Global Warming A Killer

Global Warming may kill an estimated 150,000 people annually, according to researchers. The human toll of global warming—often overlooked in favor of environmental concerns—is growing increasingly evident, according to The AFP.

Many of the 39 new or re-emerging deaths in the last several decade are directly attributable to global warming. A warming earth is allowing disease-carrying mosquitoes to breed faster and spread into typically cooler climates, severely increasing the spread of malaria, dengue fever, and diarrhea. The other effects of global warming—deforestation, natural disasters, lacking fresh water, unusual rain patterns—will force many to abandon their homes and migrate, taking their diseases with them.

The World Heath Organization—commemorating its 60th birthday—warned that millions could be threatened with poverty, disease, and hunger as an affect of climate change, adding that poor countries with already weak irrigation systems and medical facilities are likely to be hit the hardest. This is, according to some, the greatest surge of illness since the Industrial Revolution.

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[Dr Coles]

Over 400 World Wide Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007. See http://tinyurl.com/2dv6nz

[Dr Coles]

Over 400 World Wide Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007. See http://tinyurl.com/2dv6nz