How Climate Change Hurts Your Health

Time.com:

The first step to making that case is understanding exactly what warmer temperatures will do to us and our diseases -- and few scientists know more about the topic than Patz, a member of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (Hear Patz talk about global warming and health on this week's Greencast.) As temperatures increase, and hotter, drier summers become the norm in regions that were once temperate, powerful heat waves -- like the one in Europe in 2003, which killed an estimated 35,000 people -- will take a toll. At the same time, climate models suggest that rain could become less frequent overall but more intense when it does fall, leading to a double whammy. Longer and fiercer droughts in some areas will worsen hunger, but severe rainstorms carry an increased risk of water-borne diseases like cholera. "It's not just warming, it's climate change," says Patz. "It's changing the air cycle, creating more extreme flooding, more extreme droughts."

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Comments

[billu]

Good since the temperature stopped increasing 10 years ago and has been decreasing for the past 7 with a big decline this last year, everyone should be doing better right?

[sawdustinhershoes]

hmmmm..., where I live, Central Texas, it's been getting hotter and staying hot, hot, hot for six months versus four. Go stick your head back in the sand and shut-up.

The article was spot-on. What we need to be doing as people is preparing for the drought, starvation and heat that's already happening.

I've spent four to eight hours a day outside winter and summer, and I can tell you that the heat here is becoming unbearly hotter. I don't care what anyone SAYS. I've observed it first hand.

[billu]

Oh you are so right, the world climate is perfectly modeled by your backyard. OTOH the temp stations have been measuring decreases in temps across the rest of the world.