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To Address Climate Change, This Psychiatrist Goes Where No One Has Gone Before

November 29, 2022
H. Steven Moffic, MD

Psychiatry and inner space?closer than you think.

PSYCHIATRIC VIEWS ON THE DAILY NEWS

In my November 15, 2022, column, ?I SCREAM for More Climate Action!? I bemoaned the slowness of society and psychiatry to help reduce climate change and instability. I asked for creative ways to obtain climate attention. I found one by serendipity.

While writing what became the column ?A Day of Launching Dreams and Nightmares,? I had CNN on in the background. I was catching a bit about someone who was flying balloons around the earth to save fossil fuel. Then he was being interviewed and I stopped writing to listen. To my great surprise, he was also…

UCI study: Higher heat will limit ecosystem?s role in removing atmospheric CO2

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ? IRVINE

Research News

Irvine, Calif., July 22, 2021 ? To meet an ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2045, California?s policymakers are relying in part on forests and shrublands to remove CO₂from the atmosphere, but researchers at the University of California, Irvine warn that future climate change may limit the ecosystem?s ability to perform this service.

In a paper published today in the American Geophysical Union journalAGU Advances, the UCI Earth system scientists stressed that rising temperatures and uncertain precipitation will cause a decrease in California?s natural carbon storage capacity of as much…