PSR Conference Resources -- Medical, Health, Human Rights and Social Justice Consequences of Global Warming and Climate Change

( last updated 10/24/07 )

RESOURCE MATERIALS

SPEAKER SLIDE SETS (PDF VERSIONS)

Plenary I Climate Change Challenges to Health & Human Rights

Jerry Schnoor: Climate Change Science & Wedges
James Merchant: Public Health Concerns

Dinner Keynote Moral Imperative to Confront Global Warming

Dave Hall: Bringing Hope & Passion to Heal Psychic Dumbing

Opening Keynote Climate Change and Human Health

Michael McGeehin: Climate Change, The Public Health Response

Plenary II Linked Threats to Health & Environment: Current Energy Sources

Catherine Thomasson: Health Threats of Auto-Centered Cities
Andrea Hricko: Ports, Trade & Transit, Health Threats to Workers, Neighborhoods & Global Climate
Arjun Makhijani: Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy

Plenary III Collateral Damange: Overlooked Health Costs of Disasters

Tyler Curiel: Maintaining Research and Care in Disasters
Douglas Taylor: Challenges to Global Food & Water Security
Curt Drennen: Loss and Mental Health

Concurrent Roundtables

Rich Pirog: "Low Carbon Diet" -- Food Production with Lowa Carbon Emissions
Victor Sidel: War, Global Warming, Public Health & Opportunity Costs

Plenary IV Global Warming, Health & Human Rights Links

Donald Goldberg: Global Warming and Human Rights: The Right to be Cold
Ravi Vadlamudi: Poor, Minorities & Marginalized after Katrina-- The Common Ground Clinic

Plenary V Global Warming, Affordable, Attainalbe, Sustainable Solutions

Jon Carlson: Sovereignty, Intatrional Environmental Law, and Global Climate Change
Bruce Nilles: Stopping the Coal Rush with Clean Energy Solutions

Plenary VI Good News: Case of Humand Health Living Through Sustainable Engergy

Catherine Thomasson: How the West Coast is Coming Clean & Green
Mark Kresowik: Cool Cities & Counties Campaign
Rich Dana: Assessing the National Legislative Frontier--The Good, The Bad & The Nonexistent

FACT SHEETS, MAJOR REPORTS, AND ARTICLES

There is a saying: “while US citizens talk environment, they tend to vote their pocketbooks.” Of course, one of the great economic impacts of global climate change will be the added health costs in terms of illness, lost productivity, and degradation of medical and social infrastructure.

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPPC) REPORTS
Corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize – Series of reports since establishment by the World Meterological Organization and the UN Environmental Programme have established global warming as a man-made crisis that demands urgent action (http://www.ipcc.ch).

THE STERN REPORT
For a better understanding of how health, environment, and economic issues are intertwined, we point to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change commissioned in 2005 by and presented in 2006 to the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer and is available in printed form or online:

The Economics of Climate Change -- The Stern Review. Nicholas Stern, Cabinet Office - HM Treasury

Order The Stern Report, 721 page paperback edition.
Download the entire 712 page report or individual sections of the report in PDF format: The Stern Report

THE UN, SWISS RE, AND HARVARD REPORT
The UN, the insurance industry, and the prestigious Harvard Center for Health and Global Environment directed by Paul Epstein MD has prepared a massive assessment of the effects of climate change on health, jointed released by Harvard (Center for Health and Global Environment), UNDP (United Nations Development Programme & Swiss Re (Swiss global insurer of insurance companies) on

Climate Change Impacts on Health.

See the release document.
See the flyer for the document:
View & download the full Harvard Report: "Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions."

THE UNITED NATIONS has seen fit to highlight the global importance of climate change:

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

PSR FACT SHEETS on global warming:

“Fighting Global Warming; Ending Our Dependence on Oil" (4 page PDF)
(References at bottom of document)

"The Medical and Public Health Impacts of Global Warming" (4 page PDF)

References and in a separate document. (2 page PDF)

PSR POWER POINT PRESENTATION ON GLOBAL WARMING:

"Global Warming: Implications for Human Health"
33.7 MB download from PSR.org, 60 slides with speaker notes

STUDENT PSR and AMSA JOINT MEDICAL ALLIANCE AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING

Medical Alliance Resouces Page

NEWSWEEK ARTICLE, August 2007

Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine by Sharon Begley
Newsweek, August 13, 2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20122975/site/newsweek/

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