{"id":28885,"date":"2015-11-05T11:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T10:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocasapiens-dweb.blogautore.repubblica.it\/?p=28885"},"modified":"2021-12-05T17:54:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T16:54:38","slug":"nel-centenario-di-gallipoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/05\/nel-centenario-di-gallipoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Nel centenario di Gallipoli"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dopo l’uccisione di troppi medici, infermieri e feriti perfino da parte di eserciti regolari, un editoriale<\/a> <\/strong>di Nature<\/em> chiede ai ricercatori, biomed innanzitutto, di mobilitarsi insieme alle Ong per far applicare le Convenzioni di Ginevra, le cui violazioni sono “senza precedenti” stando al segretario dell’ONU e al presidente della Croce Rossa:<\/p>\n

Among the explanations is a lack of awareness of the Geneva Conventions by protagonists \u2014 in what are increasingly not wars between nations, but smaller civil and sectarian wars, often involving non-state actors \u2014 but also a poor grasp by the media and public. <\/em>(…) “What is worrying – –<\/em>dice\u00a0<\/em>Susannah \u00a0Sirkin di Physicians for Human Rights –\u00a0\u00a0is that the overt targeting of humanitarian and health workers has become the \u201cnew normal\u201d, despite it being illegal under international law \u2014 and having the effect of depriving entire populations of health care, and children of vital vaccinations. <\/em>(…)<\/p>\n

But above all, abuses happen because there is little accountability, with perpetrators operating with almost total impunity, despite their actions often clearly amounting to war crimes \u2014 or indeed crimes against humanity. The Geneva Conventions lack a body with teeth to ensure that the rules are respected, or to stop abuses when they are under way. They also lack mechanisms to investigate and prosecute abuses. (…) <\/em><\/p>\n

As well as the armistice, this month marks 100 years since the decision to evacuate troops from the ill-fated 1915 Gallipoli campaign, in which medical staff working under atrocious battlefield conditions suffered extensive casualties. The world has been shocked into action to protect health workers before. It must be again.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tks, Sir Phil, bella e necessaria anche la recensione<\/a><\/strong> del saggio di Shane O’Mara<\/a><\/strong>, Why Torture Doesn’t Work<\/em><\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n(Se volete, potete firmare la petizione di M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res <\/a><\/strong>\u00a0per chiedere a Obama un’indagine indipendente sul bombardamento dell’ospedale di Kunduz, in Afghanistan.)<\/p>\n

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Le tesi degli studenti tedeschi di medicina sono scadenti, oltre che plagiate, lamenta un altro editoriale, e il terzo celebra<\/a><\/strong> il grande Smooth Operator:<\/p>\n

\u00a0IF George Boole had lived, then he would have celebrated his 200th birthday this week. NOT that it makes any sense to say such a thing OR to write it. People do NOT live that long. And if there was one thing that George Boole is known for, it is logic. AND mathematics AND philosophy. Three things. NOT one thing. (…)<\/em>
\nHe did NOT have a formal education OR academic training. He taught himself languages including Latin AND Greek AND calculus. He wrote scientific papers on how to represent logical relations as symbols AND algebraic equations. Despite NOT having a university education, he was appointed professor of mathematics at Queen\u2019s College Cork in Ireland. \u00a0<\/em>
\nThe weather in Ireland is often NOT dry and Boole caught pneumonia after walking to the college in heavy rain. His wife, Mary, a prominent mathematician, was NOT as skilled at medicine. She soaked her husband\u2019s sheets with water AND made him shiver with cold. It did NOT help AND, sadly, he died.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In tema, l’Outlook \u00e8 sui Big Data in biomedicina<\/a><\/strong>, gratis: \u00e8\u00a0sponsorizzato da enti di ricerca pubblici cinesi, credo sia la prima volta.<\/p>\n

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Fra i paper, far\u00e0 sicuramente discutere quello di Steve\u00a0Hatfield-Dodds<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>e altri 15 ricercatori del CSIRO. Nel modello sviluppato per l’Australian National Outlook 2015<\/a>, immettono\u00a0venti scenari di sviluppo economico per l’Australia fino al 2050. Con un prezzo “giusto” del carbonio, \u00a0non solo in Australia, \u00e8 sostenibile e non richiede sacrifici.
\nDall’abstract, grassetto mio:<\/p>\n

we use novel integrated analysis of the energy\u2013water\u2013food nexus, rural land use (including biodiversity), material flows and climate change to explore whether mounting ecological pressures in Australia can be reversed, while the population grows and living standards improve. We show that, in the right circumstances, economic and environmental outcomes can be decoupled.<\/strong> Although economic growth is strong across all scenarios, environmental performance varies widely: pressures are projected to more than double, stabilize or fall markedly by 2050. However, we find no evidence that decoupling will occur automatically.<\/strong> Nor do we find that a shift in societal values is required. Rather, extensions of current policies that mobilize technology and incentivize reduced pressure account for the majority of differences in environmental performance. Our results show that Australia can make great progress towards sustainable prosperity, if it chooses to do so.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nessuno degli scenari \u00e8 una panacea. Hanno<\/p>\n

