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As global temperatures rise year after year, we’ll probably be relying on AC more and more, but that, say scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is killing us, too.
It may be more subtle than a heat wave, but the toll air-conditioning takes could have a much deeper, long-term impact…
In a study published in PLOS Medicine this week, the researchers suggest our AC dependency could kill as many as 1,000 more people every year in the eastern U.S. alone…
“The answer is clean energy,” Abel told UW News. “That is something we can control that will help both climate change and future air pollution. If we change nothing, both are going to get worse.”
Read Full Article; MNN (07-06-2018)
Climate change to cause humid heatwaves that will kill even healthy people; Guardian UK (08-02-2017)
If warming is not tackled, levels of humid heat that can kill within hours will affect millions across south Asia within decades, analysis finds…
Doctors join forces, warn climate change is harming our health; CBS News (03-15-2017
Climate change isn’t just happening in the Arctic Circle and Antarctica where more ice is melting year after year. Its impact is being felt right here at home, and it’s posing a threat to the health of millions of Americans, say doctors representing 11 top U.S. medical societies. They are joining forces in Washington, D.C., today to speak out about the health risks posed by climate change…
Scientists highlight deadly health risks of climate change, CNN (02-17-2017)
Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is projected to cause about 250,000 additional deaths per year from heat stress, malnutrition and the spread of infectious diseases like malaria, according to the World Health Organization…
Premature Deaths from Environmental Degradation Threat to Global Public Health, UNEP Report Says; UNEP (05-23-2016)
Danger posed by air pollution, chemicals, microplastics, zoonotic diseases and other environmental threats to human health revealed in series of reports released at second United Nations Environment Assembly…
