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Governments around the world must step up their preparations for a minimum sealevelrise of 1 metre this century and be planning for up to 3 metres, according to a report released by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in November. Flooded streets in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in October 2016.
Sobering report from Institution of Mechanical Engineers warns governments and businesses are ill-prepared for sealevelrises expected this century. Read the original: Be prepared: Energy, food and medicine at risk from risingseas, engineers warn.
Isle de Jean Charles sits about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, where sea-levelrise and coastal erosion are intensified by oil and gas canals and climate change, and it took a major hit from Hurricane Ida. Isle de Jean Charles on Aug. 22, 2021, before Ida arrived.
To avoid the most disastrous sea-levelrise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
Another IPCC report (2019) warned that we are seeing accelerated ice melt and sealevelrise and more than 10,000 scientists from 153 countries declared a "climate emergency" (Ripple et al, 2019). National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS). Available online at [link] Accessed on January 23, 2020.
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According to the report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “ Oil in the Sea ,” these sources are by far the largest and fastest-growing contributor to ocean oil pollution. His broadest request, however, is that governments invest in more research — and not just after high-profile oil spills.
Ana Bonell, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, studies heat and birth outcomes in western Africa and Pakistan. On an individual level, Ojiaku advises her patients, as early as possible in their pregnancies, to keep cool, stay hydrated, and limit work-related heat exposures as much as possible.
Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. Right now, over in North, you can't name 10 Black businesses — they ain't there," she said.
Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. “If you don’t own anything, you’re not changing nothing.”
Hotter temperatures have already limited harvests of traditional foods and medicine used by many indigenous nations. Rising temperatures have also dried the soil, raising wildfire risks. The slow creep of sea-levelrise has also led to more frequent tidal flooding in coastal cities like Miami.
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