Doctors Warn Climate Change A Major Risk For Children's Health | Voxy.co.nz

Paediatricians and other senior doctors have called for strong action on climate change in a sobering article just released in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health.

"Runaway climate change is a real and urgent threat to the wellbeing of New Zealand's children," says Dr Rhys Jones, one of the authors of the paper.

"Children are particularly vulnerable to climate change. In New Zealand an increase in extreme weather events is likely to result as we fail to respond adequately to climate change. Children spend more time outdoors and are physically smaller and less strong than adults. These factors place children at higher risk from extremes of heat and natural disasters such as flooding. Our Maori and Pacific children are especially at risk from climate change," says Dr Jones.
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"Responses to climate change can be designed to help with other goals, including healthier people, a more equal society and a healthier economy," says Dr Jones.

Carbon Positive: a chance to protect children affected by climate change | Paddy Ashdown | Environment | guardian.co.uk

We know climate change is already happening. And we know it is children in poorer countries – those least responsible for carbon emissions – who are feeling the heat. The work Unicef does with children on the ground, day in day out, to help pick up the pieces after the latest flood, hurricane, tsunami, disease outbreak and drought pays testament to this.
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Carbon Positive highlights the direct impact the carbon lifestyle of the west is having on some of the most vulnerable communities around the world.

Climate change, skiing and dissent

Arapahoe Basin is holding its second annual Save Our Snow Spectacular, the announcement of which, ironically enough, came the same morning you couldn’t get there because of all the snow in the high country.

Four Young Manatees Arrived at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Yesterday Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News

It has been a difficult year for endangered manatees due to prolonged, record low temperatures in Florida resulting in the vast majority of the more than 450 manatee deaths and more than 50 manatees rescued in the first three months of 2010. That total breaks the annual record of 429 manatee deaths in all of 2009.