All because you took a 3 minute shower, used more than 2 sheets of TP, ran the sink while brushing your teeth, and keep the thermostat at 68 instead of 58
Climate Change Means Living Sicker and Dying Quicker
With much of the country still suffering through a record cold snap, it’s hard to think about global warming. But this horrific winter is the “weather on steroids†that climate scientists have been predicting for decades in which hotter days get hotter and cold spells are even more intense.
Beyond images of emaciated polar bears and drought-cracked lakes, however, there remains a major part of climate change’s impact that the media have neglected. Yet it is the one that may have the most immediate and profound consequence for our lives: how rising temperatures, higher carbon-dioxide levels and the corresponding changes in ecosystems will have a serious effect on our health. A recent report in the British medical journal The Lancet noted that “climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.â€
In the coming decades, we’ll be living with higher levels of ozone pollution in the air we breathe, killer heat waves, more uncontrolled outbreaks of deadly bug-borne infectious diseases as vectors migrate to newly warm habitats, and fallout from drought-driven agricultural collapse and from increasingly frequent extreme weather events — floods, hurricanes, fires. Because hot air holds more water, we’ll have more torrential rains, more ferocious hurricanes and more dry spells because of heat-induced changes in rainfall patterns. All these changes translate into increasing rates of ills like asthma, allergies, severe respiratory infections, heart and lung disease, cancer, infectious diseases and even dementia and depression.
OK, so more drought and flood. There’s a reason I call it Hotcoldwetdry, because in Warmist world everything is caused by Mankind’s release of CO2. Funny thing is, we aren’t seeing more hurricanes, wildfires, and disease.
There is also the collateral damage from the harsher climate, such as the debilitating injuries and deaths, the dislocation and loss of social cohesion, and the lack of continuity in health care in the aftermath of weather-related calamities. What happened after Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy — when parts of the public health system collapsed and thousands of people went without needed medical care, sometimes for months, leading to much higher rates of disability and mortality — provides a chilling glimpse into a future when storms of this magnitude become commonplace.
Interesting. The 2013 US hurricane season was rather quiet. The US hasn’t seen a landfalling hurricane since 10/24/2005. Only one barely-a-hurricane since 2008. Sandy was made worse due to a cold front. Katrina saw problems because of pitiful, incompetent Democrat politicians. Does anyone remember all these problems in the other states affected, which were run by Republicans?
In the absence of mitigation strategies, we’re going to live sicker and die quicker on a hotter planet. “We’re going to see incremental changes in the next five or 10 years but that might not compare to what we’re going to see in the next 30 or 40 years,†says Dr. John Balbus, a senior policy analyst who leads the climate change and health effort at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. “Scientists don’t want to be alarmist, but they have systematically underestimated the threat.â€
Crystal ball time. Hysterical, ranting prognostication is a specialty of Warmists. Perhaps they can tell us what the exact correct temperature of the Earth should be? Oh, and why there has been no statistically significant warming in 17 years, and only an increase of 0.28F since 1990?
