Posted on 01/18/2019 7:13:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is already having clear effects on human health, according to a new review that describes the situation as a "health emergency."
"Climate change is causing injuries, illnesses and deaths now from heat waves, infectious diseases, food and water insecurity, and changes in air quality, among other adverse health outcomes," said Kristie Ebi, one of the report's authors.
She directs the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington, in Seattle.
According to Ebi, "the science is clear" that for each unit increase in global warming, there is an increase in those broad health risks. That is, she said, if no action is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The public can also do its part, Ebi pointed out. She gave examples like choosing to walk or bike instead of drive; eating less meat and more plant foods, and putting computers to sleep when they're not being used.
Those actions also happen to be healthy and money-saving for individuals, Ebi noted.
And when it comes to broad policy changes, she said, people can make a difference with their vote. "If climate change is important for you, then vote for politicians who commit to taking action," Ebi suggested.
"Mitigation" policies to combat climate change do cost money. But, Ebi said, that would be countered by the savings from avoiding hospitalizations and premature deaths.
(Excerpt) Read more at webmd.com ...
Great. Now WebMD is no longer a credible source of information.
The radical left infects everything.
Turd-world $h!thole alert! The listed effects have been there for centuries!
But the border wall is a fake crisis....
There’s tremendous conflict$ of intere$t in this whole “Global Warming” no wait, “Climate Change” charade
I mean, SALARIES and PROMOTIONS within academia are at stake!!
Perhaps a bit a Globul Warming is good?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/05/20/cold-weather-deaths/27657269/
Perhaps a bit a Globul Warming is good?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/05/20/cold-weather-deaths/27657269/
“Climate change is causing injuries, illnesses and deaths now from heat waves, infectious diseases, food and water insecurity, and changes in air quality...
If she thinks it is bad now, she should check some historical records of a few years back.
This idiot evidently has never read a history book, or sat in a history class.
It’s like there have never been droughts and floods and hurricanes and tornadoes and blizzards before man-made global warming.
My doctor tells me they never were a credible source of information. YMMV
It is sad. Nothing is safe.
This argument make zero sense right now. We’ve gone from “there will be, in the future, catastrophic changes to the environment 60-100 years from now if we don’t do something now - due to a ~2C degree increase in temps caused by increasing CO2” - to....”catastrophe NOW - micro changes in temperature, that can’t be measured, are causing all the effects we’ve been predicting for decades from now”. The atmosphere is 0.04% CO2 - any short term changes, fractions of a fraction of a percent, will not be perceivable to us.
This is nonsensical. Even with the “computer models” they’re predictions about things decades out and they’re trying to say that we can perceive them now?
The left just keeps raising the hysteria - as though being louder makes it all true. There have been FEWER tornado’s and hurricanes lately. The world is just not that fragile, it always changes.
The beach-front property values must just be plummeting!!!! /s
The science is so clear that they’re constantly needing to tell us that the science is clear.
Oh well. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
We must reduce an essential gas for life so that we can save life. The logic there seems to be the same logic used to justify most liberal policies.
i just want to ask one of these ass-clowns how making the world colder would be better?
Nothing in nature remains the same, after all.
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