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Climate Change and Health
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Module 1: Introduction to Climate Change
Module 1: Lesson 1: What is Climate Change? A Basic Introduction to Climate Change, Introducing Important Terms.
Causes of climate change (9 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (15 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (10 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (45 min)
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (10 min)
How climate is changing (10 min)
Frequently Asked Questions (in IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
Discussion Question: Describe 3 factors that affect the Earth's climate.
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (78 min)
Module 1: Lesson 2: Has the climate always been changing, or is this a new phenomenon? What distinguishes the current rapid global warming from historic climate changes?
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (10 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (5 min)
Climate change and human health: risks and responses (15 min)
Discussion Question: Climate changes in your region
Quiz: Module 1: Lesson 2.
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses
Module 1: Lesson 3: What are the causes of climate change? Learn about human activities that have caused the sudden and dramatic changes.
Climate Change: Evidence, Impacts, and Choices (26 min)
A blanket around the Earth (8 min)
Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming: Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change (27 min)
The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change (80 min)
The Carbon Crisis in 90 seconds (2 min)
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (12 min)
Discussion Question: Anthropogenic sources of GHGs
Discussion Question: Human Behavior and Climate Change
Quiz: Module 1: Lesson 3.
Discussion Post: Your carbon footprint (optional)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (11 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (8 min)
Eat as If You Could Save the Planet and Win!” Sustainability Integration into Nutrition for Exercise and Sport (15 min)
Launchpad: Global Warming - How Humans are Affecting Our Planet (8 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (6 min)
State of the Climate: Extreme Events (10 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (15 min)
Module 2: The Effects of Climate Change on Public Health
Module 2: Lesson 1: How will climate change affect human health? Learn about ways that climate change is currently affecting human health, and predictions for future public health effects.
10 Facts On Climate Change and Health (7 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (60 min)
Climate Change Impacts Human Health (7 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (15 min)
Impact on human health of climate changes (22 min)
Regional Health Forum – Special Issue on World Health Day 2008 theme: Protecting Health from Climate Change (8 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (55 min)
Discussion Question: Chronic Health Impacts
Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 1.
Climate Change and Health (55 min)
The health impacts of climate change (55 mins)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (5 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (15 min)
Impacts of summer 2003 heat wave in Europe (30 min)
Climate Change and Famine (15 min)
Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health (25 min)
Extreme Heat Events (60 mins)
Module 2: Lesson 2: Who is most vulnerable? Learn about demographic groups and geographic regions who will experience greater health risk due to the effects of climate change
Methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change (8 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (22 min)
Assessing Health Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Guide for Health Departments (20 min)
Methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change (2 min)
Protecting health from climate change: Connecting science, policy and people (32 min)
Climate change and developing-country cities: Implications for environmental health and equity (44 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (70 min)
Discussion question: Key Vulnerabilities
Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 2.
Discussion question: Health Impact of wind, storm or flood (optional)
The Human Face of Climate Change (30 min)
Climate Change and Water: IPCC technical Paper VI (242 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (22 min)
Module 2: Lesson 3: How can we protect human health from the effects of climate change? Learn about How to Improve Public Health Outcomes.
Protecting the health of vulnerable people from the humanitarian consequences of climate change and climate related disasters (13 min)
Mass Casualty Management Systems Strategies and guidelines for building health sector capacity (33 min)
Health Indicators of disaster risk management in the Context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (15 min)
Public Health and Weather Services–Climate Information for the Health Sector (23 min)
Peer Activity 1: Case study: Protecting human health from the negative effects of climate change (60 min)
Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 3.
Module 3: Predicting and Communicating Future Climate Change
Module 3: Lesson 1: How do we make predictions about climate change? Learn about Terminology, Models, and Methodologies.
Weather & Climate Basics - Predicting the Weather: Forecasting (4 min)
Numerical weather prediction models (3 min)
How does a climate model work? (8 min)
Should we believe model predictions of future climate change? (55 min)
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (18 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (3 min)
How do scientists measure climate change? (9 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (54 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (47 min)
Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 1.
