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Report warns of climate change's 'code red' impact on health Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 11:27 AM - Forum: Environment Protection News - No Replies (CNN)A new report published Wednesday warns of the severe impact of climate change on human health, and says the prognosis is only getting worse. Droughts will hurt food production, rising temperatures will encourage the spread of dangerous pathogens such as malaria and cholera and current climate trends indicate a "code red" for future health, the new report in The Lancet medical journal predicts. The Lancet Countdown report, published annually, tracks 44 metrics of the health impacts of climate change, including the impact of climate change on infectious disease transmission and food production, as researched by experts affiliated with more than 40 UN groups and educational institutions. The report said during a 6 month period in 2020, 51.6 million people were impacted by 84 disasters from floods, droughts, and storms in countries already struggling with the coronavirus pandemic. "The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown finds a world overwhelmed by an ongoing global health crisis, which has made little progress to protect its population from the simultaneously aggravated health impacts of climate change," the report authors wrote. Climate impacts on health identified in the report included increased droughts hurting food production, more violent natural disasters placing burdens on health care systems, and rising temperatures encouraging the spread of infectious pathogens. The report said climate change contributed to a record-breaking heatwave in the US Pacific Northwest that caused more than 1,000 deaths. "Looking to 2021, people older than 65 years or younger than 1 year, along with people facing social disadvantages, were the most affected by the record-breaking temperatures of over 40°C in the Pacific Northwest areas of the USA and Canada in June, 2021— an event that would have been almost impossible without human-caused climate change," the authors wrote. - More -   Mitch McConnell just sent a VERY clear message to Donald Trump about 2022 Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 11:19 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies (CNN)Mitch McConnell's entire being is -- and always has been -- focused on winning elections. Every move he makes and every thing he says is part of a broader effort to ensure that his side winds up with more seats -- and therefore more control -- than the other guys. And, on Tuesday, McConnell made clear that he believes former President Donald Trump's ongoing focus on the 2020 election is decidedly detrimental to the GOP's chances in the upcoming midterm elections. Asked by CNN's Manu Raju whether he was comfortable with candidates embracing Trump, McConnell said this: "I do think we need to be thinking about the future and not the past. I think the American people are focusing on this administration, what it's doing to the country, and it's my hope the '22 election will be a referendum on the performance of the current administration, not a rehash of suggestions about what may have happened in 2020." That's about as close as McConnell will get to outright refutation of Trump and the strategy, such as it is, that the former president is peddling -- a hard focus on trying to prove (nonexistent) voter fraud in the 2020 election. While Trump's continued attempts to re-litigate the 2020 election have been ongoing for months, that effort went to another level in the last week when Trump suggested that unless the last election was overturned, future elections would be pointless. - More -   South islands project could cost PH dearly, says analyst Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 11:04 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies GEORGE TOWN: Pakatan Harapan (PH) lawmakers in constituencies that will be affected by the Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project face a big dilemma – if they support their own state leadership’s plans, they are likely to end up losing their seats. Azmil Tayeb of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) told FMT that the PSR could lead to potential seat losses for the ruling coalition in the state as the project could develop into a key issue in Penang come GE15. “If you look at the constituencies that will be impacted by the PSR, they are Malay-majority seats, and Malay constituents view the state government as being insensitive to their needs. “The PSR might have a resonating effect on other Malay-majority state seats that are not even affected by the reclamation project,” Azmil said. - More -   Warisan will struggle on the peninsula, say analysts Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 10:59 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies KOTA KINABALU: Two political analysts have voiced doubt that Warisan will make any impact in Peninsular Malaysia if it goes ahead with its plan to spread its wings across the pond. Lee Kuok Tiung of Universiti Malaysia Sabah and Awang Azman Pawi of Universiti Malaya said the challenges of vying with established parties on the peninsula and gaining acceptability by West Malaysians would be formidable. At a Zoom session in