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"Robert M. Pestronk, executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said he hoped the new climate data tools would help municipal officials plan for climate change. "Local health officials are on the front lines of preparing for and addressing the health effects of climate change - from reduced air quality to extreme weather to climate-sensitive infectious disease like West Nile virus and Lyme disease," he said. The website, Mr. Pestronk said, "will provide valuable data to guide and support local health departments in their efforts to ensure the health and safety of people in their communities.""

"In 2004, statistician Joseph Chang, computer scientist Douglas Rohde, and writer Steve Olson used a computer model of human genetics to show that anyone who was alive 2,000-3,000 years ago is either the ancestor of everyone who's now alive, or no one at all. Think about that: If a person alive in 1,000 BCE has any descendants alive today, they have all of us-even people from different continents and isolated populations. "

Self-knowledge and effective relationships are the foundations on which good care, quality improvement, and organizational change occur.

"I don't like raising problems when I cannot see a solution. But..."

The comments section provides a sample of views if there were to be a wider public discussion of responses to extreme climate events and trends.

"Periodically I find myself confused about my online presence and contributions. Am I using wikis, blogs, twitter, social networks, and email effectively? Effective by what criteria? Indeed, who am I trying to influence? My explorations of what others say about this recently has led me to a position-albeit a provisional one... The social, not the medium (or technology), should be the primary consideration. The criterion we need to apply in designing our online presence and contributions could be something like: "Am I welcoming and cultivating apprentices who are getting prepared to go on and cultivate the kinds of interaction in virtual and physical space that support their own work?" "