220;Climate Change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century&#8221;. (See an <a title=\"New Scientist, 14 May 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn17126-climate-change-diagnosed-as-biggest-global-health-threat.html\" target=\"_blank\">overview<\/a> in New Scientist, and the\u00a0<a title=\"The Lancet, vol 373 May 16 2009 (editorial)\" href=\"http:\/\/download.thelancet.com\/flatcontentassets\/pdfs\/climate-editorial.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"The Lancet, vol 373, May 16 2009.\" href=\"http:\/\/download.thelancet.com\/flatcontentassets\/pdfs\/climate-article.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full report in the Lancet)<\/a>. But to me, this is the most interesting bit: a <a title=\"Comment section in the Lancet, vol 373, May 16, 2009.\" href=\"http:\/\/download.thelancet.com\/flatcontentassets\/pdfs\/climate-comment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">roadmap for applied research<\/a> in health and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re on the topic of research roadmaps, here&#8217;s one on <a title=\"Australian Psychology Association Roadmap on Psych and Climate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psychology.org.au\/Assets\/Files\/how_psychology_can_help.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Psychology and Climate Change<\/a>, from the Australian\u00a0Psychological\u00a0Association.<\/p>\n<p>Update: And another one from WWF And ETNOA &#8211; a roadmap on how the <a title=\"WWF report on ICT and emissions reduction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unapcict.org\/ecohub\/resources\/saving-the-climate-the-speed-of-light-first-roadmap-for-reduced-co2-emissions-in-the-eu-and-beyond\" target=\"_blank\">ICT sector can contribute to emissions reduction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I like these roadmaps &#8211; send more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Grist) A new report from the World Bank on effects of storm surges and extreme weather as a result of global warming. (See an overview in the NY Times, and the draft report).\u00a0 (via Gillian) A report in the Lancet on the impacts on health, which begins with the sentence &#8220;Climate Change is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54,50],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}