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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 ...
There are many exceptions, but generally, it is people in developing countries who are more exposed to the direct effects and economic disruption caused by climate change. [3] The psychological effects of climate change may be investigated within the field of climate psychology or picked up in the course of treatment of mental health disorders ...
Scientists use computer models to simulate how individual extreme weather events unfold in two scenarios: today's world with around 1.2C of human-caused warming. a hypothetical world without human ...
Physical health and mental health have a reciprocal relationship, so any climate change related effect that affects physical health can potentially indirectly affect mental health too. [ 31 ] In several parts of the world, climate change significantly impacts people's financial income, for example, by reducing agricultural output.
Countries agreed under the global 2015 Paris Agreement to cut emissions fast enough to limit global warming to 2°C and aim for 1.5°C, to avoid its most dangerous impacts.
More people will be exposed to the ravages of flooding and drought. But if the nations involved in the Paris talks stay on their current emissions track and don’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures could go up by almost 6 degrees Celsius this century, according to the Committee on Climate Change, an independent body that advises ...
Rising sea levels is one of the flow-on effects of climate change, resulting from warming water and melting ice sheets. Measuring sea level rise is a complicated affair, however the IPCC have projected an increase in global mean sea level [35] of between 0.44m and 0.74m by 2100. [36]