Two orgs trying to engage with the public: YCC and ICN
UAF Arctic Research
Yale Climate Connection
“Dangerously high temperatures plague the southern U.S.”
This week, 52 million people in the southern U.S. are experiencing a heat wave made 400% more likely by climate change, according to Climate Central. And talking about it is an effective way to improve your friends and family members’ understanding of the connection between climate change and heat waves, new research from our colleagues at the Yale Program on Climate Communication suggests. Even just talking about heat — without saying the words “climate change” — can significantly change beliefs, the researchers found.
These resources can help you plan how to protect yourself, your family, and your home during a heat wave. Forward them to people who live in the region that may be affected by this event.
· How to spot the symptoms of heat stroke and heat exhaustion
· How to stay cool in hot weather
· Common medications may increase the dangers of heat wave
What else you can do to help
Climate change is making extreme weather more frequent and intense. One of the most important things you can do to help solve climate change is to talk about it in person and on social media. Talking about climate change during extreme weather events is particularly effective. The following post can help you feel like an expert when you talk to your friends and family. Save the graphic below to share tips via social media, text, or email. Heat waves and climate change: Is there a connection?
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YCC seems locked into an ideology of individual adaptations. As I watch the temp rise year after year and Republican gov inaction continues, I have decided to advocate not only for free educ. and health care for all but free swimming for all at the necessarily enlarged public pools. Warming could be as large and destructive as WWII, requiring gov mobilization of similar scope, yes? –D]
RESISTANCE: REVEALING THE TRUTH
“Most Americans had never heard of it.” Inside Climate News <memberships@insideclimatenews.org>
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UAF, FULBRIGHT COLLEGE RESEARCH CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC June 27, 2024. CONGRATULATIONS.
UAF’s Dr. Peter S. Ungar, recently awarded the Omni Center’s climate change fellowship, sent me an illustrated “comic” strip narrative of his and related research for K-12 kids. Here is the link, you’ll enjoy it. Among the hundred facts of the research I learned the word “ Fennoscandia” and gained a stronger identification with fellow herbivores–reindeer and lemmings! Please view and share.
Peter S. Ungar, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
Director of Environmental Dynamics
University of Arkansas