Climate Atlas of Canada (20 min)
Climate Time Machine (10 min)
Climate Change: An Uncertain Future (7 mins)
Module 3: Lesson 2: How can we communicate effectively about climate change? Learn how to Convey Messages to the Public and Overcoming Potential Resistance.
Human health.Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (3 min)
Communication and Marketing as Climate Change-Intervention Assets: A Public Health Perspective (57 min)
Principles for effective communication and public engagement on climate change: A Handbook for IPCC authors (38 min)
Responding to Climate Change Skepticism and the Ideological Divide (31 min)
Peer Activity 2: Learning to take action through letter writing.
Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 2.
Conveying the Human Implications of Climate Change (17 min)
Module 4: Taking Action
Module 4: Lesson 1: What can we do to adapt to climate change? What we can do to live with the effects of climate change that have already occurred?
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (47 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (26 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (18 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (15 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (20 min)
Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 1.
Discussion: Create quiz questions (optional)
Peer Activity: Policy Brief (optional)
Drought Communication Toolkit (30 min)
Climate Science 101: Limiting the Magnitude of & Adapting to Future Climate Change (75 min)
Module 4: Lesson 2: How do specific groups adapt to climate change? What we can learn from each other about how to adapt to climate change?
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (7 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (17 min)
National Adaptation Programmes of Action: Summary of Projects on Health identified in Submitted NAPAs as of September 2008 (36 min)
Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 2.
Mentor Discussion #1: Talking about Community Adaptations to Climate Change (optional)
Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Adaptation in Developing Countries (57 min)
Regional Health Forum – Special Issue on World Health Day 2008 theme: Protecting Health from Climate Change (12 min)
Module 4: Lesson 3: How can we mitigate the effects of climate change? Learn about actions we can take to stop global warming from getting worse.
Integrating Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Policy Implications (15 min)
Health in the green economy: Co-benefits to health of climate change mitigation: Housing Sector Executive summary (23 min)
Innovation for Sustainable Development: Local Case Studies from Africa (12 min)
Health Indicators of sustainable cities in the context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (23 min)
Health Indicators of sustainable water in the context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (15 min)
Health indicators of sustainable agriculture, food and nutrition security in the context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (19 min)
Health Indicators of sustainable energy in the Context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (22 min)
How your diet affects climate change (12 min)
Reducing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice: Perspectives from a Behavioural and Social Change Approach (32 min)
Facts about flying you shouldn't miss (5 min)
Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 3.
Mentor discussion #2: Talking about Mitigation in Climate Change (optional)
Health Co-benefits of Carbon Standards for Existing Power Plants: Part 2 of the Co-Benefits of Carbon Standards Study (40 min)
Heat, Fire, Water: How Climate Change Has Created a Public Health Emergency (130 min)
Dr, Erica Frank: Global Warming (3 min)
Growing greenhouse gas emissions due to meat production (25 min)
Climate Change and Health: A Framework for Action (10 min)
The health co-benefits of climate change policies: doctors have a responsibility to future generations (7 min)
Capstone Activity: Organize an Event (optional)
Peer Activity: Learning to take action through petitions (optional)
Module 5: Additional Resources on Mitigating Climate Change (Optional)
Environmental sustainability in hospitals: The value of efficiency (56 min)
Green Building and Energy (20 min)
My Green Doctor (120 min)
Final Exam
Course and Self Evaluation & Certificate
Course Activities
Peer Activities
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Climate Change and Health
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Course Registration
Questionnaire
Pre-Test
Quiz
Announcements
Forum
Module 1: Introduction to Climate Change
2
Module 1: Lesson 1: What is Climate Change? A Basic Introduction to Climate Change, Introducing Important Terms.
