11 oct. 2021 'The Burning of Fossil Fuels Is Killing Us,' WHO Warns in COP 26 Report. Looking toward the United Nations summit scheduled for the end of the month, a top U.N. agency on Monday released a report that makes a "health argument for climate action" and calls on governments and policymakers to urgently tackle the emergency.
"Protecting people's health from climate change requires transformational action in every sector. " "The burning of fossil fuels is killing us," warns the World Health Organization (WHO) report, noting that the practice is "causing millions of premature deaths every year through air pollutants, costing the global economy billions of dollars annually, and fueling the climate crisis. " In the foreword, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlights that human-caused global heating is impacting droughts, extreme heat, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires. 24 sept. 2021 How climate change gave rise to a monster mosquito season. Summer may be officially over, but mosquito season is showing no sign of abating.
If you’re cursing the influx of winged whiners, save some vitriol for climate change, which definitely played a role in exacerbating this year’s mosquitogeddon. It was an unusually warm summer — the hottest summer on record for the contiguous United States — and that has helped mosquitoes thrive. 10 mai 2021 Untold victims of rising temperatures: Multiple sclerosis patients. It was the fall of 2019 and Holly Elser was in her third year of medical school at Stanford University when a patient came into the primary care clinic where she was working for an annual checkup.
The patient had multiple sclerosis, or MS, a chronic disease that occurs when the immune system destroys the protective sheaths that cover our nerves. Elser asked about how the patient’s symptoms had progressed and how she was managing at home, which is when the patient said something that made Elser stop and think. “She essentially said, somewhat off-handedly, ‘You know, my MS is really bad when it’s hot out,’” Elser said. Heat intolerance is a well-established phenomenon in MS. 3 déc. 2020 Comme pour le Covid-19, aucun pays n'est à l'abri du changement climatique. Dans un nouveau rapport, des experts alertent quant à la mauvaise préparation des système de santé face aux périls à venir liés au réchauffement climatique.
Les systèmes de santé sont mal préparés pour faire face aux dangers grandissants liés au changement climatique et aucun pays n'est à l'abri, comme l'a prouvé la crise du Covid-19, avertissent des experts dans un rapport publié jeudi. "Les menaces pour la santé humaine se multiplient et s'intensifient à cause du changement climatique. Si nous ne changeons pas de cap, nos systèmes de santé risquent d'être dépassés à l'avenir", avertit le Dr Ian Hamilton, directeur exécutif du rapport sur la santé et le changement climatique, publié tous les ans par la revue médicale. Ce rapport mesure 43 indicateurs-clés sur ces deux sujets et est réalisé en collaboration par 35 institutions, dont l'OMS (Organisation mondiale de la santé), l'OMM (Organisation météorologique mondiale) et des universités. 18 nov. 2020 Méditerranée: selon un rapport, les dégâts sur l'environnement menacent les populations. D'après un nouveau rapport, la pollution et le changement climatique, entre autres, "mettent en danger la santé et les moyens de subsistance" des populations.
Le bassin méditerranéen est particulièrement vulnérable au réchauffement climatique et risque des dommages "mettant en danger la santé et les moyens de subsistance" des populations, selon un rapport présenté mercredi. 17 nov. 2020 Pour la Croix-Rouge, le réchauffement climatique nous menace plus que le Covid. Selon l'organisation basée à Genève, le changement climatique aura à moyen et long terme un impact plus important sur la vie humaine et sur la Terre que le Covid-19.
3 nov. 2020 L'humanité en péril. Je souhaite que chacun d'entre-nous regarde l’humain dans l’autre avant qu’il ne soit trop tard.
L’actualité sans doute nourrit mes réflexions. Et une certitude s’accroche en moi : lorsque l'’on ne voit plus l’humain dans les êtres vivants qui nous entourent, la porte est ouverte aux inhumanités de toute sorte comme le nazisme, le fascisme et aujourd’hui les actes terroristes. Être terroriste, c’est avoir nié toute humanité, la sienne et celle des autres et croire à une place méritée dans un monde meilleur après la mort s’il sacrifie des humains… Ces humains sont manipulés par des politiques, le plus souvent religieux qui veulent terroriser les états occidentaux enrichis sur le dos de leurs pays et représentant le mal absolu à abattre. En France, la devise « Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité » est inscrite sur tous les frontons des établissements publics, mais elle ne vit pas dans toute la société.
Disasters are driving a mental health crisis. The only federal program to address it is underfunded. By Dean Russell and Jamie Smith Hopkins, Center for Public Integrity on Aug 30, 2020. This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Barbara Herndon lay in the center of her bed, muscles tensed, eyes on the television. She was waiting for the storm. All morning on that day in late May, the news had covered the cold front slouching south from central Texas. By late afternoon, dense ropes of clouds darkened her Houston neighborhood. Rain whipped the windows. Herndon, who as a child in southern Louisiana saw her share of hurricanes and thunderstorms, had never thought much about them. Climate change is making the world sick - News. The loss of healthy life years in low-income African countries is predicted to be 500 times that in Europe.
Climate change is killing Americans. Health departments aren’t equipped to respond. 2020 06 20. This investigation was conducted by Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Center for Public Integrity and copublished in partnership with The Guardian.
