By Climate Central
ISBN-10: 0307907309
ISBN-13: 9780307907301
Produced by way of weather Central—a extremely popular self sufficient, nonprofit journalism and examine starting place based in 2008—and reviewed via scientists at significant academic and examine associations across the world, Global Weirdness summarizes, in transparent and obtainable prose, every thing we all know in regards to the technological know-how of weather switch; explains what's prone to take place to the weather sooner or later; and lays out in sensible phrases what we will be able to and can't do to prevent extra shifts.
Sixty easy-to-read entries take on such questions as: Is weather ever “normal”? Why and the way do fossil-fuel burning and different human practices produce greenhouse gases? What common forces have triggered weather swap long ago? What hazards does weather swap pose for human healthiness? What bills for the diminishment of mountain glaciers and small ice caps around the globe given that 1850? What are the commercial expenditures and advantages of lowering carbon emissions?
Global Weirdness enlarges our knowing of the way weather swap impacts our day-by-day lives, and fingers us with the incontrovertible evidence we have to make trained judgements concerning the way forward for the planet and of humankind.
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Moreover, the interrogation model makes assumptions about the elicited symptoms and diseases. And while these assumptions might be true for most of the people with those symptoms, they may not be true for this particular individual. The great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes talks at length about the difference between the actions and thoughts of the individual when contrasted to the average. ” The differences between the average and the individual may not be revealed if the doctor doesn’t ask.
If the doctor has worked through the problem well, there’s a very good chance that one of these possible diagnoses will be right. The rest though, by definition, will be wrong. We are regularly wrong in the pursuit of being right. It’s important to have a list of possibilities because medicine is complicated and diseases and bodies differ. We frequently have a diagnosis that we consider most likely, but we’re taught also to come up with a plan B because our patients don’t always have the most likely disease.
There are several reasons. First, most researchers, doctors, and patients would agree that time pressures play an important role. A visit to a doctor’s office lasts an average of twenty-two minutes. Although there is a sense that doctors are spending less time with their patients, that number has actually increased over the past twenty years. In 1989, the average doctor’s appointment lasted only sixteen minutes. Despite this extra time, both doctors and patients frequently agree that their time together is still too short.
Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future by Climate Central
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