[Phys-L] NAP: new report about climate change

[Horst Wahl <wahl@hep.fsu.edu>]

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New Releases This Week at NAP.edu


Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises

Climate is changing, forced out of the range of the past million years by levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases not seen in the Earth's atmosphere for a very, very long time. Lacking action by the world's nations, it is clear that the planet will be warmer, sea level will rise, and patterns of rainfall will change. But the future ...

http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=291187f4b6563be99d2a993593025ed2f6078f630400a66d48f17899205a31c4130183efee230ed3



Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding

Operational systems engineering is a methodology that identifies the important components of a complex system, analyzes the relationships among those components, and creates models of the system to explore its behavior and possible ways of changing that behavior. In this way it offers quantitative and qualitative techniques to support the ...

http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=291187f4b6563be9d08ce03240d9e5cbddc49339a9c9d8a41897e72c87f4f4ba4e555ff4b237bb79



Health Impact Assessment of Shale Gas Extraction: Workshop Summary

Natural gas extraction from shale formations, which includes hydraulic fracturing, is increasingly in the news as the use of extraction technologies has expanded, rural communities have been transformed seemingly overnight, public awareness has increased, and regulations have been developed. The governmental public health system, which retains ...

http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=291187f4b6563be94679359a059191b8b995b956b4c73d686181dd4cd1327297005b883cb334ab8e



Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities: Examples from Native Communities: Workshop Summary

Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities: Examples from Native Communities is the summary of a workshop convened in November 2012 by the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities of the Institute of Medicine. The workshop brought together more than 100 health care providers, policy ...

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Responding to Capability Surprise: A Strategy for U.S. Naval Forces

> From a military operational standpoint, surprise is an event or capability that could affect the outcome of a mission or campaign for which preparations are not in place. By definition, it is not possible to truly anticipate surprise. It is only possible to prevent it (in the sense of minimizing the number of possible surprises by appropriate ...

http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=291187f4b6563be9a5b6dc2be7cf77284bf0b10fb81b0c65e562fab14440ec0a7f68069866644241



Technologies to Enable Autonomous Detection for BioWatch: Ensuring Timely and Accurate Information for Public Health Officials : Workshop Summary

The BioWatch program, funded and overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has three main elements--sampling, analysis, and response--each coordinated by different agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency maintains the sampling component, the sensors that collect airborne particles. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=291187f4b6563be95a29b0cad4cf70ed26fbc7d6c6100d16de0bdb8a34633ab7261ca35ab22bb9da




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