Co-variates and effect modifiers that will be considered will include gender, depressed mood, work/home responsibilities (time), socio-economic status, climate variables, BMI, and diabetes duration.
Does he get depressed about climate change, thinking about these terrifying scenarios in which much of the earth becomes virtually uninhabitable in just a couple of decades, when he is reaching retirement age and his only daughter will be in her 30s?
Alan F. Holmer, president of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, said the law "gives a 'go-away' signal to innovators, including Maine's promising biotechnology industry, and will depress the climate for investment in the state".
But profound changes have occurred in the environment of teaching hospitals, where cost containment has invariably depressed the intellectual climate.
Happily, the pieces are in place, even if we're still a little too depressed in this financial climate to notice them.
At coarse scales, snow avalanches and debris flows are widespread and create disturbance treelines elevationally depressed well below the climate-controlled alpine treeline.
"The idea of waging a campaign to try and depress the business climate of one state so your state can benefit as a result is something that Missourians don't appreciate," said Jason Kander, a Democrat who is Missouri's secretary of state.
The bird controversy, in which, within the space of just a few days, Franzen's subtle and well-argued position had been boiled down to the summary "climate change-denier" depressed him immensely.
ELIZABETH KOLBERT: I think it may be hard to show that our inaction on climate change has depressed the economy, though certainly that is an interesting idea, and if there are any economists reading this, perhaps they would like to comment.
