Tip:"Parent's emotional state affects child's emotional health. It's important to tell your pediatrician how you feel, though you're not the patient"

Tips on taking your child to the doctor: "Your pediatrician is interested in hearing anything relative to your child's development, particularly daily habits that a doctor can't observe. How and what does your child eat? How active is your child? How much sleep does your child need? Does your child seem generally happy? What does your child say or how does he/she communicate? Does the child play or interact well with other children? Have there been unusual stresses at home, such as a move, job loss, illness or death of a family member? It's important that your pediatrician not only assess your child's physical health, but emotional health as well because children's emotions can greatly impact physical health, activity and behavior.

Why did our pediatrician ask me how I feel?
Adults also can be subject to depression, and moms specifically to postpartum depression. An adult's emotional state affects a child's emotional health. If parents are dealing with major stressors, the child also may feel stressed physically and emotionally. So it's important to tell your pediatrician how you feel even though you are not the patient. Your pediatrician will be able to refer you to someone who can help you." (click link above to read full article)

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Ways to Mitigate Climate Change: Alternative Energy: Wind & Solar will coexist & work in tandem... because neither source can be controlled by man"

We can use solar energy when it comes,” Dr. Erk Thorsten Heyen, vice president, marketing, sales and finance of Wacker Polysilicon Division of Wacker Chemie AG Read more: Cleveland Daily Banner - Wacker VP Renewable energy is the future . “Typically, the wind is stronger when there is no sun.” But, he said, to move to a point where 60 percent of all energy is from renewable sources, it will be necessary to generate electricity with wind and solar systems when it is available and store it in batteries or hydroelectric plants. Water can be pumped to a higher level during the day and released at night. “You can use the energy from solar cells to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen and use the oxygen to make power or heat,” he said.

“There are many, many different technologies which could be used to store the excess electricity generated when the sun is shining or when the wind is blowing and use it when those conditions don’t exist. All of those technologies are available, but some of them are still a bit too expensive.” But, bringing those costs down will require government policy or utilities such as the Tennessee Valley Authority to move in that direction. "
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Update: Researchers from University of California, Berkeley confirmed reports that global temperatures have risen by 1 degree Celsius

Massive Study Proves Climate Change is No Hoax - Technorati Green: "The team included a 2011 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Saul Perlmutter and various climatologists and statisticians. Compiling a huge open database of temperature records, researchers found a striking correlation with earlier American and British studies and the data clearly supports the conclusions that warming is occurring.

This study is the most comprehensive and thorough to date and focused on some nagging questions about the debate.
According to this statement:

" The most important indicator of global warming, by far, is the land and sea surface temperature record. This has been criticized in several ways, including the choice of stations and the methods for correcting systematic errors. The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study sets out to to do a new analysis of the surface temperature record in a rigorous manner that addresses this criticism. We are using over 39,000 unique stations, which is more than five times the 7,280 stations found in the Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly data set (GHCN-M) that has served as the focus of many climate studies.""

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