3
Causes of climate change (9 min)
URL
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (15 min)
URL
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (10 min)
URL
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (45 min)
URL
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (10 min)
URL
How climate is changing (10 min)
URL
Frequently Asked Questions (in IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
URL
Discussion Question: Describe 3 factors that affect the Earth's climate.
Forum
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (78 min)
URL
Module 1: Lesson 2: Has the climate always been changing, or is this a new phenomenon? What distinguishes the current rapid global warming from historic climate changes?
4
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (10 min)
URL
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (5 min)
URL
Climate change and human health: risks and responses (15 min)
URL
Discussion Question: Climate changes in your region
Forum
Quiz: Module 1: Lesson 2.
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses
URL
Module 1: Lesson 3: What are the causes of climate change? Learn about human activities that have caused the sudden and dramatic changes.
5
Climate Change: Evidence, Impacts, and Choices (26 min)
URL
A blanket around the Earth (8 min)
URL
Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming: Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change (27 min)
URL
The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change (80 min)
URL
The Carbon Crisis in 90 seconds (2 min)
URL
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (12 min)
URL
Discussion Question: Anthropogenic sources of GHGs
Forum
Discussion Question: Human Behavior and Climate Change
Forum
Quiz: Module 1: Lesson 3.
Discussion Post: Your carbon footprint (optional)
Forum
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (11 min)
URL
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (8 min)
URL
Eat as If You Could Save the Planet and Win!” Sustainability Integration into Nutrition for Exercise and Sport (15 min)
URL
Launchpad: Global Warming - How Humans are Affecting Our Planet (8 min)
URL
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (6 min)
URL
State of the Climate: Extreme Events (10 min)
URL
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (15 min)
URL
Module 2: The Effects of Climate Change on Public Health
6
Module 2: Lesson 1: How will climate change affect human health? Learn about ways that climate change is currently affecting human health, and predictions for future public health effects.
7
10 Facts On Climate Change and Health (7 min)
URL
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (60 min)
URL
Climate Change Impacts Human Health (7 min)
URL
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (15 min)
URL
Impact on human health of climate changes (22 min)
URL
Regional Health Forum – Special Issue on World Health Day 2008 theme: Protecting Health from Climate Change (8 min)
URL
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (55 min)
URL
Discussion Question: Chronic Health Impacts
Forum
Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 1.
Climate Change and Health (55 min)
URL
The health impacts of climate change (55 mins)
URL
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (5 min)
URL
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (15 min)
URL
Impacts of summer 2003 heat wave in Europe (30 min)
URL
Climate Change and Famine (15 min)
URL
Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health (25 min)
URL
Extreme Heat Events (60 mins)
URL
Module 2: Lesson 2: Who is most vulnerable? Learn about demographic groups and geographic regions who will experience greater health risk due to the effects of climate change
8
Methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change (8 min)
URL
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (22 min)
URL
Assessing Health Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Guide for Health Departments (20 min)
URL
Methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change (2 min)
URL
Protecting health from climate change: Connecting science, policy and people (32 min)
URL
Climate change and developing-country cities: Implications for environmental health and equity (44 min)
URL
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (70 min)
URL
Discussion question: Key Vulnerabilities
Forum
Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 2.
Discussion question: Health Impact of wind, storm or flood (optional)
Forum
The Human Face of Climate Change (30 min)
URL
Climate Change and Water: IPCC technical Paper VI (242 min)
URL
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (22 min)
URL
Module 2: Lesson 3: How can we protect human health from the effects of climate change? Learn about How to Improve Public Health Outcomes.
9
Protecting the health of vulnerable people from the humanitarian consequences of climate change and climate related disasters (13 min)
URL
Mass Casualty Management Systems Strategies and guidelines for building health sector capacity (33 min)
URL
Health Indicators of disaster risk management in the Context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (15 min)
URL
Public Health and Weather Services–Climate Information for the Health Sector (23 min)
URL
Peer Activity 1: Case study: Protecting human health from the negative effects of climate change (60 min)
Forum
Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 3.
