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This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate
disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described
include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related
health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases,
food and water insecurity and chronic diseases to malnutrition and
mental well-being. The influence of humans on climate change has
been established through extensive published evidence and reports.
However, the connections between climate change, the health of the
planet and the impact on human health have not received the same
level of attention. Therefore, the global focus on the public
health impacts of climate change is a relatively recent area of
interest. This focus is timely since scientists have concluded that
changes in climate have led to new weather extremes such as floods,
storms, heat waves, droughts and fires, in turn leading to more
than 600,000 deaths and the displacement of nearly 4 billion people
in the last 20 years. Previous work on the health impacts of
climate change was limited mostly to epidemiologic approaches and
outcomes and focused less on multidisciplinary, multi-faceted
collaborations between physical scientists, public health
researchers and policy makers. Further, there was little attention
paid to faith-based and ethical approaches to the problem. The
solutions and actions we explore in this book engage diverse
sectors of civil society, faith leadership, and political
leadership, all oriented by ethics, advocacy, and policy with a
special focus on poor and vulnerable populations. The book
highlights areas we think will resonate broadly with the public,
faith leaders, researchers and students across disciplines
including the humanities, and policy makers.
The objective of this NATO Advanced Research Workshop was to
discuss our current understanding of the role of clouds in climate
and chemistry. The range of topics dis cussed during the workshop
included: modeling of clouds in GCMs; observations of the cloud
micro physical properties; the water vapor cycle;
troposphere-stratosphere exchange; role of in-cloud transport in
tropospheric ozone; regulation of current and paleo climate by
clouds; and anthropogenic sulfate aerosols and modification of
cloud properties. The essence of the discussions is captured in the
accompanying summary by the rapporteurs and the chapters by some of
the speakers. The underlying message is that significant progress
has been made, resulting in exciting new developments in our
perception of the role of clouds in the global system . .. The
tropical convective-cirrus cloud systems emerge as a major
influence on the climate system. Micro physical processes, such as
the rate of precipitation and re evaporation of ice particles, seem
to regulate the large scale vertical distribution of water vapor
which is the dominant greenhouse gas. Water vapor data collected
during the Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment (CEPEX), document
the large moistening effect of deep convection on scales of
thousands of kilometers. A major chemical finding in the same
region was the observation of extremely low ozone 8 volume mixing
ratios of less than 10- in the entire troposphere of the central
equatorial Pacific extending over a distance of about 2000 km. This
finding establishes the Pacific as a major chemical sink region for
tropospheric ozone."
This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate
disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described
include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related
health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases,
food and water insecurity and chronic diseases to malnutrition and
mental well-being. The influence of humans on climate change has
been established through extensive published evidence and reports.
However, the connections between climate change, the health of the
planet and the impact on human health have not received the same
level of attention. Therefore, the global focus on the public
health impacts of climate change is a relatively recent area of
interest. This focus is timely since scientists have concluded that
changes in climate have led to new weather extremes such as floods,
storms, heat waves, droughts and fires, in turn leading to more
than 600,000 deaths and the displacement of nearly 4 billion people
in the last 20 years. Previous work on the health impacts of
climate change was limited mostly to epidemiologic approaches and
outcomes and focused less on multidisciplinary, multi-faceted
collaborations between physical scientists, public health
researchers and policy makers. Further, there was little attention
paid to faith-based and ethical approaches to the problem. The
solutions and actions we explore in this book engage diverse
sectors of civil society, faith leadership, and political
leadership, all oriented by ethics, advocacy, and policy with a
special focus on poor and vulnerable populations. The book
highlights areas we think will resonate broadly with the public,
faith leaders, researchers and students across disciplines
including the humanities, and policy makers.
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