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.
The Germans for years have had a term for the greens: Watermelons... green on the outside, RED ON THE INSIDE. Time to get rid of the democRATS, since they’ve been taken over by commies, greens, etc. they are the nut case party.
There will be fewer colds.
I’ve seen enough doctors and nurses who smoke on their breaks to know that they may be smart enough to get a medical degree and do some admitedly complicated tasks, they still cannot connect basic cause and effect in all areas.
They can't be sure it will rain tomorrow but gosh durnit they just KNOW there will be extreme heatwaves in the coming years.
I left Michigan. I now live in South Carolina, and my congressman is Joe Wilson. I voted for him, and NOT the Messiah, or anyone else in his nutjob party
If you want the truth about global warming look at the last 20,000 years and not the last 2000.
Their evil, capitalist, white oppressors might exploit them but they don’t apparently miss a lot of meals worrying about it.
Yes. I am. Plus I have asthma (68% lung capacity) and I used to ski. Had to use anti-inflammatories and come down off the mountain after a few hours to keep from triggering asthma attacks.
the 2000 year temperature history is only .0000002 of earth’s history, look at the last 20,000 years to findout we have many degrees to rise to the average 20,000 year climate temperature.
Are you saying WARM temps actually make people healthier? Are you a doctor?
I have asthma and cold weather DOES bring on asthma attacks, I can verify that.
I've also lived in Arizona, and DUST (there is dust in the desert and there are duststorms) can also bring about asthma attacks.
Anywhere you live in the USA, there are triggers for asthma and allergies (and that was told to me by my ENT doctor).
Snippet: I quickly learned that respiratory infections such as colds or the flu are one of the many triggers of asthma attacks. In fact they cause approximately 80% of asthma attacks in children and 50% of asthma attacks in adults. This is because infections cause your airways to secrete substances that cause excess mucus and inflammation. This problem is compounded by lungs already affected by asthma because viruses can multiply there faster than in lungs unaffected by asthma.
That link you posted is about virus colds, not cold temperature. LOL. There are a number of things that can trigger asthma, but cold ambient air triggers most cases. It doesn’t have to be frigid air to have a triggering effect. Excercise asthma is considered to be a variant of cold air asthma.
Imbeciles. What’s wrong with warm climates? Michigan was 100% covered by glaciers 10,000 years ago.
And Michigan just had the coldest summer on record. Very few days even got to the mid-80s, and the growing season for all sorts of crops started a month late. But one year makes an iron-clad trend only for liberals.
I take my sons to a local nature center in Cleveland that explains the geology of Northeast Ohio. 10,000 years ago the entire Great Lakes region was covered by 20,000’ of Ice. That is FOUR Miles of ice people. I can only imagine the amount of SUV’s and coal fired plants it took to melt all that Ice and give us the four seasons of the year. God these people are fools, plain and simple.
Got watermelon?
You’d almost think they were 6000-year creationists from the way they carry on.
Blame global cooling on global warming, of course.
SEIU, is pathetic. Sorry that it has the power of persuading people.
C'mon, Sand Rat; lay off the cheap shots! That blubber is what makes all the difference between just shivvering, or freezing to death in those brutal Michigan winters!
It is also why they drop from heat stroke when it gets above 80.
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