Module 3: Predicting and Communicating Future Climate Change
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Module 3: Lesson 1: How do we make predictions about climate change? Learn about Terminology, Models, and Methodologies.
11
Weather & Climate Basics - Predicting the Weather: Forecasting (4 min)
URL
Numerical weather prediction models (3 min)
URL
How does a climate model work? (8 min)
URL
Should we believe model predictions of future climate change? (55 min)
URL
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (18 min)
URL
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (3 min)
URL
How do scientists measure climate change? (9 min)
URL
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (54 min)
URL
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (47 min)
URL
Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 1.
Climate Atlas of Canada (20 min)
URL
Climate Time Machine (10 min)
URL
Climate Change: An Uncertain Future (7 mins)
URL
Module 3: Lesson 2: How can we communicate effectively about climate change? Learn how to Convey Messages to the Public and Overcoming Potential Resistance.
12
Human health.Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (3 min)
URL
Communication and Marketing as Climate Change-Intervention Assets: A Public Health Perspective (57 min)
URL
Principles for effective communication and public engagement on climate change: A Handbook for IPCC authors (38 min)
URL
Responding to Climate Change Skepticism and the Ideological Divide (31 min)
URL
Peer Activity 2: Learning to take action through letter writing.
Forum
Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 2.
Conveying the Human Implications of Climate Change (17 min)
URL
Module 4: Taking Action
13
Module 4: Lesson 1: What can we do to adapt to climate change? What we can do to live with the effects of climate change that have already occurred?
14
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (47 min)
URL
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (26 min)
URL
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (18 min)
URL
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (15 min)
URL
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (20 min)
URL
Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 1.
Discussion: Create quiz questions (optional)
Forum
Peer Activity: Policy Brief (optional)
Forum
Drought Communication Toolkit (30 min)
URL
Climate Science 101: Limiting the Magnitude of & Adapting to Future Climate Change (75 min)
URL
Module 4: Lesson 2: How do specific groups adapt to climate change? What we can learn from each other about how to adapt to climate change?
15
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (7 min)
URL
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (17 min)
URL
National Adaptation Programmes of Action: Summary of Projects on Health identified in Submitted NAPAs as of September 2008 (36 min)
URL
Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 2.
Mentor Discussion #1: Talking about Community Adaptations to Climate Change (optional)
Assignment
Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Adaptation in Developing Countries (57 min)
URL
Regional Health Forum – Special Issue on World Health Day 2008 theme: Protecting Health from Climate Change (12 min)
URL
Module 4: Lesson 3: How can we mitigate the effects of climate change? Learn about actions we can take to stop global warming from getting worse.
16
Integrating Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Policy Implications (15 min)
URL
Health in the green economy: Co-benefits to health of climate change mitigation: Housing Sector Executive summary (23 min)
URL
Innovation for Sustainable Development: Local Case Studies from Africa (12 min)
URL
Health Indicators of sustainable cities in the context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (23 min)
URL
Health Indicators of sustainable water in the context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (15 min)
URL
Health indicators of sustainable agriculture, food and nutrition security in the context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (19 min)
URL
Health Indicators of sustainable energy in the Context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (22 min)
URL
How your diet affects climate change (12 min)
URL
Reducing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice: Perspectives from a Behavioural and Social Change Approach (32 min)
URL
Facts about flying you shouldn't miss (5 min)
URL
Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 3.
Mentor discussion #2: Talking about Mitigation in Climate Change (optional)
Assignment
Health Co-benefits of Carbon Standards for Existing Power Plants: Part 2 of the Co-Benefits of Carbon Standards Study (40 min)
URL
Heat, Fire, Water: How Climate Change Has Created a Public Health Emergency (130 min)
URL
Dr, Erica Frank: Global Warming (3 min)
URL
Growing greenhouse gas emissions due to meat production (25 min)
URL
Climate Change and Health: A Framework for Action (10 min)
URL
The health co-benefits of climate change policies: doctors have a responsibility to future generations (7 min)
URL
Capstone Activity: Organize an Event (optional)
Assignment
Peer Activity: Learning to take action through petitions (optional)
Forum
Module 5: Additional Resources on Mitigating Climate Change (Optional)
17
Environmental sustainability in hospitals: The value of efficiency (56 min)
URL
Green Building and Energy (20 min)
URL
My Green Doctor (120 min)
URL
Final Exam
18
Course and Self Evaluation & Certificate
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Course Activities
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Module 4: Lesson 3: How can we mitigate the effects of climate change? Learn about actions we can take to stop global warming from getting worse.
