Category: Climate

By definition, climatology denotes the study of climate. Climate for its part refers to a set of weather conditions that characterize a given location (Monin, 1986). With these definitions in mind, theories of climatology refer to the ideas that attempt to explain some climatic phenomena. There are two well known theories in the field of…

Executive Summary The United States environmental policies are a set of federal government acts aimed at protecting the environment from the ecologically hazardous actions of the citizens. Lawmakers in the US have created many policies and federal agencies to handle environmental affairs. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the federal agency tasked with…

Nowadays, many media sources contain discussions about the connection between religion and politics in modern society. A variety of political themes is analyzed through the prism of current religious aspects, and global warming is one of them. In most cases, the authors of newspaper articles pay attention to the differences between the Democratic Party representatives…

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol, and Jessica Schmidt. Learning to be Postmodern in an All Too Modern World: Whatever Action in International Climate Change Imaginaries. Global Society 33, no. 1 (2019): 45-65. The article by Bargués-Pedreny and Schmidt aims to identify the existing contradictions in climate regulation issues. In particular, the study is devoted to assessing contemporary initiatives…

Introduction Climate change is one of the most urgent issues in todays world, therefore, governments, citizens, international organizations aim to preserve the current state of the problem with a slender hope of improvement in the future. The US government is not an exception as most presidents made an impact on the climate change policy of…

Octavia E. Butler wrote a novel in 1993 that has gained popularity in the academic spectrum. It is a post-apocalyptic knowledge literature novel that addresses climate modification and socioeconomic inequalities (Iossifidis, 2020). Several people have ventured into the novel and strived to learn about the Earthseed area she created by first analyzing the study and…

Climate change poses considerable public health risks in developed and underdeveloped countries. It affects human welfare by intensifying existing environmental stressors and introducing new threats to global health (CDC, 2020). The changing climate results in periods of temperature extremes worldwide, which cause disruptions in the infrastructure sector, agriculture, and ecosystems (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2016). Extreme…

Introduction The current situation of air pollution and climate change results in almost 7 million premature deaths yearly, making it a significant priority issue for several global health organizations. The state of the air pollution issue is worsened by the possibility of future change in climate that would end in increased frequency and duration of…

How Can Climate Change Potentially Impact Global Public Health? While seemingly tenuous, the connection between climate change and health challenges is, in fact, rather strong. Climate change is likely to lead to the destruction of a range of habitats, drop in the amount of drinkable water, the rise in air pollution, reduction in the amount…

One of the most critical medical issues associated with climate change is air quality, which is rapidly deteriorating. The whole population of the nation is at threat, although some groups of people are at higher risk due to the complex socio-genetic factors (Climate change health, n.d.). Respiratory diseases caused by climate change, such as asthma,…