\u00a0a different portfolio of risks and opportunities, which we have not fully modelled beyond 2050. For example, new native habitat established before 2050 could provide a permanent flow of biodiversity benefits and other ecosystem services, while the flow of carbon sequestration provided will peak and eventually decline to zero, drawing attention to challenges and opportunities beyond our modelling horizon, such as the possibility of using carbon plantations to generate negative emission bioenergy with carbon capture and storage.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>(…)
\nThese scenarios may present new longer-term risks and opportunities, and the synergies and trade-offs involved will be influenced by global circumstances. We also find an important threshold effect: moderate global action to reduce greenhouse emissions may diminish Australia\u2019s traditional comparative advantage (particularly in fossil fuel-based sectors) without creating new areas of advantage; while stronger global action that places tangible value on emissions reductions could create new opportunities for creating value, providing win-win economic and environmental benefits relative to existing trends. While Australia could dramatically reduce environmental pressures across a wide range of global contexts, the economic costs of doing so will be smaller (and benefits larger) in global settings that support the stable functioning of key Earth systems, including through promoting clean energy. As these global circumstances emerge, Australia\u2019s opportunities will multiply.<\/em>
\nSustainable prosperity is possible, but not predestined. Australia is free to choose.<\/em><\/p>\n

Conclusioni un po’ ottimiste, commentano<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Benjamin Bodirsky e Alexander Popp del PIK. E’ il primo studio cos\u00ec dettagliato che leggo, affascinante, ma senza carbon capture, carbon tax mondiale ecc. pare ottimista anche a me.<\/p>\n

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Negli scenari di Hatfield-Dodds et al. aumentano i consumi di carne. Combinazione, sul Journal of Environmental Biology <\/a><\/em><\/strong>esce uno studio di Marcus Clauss et al. sulle flatulenze dei canguri: calcolate in funzione del cibo ingerito, le loro emissioni di metano sono pari a\u00a0quelle dei ruminanti,\u00a0<\/span>com. stampa<\/a><\/strong> dell’Universit\u00e0 di Zurigo,<\/span>\u00a0commento sul Guardian<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Sul Guardian<\/strong><\/em>, Dana Nuccitelli celebra un altro anniversario: 50 anni fa, gli scienziati americani consegnavano al Potus un rapporto sul degrado dell’ambiente e del clima causato dagli inquinanti, CO2 compresa. Dana N. ricorda anche il modello che Wally Broecker<\/a><\/strong>, uno degli autori del rapporto, aveva pubblicato nel 1974 e ne paragona<\/a><\/strong> le proiezioni con le osservazioni al 2015:<\/p>\n

\"Wallace<\/a><\/p>\n

(Il ten.col.Guidi ne informer\u00e0 un giorno la sua troupe o continuer\u00e0 a ripetere la propaganda della Exxon<\/a><\/strong>?)<\/p>\n

Novembre 2015, invece, l’American Meteorological Society manda al repubblicano Lamar Smith una lettera<\/a><\/strong> in difesa dei climatologi della NOAA che il Torquemada del Congresso sta perseguitando:<\/span><\/p>\n

Singling out specific research studies, and implicitly questioning the integrity of the researchers conducting those studies, can be viewed as a form of intimidation that could deter scientists from freely carrying out research on important national challenges. As expressed in the AMS Statement on Freedom of Scientific Expression : The ability of scientists to present their findings to the scientific community, policy\u00a0makers, the media, and the public without censorship, intimidation, or political interference is imperative.<\/em><\/p>\n

Che pretese! Per tradizione<\/a><\/strong>, un politico ha il diritto di intimidire chi gli pare.<\/p>\n

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Sou<\/a> <\/strong>pubblica l’elenco dei 13 bigoilisti che su Indiegogo chiedono $59 mila per farsi un proprio vertice a Parigi durante la COP21.<\/p>\n

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Dev’essere il global cooling: a Milano con le finestre spalancate, in casa ci sono 23 \u00b0C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dopo l’uccisione di troppi medici, infermieri e feriti perfino da parte di eserciti regolari, un editoriale di Nature chiede ai ricercatori, biomed innanzitutto, di mobilitarsi insieme alle Ong per far applicare le Convenzioni di Ginevra, le cui violazioni sono “senza precedenti” stando al segretario dell’ONU e al presidente della Croce Rossa: Among the explanations is… Continua a leggere Nel centenario di Gallipoli<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,20,22,23,25],"tags":[681,1601,2974,4428,4563,4652,5327,6290,6640,6879,7274],"class_list":["post-28885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clima","category-economia","category-medicina","category-neuroscienze","category-non-profit","category-politica","tag-australia","tag-convenzioni-di-ginevra","tag-george-boole","tag-metano","tag-modelli","tag-msf","tag-phr","tag-shane-omara","tag-sviluppo-sostenibile","tag-tortura","tag-wally-broecker","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43804,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28885\/revisions\/43804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}