It was republished here as part of Covering Climate Now. PHOENIX — Charlie Rhodes lived alone on a tree-sparse street with sunburned lawns just outside this Arizona city. Climate change is a catastrophe. But is it an ‘existential threat’? With the Doomsday Clock ticking closer to midnight, “existential” is becoming the word of our times, encompassing a wide variety of apocalyptic anxieties. Especially those surrounding climate change. During last week’s Democratic debate in South Carolina, climate change barely got a hearing, but Bernie Sanders did manage to call it an “existential threat.” It’s been a near constant when the subject of our overheating planet pops up. Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and the now-departed Pete Buttigieg have also dangled the phrase in front of the Democratic electorate, pledging that their plans will help avert catastrophe. It’s not only presidential hopefuls invoking such alarming terms — so are mass media outlets, Nancy Pelosi, and the United Nations secretary-general, Antonio Guterres.
Climat : l'éco-anxiété est-elle le nouveau mal du siècle ? Réchauffement climatique : vers une pénurie d'oméga-3? Pourquoi c’est important Le réchauffement climatique qui pourrait se révéler plus élevé et plus rapide que prévu a un impact sur notre santé, notre vie quotidienne et sur ce que nous mangeons. Une étude récente montre notamment que la hausse du CO2 atmosphérique associée à la modification du climat pourrait diminuer le contenu en nutriments (fer, zinc, protéines) des cultures. Ces résultats viennent s’ajouter à ceux montrant que le réchauffement climatique pourrait conduire à des déficits en protéines chez des millions de personnes.
Meet the deadly new fungus (possibly) brought to you by climate change. In yet another reminder that many of the very serious consequences of climate change are happening NOW, scientists say global warming may have given rise to its first new fungal disease — a multidrug-resistant species called Candida auris. The deadly menace, which was first identified in 2009, isn’t your typical fungus.
It’s been likened to a ‘superbug’ not because it wears a cape, but because it has proved resistant to the main three classes of drug treatment. It typically infects already sick or immunosuppressed people and can spread quickly, particularly in healthcare settings. Dozens of public health groups call for urgent climate action. Over 70 medical and public health organizations called on elected (and hoping-to-be-elected) officials Monday morning to commit to combating what they deem to be the “greatest public health challenge of the 21st century.”
We’re talking climate action, people — doctor’s orders! Historically, climate change has been framed as a distant or abstract threat — a problem for plants, penguins and polar bears. But the truth is, the phenomenon is a life-or-death issue for humans as well. A warmer climate is expected to increase the risk of illness and death from factors like extreme heat and poor air quality, contribute to more frequent and powerful weather events that threaten human health, and alter the regional scope of several vector-borne diseases. All these factors will place a higher burden on public health infrastructure. Réchauffement climatique : Davantage de pollens et potentiellement plus d'allergies. Climate Change Is Harming Your Mental Health. A new study points out that climate change doesn’t just impact our physical environment — it also harms our mental health.
The research, which is published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrates a direct link between adverse weather as a result of climate change and an increase in reported mental health problems. To look at this, the researchers used verified climate data and then compared that research with survey data from nearly two million US residents who reported their mental health over a 30 day period. Climate change–fueled wildfires pollute the air and make people sick. As the deadliest fires in California history swept through leafy neighborhoods here, Kathleen Sarmento fled her home in the dark, drove to an evacuation center, and began setting up a medical triage unit.
Patients with burns and other severe injuries were dispatched to hospitals. She set about treating many people whose symptoms resulted from exposure to polluted air and heavy smoke. Climate change is exacerbating global inequalities and making people sick. Citing the risk of conflicts of interest, the EPA administrator instituted a sweeping change to the agency’s core system of advisory panels on Tuesday by barring scientists who receive EPA grants from membership. In practice, the move represents “a major purge of independent scientists,” Terry F. Yosie, chair of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board during the Reagan administration, told the Washington Post. Tropical diseases are moving north, and the poor are the ones getting sick. Republican State Rep.
Mike Noel said this week that “tree huggers” were to blame for a major blaze that broke out in southern Utah on June 17 and continues to burn 11 days later. His reasoning? It’s time for cities to treat climate change like a public health crisis. Urban Canadians are feeling the impact of climate change. Flooding in Quebec this spring damaged nearly 1,900 homes in 126 municipalities, causing widespread psychological distress. Summer heatwaves are predicted to become more frequent and severe each year, putting more people at risk of injury and death.
Vancouver and Toronto are working to manage these risks. Santé et changement climatique : un appel à l’action immédiate. Changement climatique et pollution de l'air : cocktail explosif pour les allergies. Doctors are already seeing links between climate change and their patients’ health. It’s never a comfortable conversation, but it’s one that doctors like us have learned to deliver to our patients: Your behavior is endangering your health, and you need to recognize the risks. Usually, clear-eyed patients can see the symptoms themselves — weight gain, let’s say, or difficulty breathing — as well as the changes necessary to improve their health. Will climate change make men extinct? What do the new climate rules have to do with my kid’s asthma? What is climate change doing to our mental health? Gauging the Impact of Warming On Asia’s Life-Giving Monsoons by Christina Larson. 20 Aug 2012: Report by christina larson Bouncing along bad roads in a jeep through central Mongolia, with bright blue skies and high clouds overhead, we drive for miles through a treeless landscape, passing only dry grasslands dotted with cattle and white yurts.
Why Climate Change Could Create a Mental Health Crisis. At 6 am on Tuesday, my phone rang and an automated voice announced that my son’s autism school was closed all day due to “inclement weather.” Ahdoot: Global warming can hurt your kids. We’re already sick of climate change — and getting sicker. Wanna get West Nile virus? Climate change will help. Warmer years linked to more malaria in tropical highlands. Is climate change key to the spread of Ebola? Climate Change Poses Significant Threat to Human Nutrition. New Case of Chikungunya Virus Hits Florida : News. Les maladies tropicales débarquent. Quel temps fera-t-il en 2035, 2055 ou 2085?