August 29, 2019 | The latest data from the Digital Democracy Project suggests that while 17 per cent of respondents indicated the environment was a top election issue, on par with health care, and second to the economy at 20 per cent, support for reducing emissions through a carbon price is soft, even among left-leaning voters.听
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Published on: 13 Sep 2019
August 12, 2019 | In this piece, Christopher Ragan, Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, argues that economists know the more we lean on carbon pricing, the better off our economy will be. He draws on the experience of Sweden's carbon tax and the U.S efforts to reduce acid rain by taxing sulfur-dioxide producing plants. Instead of opting for intrusive and complex policies to fight climate change, Ragan argues that Canada should create economic incentives that give households and businesses the freedom to respond to the market how they see fit.听
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Published on: 12 Aug 2019
June 24, 2019 | Climate change affects many aspects of people's lives. As it is a common source of worry to doctors and economists alike, the proposed solutions to听climate change are numerous.听Chris Ragan, director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy and听Courtney Howard, clinical associate professor at the Cumming School of Medicine (University of Calgary) argue that carbon pricing is the right solution. This piece connects the dots between health outcomes and worsening climate crisis, while exposing its societal financial costs.听
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Published on: 15 Jul 2019
June 30, 2019 |听For doctors across Canada, the evidence at the bedside is increasingly hard to ignore: climate change poses a serious health risk. Chris Ragan, Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, adds that "Economics has a very clear prescription for these challenges: carbon pricing.听In the same way that penicillin treats an infection, carbon pricing can help fight climate change."听
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Published on: 4 Jul 2019
鈥淎fter a slow start, tornado season in the United States has suddenly become supercharged, with 500 twisters touching down over the past month and 12 consecutive days with eight or more of the devastating whirlwinds.鈥� CBC
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鈥淭he active and dangerous tornado season in the United States raises questions about connections to climate change.鈥�
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Published on: 30 May 2019
Published on: 8 May 2019
The greater vulnerability of sea creatures may significantly impact human communities that rely on fish and shellfish for food and economic activity, according to the study published in the journal Nature.听
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Published on: 24 Apr 2019
Rising global maritime traffic could lead to sharp increases in invasive species around the world over the next 30 years, according to a new study by 91黑料网 researchers.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, suggest that shipping growth will far outweigh climate change in the spread of non-indigenous pests to new environments in coming decades.
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Published on: 18 Mar 2019
The Lancet commission on Obesity published a report today on the joint pandemics of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change. In the report, the commissioners point to the fact that malnutrition in all its forms, including undernutrition and obesity, is by far the biggest cause of ill-health and premature death globally. Excess body weight affects 2 billion people worldwide, 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiency, and both are expected to be made significantly worse by climate change.
Published on: 11 Feb 2019
The weather these days is wild and will be wilder still within a century. In part, because the water from melting ice sheets off Greenland and in the Antarctic will cause extreme weather and unpredictable temperatures around the globe. A study published today in Nature is the first to simulate the effects, under current climate policies, that the two melting ice sheets will have on ocean temperatures and circulation patterns as well as on air temperatures by the year 2100.
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Published on: 6 Feb 2019
More than two-thirds of Canada鈥檚 biodiversity is made up of species that occur within the country鈥檚 borders only at the very northern edge of their range. Biologists have long debated how much effort should be dedicated to conserving these 鈥渆dge populations.鈥� One argument in their favour is that they may be especially well suited to lead northward range shifts for their species as the climate warms.
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Published on: 17 Dec 2018
Que nous dit le Grand Nord sur notre climat, pr茅sent et pass茅? Isabelle Burgun s鈥檈ntretient avec deux chercheurs : Marianne Falardeau-C么t茅, candidate au doctorat au d茅partement des sciences des ressources naturelles 脿 l'Universit茅 91黑料网. Elle avait pr茅c茅demment voyag茅 sur l鈥橝mundsen dans le cadre de sa ma卯trise.
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Published on: 12 Oct 2018
Due to processes occurring over vast ranges of scale, from fast to slow and from small to large, extreme weather and climate events aren鈥檛 as rare as scientists have thought 鈥� and that could complicate efforts to determine when extreme events signal perilous climate change, according to a new analysis published in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Published on: 23 Aug 2018
A new method for projecting how the temperature will respond to human impacts supports the outlook for substantial global warming throughout this century 鈥� but also indicates that, in many regions, warming patterns are likely to vary significantly from those estimated by widely used computer models.
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Published on: 15 May 2018
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