Capstone Activity: Organize an Event (optional)
Capstone Activity: Organize an Event (optional)
We think you’re ready to organize an event -- maybe consider it your “graduation” from this course! You know solid science about climate change and health, you’ve identified and studied an issue that you particularly want to remedy, you know and have practiced a few ways to successfully communicate about this, and have identified others willing to do so, too.
The next step is to try organizing some sort of live event – we’d suggest figuring out how to call further public attention to corporations, organizations, and individuals who are making climate change even worse, and to publicly ask those wrong-doers to change their practices. You may want to find a few other people to come to your event, to further build a community of action around your petition – it could be good to start with the people who signed your petition.
Once you’ve practiced doing this, you’ll have a good toolkit for reducing the amount of climate change the world will see.
And finally then, to your last assignment for this course: write here about your event / campaign, as long or as short as you would like. Write when you’re done with an activity, and write about it ongoingly, if you continue with it. You can freely continue blogging in this document at NextGenU about your advocacy, and we’re happy to continue publishing about it – this can be another good way to organize your community and get your word out, but remember the climate perpetrators can get access to your words, too! (Now they’ll know I am willing to publicly call them climate perpetrators!)
To get you started on thinking about public events, here are some ways I (Erica Frank, Course Creator for this course and Founder and President of NextGenU.org) have created public climate change events in the past.
Identify a company whose practices could particularly use improving, and where climate change would be meaningfully reduced if they did so, and find a place to legally host a press conference where you can talk about your recommendations for that company. Here’s some good information on what to do at a press conference (but you might wish to research how to hold a press conference in your country):
http://unausa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Working-with-the-Media-Press-Conference.pdf
http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1066.aspx
A hint: one especially good place to host press conferences is in a park, or in front of a company’s billboard, or in other public location that is convenient for the press to reach, and from which you can see the corporate headquarters, product, plant, or logo over your shoulders as you speak. Also, if you are a physician or some other type of health provider, strongly consider wearing something that readily identifies you as such -- a doctor’s white coat, with or without a stethescope around my neck, has always worked well for me in this situation.
Buy one share of stock in a company that needs improving, and go to the shareholder meeting to introduce a shareholder resolution. I have done this, again wearing my doctor’s white coat, with nuns wearing their habits (another powerful use of symbols for moral suasion) at a Georgia Power shareholder meeting. We asked Georgia Power’s Board why they insisted on causing the unnecessary deaths of over 1,000 Georgians every year, because they refused to use standard exhaust scrubbers on their coal-burning power plants, and instead prided themselves on very low power costs, and high profits. I felt such satisfaction in publicly stating, in front of the men making these decisions and their shareholders, that these gains were ill-gotten, attained by externalizing their costs on the dirtier lungs and the mercury-laden brains of every Georgian, and our doing so meaningfully advanced the climate change and health agenda.
Speak out at your medical society. I spent over two decades in American medical politics at the Specialty, State, and National level, typically as the only “out” liberal, feminist, or atheist in the room. I introduced and got passed many public health advocacy resolutions in the American College of Preventive Medicine, the Medical Association of Georgia, and the American Medical Association, including one creating an American Medical Association policy paper on climate change.
