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The effects of climate change on human health are profound because they increase heat-related illnesses and deaths, respiratory diseases, and the spread of infectious diseases. There is widespread agreement among researchers, health professionals and organizations that climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. [1] [2]
Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...
It is expected that the most significant climate change effects are confined to specific regions, including the African Highlands. [19] Climate change may lead to dramatic increases in the prevalence of a variety of infectious diseases. Beginning in the mid-'70s, an "emergence, resurgence and redistribution of infectious diseases" occurred. [20]
The analysis from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central researchers comes at the end of a year that shattered climate record after climate record as heat across the globe made 2024 likely ...
The additional 41 days of dangerous heat – defined as temperatures in the top 10 per cent of the 1991-2020 baseline – exposed many millions of people to conditions that threaten human health ...
Climate change is driving extreme weather By all accounts, the last few years have been brutal for the climate — and for the humans and other living things within it. Around the globe, heat ...
Climate change threatens people with increased flooding, extreme heat, increased food and water scarcity, more disease, and economic loss. Human migration and conflict can also be a result. [12] The World Health Organization calls climate change one of the biggest threats to global health in the 21st century. [13]
The intensity of the rainfall over four days in mid-September was made twice as likely by climate change, the WWA says. Climate change is also likely to have played a part in the heavy rainfall ...