Mike Mason from offset firm Climate Care told the BBC he did not approve of the government's approach.
Mike Mason from offset firm Climate Care told the BBC he does not approve of the government's approach.
As we begin to calculate the enormous health care and social costs of climate change, health care professionals are in a position to educate their patients about the public health impacts of climate change and help prepare them for these impacts, and also become potent spokespersons for policies at all levels of government that would rein in climate change.
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It has little new to say on many problems we face today: unemployment, climate, health care, guns.
His personal approval ratings are still pretty solid, but many Americans have lost faith in his ability to handle issues like health care and climate change.
Let's look more closely at how the policies of Obama and the Democrats on the economy, health care, climate change and national security have played with voters.
He served for almost two years as director of the Congressional Budget Office, focusing a lot of attention on health care and climate change before being recruited into the administration.
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But not on health care, or climate change, and not on the economy, taxes, or the price of petrol.
Organisers insist the aim of Earth Hour is to show that communities care passionately about climate change and want to keep up the pressure on governments to act decisively.
We need to engage the health care sector in climate change mitigation so they can help communities be prepared to weather these crises and help lead us to a healthier and more sustainable future.
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So despite all of the dialogue, forums, campaign promises, speeches, and political theater, most issues (like the federal budget, the debt ceiling, tax reform, union benefits, health care, jobs creation, climate management, and education) are either stalemated by fundamental disagreements or pushed forward by the power of majority votes.
In a climate of ever diminishing public resources for health care, physicians of all stripes seek a back door to economic stability, often through cosmetic surgery.
Businesses are keen to know what the new administration will do in terms of providing tax incentives, curbing climate change, empowering unions, making health care cheaper and boosting overall U.S. competitiveness.
If the sinking were stopped by adding fresh water (a deus ex machina often invoked to change the climate), the Gulf Stream would hardly care except in so far as the wind system changed too.
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Provide health care for all and solutions for the climate crisis.
The third central role of the health care sector is in education and advocacy around climate change policy.
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The 2008 election is unusual in having so many big issues on the agenda: the economy, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, health care, taxes, immigration, education and climate change.
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Most importantly, Ernie knows that we can produce more energy and grow our economy while still taking care of our air, our water and our climate.
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For better or worse, the net neutrality fight may give strong indications of how upcoming fights over the health care bill, financial regulation, debt management, climate change and other key issues will be scripted.
However, the Obama administration has clashed with big businesses on a range of issues over the past two years, including tax policy, health care and Wall Street reform, campaign finance and climate change and energy policy.
Further health-care reform must wait, as must significant action on climate change.
We had come together and voted for a candidate whose platform included universal health care, ending the wars in the Middle East and curbing climate change.
Another program in the Naivasha area, also spearheaded by WWF and CARE, promotes reliable water supplies downstream by helping farmers adapt to climate change.
Well okay, that money was actually earmarked for a health care newsletter rather than to advance their insidiously skeptical positions regarding a looming climate catastrophe.
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Joe Angelo, the interim director of San Antonio's Animal Care Services department, said the court is part of a larger effort to change the climate in the city of 1.3 million, where more than 3, 000 residents annually are bitten by dogs and more than 150, 000 stray dogs roam city streets on any given day.
His advisers seem to have concluded that a climate bill was a non-starter given the parlous state of the economy, and concentrated on health care instead.
This aversion to actually answering questions seems to have dominated the debate over health care reform, and I see it in discussions of other science-based issues, such as climate change, as well.
Obama and Democratic leaders, aware of a rockier political climate because of midterm congressional elections in 2010, insist that a bill must pass this year to address spiraling health care costs that are threatening economic stability.
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