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Posted on 09/17/2009 9:35:03 PM PDT by Libloather
Doctors Warn Climate Change Will Threaten Public Health
More than 100 doctors across the state of Michigan are calling on the U.S. Senate to combat climate change by passing Clean Energy Legislation.
Reporter: Tiffany Teasley
Updated: 6:58 PM Sep 17, 2009
"There's going to be more lung cancer, there's going to be more asthma," said Sherri Moore, of the SEIU Nurse Alliance.
"It's a vicious cycle, one day our earth will not be a healthy place to live," said Sparrow Pediatric Pulmonologist, Dr. Autumn Clos.
That's why local nurses and doctors are just a few of hundreds across the state calling on Michigan's U.S. Senators to pass legislation, as did the U.S. House, to combat climate change that could cost lives.
"Diseases that could re-insert themselves in the the United States if we have significant climate change," said Dr. Dean Sienko of the Ingham County Health Department.
"Some of these changes that we're already seeing would be happening, they're coming much earlier than we ever anticipated," Clos said.
The EPA reports that cases of childhood asthma have doubled in the past 20 years, Dr. Clos sees it firsthand.
"Michigan has a little bit higher levels of asthma than other states," Clos said.
The World Health Organization projects that climate linked disease tolls will double by 2030 if no action is taken, and experts say children and the elderly are the most at risk.
"Children are smaller, they breath faster, so they're breathing more of these pollutants," Clos said.
And here in Michigan they're predicting extreme heatwaves in the coming years, putting the low-income and elderly in the danger zone for death.
"Very serious heatwaves, we've seen these happen over the past 10 years, not only here locally but in other places around the country, and so we have to be aware of this and we have to address this," Sienko said.
It's time to leave Michigan. Gonna suck to live there.
Anytime you see SEIU, you’ve just been sold a load.
Here we go. create crisis, spin it and repeat until desired affect.
So heat causes Lung Cancer?
By that logic practically every resident of Phoenix should be dieing of it.
...cause nothing says health like an SEIU member.
These evil , lying sacks of shit need to be deported
Weird that sick people are always going to warm climates for their health. Lots of retirement communities in Arizona, California, Florida. Not so many in the Yukon.
FCOL!!!
Green is the new COMMIE....
Phoenix summer temps are normally 114, Tucson 104, and Yuma 117.
Could it be we (all ages) are in better shape and not grossly overweight BLIMPS?
And when that time comes, we'll all be dead, our children will be dead and our grandchildren and their children will have all passed on etc, etc.---so your point is?
I'm sorry but all these chicken-little-earth-is-dying idjets p*ss me mightily!!! Been there done that in the 70's...won't get fooled again.
SEIU, ACORN = corruption
SEIU stalking, harassing nurses at home - is this the face of a progressive union?
Roving bands of Service Employee International Union staff showed up on the home doorsteps of leaders of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Association Thursday, harassing and verbally threatening them in a disgraceful escalation of SEIU International's campaign against CNA/NNOC.
Notably, the attacks focused on women leaders forced to confront squads of shouting, screaming people in an obvious attempt to intimidate and coerce our leaders into stopping our critique of the increasingly pro-corporate bent of SEIU International and its President Andrew Stern
Aug 19, 2008 The LA Times continues its investigation this week of Tyrone Freeman, Andy Stern's henchman in the SEIU international's war against United Healthcare Workers West and other internal critics fighting for union democracy. Freeman is the head of SEIU United Long Term Care Workers. The new story reports on allegations of election rigging by Freeman being examined by the Labor Department.
The LA Times also reports allegations of a cover-up by the SEIU communications department of Freeman's financial indiscretions. Supporters of a progressive democratic nurses union movement should be concerned about these scandals hurting labor. Hopefully SEIU will clean itself up, with help from the reform movement.
Cold air is actually the #1 cause of asthma attacks.
GROSS!, these are health care people?
and here one of their fellow leftist unions is attacking them....
poetic justice....
But, they're SEIU. The scary thing is that state university and college employees are also SEIU.
Scary.
Are you saying WARM temps actually make people healthier? Are you a doctor?
He's right. Especially when Iran finishes their nukes.....
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