http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org The world is in an unprecedented climate change emergency. What role can doctors and other concerned professionals play to save humanity and most life on Earth? en-us climate change emergency Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:54:26 -0400 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:54:26 -0400 climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/state-of-the-climate.htmle9948d05b6d4eecc82b7b8facd2fd789State of the Climate is a research summary on methane emissions and other carbon feedbacks, especially in the Arctic, which threaten life on Earth. Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:54:22 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/2-degree-target.html1a64e20d13aa0beecc606125babd0bc8Although the 2 degree target for global warming is now almost a universally accepted policy position for global climate change mitigation, it is disastrously high! Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:50:20 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/index.htmle1cf8821cebcabc48979153de38f1bf9The world is in an unprecedented climate change emergency. What role can doctors and other concerned professionals play to save humanity and most life on Earth? Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:23:35 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/medical-response-to-climate-change.htmlfa2456429a8edc221a49c57f1fcbc770The medical response to climate change is growing. Medical associations, medical journals and medical researchers are starting to focus on the impacts of climate change on human and population health. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:35:28 -0500 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/emergency-action.htmle1fb4a49c4657680cdc9ac529d7c8f1bEMERGENCY ACTION is a one-stop webpage for doctors and other health care professionals who want to respond to the climate change emergency. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:04:19 -0500 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/why-climate-change-is-an-emergency.html4d5d25567b63bc61e438eacfd2d73bf3Here is abundant evidence showing why climate change is an emergency and an increasing threat to the very survival of humanity. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:04:18 -0500 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/defining-dangerous-climate-change.html73dcf42a077c17b649f24ed17d52a483Defining dangerous climate change impacts and risks in terms of threats to human population health and survival is something the health care profession is qualified to do. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:11:53 -0500 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/climate-change-emergency-declaration.htmldeed3381ec994ed7babc0c5c5930476cWe call on our healthcare, other professional associations, religious and our governments to make a climate change emergency declaration on behalf of present and future vulnerable populations. Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:59:09 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/food-security.html2efaa42a72a9d8af9314755e3d4a2740The biggest health risk of global climate change will be its impact on food security, yet climate models don't include all the adverse effects of climate change on agriculture. Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:28:27 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/climate-change-solutions.html52a6f2dcf14c625c86b2e9c27e4d861fThis page lists global warming and climate change solutions for health professionals to promote. Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:34:07 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/unfccc.htmlfcf18f57530af8555fc1953fe9c481bbThese excerpts from the UNFCCC (the United Nations climate change convention) highlight the intersections between climate change, health and policy. Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:51:33 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/no-new-treaty.html72fa5d4f91d7e48430731c663728cafcStalled UN climate negotiations mean no new treaty is on the way, heightening the climate emergency. Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:20:54 -0500 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/climate-change-emergency-letter.htmlf524cba80f32196d70c639b9b73873cfThis climate change emergency letter to presidents of medical associations everywhere urges them to take immediate action to influence climate change policy. Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:04:00 -0500 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/climate-change-emergency-medical-response.html1b3cd88985b7a20dd80139c6b6d0d7a6Why the global climate emergency is not recognized Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:33:12 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/evidence.html5b6253dc3d4345936951276cfe27793eJust as doctors seek evidence when making a diagnosis, this page links to evidence of the climate change emergency for health professionals who want to learn about their role in mitigation. Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:40:51 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/climate-change-emergency-declaration-endorsement.html3cb757b57a3610ee43ba9f04e366507cJoin Climate Change Emergency Medical Response and offer a Climate Change Emergency Declaration endorsement. Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:42:19 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/mission.htmld53e8739f2fe118b9467e7d5fc6e94c9The mission of Climate Change Emergency Medical Response is to provide a one-stop resource on the planetary climate change emergency and remedial action. Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:59:21 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/ipcc-reasons-for-concern.html40149a38d59fc0913b3a0de060e4167bThe IPCC reasons for concern are designed to help policymakers define dangerous climate change. But they leave out the gravest dangers. Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:00:34 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/ignored-climate-science.htmlf2420db077c8948eb30ac6989da858a3Often ignored climate science includes essential aspects of global climate science to explain why today's global warming is twice what we think it is. Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:33:38 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/climate-change-dangers.htmld90b363e59d00d4b29fe50822b412815Climate change dangers of concern for health care professionals include lack of policy on the risk of public health catastrophe. Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:18:35 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/follow-up.html5a73204da74745fbadfc66ba805f6ba9Follow-up is a list of ways that doctors and other healthcare workers can disseminate and teach what they have learned about the global climate change emergency. Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:07:15 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/who-are-we.html8578d4c9bb68cdd979735b0af8bffad6Who are we? CLIMATE CHANGE EMERGENCY MEDICAL RESPONSE is a growing resource for health care professionals who understand the urgent need to build a global medical response to climate change. Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:15:46 -0400 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427eOn May 29, two of the most important studies on global climate change were released. The sad thing is they both presented the terrible situation that the world's most climate change vulnerable and most economically deprived now face. The numbers at high risk this century are in the billions. These two reports are further proof that global climate change is certain to be the greatest crime against humanity ever, of unimaginable proportion. The reason this is practically certain is that today's level of global warming will double in the next few decades and at least triple by 2100. This follows from the basic global warming science. Today's atmospheric greenhouse gas levels do not heat the planet for several decades and today's global greenhouse gas emissions are still accelerating. What is the saddest thing of all is that the general prevailing attitude in the well off nations is to avoid depressing climate change news. Since global climate has become undeniable gloom and doom is the new taboo. Another big reason why we are silent witnesses to such a crime is a UN report Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate. It explains that global climate change is going to magnify risk but it is also going to magnify risk because of increasing hazard and decreasing resilience. The Global Humanity Forum released The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis which amazingly is the first comprehensive report into the human cost of climate change. It warns the world is in the throes of a 'silent crisis' that is already killing 300,000 people each year. For hundreds of thousands of people climate change catastrophe is now. For tens of millions of people catastrophe is not far away. The reason as the UN reports covers is that global climate change does not just increase disease suffering and death it is the deadly multiplier. It is the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse. Climate change is the leader and the other four follow in its wake. It is not acceptable that nations called civilized are not raising a hand to stop the Fifth Horseman. If these nations don't stop him now they will be next in line, as sure as our emissions today will heat the planet for a thousand years. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:42:35 -0400 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e-cpOn 16 May 2009, The Lancet and the University College of London published a special and very important review paper, Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change. The paper observed that the medical profession has not been actively engaged in the issue and urged the profession to do so. The paper made headlines with its correct conclusion that global climate change will be the top health issue of the 21st century. It will also be the top issue for the survival of most, if not eventually all, humanity. Sadly, The Lancet supported some fatally false but widely accepted assumptions. At the outset the paper states that 2 degrees C is the "safe threshold." To give the impression that global warming up to 2 degree C is safe is wrong in all aspects of the protection of human life and health, as this site explains (see 2 Degree Target). We have potentially catastrophic changes happening in the Arctic right now at today's global warming of only 0.78 degrees C. The 2 degree C target is a political target. According to the science, it is far from safe and, as James Hansen says, it is disastrous. The UN negotiations are also assuming the disastrous 2 degree C is safe and no one is insisting that this be corrected. All the published science from 1989 to 2009 says that anything over 1 degree C cannot be assumed to be safe. Bill Hare, writing in the World Watch 2009 State of the Planet, covers the issue and says that it is now too late to avoid exceeding a 2 degree C temperature increase, so we have to plan to peak above 2 degrees C for as short a time as possible and then get down to 1 degree C as fast as possible. So job one for the health professions is to research how safe the 2 degree C policy target is. If the world plans to get the global warming level back to 2 degrees C after overshooting it - instead of aiming for 1 degree C or less of warming - we have a prescription for global climate catastrophe. What a difference a degree can make. Next week, more on what the message from the Arctic means. Mon, 1 Jun 2009 02:27:50 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/physicians-for-social-responsibility.html41cb9544dc29c81e3894b432edad70eaPhysicians for Social Responsibility is the medical and public health voice working to slow, stop and reverse global warming. Sat, 16 May 2009 00:59:19 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/unep-2009-year-book-and-climate-change.html5e6103d223605d1907b36a8f6cfb92aaThe UNEP 2009 Year Book and Climate Change chapter explain why action on reducing global warming greenhouse gas emissions is so urgent. Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:49:32 -0400 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/australian-medical-association-and-climate-change.htmlc530b64f8d633c0df0af51ab607e1b8eThe Australian Medical Association and Climate Change page shows the AMA's 2004 position statement on climate change and human health. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:32:58 -0500 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/bma-and-climate-change.htmle4e5f0e870e5b3fe0d5466702b28603eThe BMA and Climate Change - How the British Medical Association is taking action on "the biggest environmental concern facing the world today." Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:32:26 -0500 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/climate-and-health-council.htmlafb8101063037ce1030242eee2c48934The UK's Cimate and Health Council gives healthcare professionals the opportunity to sign a pledge "to protect health through active engagement to limit the causes of human-caused climate change." Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:31:46 -0500 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/climate-change-emergency-updates.html615720ad73412d707aff818a5e45271cCheck out these climate change emergency updates on a regular basis, to see what's new in the science of global climate change. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:27:03 -0500 http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/climate-change-emergency-references.html917b0feaadfe998d393d8368f5432c2fThis climate change emergency references page lists the citations of research studies on the current state of the climate and why it is heading to climate catastrophe. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:26:04 -0500