Canadian Medical Association Journal, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 194(21), P. E741 - E745
Published: May 29, 2022
KEY POINTS During the first year of COVID-19 pandemic through early 2021, international comparisons showed a wide variation in patterns mortality across countries.[1][1] Although some countries saw no change or even fewer deaths than expected, others marked increases, such as
Language: Английский
The Lancet, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 400(10363), P. 1619 - 1654
Published: Oct. 25, 2022
Language: Английский
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International Review of Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 34(5), P. 443 - 498
Published: July 4, 2022
Converging global evidence highlights the dire consequences of climate change for human mental health and wellbeing. This paper summarises literature across relevant disciplines to provide a comprehensive narrative review multiple pathways through which interacts with Climate acts as risk amplifier by disrupting conditions known support good health, including socioeconomic, cultural environmental conditions, living working conditions. The disruptive influence rising temperatures extreme weather events, such experiencing heatwave or water insecurity, compounds existing stressors experienced individuals communities. has deleterious effects on people's is particularly acute those groups already disadvantaged within countries. Awareness experiences escalating threats inaction can generate understandable psychological distress; though strong emotional responses also motivate action. We highlight opportunities communities cope act change. Consideration interconnected impacts their determinants must inform evidence-based interventions. Appropriate action that centres justice reduce current future burden, while simultaneously improving nurture wellbeing equality. presented adds further weight need decisive decision makers all scales.
Language: Английский
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Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 14(1)
Published: Feb. 9, 2023
In late June 2021 a heatwave of unprecedented magnitude impacted the Pacific Northwest region Canada and United States. Many locations broke all-time maximum temperature records by more than 5 °C, Canadian national record was broken 4.6 with new 49.6 °C. Here, we provide comprehensive summary this event its impacts. Upstream diabatic heating played key role in anomaly. Weather forecasts provided advanced notice event, while sub-seasonal showed an increased likelihood heat extreme lead times 10-20 days. The impacts were catastrophic, including hundreds attributable deaths across Northwest, mass-mortalities marine life, reduced crop fruit yields, river flooding from rapid snow glacier melt, substantial increase wildfires-the latter contributing to landslides months following. These examples can learn vivid depiction how climate change be so devastating.
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npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 6(1)
Published: Feb. 17, 2023
Abstract Extreme summer temperatures are increasingly common across the Northern Hemisphere and inflict severe socioeconomic biological consequences. In 2021, Pacific Northwest region of North America (PNW) experienced a 2-week-long extreme heatwave, which contributed to record-breaking temperatures. Here, we use tree-ring records show that in as well rate summertime warming during last several decades, unprecedented within context millennium for PNW. absence committed efforts curtail anthropogenic emissions below intermediate levels (SSP2–4.5), climate model projections indicate rapidly increasing risk PNW regularly experiencing 2021-like temperatures, with 50% chance yearly occurrence by 2050. The 2021 provide benchmark impetus communities historically temperate climates account heat-related impacts change adaptation strategies.
Language: Английский
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Environmental Health Perspectives, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 132(2)
Published: Feb. 1, 2024
Health agencies recommend that homes of heat-vulnerable occupants (e.g., older adults) be maintained below 24-28°C to prevent heat-related mortality and morbidity. However, there is limited experimental evidence support these recommendations.
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The Lancet Planetary Health, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8(4), P. e256 - e269
Published: April 1, 2024
Health agencies worldwide have historically cautioned that electric fans accelerate body-heat gain during hot weather and heatwaves (typically in air temperatures ≥35°C). However, guidance published since 2021 has suggested can still cool the body up to 40°C by facilitating sweat evaporation, therefore are an inexpensive yet sustainable alternative conditioning. In a critical analysis of reports cited support this claim, we found although fan use improves these benefits insufficient magnitude exert meaningful reductions core temperature exceeding 35°C. should continue advise against higher than 35°C, especially for people with compromised sweating capacity (eg, adults aged 65 years or older). Improving access ambient cooling strategies conditioning evaporative coolers) minimising their economic environmental costs through policy initiatives, efficient technology, combined low-cost personal interventions skin wetting use) crucial climate adaptation.
Language: Английский
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Heliyon, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 10(4), P. e26431 - e26431
Published: Feb. 1, 2024
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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Feb. 4, 2025
Language: Английский
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Climatic Change, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 174(1-2)
Published: Sept. 1, 2022
Climate change is widely recognized as a major risk to societies and natural ecosystems but the high end of risk, i.e., where risks become existential, poorly framed, defined, analyzed in scientific literature. This gap at odds with fundamental relevance existential for humanity, it also limits ability communities engage emerging debates narratives about dimension climate that have recently gained considerable traction. paper intends address this by scoping defining related change. We first review context change, drawing on research fields global catastrophic risks, key so-called Reasons Concern reports Intergovernmental Panel Change. consider how are framed civil society movement well what can be learned respect from COVID-19 crisis. To better frame we propose define them those threaten existence subject, subject an individual person, community, or nation state humanity. The threat their defined two levels severity: conditions (1) survival (2) basic human needs. A third level, well-being, commonly not part space risks. Our definition covers range different scales, which leads us into further six analytical dimensions: physical social processes involved, systems affected, magnitude, spatial scale, timing, probability occurrence. In conclusion, suggest clearer more precise framing such offer here facilitates analysis societal political discourse action.
Language: Английский
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Communications Earth & Environment, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 3(1)
Published: June 2, 2022
Abstract Atmospheric rivers are long and narrow bands of enhanced water vapour transport concentrated in the lower troposphere. Many studies have documented important role cold-season atmospheric producing heavy precipitation extreme flooding events. Relatively little research has been conducted on warm-season their impacts heatwave Here we show an anomalous river moving across North Pacific its interaction with western American late June 2021. This system transported moisture heat energy from Southeast Asia to northeast Pacific. Its landfall over Alaska resulted substantial spillover sensible beyond Coast Ranges. We provide evidence indicating that flux convergence short-lived greenhouse effect trapped could form a positive feedback mechanism leading northward expansion event Canada.
Language: Английский
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