Doctors Warn Climate Change Will Threaten Public Health (Michigan SEIU Nurse Alliance makes claims)

WILX ^ | 9/17/09 | Tiffany Teasley

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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.

[ApplegateRanch]

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.

And that is why (That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!) I sleep in, have lunch, and then do my hunting in the afternoon.

I still get my deer & turkeys; but I don't get (as) choked up doing it.

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"There's going to be more lung cancer, there's going to be more asthma," said Sherri Moore, of the SEIU Nurse Alliance.

SEIU = ACORN muscle = voter fraud and intimidation and health care destruction.

[StACase]

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.

First chuckle of the day!

[jmaroneps37]

Yes it will: MENTAL HEALTH from listening to these morons constantly lying.

[sergeantdave]

LOL!

King obuma’s “army.” They could probably attack a McDonald’s and successfully overeat it.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

"There's going to be more lung cancer, there's going to be more asthma," said Sherri Moore, of the SEIU Nurse Alliance.

Hold on just a second there, missy. Only GOP operatives use scare tactics. Are you now or have you ever been associated with Republicans?

[SunkenCiv]

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