Greenpeace Co-Founder: We’re In One Of The Coldest Periods In Earth’s History
“A well-documented record of global temperature over the past 65 million years shows that we have been in a major cooling period since the Eocene Thermal Maximum 50 million years ago,” Dr. Patrick Moore said at a lecture Wednesday hosted by the U.K.-based Global Warming Policy Foundation.
“The Earth was an average 16C warmer then, with most of the increased warmth at the higher latitudes,” said Moore, who helped found Greenpeace in the 1970s. “The entire planet, including the Arctic and Antarctica were ice-free and the land there was covered in forest.”
Moore, an ecologist, left Greenpeace in the 1980s because he thought the group had become too radical in its demands. Greenpeace disowned Moore, who is renowned by conservatives for skepticism over claims that humankind is causing catastrophic global warming.
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The climate connection: Nurses warn about effects of climate change on public health
https://news.nurse.com/2015/10/12/44479/
When Katie Huffling, MS, RN, CNM, worked as nurse midwife in the Washington, D.C., area, she noticed on days with elevated pollution levels that mothers-to-be with previously controlled asthma came into her office wheezing and struggling for breath, putting themselves and the fetuses they were carrying at risk. Huffling adjusted medications and advised her patients to stay inside on bad air days, but many of them worked and didn’t have cars or even air conditioning. Staying out of the bad air wasn’t a reasonable option. She asked herself, “What can I do to help?”
Nurses and other heathcare providers around the world are seeing the effects of changing climate conditions — including increased surface ozone levels and other air pollution — on their patients and asking the same question. A report from the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, released in June, lists direct global effects of climate change, including increased heat stress, floods, drought and frequency of intense storms. Indirect threats include increases in air pollution levels (which rise on hot days), vector-born illnesses such as Lyme disease and West Nile virus, food insecurity, displacement and mental health stressors.
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The new normal
“As more and more [scientific data]is coming out, this is the biggest public health threat that we face today,” said Huffling, now program director for the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. “Nursing is about prevention and advocacy. There are a lot of positive things we can do.”…
Skeptical Scientist Group asks NASA to Revise 97% Consensus Statements on Global Warming
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/03/prweb12556265.htm
Friends of Science today sent a letter to Charles Bolden, Chief Administrator, asking NASA to revise the consensus claim on the climate change section of NASA’s web-site which the Friends say is misleading. Friends of Science state that their research reveals there has never been a valid consensus study of scientists on climate change and the three polls cited by NASA in fact show that only 1-3% of some climate scientists agree with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change definition of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming.…