{"id":4156,"date":"2011-11-12T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T04:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T02:21:08","slug":"year-2-month-11-day-12-now-watch-this-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-11-day-12-now-watch-this-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 11, Day 12: Now Watch This Drive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/health\/boostershots\/la-heb-health-costs-climate-change-20111108,0,5060022.story\">More on the health impact study, this time from the LA Times:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Six climate change-related events taking place between 2000 and 2009 cost the U.S. about $14 billion in health costs, researchers reported Monday in the journal Health Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Most of those costs &#8212; 95% &#8212; were attributable to the value of lost lives, they wrote. About $740 million originated in &#8220;760,000 encounters with the health care system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The coauthors, affiliated with the Natural Resources Defense Council, UC Berkeley&#8217;s Boalt Law School in Berkeley and UC San Francisco wrote that their article was &#8220;a first attempt to synthesize health data from the literature on events related to climate change and to develop a uniform method of quantifying their health costs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The events they studied are the types of climate-related disasters that are expected to occur more often in the future as the Earth&#8217;s climate warms, they said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There.  You&#8217;ve covered your ass, now.  <\/p>\n<p>Sent November 8:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Health Affairs study on the costs of climate change is particularly important when considered alongside the Department of Energy report released last week which noted a &#8220;monster&#8221; increase in greenhouse gas emissions for 2010, suggesting that the extreme weather we&#8217;ve witnessed so far has been merely a preview of coming attractions.  For all their bluster about reducing the deficit, conservative politicians don&#8217;t seem to remember the old aphorism, &#8220;An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.&#8221;  When we consider fourteen billion dollars of health costs connected to global climate change, it should be obvious: America needs to prepare for a future in which these environmental disasters are both more frequent and more severe.  We must act now to reduce those bills before they come due.  A failure to do so is sensible only in a political environment where empty posturing trumps factuality one hundred percent of the time.  <\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on the health impact study, this time from the LA Times: Six climate change-related events taking place between 2000 and 2009 cost the U.S. about $14 billion in health costs, researchers reported Monday in the journal Health Affairs. Most of those costs &#8212; 95% &#8212; were attributable to the value of lost lives, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[748,606],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-public-health","tag-republican-obstructionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}