Sentences with phrase «diseases of a warmer world»

The animals are expanding northward as the Arctic heats up, yet new diseases of a warmer world are taking a toll

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And in a warming world, the range of some of these disease spreaders is expanding, making population control efforts more urgent than ever.

One of the clearest signs of health risks in a warming world has emerged in one of the world's most advanced economies, as Canada belatedly struggles to cope with Lyme disease's migration in North America

Also, it is quite likely that, as global temperature rises, diseases that were previously found only in warmer areas of the world may show up increasingly in other, previously cooler areas, where people have not yet developed natural defenses against them.

But Baker suggested that the world also needs new proteins to meet new challenges that loom on the human timescale, such as the diseases of old age, dwindling energy supplies, and a warming planet.

How can we become an aware citizen of the world by contributing our best to save it from issues like global warming and health diseases?

The disease tends to move around the world when birds migrate in the fall out of Siberia, Mongolia, North China and head for warmer climes — southern China, Southeast Asia, but also westward toward the Middle East and western Europe and for some birds, garganey ducks, for example, as far as Egypt and even across the Sahara into west Africa, the Niger delta, etc..

As an academic and historian reminded me recently, the core cause of a host of current concerns, from global warming to epidemic disease to hunger and tribal warfare, is that the population of the world continues to grow at a rapid rate.

According to data from the World Health Organization, rising temperatures on the planet are killing off the equivalent of a mid-sized city every year; about 150,000 annual deaths can be attributed to global warming, from causes including heat waves, air pollution, infectious disease, food safety and production, flooding and more.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

Whatever is happening in the great outdoors regarding actual climate epidemics, inside the minds of men overwhelming evidence indicates that Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming the Germ Theory of Disease is a self - sustaining narrative that is living off our mental capacity, either in symbiosis or as an outright cultural parasite; a narrative that is very distanced from physical real - world events.

The Global Humanitarian Forum folded before the World Health Organisation's recent announcement that incidences of malaria — one of the diseases the GHF predicted would increase with global warming — had fallen dramatically since 2000.

And of perhaps even greater import (because it is a real - world observation), he reports that «although the globe is significantly warmer than it was a century ago, there is little evidence that climate change has already favored infectious diseases.»

According to the world's best scientists, if we do nothing millions of people in poor countries will die from crop failures and diseases attributable to human - induced global warming.

But was it not scientists, with their words printed in the Guardian, repeated by policy - makers, which warned of «Arctic death spirals»; «ice - free Arctic summers»; the proliferation of disease; worsening, intensifying and increasing frequency of storms, flood, drought and fire; dramatic decreases in agricultural productivity in Africa; increased warming between 2009 - 14; the immanent demise of Himalayan glaciers and the consequent denial of water to over a billion people; The deaths of 150,000 and then 300,000 people in the developing world each year; and so on?

Recent estimates of climate - health impacts by the World Health Organization (WHO)(Campbell - Lendrum and Woodruff 2007) find large impacts attributable to other causes, however, especially malnutrition, with 126,000 premature deaths attributed to the current warming (~ 0.8 °C) via causes other than tropical diseases.