Weather and climate have affected human health for millennia. Now, with global warming, climate change is altering weather and climate patterns that previously have been relatively stable. Climate experts are particularly confident that climate change will bring increasingly frequent and severe heat waves and extreme weather events, as well as a rise in sea levels. These changes have the potential to affect human health in several direct and indirect ways, some of them severe.
A couple of examples of the effect are increased temperatures and extreme weather events that bring about health issues such as air quality, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, water- and food-borne diseases and mental health.
Abstracted from the National Center for Disease Control and Preventation.
June 30th, 2010 at 1:32 am
everyone should Go Green so that we can help the environment.,-,
July 20th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
going green is always the best thing to do. it helps the environment a lot.:.;
December 13th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
it is always a good idea to go green because we always want to help the environment ‘-*
January 24th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
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