Risks To Human Health Will Accelerate As Climate Changes, White House Warns (washingtonpost.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Washington Post: More deaths from extreme heat. Longer allergy seasons. Increasingly polluted air and water. Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and ticks spreading farther and faster. Those are among the health risks that could be exacerbated by global warming coming decades, the Obama administration warned in a new report Monday. The study, more than 300 pages long and several years in the making, focuses on what the White House has described as one of the gravest threats to the nation: major health problems associated with climate change. It details direct effects, such as the potential for worsening air quality to trigger thousands more premature deaths from respiratory problems or an uptick in annual deaths from crushing heat waves. While every American could be affected, administration officials said Monday, the brunt of the harm is most likely to fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable populations, such as pregnant women, children, the poor, the elderly, minorities, immigrants and people with disabilities.

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Re:Murder, Arson, and Jaywalking

[Mashiki]

Malaria was a common thing as far north as Washington DC up until 1850 when mass fumigation and swamp draining became a thing. Just a FYI.

Re:Murder, Arson, and Jaywalking

[Psion]

Malaria was present in Canada in the 19th century. http://www.mysteriesofcanada.c...

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[ultranova]

Ask yourself why the US and EU increase their CO2 emissions every year, even while they bleat about "climate change".

EU's emissions are going down, actually.