Key facts
- Climate change affects the fundamental requirements for health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter.
- The global warming that has occurred since the 1970s was causing over 140 000 excess deaths annually by the year 2004.
- Many of the major killers such as diarrhoeal diseases, malnutrition, malaria and dengue are highly climate-sensitive and are expected to worsen as the climate changes.
- Areas with weak health infrastructure – mostly in developing countries – will be the least able to cope without assistance to prepare and respond.
- Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases through better transport, food and energy-use choices can result in improved health.
Climate change
Over the last 50 years, human activities – particularly the burning of fossil fuels – have released sufficient quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to trap additional heat in the lower atmosphere and affect the global climate.
In the last 100 years, the world has warmed by approximately 0.75'C. Over the last 25 years, the rate of global warming has accelerated, at over 0.18'C per decade.
Sea levels are rising, glaciers are melting and precipitation patterns are changing. Extreme weather events are becoming more intense and frequent.
What is the impact of climate change on health?
Although global warming may bring some localized benefits, such as fewer winter deaths in temperate climates and increased food production in certain areas, the overall health effects of a changing climate are likely to be overwhelmingly negative. Climate change affects the fundamental requirements for health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter.
Very interesting & great way to point out key facts about how climate does affect the way we feel daily.
ReplyDelete-Sebastian Alcalde
This is a good article, and introduced how different diseases are influenced by climate.
ReplyDelete-Nicole Yero
This article is very interesting. When i read this i was so impressed because i never thought that CLIMATE CHANGE will cause so many diseases and cause even dead ,when you hear climate effects you thinks that is somethig unimportant ,but when you really read all this information you can realize that it is very serious . One thing that i never imagined was that climate change with extreme high air temperatures contribute directly to deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory disease.
ReplyDelete- GABRIELA GORDILLO
As you can read this article, it gives you a lot of information about climate change and how it affects us. You can see all the diseases that can come out of climate changing, some diseases that can even kill you and that is crazy to hear. The worst part about this is that, the people that start feeling all this are the, country with low resources in the health field or sanitary environment.
ReplyDeleteAlejandro Muniz