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February 09, 2006
GLOBAL WARMING A HEALTH RISK
Global warming is already causing death and disease across the world through flooding, environmental destruction, heat-waves and other extreme events according to Australian scientists. And the scientists say it’s likely to get worse. In a review published in The Lancet medical journal, the scientists said there was now a near-unanimous scientific consensus that rising levels of greenhouse gases would cause global warming and other climate changes. The review said climate change would bring changes in temperature, sea levels, rainfall, humidity and winds. This would lead to an increase in death rates from heat-waves, infectious diseases, allergies, cholera as well as starvation due to failing crops.
Posted by Syamak Moattari at February 9, 2006 09:33 PM
