February 28, 2007
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FROM VOLUME 8, NUMBER 4, APRIL 1995
studies program. Over 90 scientists and energy policy makers
from 29 developing countries learned skills needed to control
their countries' greenhouse gas emissions at a workshop held at
the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in April. The week-long session
was a major component of the U.S. Country Studies Program, which
is also hosting regional workshops throughout the world (see NEWS
NOTES, Global Climate Change Digest, March 1994). The rest
of the 1995 regional workshops are listed in this month's
CALENDAR (Uruguay, Mexico, Tanzania, Czech Republic, Korea); the
first four were listed in Global Climate Change Digest,
February and March.
the Mercury Soars, So May Health Hazards," R. Stone, Science,
pp. 957-958, Feb. 17. Concern about the potential effects of
global warming has centered so far on the physical effects, such
as elevated sea level and altered storm activity. But the World
Health Organization plans to issue a major report on health
impacts later this year, and the upcoming IPCC assessment will
include a chapter on the topic. Summarizes recent studies on
increased risk of malaria and other diseases, and increased
mortality from heat waves in cities.
"U.S. Insurers Meet with Vice President on Climate
Change," Global Environ. Change Rep., p. 7, Feb. 24.
In recent years, insurers have absorbed a series of extraordinary
losses from natural events. They agreed to review their losses
and evaluate the potential effect of climate change.
"Planes Fly Through Climate Loophole," F. Pearce, New
Scientist, p. 4, Jan. 7. The Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change has recommended that international air traffic be
excluded from national targets for reducing CO2
emissions under the climate convention-because it is too
difficult to determine which country is responsible for what.
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