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Climate Change - Health and Environmental Effects
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Climate Change - Health and Environmental Effects
Direct Temperature Effects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has produced the Excessive Heat Events Guidebook with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Municipal officials in both the U.S. and Canada provided useful information that can be used to help the public cope with excessive heat.
Designed to help community officials, emergency managers, meteorologists, and others plan for and respond to excessive heat events, the guidebook highlights best practices that have been employed to save lives during excessive heat events in different urban areas and provides a menu of options that officials can use to respond to these events in their communities.
Climate change may directly affect human health through increases in average temperature. Such increases may lead to more extreme heat waves during the summer while producing less extreme cold spells during the winter. Rising average temperatures are predicted to increase the incidence of heat waves and hot extremes. In the United States, Chicago is projected to experience 25 percent more frequent heat waves and Los Angeles a four-to-eight-fold increase in heat wave days by the end of the century (IPCC, 2007). Particular segments of the population such as those with heart problems, asthma, the elderly, the very young and the homeless can be especially vulnerable to extreme heat.

Climate-Sensitive Diseases
Climate change may increase the risk of some infectious diseases, particularly those diseases that appear in warm areas and are spread by mosquitoes and other insects. These "vector-borne" diseases include malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and encephalitis. Also, algal blooms could occur more frequently as temperatures warm — particularly in areas with polluted waters — in which case diseases (such as cholera) that tend to accompany algal blooms could become more frequent.
Higher temperatures, in combination with favorable rainfall patterns, could prolong disease transmission seasons in some locations where certain diseases already exist. In other locations, climate change will decrease transmission via reductions in rainfall or temperatures that are too high for transmission. For example, temperature and humidity levels must be sufficient for certain disease-carrying vectors, such as ticks that carry Lyme disease, to thrive. And climate change could push temperature and humidity levels either towards or away from optimum conditions for the survival rate of ticks


July 5, 2009 | 3:30 AM Comments  0 comments

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future of communist
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The Communist Party of China has engaged systematically in human rights violations against its people from the moment it seized power. For most of its rule, the Communist Party kept China as a hermit kingdom, disengaged from the rest of the world.

The Tiananmen Square demonstrations and the collapse of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe terrified the Chinese rulers. They realized that more than their socialist ideology was at risk. Their own careers, their accumulation of wealth and privilege, their immunity from prosecution for the crimes they had committed hung in the balance.

So they shifted from communism to capitalism, abandoning an ideology they understood was no longer tenable. Being capitalist meant being part of the global economy. A shift from communism to capitalism meant a shift from isolation to engagement.

Has this shift improved the human rights picture in China, made China more of a right respecting state? In my view, regrettably not. I come to the conclusion from personal experience.

David Kilgour and I wrote a report in which we came to the conclusion that China hospitals had been harvesting organs from detained Falun Gong practitioners and selling the harvested organs for huge sums to transplant tourists. Our report came out in a first version in July 2006 and a second version in January 2007. Today I do not want to talk about that report except tangentially, but rather what I experienced of the Communist Party of China from doing that report.

1. Gao Zhisheng

My first shock came from our efforts to get into China for the purpose of doing research about our report. Because I am an immigration lawyer in Canada I know that an application for a visa is more likely to succeed when the application is accompanied by an invitation from someone in the country from which the visa is sought. We cast about in several directions for an invitation from China to do this work. The person who responded was Gao Zhisheng.

David Kilgour and I asked for a meeting with the Chinese embassy in Canada to discuss terms of entry. Our request for a meeting was accepted. But the person who met with David Kilgour was interested only in denying the allegations and not in arranging for our visit. So we never made a formal visa application and never submitted Gao's invitation to the Chinese embassy.

Shortly thereafter, on August 15, Gao was arrested, tortured, prosecuted for inciting subversion, convicted on December 12, and sentenced on December 22 to three years suspended for five years. Though the jail sentence was suspended, he went into house arrest where he remains to this day.


June 24, 2009 | 6:35 AM Comments  0 comments

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KNOW PRACHANDA
Related to country: Nepal

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Pushpa Kamal Dahal, 53, popularly known as Prachanda, is the leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) or CPN.

Prachanda was brought up in Nepal's Chitwan district and was born in 1954.

Born into a high-caste but poor farming family, Prachanda was driven to politics by the extreme poverty he witnessed in rural Nepal.

His interest grew in the communist groups that emerged in Nepal during the late 1960s after the king (Gyanendra's father) banned political parties.

In 1986, Prachanda became general secretary of the CPN.

He also led the People's Liberation Army, the military wing of CPN. Prachanda launched CPN's Nepalese People's War on February 13, 1996, which killed thousands of Nepalis.

In 1990, he went undergound and pursued a decade of armed struggle.

He announced a ceasefire and signed up to peace in 2006, that lasted 90 days.

He has had trouble losing his image as a man of war.

His immediate family members are active in Maoist politics, with his wife and daughter holding seats in the constituent assembly.

Now the most powerful man in Nepal, he is set to lead a new government.

Prachanda is the face of a "New Nepal," a popular Maoist slogan.

June 19, 2009 | 7:28 AM Comments  1 comments

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youth vulnarability
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The government or a civil society that cannot manage its youth population is in deep trouble. This is clearly manifested in the analysis of the Nepali society and economy. For a small developing country like Nepal with poor infractures and physical resources the employment of youths both in the formal and the informal sector poses a huge problem. The budget of the government for the fiscal year 1999/ 2000 made a provision for self-employment exploration allowance for two months and also concessional loans for the trained youths in this program. But all this program made little headway than paper work. Thus, the government in desperation started to focus its attention in generating employment for the Nepalis in foreign countries. This sudden shift in thrust from generating employment within the country to overseas besides being humiliating for the country has an adverse effect in the Nepali society. The big exodus of the youth of Nepal to foreign countries left the hills of Nepal only under the care and protection of children and the elderly. This not only brought the agricultural economy of the hills to a virtual standstill but also opened the labor market of Nepal to a flood of skilled and semi-skilled Indians. Thus, Nepal has been more dependent upon India for goods and services than ever before.

June 19, 2009 | 7:04 AM Comments  0 comments

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neplease area decreasing( border disputes)
Related to country: Nepal

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My nationality have not slept but my wisdom is fighting with myself. Simultaneously i cant or have done nothing FOR NATIONALITY. This blog is dedicated to all those who are the victim of cruel SSP OF INDIA AND INDIAN POLICY despite of the fact that the unhuman, cruel , domonating and punishable act of indian boarder security force in dang and banke district of nepal sharing border to india.

Why to blame others our immature foreign minister sujata koirala have ignored such act. is she commited to the nationality or she is itself the indian who have got the illigal nepalease citizenship.

June 7, 2009 | 5:56 AM Comments  0 comments



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