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Climate change a medical emergency, says study
2015-06-23 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The threat climate change poses to human health is so great it should be considered a medical emergency and has the potential to undermine the last fifty years of gains in development and global health, according to a UCL-led Commission. The research, which has been published in the Lancet, argues that the potentially catastrophic risk to human health rising temperatures presents has previously been underestimated. It adds that while the technologies and finance to tackle the issue can be...
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Risk of Extreme Weather From Climate Change to Rise Over Next Century, Report Says
2015-06-23 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: More people will be exposed to floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather associated with climate change over the next century than previously thought, according to a new report in the British medical journal The Lancet. The report, published online Monday, analyzes the health effects of recent episodes of severe weather that scientists have linked to climate change. It provides estimates of the number of people who are likely to experience the effects of climate change in coming decades,...
Climate change threatens 50 years of progress in global health, study says
2015-06-23 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change threatens to undermine half a century of progress in global health, according to a major new report. But the analysis also concludes that the benefits to health resulting from slashing fossil fuel use are so large that tackling global warming also presents the greatest global opportunity to improve peoples health in the 21st century. The report was produced by the Lancet/UCL commission on health and climate change, a collaboration of dozens of experts from around the world, and...
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Climate change could undermine the last 50 years of health advances
2015-06-23 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Climate change threatens to undermine the last 50 years of advances in medical health, scientists have warned as they published a major report outlining the threat of global warming. The authors from University College London and the University of Cambridge called for major policy changes to cut pollution including phasing out coal-fired plants and investing in green cities, energy and transport. Without major change they say climate change could be sufficient to trigger a discontinuity in the...
Climate change to shrink size of bread
2015-06-23 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Live: Long-term global warming could cause loaves of bread to shrink in size due to a reduction in the amount of protein in grains, Australian scientists have found. Loaves based on 2050 atmospheric carbon dioxide levels predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were baked by researchers at the Victorian government and Melbourne University. They emerged smaller and crumpled compared to their present-day counterparts. The scientists discovered that rises in carbon dioxide will increase...
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