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Impacts World 2017 conference - IV: Climate change and human health
Session chair: Veronika Huber
Co-chair: Linda Krummenauer
Location: Potsdam, Germany
1) Prof. Dr. Andy Haines (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom)
Title: Reducing risks to health from climate change in the Anthropocene epoch
Starting time: 00:00:02
2) Prof. Dr. med. Christian Witt (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany)
Title: Clinical Climate Impact Research – The Lungs as Portal Organ of Climate Change
Starting time: 00:12:40
3) Dr. Antonio Gasparrini (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom)
Title: Temperature, climate and health: results from the MCC Project
Starting time: 00:27:20
4) Prof. Dr. Matthew Huber (Purdue University, United States)
Title: The dynamics of moist heat stress and their implications for future predictions
Starting time: 00:46:08
5) Prof. Dr. Andy Morse (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Title: Climate Models and the Prediction of Vector Borne Diseases Starting time: 01:03:50
Impacts World 2017 conference - IV: Climate change and human health
Session chair: Veronika Huber
Co-chair: Linda Krummenauer
Location: Potsdam, Germany
1) Prof. Dr. Andy Haines (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom)
Title: Reducing risks to health from climate change in the Anthropocene epoch
Starting time: 00:00:02
2) Prof. Dr. med. Christian Witt (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany)
Title: Clinical Climate Impact Research – The Lungs as Portal Organ of Climate Change
Starting time: 00:12:40
3) Dr. Antonio Gasparrini (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom)
Title: Temperature, climate and health: results from the MCC Project
Starting time: 00:27:20
4) Prof. Dr. Matthew Huber (Purdue University, United States)
Title: The dynamics of moist heat stress and their implications for future predictions
Starting time: 00:46:08
5) Prof. Dr. Andy Morse (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Title: Climate Models and the Prediction of Vector Borne Diseases Starting time: 01:03:50
![Spacefood for cows
Industrial microbes could feed cattle, pigs and chicken with less damage to the environment: Deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, nitrogen pollution – today’s agricultural feed cultivation for cattle, pigs and chicken comes with tremendous impacts for the environment and climate. Cultivating feed in industrial facilities instead of on croplands might help to alleviate the critical implications in the agricultural food supply chain. Protein-rich microbes, produced in large-scale industrial facilities, are likely to increasingly replace traditional crop-based feed. A new study now published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology for the first time estimates the economic and environmental potential of feeding microbial protein to pigs, cattle and chicken on a global scale. The researchers find that by replacing only 2 percent of livestock feed by protein-rich microbes, more than 5 percent of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, global cropland area and global nitrogen losses could each be decreased. More information: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/spacefood-for-cows-industrial-microbes-could-feed-cattle-pigs-and-chicken-with-less-damage-to-the-environment
Article: Ilje Pikaar, Silvio Matassa, Benjamin L. Bodirsky, Isabelle Weindl, Florian Humpenöder, Korneel Rabaey, Nico Boon, Michele Bruschi, Zhiguo Yuan, Hannah van Zanten, Mario Herrero, Willy Verstraete, Alexander Popp (2018): Decoupling Livestock from Land Use through Industrial Feed Production Pathways. Environmental Science and Technology [DOI:10.1021/acs.est.8b00216] Spacefood for cows](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/754ax14c87M/mqdefault.jpg)



![Stronger evidence for a weaker Atlantic overturning
Levke Caesar and Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research on their new paper.
The Atlantic overturning – one of Earth’s most important heat transport systems, pumping warm water northwards and cold water southwards – is weaker today than any time before in more than 1000 years. Sea surface temperature data analysis provides new evidence that this major ocean circulation has slowed down by roughly 15 percent since the middle of the 20th century, according to a study published in the highly renowned journal Nature by an international team of scientists. Human-made climate change is a prime suspect for these worrying observations.
Article: Levke Caesar, Stefan Rahmstorf, Alexander Robinson, Georg Feulner, Vincent Saba (2018): Observed fingerprint of a weakening Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. Nature [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0006-5]
Weblink to the press release: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/stronger-evidence-for-a-weaker-atlantic-overturning Stronger evidence for a weaker Atlantic overturning](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7KJlrpvUXw8/mqdefault.jpg)





