Showing posts with label Global warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global warming. Show all posts
Monday, March 31, 2014
The Risk That Is Just Too Big for Workers' Compensation: Global Warming
Unforeseen to the crafters of the workers' compensation system more than a century ago was the factor of global warming and its dire consequences. A risk too big to cover. While workers' compensation was intended to provide coverage for industrially related accidents and injuries, no one envisioned the effects of global warming, ironically industrially precipitated, upon the workplace environment.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Shutdown’s science fallout could last for years
| The government may finally be on a path to reopening, but the shutdown’s effects will linger for scientists studying everything from climate change to cancer. Antarctica-bound field researchers stuck in budget limbo over the past three weeks fret that decades of data on penguins and ice sheets will end up with a glaring gap, undercutting their documentation of global warming. Doctors operating federal-funded clinical studies on Alzheimer’s, cocaine addiction and heart disease worry they’ve lost the trust of patients.
Public health officials warn the country is still “flying blind” for the start of the flu season.
“Even if the government opens tomorrow, a significant amount of damage has been done,” said Mary Woolley, president of Research!America, a nonprofit advocating for science-minded agencies. “This isn’t about a few people who can’t go to the labs like they’re on vacation or something. The whole research enterprise depends on operating 24/7.”Thinking more of the big picture, there’s also the little matter of keeping the best and brightest researchers working in, and for, the United States or seeing them flee to the private sector. It’s a realistic expectation after nearly three years of stop-and-go budget battles resulting in sequestration and now the cruel reality of laboratories ordered to keep the lights out. (WATCH: Who won the shutdown? Top 5 quotes) “Would you... |
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