Find a company whose practices you think you can improve, and tell them so. Tell them that they could hire you to help, or you could give them some good ideas to start with. I did this through collectively creating and being part of the DuPont Health Advisory Board for a decade, and we especially worked with their sustainability initiatives. My most notable success with this work “from the inside” was getting DuPont’s President to withdraw their bid for nuclear waste management at the Savannah River Site, and to likely never be involved again in the dirty nuclear industry.
Run for public office. I was elected and (as of Fall 2013) will have served for three terms in our municipality here at the University of British Columbia, UTown@UBC. Unsurprisingly, I have had special responsibility in Sustainability and in Public Health. I have reduced climate change in this role by creating a Sustainability Memo of Understanding that has produced the “social license” for UBC’s Biofuels Research and Demonstration Facility, plans for 20 storey apartment towers that could transform the urban environmental and emotional sustainability landscape, and interventions to reduce air travel, the overwhelmingly largest carbon footprint of UBC’s simultaneously jet-setting and “green” cohort.
Take further training. I served for two years as a part-time Sustainability Fellow at UBC, learning how to teach about climate change – this course is a product of that Fellowship J Join and help lead an organization. Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Society of Doctors for the Environment have excellent climate change materials.
Start an organization. My son and I cofounded CRED because of our concerns about the proposed Kinder-Morgan pipeline across B.C. Create a website. Again, because of their proposed pipeline, I created
http:// www.kindermorgansurprise.org/
-- it’s been called a “cheeky” website about carbon pollution.
Figure out another compelling way for you to improve the world and reduce your and others’ carbon footprints. I’m particularly fond of picking up trash, and up- purposing it. That’s the foundation of NextGenU, really – taking learning objects that people have left laying around on the internet for anyone to pick up, organize them around expert competencies that are waiting for just such a purpose, add a few learning activities like this one, and turn them into an accredited course for you. And it’s not just a metaphor for me -- I also constantly pickup trash on the streets and sidewalks, as it is esthetically and morally offensive to me, and throw it in a landfill bin, recycle it, or use it for art, sometimes in my free Gallery of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia (by the way -- please come visit our Climate Change and Health exhibit if you’re in Vancouver! ).
See – there are lots of ways to up-purpose yourself and the people and the objects around you. So please figure out your own way, and then tell us about it, per the instructions above.
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Causes of climate change (9 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (15 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (10 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (45 min)
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (10 min)
How climate is changing (10 min)
Frequently Asked Questions (in IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
Discussion Question: Describe 3 factors that affect the Earth's climate.
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (78 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (10 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (5 min)
Climate change and human health: risks and responses (15 min)
Discussion Question: Climate changes in your region
Quiz: Module 1: Lesson 2.
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses
Climate Change: Evidence, Impacts, and Choices (26 min)
A blanket around the Earth (8 min)
Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming: Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change (27 min)
The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change (80 min)
The Carbon Crisis in 90 seconds (2 min)
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (12 min)
Discussion Question: Anthropogenic sources of GHGs
Discussion Question: Human Behavior and Climate Change
Quiz: Module 1: Lesson 3.
Discussion Post: Your carbon footprint (optional)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (11 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (8 min)
Eat as If You Could Save the Planet and Win!” Sustainability Integration into Nutrition for Exercise and Sport (15 min)
Launchpad: Global Warming - How Humans are Affecting Our Planet (8 min)
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (6 min)
State of the Climate: Extreme Events (10 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (15 min)
10 Facts On Climate Change and Health (7 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (60 min)
Climate Change Impacts Human Health (7 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (15 min)
Impact on human health of climate changes (22 min)
Regional Health Forum – Special Issue on World Health Day 2008 theme: Protecting Health from Climate Change (8 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (55 min)
Discussion Question: Chronic Health Impacts
Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 1.
