A CHANGE OF CLIMATE

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Marvel et al 2019 provides new evidence drought increased in some regions during specific periods since 1900 (with aerosols possibly masking the trend when it is not detectable), and that this is connected to climate change. Climate change describes a change in the average conditions — such as temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time. For example, 20,000 years ago, much of the United States was covered in glaciers. In the United States today, we have a warmer climate and fewer glaciers. Climate change increases the factors that put and keep people in poverty. Floods may sweep away urban slums, destroying homes and livelihoods. Heat can make it difficult to work in outdoor jobs. Water scarcity may affect crops. Over the past decade (2010–2019), weather-related events displaced an estimated 23.1 million people on average each year, leaving many more vulnerable to poverty. Most refugees come from countries that are most vulnerable and least ready to adapt to the impacts of climate change. For the Eldred’s regard themselves as “professional Christians” – Ralph a very hands on director of a Christian Charitable trust (a position he inherited form family connections), the trust running a refuge centre in London but also a variety or projects in Norfolk, with Ralph using his home to offer a respite break to both volunteers (the good souls) and clients of the charity (the sad cases), rather to the neglect of his own family.

I had never read anything by this author before and other than knowing she had won the Booker for Wolf Hall I knew nothing about her. Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity. Climate impacts are already harming health, through air pollution, disease, extreme weather events, forced displacement, pressures on mental health, and increased hunger and poor nutrition in places where people cannot grow or find sufficient food. Every year, environmental factors take the lives of around 13 million people. Changing weather patterns are expanding diseases, and extreme weather events increase deaths and make it difficult for health care systems to keep up. This graph shows the average global temperature for each month, from 1850 to 2017. The temperature increases as you move away from the centre of the circle. Promote actions that both reduce carbon emissions and improve health: supporting a rapid and equitable transition to a clean energy economy; ensuring that health is central to climate change mitigation policy; accelerating mitigation actions that bring the greatest health gains; and mobilizing the strength of the health community to drive policy change and build public support.

Evidence. Brief descriptions of some of the key scientific observations that our planet is undergoing abrupt climate change. Mantel’s comments about the Duchess of Cambridge caused unexpected controversy. Photograph: Samir Hussein/WireImage The book centres around a married couple – Ralph and Anna Elsted and their family: parents (one set of parents from Swaffham where I went to sixth form, the other from East Dereham where my grandmother lived) sibling (the aforementioned Emma is Ralph’s sister), their children (who are crucial to the book) and their extended family. By the latter I am referring to a group who seem to flit in and out of the large sprawling but run-down house the Eldred’s occupy in the North Norfolk countryside – a group divided by them into Good Souls and Sad Cases. Burning fossil fuels produces energy, but also releases greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous monoxide into the air. Over time, large quantities of these gases have built up in the atmosphere.

Once in the atmosphere, greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide form a 'blanket' around the planet. This blanket traps the heat from the sun and causes the earth to heat up.Since then, the IPCC has published a report explaining the different impacts between a 1.5 or 2°C temperature rise. It showed that there are many benefits for people all over the world in limiting temperatures to 1.5°C. Large and rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions are needed to meet this goal, however.