Hi All
The site
https://www.desmog.co.uk/2019/07/25/boris-johnson-s-cabinet-most-anti-climate-action-ever
has profiles of the new UK cabinet with regard to their views on climate
change.
This may be relevant to the suicide rate finding discussed below.
Stephen
Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design. School of Engineering,
University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3DW, Scotland
[email protected], Tel +44 (0)131 650 5704, Cell 07795 203 195,
WWW.homepages.ed.ac.uk/shs, YouTube Jamie Taylor Power for Change
On 27/07/2019 12:25, Andrew Lockley wrote:
Poster's note: this is interesting, as it could conceivably be used as
a justification for near-term, tropospheric, Regional SRM. It would be
interesting to see a modelling study on such an Intervention. If lives
could be saved quickly and reliably, that would add an important
dimension to the governance debate.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0222-x
Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and
Mexico
* Marshall Burke
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0222-x#auth-1>,
* Felipe González
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0222-x#auth-2>,
* […]
* Solomon Hsiang
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0222-x#auth-7>
/Nature Climate Change/volume 8, pages723–729 (2018) | Download
Citation <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0222-x.ris>
Abstract
Linkages between climate and mental health are often theorized but
remain poorly quantified. In particular, it is unknown whether the
rate of suicide, a leading cause of death globally, is systematically
affected by climatic conditions. Using comprehensive data from
multiple decades for both the United States and Mexico, we find that
suicide rates rise 0.7% in US counties and 2.1% in Mexican
municipalities for a 1 °C increase in monthly average temperature.
This effect is similar in hotter versus cooler regions and has not
diminished over time, indicating limited historical adaptation.
Analysis of depressive language in >600 million social media updates
further suggests that mental well-being deteriorates during warmer
periods. We project that unmitigated climate change (RCP8.5) could
result in a combined 9–40 thousand additional suicides (95% confidence
interval) across the United States and Mexico by 2050, representing a
change in suicide rates comparable to the estimated impact of economic
recessions, suicide prevention programmes or gun restriction laws.
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