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Heat can kill
A report for the UK's Department of Health has estimated that there is a 25 percent chance that a severe heat wave is likely to strike the UK before 2017 killing more than 6,000 people, if action is not taken to deal with the health effects of climate change. This presumably means measures to cool people down, rather than to reduce climate change which is a much more long term process, probably lasting a hundred or more years. It estimated that more than 3,000 people are likely to die in an intense summer hot spell in southeast England, with just as many more dying from heat-related deaths over the whole of the summer. Leading up to 2012, when London stages the Olympics, the chance of thousands dying in summer heat each year will be 1 in 40, a very high figure, and thousands more could die each year from other global warming effects and air pollution. In a heat wave during the summer of 2003 tens of thousands died across Europe, including over 14,000 people in France, but so far it hasn't affected Britain where people have coped with rising temperatures. That's just for starters. It will get steadily worse. Malaria carrying mosquitos are moving north as the planet warms, and could be endemic in Europe and the UK before long, raising the chance of people being infected and many dying. British people are used to getting malaria jabs [which only provide partial protection] before going to Africa, soon they may have to get them before stepping outside their own door. Other tropical diseases are also likely to move north into countries which were previously too cold, if only in winter, for the organisms or their carriers to survive from year to year. The same is happening in other parts of the world, north America being one continent where diseases which were previously just in South America are starting to take over in the north. There is a profound shift going on, the ecological balance is starting to move, once dominant species are reducing due to unfamiliar threats they have no defence against, and evolution will have to move up a gear if it is to ensure they all adapt and survive. It is unlikely there will not be a die off of many species which just can't cope or adapt fast enough. One of the species is homo sapiens which caused it all. |
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/46907/story.htm
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