conjunction with his birthday last Tuesday, Warisan president Shafie Apdal told the media the party would pursue its plan to launch itself onto the national platform and that it would adopt a multiracial approach in its policies and also uphold Muslim values. He said he expected support from many young voters because of their courage in seeing change. Lee told FMT he believed Warisan had little hope of mounting any significant challenge against parties in Barisan Nasional, Perikatan Nasional and Pakatan Harapan. - More -   Umno, PAS in informal talks to avoid straight fights in Melaka Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 10:53 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Faced with the prospect of splitting the Malay votes and losing seats to Pakatan Harapan (PH), Umno and PAS are now in unofficial talks over seat distribution in the Melaka state election – although Umno has said it does not want to work with the Islamist party. A source in the know said they are looking at an informal pact on seat distribution with the two parties not squaring off against each other for Malay seats. “If PAS and Umno contest against each other, it will split votes and benefit PH. “We are not keen to have an official pact with PAS as Umno has to go solo under the Barisan Nasional (BN) banner to test the waters before the general election. - More -   Activist lauds PAS leader’s ‘sensible’ take in buzz over whisky Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 10:50 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Social activist Chandra Muzaffar has welcomed a PAS attempt to quell the controversy over the brand name of an award-winning Malaysian-made whisky. Commenting on PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Man’s defence of the manufacturer’s right to use the name “Timah”, Chandra said it was a “sensible, balanced and appropriate” statement. Speaking to FMT, he criticised those who had “exaggerated” the issue and said the PAS leader had done a good job of telling Muslims to shun alcohol without depriving the right of non-Muslims to drink it. In the statement he issued on Tuesday, Tuan Ibrahim said “timah” was a metal and not a Muslim name “or even a person’s name”. Whatever the brand name, he added, alcohol was still forbidden in Islam but the rights of non-Muslims to drink it had to be respected. The distillers have issued an explanation, saying the name referred to tin and was not a shortened version of the Arabic name Fatimah. Fatimah was also the name of Prophet Muhammad’s daughter. - More -   PKR must ditch cartel-linked reps, says analyst Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 10:44 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: A political analyst has warned of a likely increase of support for a rogue group in Melaka PKR if the party nominates anyone linked to it as a candidate in the upcoming state election. Speaking to FMT, Awang Azman Pawi of Universiti Malaya (UM) said PKR would be putting its reputation at stake if it failed to prove that it had candidates more qualified than those linked to what the press has come to refer to as a “cartel” of former state party leaders. He said PKR’s stability would continue to be under threat if it didn’t take action against the group to prevent an increase of support for it and to ensure the party was not exposed to ridicule. “It has to conduct a spring cleaning to prove it is capable of coming out stronger and more united without the cartel in the party and that it has candidates who are more qualified,” he added. He said there was no denying that there was such a cartel in Melaka PKR and that its influence was strong enough to give it the courage to go against the party’s central leadership. - More -   Economic Update: Signs of System Decline Posted by: superadmin - 10-20-2021, 09:04 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment - No Replies   How is Life in the United States? - Lessons from my Visit to California Posted by: superadmin - 10-20-2021, 08:01 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies   Pro-PH group urges top guns to say ‘no’ to Melaka 4 ‘traitors’ Posted by: superadmin - 10-20-2021, 06:47 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies KUALA LUMPUR – An informal group of Pakatan Harapan supporters have called on the coalition to reject nominations of former Melaka chief minister Datuk Seri Idris Haron and three other reps for the upcoming state election.   The group, which calls itself Kerajaan Gagal Kembali (Return of the Failed Government), said that it rejects any cooperation with the four assemblymen who had withdrawn support for the chief minister and triggered the political crisis while the state is recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic.   The group, led by social media influencer Zack Rockstar, submitted a memorandum to the PH leadership at the PKR headquarters in Merchant Square, Petaling Jaya, this afternoon.   The memorandum was sent just as PH leaders, including its presidential council comprising PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Amanah president Mohamad Sabu and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Ng, arrived at the headquarters to hold a meeting on the state election. - More - Pages (1143): « Previous 1 … 813 814 815 816 817 … 1143 Next » Jump to page: