Tip: Heal Family Relationships to help ADHD Kids cope up w/ Climate Change (ADHD as a problem of regulation of emotion, behavior and attention)

This is because children learn self-regulation in context of relationships with primary caregivers, and family conflict is clearly associated with increased risk for ADHD. From 2000 to 2009, ADHD was up by 29% , and evidence that medication use for ADHD increased at an average yearly rate of 3.4% from 1996 to 2008. ADHD: The role of diet and sleep - Child In Mind - Boston.com: "Many children with a range of behavior problems crave sweets. Parents describe constant battles around food choices. It is likely that these problems have complex causes: sweets may be used to reduce stress, and food is a place where children can exert absolute control by simply closing their mouths.

Certainly it is important for growth, development, and learning that children eat a healthy diet. Ideally they should have three meals a day with sufficient fresh fruits, vegetables, and protein and a minimum of processed foods. However, if all attention in management of ADHD is focused on diet, to the exclusion of relationships, then the intervention is off the mark. In addition, evidence for more specific food restrictions, such as dairy, wheat or food dyes, is more anecdotal, and some of these diets can be quite restrictive.

Similarly, getting enough sleep is essential to healthy brain function and regulation of behavior, emotions and attention. But, with the exception of obstructive sleep apnea, most sleep problems develop in the context of relationships. "

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Alternative Energy Update: Tens of thousands of people joined 2000 marches and rallies in over 175 countries to call for a move beyond fossil fuels

"Dr. James Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the speakers at the Moving Planet rally in NYC, has spent his career studying the climatic changes under way on our planet. One of his key points, which unfortunately has not yet entered the popular consciousness, is that we simply cannot afford to extract and burn all the fossil fuels in the earth. Many people worry about when we will run out of oil or coal. But the real worry is what will happen to our climate if emissions from all that oil and coal are released into the atmosphere. Instead of worrying about when we'll run out, we should be talking about how to keep as many fossil fuels in the ground as possible.

Many people profit from selling oil, removing mountaintops to get at coal seams, and extracting crude bitumen from tar sands. Some ignore or belittle scientific research that doesn't conform to business as usual, and use the political system to ensure that no substantive action is taken to alter this unsustainable path. But eventually the obvious will no longer be deniable, even to those who profit from the status quo: we have to move beyond fossil fuels."

Charles Scott: Moving Planet: I believe that when there is more money to be made in alternative energy than fossil fuels, the arguments we hear today against taking action to address climate change will disappear. That's why it is so important for the U.S. to eliminate the massive subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, which stifle innovation and provide an unfair advantage over alternative energy solutions like wind and solar.
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Climate Change Update: Northeast Climate Science Center to study how climate change affects ecosystems, from the Great Lakes to Maine down to Missouri

“The nationwide network of Climate Science Centers will provide the scientific talent and commitment necessary for understanding how climate change and other landscape stressors will change the face of the United States,” said US Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar in a statement.

Last month, the state’s Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee released a report that suggested temperatures in Massachusetts by end of this century could spike to 90 degrees or more for 30 to 60 days every summer, ocean temperatures could be on average 8 degrees warmer, and winters are likely to have more rain and less snow.

And next month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release a major new study on the effects of climate change in recent years and what the latest evidence shows is likely to happen in coming decades.

UMass-Amherst and its partners will study climate impacts on water resources, agriculture and grazing, fish and wildlife, forest resilience, invasive species, protecting migratory fish and waterfowl, sea-level rise, coastal erosion, flood management, and water quality."
New center to study climate change opens - Metro Desk - Local news updates from The Boston Globe: "
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