Climate Change and Health (55 min)
The health impacts of climate change (55 mins)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (5 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (15 min)
Impacts of summer 2003 heat wave in Europe (30 min)
Climate Change and Famine (15 min)
Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health (25 min)
Extreme Heat Events (60 mins)
Methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change (8 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (22 min)
Assessing Health Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Guide for Health Departments (20 min)
Methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change (2 min)
Protecting health from climate change: Connecting science, policy and people (32 min)
Climate change and developing-country cities: Implications for environmental health and equity (44 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (70 min)
Discussion question: Key Vulnerabilities
Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 2.
Discussion question: Health Impact of wind, storm or flood (optional)
The Human Face of Climate Change (30 min)
Climate Change and Water: IPCC technical Paper VI (242 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (22 min)
Protecting the health of vulnerable people from the humanitarian consequences of climate change and climate related disasters (13 min)
Mass Casualty Management Systems Strategies and guidelines for building health sector capacity (33 min)
Health Indicators of disaster risk management in the Context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (15 min)
Public Health and Weather Services–Climate Information for the Health Sector (23 min)
Peer Activity 1: Case study: Protecting human health from the negative effects of climate change (60 min)
Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 3.
Weather & Climate Basics - Predicting the Weather: Forecasting (4 min)
Numerical weather prediction models (3 min)
How does a climate model work? (8 min)
Should we believe model predictions of future climate change? (55 min)
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (18 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (3 min)
How do scientists measure climate change? (9 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (54 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (47 min)
Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 1.
Climate Atlas of Canada (20 min)
Climate Time Machine (10 min)
Climate Change: An Uncertain Future (7 mins)
Human health.Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (3 min)
Communication and Marketing as Climate Change-Intervention Assets: A Public Health Perspective (57 min)
Principles for effective communication and public engagement on climate change: A Handbook for IPCC authors (38 min)
Responding to Climate Change Skepticism and the Ideological Divide (31 min)
Peer Activity 2: Learning to take action through letter writing.
Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 2.
Conveying the Human Implications of Climate Change (17 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (47 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (26 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (18 min)
Climate change and human health - Risks and Responses (15 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (20 min)
Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 1.
Discussion: Create quiz questions (optional)
Peer Activity: Policy Brief (optional)
Drought Communication Toolkit (30 min)
Climate Science 101: Limiting the Magnitude of & Adapting to Future Climate Change (75 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (7 min)
Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (17 min)
National Adaptation Programmes of Action: Summary of Projects on Health identified in Submitted NAPAs as of September 2008 (36 min)
Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 2.
Mentor Discussion #1: Talking about Community Adaptations to Climate Change (optional)
Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Adaptation in Developing Countries (57 min)
Regional Health Forum – Special Issue on World Health Day 2008 theme: Protecting Health from Climate Change (12 min)
Integrating Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Policy Implications (15 min)
Health in the green economy: Co-benefits to health of climate change mitigation: Housing Sector Executive summary (23 min)
Innovation for Sustainable Development: Local Case Studies from Africa (12 min)
Health Indicators of sustainable cities in the context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (23 min)
Health Indicators of sustainable water in the context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (15 min)
Health indicators of sustainable agriculture, food and nutrition security in the context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (19 min)
Health Indicators of sustainable energy in the Context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (22 min)
How your diet affects climate change (12 min)
Reducing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice: Perspectives from a Behavioural and Social Change Approach (32 min)
Facts about flying you shouldn't miss (5 min)
Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 3.
Mentor discussion #2: Talking about Mitigation in Climate Change (optional)
Health Co-benefits of Carbon Standards for Existing Power Plants: Part 2 of the Co-Benefits of Carbon Standards Study (40 min)
Heat, Fire, Water: How Climate Change Has Created a Public Health Emergency (130 min)
Dr, Erica Frank: Global Warming (3 min)
Growing greenhouse gas emissions due to meat production (25 min)
Climate Change and Health: A Framework for Action (10 min)
The health co-benefits of climate change policies: doctors have a responsibility to future generations (7 min)
Peer Activity: Learning to take action through petitions (optional)
Environmental sustainability in hospitals: The value of efficiency (56 min)
Green Building and Energy (20 min)
My Green Doctor (120 min)
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