Climate Change Health

The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning (FULL MOVIE)

The Antarctica Chellenge: A Global Warning Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth has done a lot to raise the international awareness of the environmental issue of global warming. But where do things stand today? The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning is a one-hour HD documentary that will go to the source of the…

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Climate change and the Maya

Kenneth Seligson, California State University, Dominguez Hills Carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere have reached 415 parts per million – a level that last occurred more than three million years ago, long before the evolution of humans. This news adds to growing concern that climate change will likely wreak serious damage on our planet in…

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How to use critical thinking to spot false climate claims

Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland Much of the public discussion about climate science consists of a stream of assertions. The climate is changing or it isn’t; carbon dioxide causes global warming or it doesn’t; humans are partly responsible or they are not; scientists have a rigorous process of peer review or they don’t, and…

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Why we should stop labelling people climate change deniers

Chui-Ling Tam, University of Calgary In the westernmost reaches of Nunavut, on the Northwest Passage, Inuit hunters have told me some pithy things about climate change. The land is changing. It isn’t climate change. This is part of cycles. Our elders saw this coming. Some of the most visible and profound effects of global warming…

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