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Science ran a multiple story overview of WHO’s handling of the SARS epidemic in 2003 — which essentially concludes that, despite significant advances in biotechnology, the world’s sociopolitical and public health infrastructure is still unlikely to act with ideal efficiency in response to a pandemic today 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citations Martin Enserink, War Stories, Science 339(6125): 1264-1268, DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6125.1264 (15 March 2013) Martin Enserink, SARS: Chronology of the Epidemic, Science 339(6125): 1266- 1271, DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6125.1266 (15 March 2013) Dennis Normile, Understanding the Enemy, Science 339(6125): 1269-1273, DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6125.1269 (15 March 2013) Dennis Normile, The Metropole, Superspreaders, and Other Mysteries, Science [...]

Categories: Epidemiology,Medicine,Public Health,Science

Tagged: Arabian Peninsula, Carlo Urbani, China, Christopher Dye, Dennis Normile, Guandong Province, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Isabelle Nuttall, Martin Enserink, NCoV, novel coronavirus, SARS, SARS Chronology of the Epidemic, SARS-CoV, severe acute respiratory syndrome, The Metropole Superspreaders and Other Mysteries, Vietnam, WHO, World Health Organization

Published:: 15 April 2013 – 15:15
Author:: By BrainiYak

Global warming is already negatively affecting China’s ability to feed and irrigate itself 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study documenting reduced agricultural production Fulu Tao, Zhao Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Zhu Zhu, and Wenjiao Shi, Response of crop yields to climate trends since 1980 in China, Climate Research 54 (3): 233-247, doi:10.3354/cr01131 (18 October 2012) Citation — to broader situational overview Christina Larson, Losing Arable Land, China [...]

Categories: Agriculture,Climate change,Environment,Global warming,Science

Tagged: adapt or go hungry, agricultural production, aquifer, arable land, arid, China, Christina Larson, crop yields, cultivars, drought, Fulu Tao, Henan, maize, northeastern China, northern China, overdrawn, rice, semi-arid, Shuai Zhang, soybean, Wenjiao Shi, winter wheat, Yellow River, yields, Yucheng, Zhao Zhang, Zhu Zhu

Published:: 22 February 2013 – 11:49
Author:: By BrainiYak

European Commission’s Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) has released its 2012 report showing a 3 percent increase in global carbon dioxide emissions during 2011 0

Citation Jos G.J. Olivier, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, and Jeroen A.H.W. Peters, Trends in Global CO2 Emissions: 2012 Report, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and European Commission Joint Research Center (2012) China emits the most carbon dioxide in aggregate, but the United States produces 2.4 times as much per capita From the press release: The 3% increase [...]

Categories: Climate change,Environment,Global warming

Tagged: China, CO2 emissions, EDGAR, Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research, emitter, European Union, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, India, Japan, Jeroen A.H.W. Peters, Jos G.J. Olivier, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Russian Federation, United States

Published:: 22 July 2012 – 19:16
Author:: By BrainiYak

The sheer power of numbers — China, as a population-heavy breeding ground for developing antibiotic resistance 0

Citation Mara Hvistendahl, China Takes Aim at Rampant Antibiotic Resistance, Science 336(6083): 795 (18 May 2012) Far away from the Western Hemisphere, but with a hand in our gut The comparatively wealthy world does not have to look far to see depressing signs of the stupidity and greed that affect public health. I previously touched [...]

Categories: Agriculture,Public Health

Tagged: animal feed, animal husbandry, antibiotic resistance, bacteria, China, Chinese, Escherichia coli, farmers, Food and Drug Administration, Guizhou Province, macrolides, Mara Hvistendahl, methicillin-resistant, Ministry of Health, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, New Dehli, pharmaceutical sales, profit, quinolones, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, water supply

Published:: 25 June 2012 – 15:43
Author:: By BrainiYak

Science article about dam building on the Yangtze/Jinsha River surveys evidence for increased earthquake risk 0

Citation Jane Qiu, Trouble on the Yangtze, Science 336(6079): 288-291 (20 April 2012) China’s emphasis on hydropower The Chinese government has set a goal of achieving 15 percent non-fossil energy production by 2020. Author Jane Qiu says that most of this will come from hydropower. And much of that from what the Chinese call the [...]

Categories: Environment

Tagged: China, Chinese Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Dahu, dam, dam building, Dam-Quake Link, earthquake risk, EIA, environmental impact assessment, fault, Jane Qiu, Jinsha River, Min, Wenchuan earthquake, Xiaonanhai Dam, Yalong, Yangtze River

Published:: 4 May 2012 – 18:16
Author:: By BrainiYak

Why do governments mistreat peasants? — The consequences of dumb policies (even in the United States) 0

Activist Gustavo Esteva wrote about short-sighted Mexican agricultural policy and its effect on the United States China and Mexico both seem to have created dislocation problems for themselves with peasant-slighting policies. These difficulties result from misapplying urbanized thinking to landscapes where they don’t yet belong. Mexican activist Gustavo Esteva had this to say yesterday about [...]

Categories: Agriculture,Economy

Tagged: agricultural policy, agro-plutocrats, China, gustavo Esteva, Mexico, Mexico goes back to the land, peasants, subsidies, sustainable

Published:: 15 February 2011 – 08:14
Author:: By BrainiYak

The Chinese government is playing currency valuation games at the expense of American workers 0

A long-term economic problem that most people should care about For the forty-plus years, I have been surprised at how little attention Americans pay to foreign currency manipulations that weaken American employment and the standard of living. Free-trade rhetoric is repeatedly used to mask devious, protectionist-inspired manipulations of currency values. These games avoid the appearance [...]

Categories: Economy

Tagged: China, China Japan America, Chinese government, multi-national corporations, Paul Krugman, plutocrats, United Steelworkers Union

Published:: 13 September 2010 – 18:55
Author:: By BrainiYak

China’s water scarcity problem warns us about our own 0

China faces significant water shortages Jane Qiu, writing in Nature (reporting on the 2010 International Groundwater Forum in Beijing) notes that China has 20 percent of the world’s population, but only 5 to 7 percent of the planet’s fresh water. Groundwater irrigates 40 percent of China’s agriculture and, in dry regions, accounts for 70 percent of [...]

Categories: Environment

Tagged: China, China faces up to groundwater crisis, drought, ground water, irrigation, Jane Qiu, Ogallala Aquifer, water, water table

Published:: 17 July 2010 – 10:13
Author:: By BrainiYak

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Tag Archives: China

Global warming is already negatively affecting China’s ability to feed and irrigate itself 0

European Commission’s Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) has released its 2012 report showing a 3 percent increase in global carbon dioxide emissions during 2011 0

The sheer power of numbers — China, as a population-heavy breeding ground for developing antibiotic resistance 0

Science article about dam building on the Yangtze/Jinsha River surveys evidence for increased earthquake risk 0

Why do governments mistreat peasants? — The consequences of dumb policies (even in the United States) 0

The Chinese government is playing currency valuation games at the expense of American workers 0

China’s water scarcity problem warns us about our own 0

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