Interlinked Climate & Energy Challenges

2007Apr: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Report, “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” is issued. Excerpt from the report: “Projected climate change-related exposures are likely to affect the health status of millions of people, particularly those with low adaptive capacity, through: increases in malnutrition and consequent disorders, with implications for child growth and development; increased deaths, disease and injury due to heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts; the increased burden of diarrhoeal disease; the increased frequency of cardio-respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground level ozone related to climate change; and, the altered spatial distribution of some infectious disease vectors” (IPCC, 2007).

Reference: Climate Change 2007: Summary For Policymakers. Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Report. Corresponding chapter title: 8.4, 8.ES, 8.2. http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.htm#1

Image Description: The Greenland Ice Sheet melt area increased on average by 16% from 1979 to 2002. The minimum melt extent was observed after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1992. (Images courtesy of Konrad Steffen and Russell Huff, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder) Image Location: NASA. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/vanishing/ Image Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.