Expert Panel Reports On Possible Acceleration Of Efforts To Limit Global Warming To 1.5ºC Rather Than 2.0ºC Above Pre-industrial Levels Epidemiologists Call For A Greater Role In Climate Change Research Consequences
“The next few years are probably the most important in our history”. That’s the simple and straightforward yet extremely powerful statement coming from Debra Roberts, co-chair of the working group on impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The Panel is the leading world body for assessing the science related to climate change, its impacts and potential future risks, and possible response options.
Roberts’ remarks were made in a press release describing the latest IPCC report investigating the possibility and impact of limiting global warming to 1.5 ºC rather than 2 ºC above preindustrial era levels. Temperatures have already risen by 1ºC, and this amount of global warming is already producing more extreme weather, - Climate cont'd on page 2
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UCLA Investigators Seek To Determine How Research Evidence Can Be Made More Useful For Public Health A Limited Study In The UK Found That Policymakers Considered Existing Evidence Irrelevant A small British study more than a decade ago found that policy advisors working to improve health equity in the UK considered the bulk of scientific evidence irrelevant in meeting their needs. Achieving health equity in this study was understood as the attainment of the highest level of October 2018
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health possible for all people. The data irrelevance was attributed to dual factors, namely the naiveté of researchers about the context of policy making and the nature of the scientific - Evidence cont'd on page 5 •
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