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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (48865)	8/3/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I enjoyed E's post, Lather. I agree with X that I HOPE global warming is not for real, because we are not doing much about it. However, I am convinced by the weight of reputable scientists and what I can see and hear--one example is the increased numbers of people dying during heatwaves--that it is actually happening. Speaking of people dying during heatwaves, and the increase in infectious diseases, here is an interesting forecast from the Sierra Club. Unfortunately the very cool table of increasing deaths in the Midwest didn't copy, but you can click on the url and read it: Millions worldwide may die from heat and disease as global warming worsens Global warming's effect on human health may be its most serious consequence. The World's leading authority on global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is a United Nations-sponsored organization made up of 2500 scientists from around the world. The IPCC projects that more frequent and more severe heat waves will be an early effect of global warming. Events such as the deadly stretch of hot days and nights that killed 669 people in the US during the summer of 1995 are likely to become more common. Scientists are already finding that the number and intensity of extreme weather events are increasing. Infectious disease is the second major threat that global warming poses to human health. As temperatures rise, disease-carrying mosquitoes and rodents move into new areas, infecting people in their wake. Doctors at the Harvard Medical School have linked recent US outbreaks of dengue ("breakbone") fever, malaria, hantavirus and other diseases to climate change. Global warming could mean millions more around the world will become infected with malaria. Here in the US, Houston has experienced a malaria outbreak in each of the last two years. In the 1990s malaria cases have occurred as far north as New Jersey, Michigan and Queens, New York. IPCC scientists project that as warmer temperatures spread north and south from the tropics, and to higher elevations, malaria-carrying mosquitoes will spread with them. They conclude that global warming will likely put as much as 65% of the world's population at risk of infection—an increase of 20%. toowarm.org