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What Can the Coronavirus Teach Us About Preparing for a Heat Wave?
The occurrence of a heat wave during the pandemic may be the clearest example of an overlapping disaster in the near term, but we'll likely see more and more overlapping disasters brought about by a changing climate.
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Jun 8, 2020
The National Interest
Jaime Madrigano @JMadrigano

Global Climate Change

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Mitigating India's Climate-Change Misery
Despite years of dire forecasts, the international community has been unable to halt the steady climb in global temperatures, and it is the world's poorest who are paying the heaviest toll. As heat-related risks intensify, those living on the margins—in India and elsewhere—will need help to cope effectively.
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Oct 11, 2018
Project Syndicate
Gulrez Shah Azhar
Global Climate Change

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Staying Cool—as the Globe Warms
Studies suggest that the heat of the future will exceed humans' capacity to cope. But taking advantage of smart technology, inexpensive traditional methods of cooling that require little energy use, and innovative energy-efficient technologies could provide a sustainable path forward in heat-challenged regions.
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Apr 23, 2018
Science and Development Network
Gulrez Shah Azhar
Global Climate Change

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How Hot Is Too Hot? Rising Temperatures and the Workplace
Climate change is here. Future extreme heat waves are a given and will likely grow in intensity, geographic reach, and duration. Plans must be made now to ensure survival of the poorest, to protect outdoor workers, and to adapt economic planning to what is increasingly becoming a hotter planet.
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Nov 16, 2017
Mint
Gulrez Shah Azhar
Meteorology and Weather

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Weather Forecasts, and Our Trust in Them, Need to Improve
When scientists predict extreme weather that never materializes, lay people tend to wonder what went wrong. This is a natural tendency that is not tied to a failure of the science, but rather to differences in the way scientists and lay people view predictions about extreme events.
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Oct 8, 2013
The Star-Ledger
Melissa L. Finucane, Regina A. Shih @ReginaShih
Global Climate Change

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Removing Road Blocks to Climate Change Adaptation Planning
Despite increasing interest and investments in climate adaptation science, the implementation of adaptation plans through institutional policies or other actions designed to reduce health vulnerabilities has been slow. Institutionalized assumptions are an important roadblock.
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Oct 3, 2013
The RAND Blog
Melissa L. Finucane, Regina A. Shih @ReginaShih
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Storms Blow, But We Can Cut Losses
Published commentary by RAND staff.
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Sep 16, 2004
Times-Picayune, New Orleans
Charles Meade

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

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What Can the Coronavirus Teach Us About Preparing for a Heat Wave?

Mitigating India's Climate-Change Misery

Staying Cool—as the Globe Warms

How Hot Is Too Hot? Rising Temperatures and the Workplace

Weather Forecasts, and Our Trust in Them, Need to Improve

Removing Road Blocks to Climate Change Adaptation Planning

Storms Blow, But We Can Cut Losses

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