Climate strife and political life

Producing political climate change: the hidden life of US environmentalism

A withering political climate

relentlessly expanding toward the coast of Louisiana, where it reached the shoreline earlier this month, Mississippi, and adjoining states. The spill raises the prospect of extensive damage to the local fish and shellfish industries, and to the economy as a whole, in a region still recovering from the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina. Already, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini...

The right to practice medicine without repercussions: ethical issues in times of political strife

This commentary examines the incursion on the neutrality of medical personnel now taking place as part of the human rights crises in Bahrain and Syria, and the ethical dilemmas which these incursions place not only in front of physicians practicing in those nations, but in front of the international community as a whole.In Bahrain, physicians have recently received harsh prison terms, apparentl...

Political Differences in Past, Present, and Future Life Satisfaction: Republicans Are More Sensitive than Democrats to Political Climate

Previous research finds that Republicans report being happier or more satisfied with their lives than Democrats. Using representative American samples from 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2010, we tested a Person × Situation interactionist account in which political affiliation (Democrat, Republican) and political climate (favorable when the president in office is of the same party) are proposed to...

Climate change: the political situation.

The uncertainties of climate predictions are estimated to be ϳ50%, excluding instabilities of the climate system that could yield substantially larger changes, for example, through the collapse of the Gulf Stream and deep ocean circulation system, a break-off of the West Antarctic ice sheet, or the release of methane presently frozen in permafrost regions. 23. Examples are tradable renewable en...