Global Climate Change. Marc E. Wiltfong. Sec 510 – Position

Many doctors have noticed over the past few years that with the warmer climate came more sick patients. According to Document F, seven out of ten members of The American Thoracic Society have reported that climate change has affected their patients. Also, 88 percent of the members said the climate change was relevant to their direct patient care. Many of these patients are thought to have pollen allergies, since pollen season is longer because of the climate change. Also, the frequent forest fires release lots of smoke, which can cause lung problems, including asthma, bronchitis, and chronic lung disease, when we breathe it in. This shows that the climate change is now not only affecting animals and the earth, but it is hurting humans, too.

Climate change is the change in average weather of a region. Climate change can be, for example, change in region’s average annual rainfall or change in region’s average temperature for certain period (May, 2011). In a broader view, climate change can also be seen as change in Earth’s climate with an example being global warming.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that “There is now a strong scientific consensus that global warming will affect, in profoundly adverse ways, some of the most fundamental determinants of health: food, air and water”.

The UNFCCC is an organisation created to provide and international response to challenge climate change by researching and implementing measures to limit and control the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. Principles and framework are set out to aid the distribution of responsibilities within the countries as a means of reducing the associated greenhouse gas emissions.

Greenhouse gases concentration in the atmosphere has reached unprecedented levels, causing global temperature increase, floods and droughts, a loss of biodiversity, and ocean acidification among others. Failure to respond to climate change will only exacerbate these effects and threaten water, food and energy systems vital for our quality of life. After years of advocacy and calls by international actors, climate change has finally been placed on the forefront of the global political agenda. In 2015, climate change action was recognized as a core goal in the Sustainable Development Goals, and at COP21, 196 parties of the UNFCCC signed the Paris Climate Agreement aiming to limit global warming to well below 2oC (with efforts to pursue 1.5oC) above pre-industrial levels.

Climate change is the topic of a heated debate, but not for the reasons one might gather from the media. Religious groups, politicians and tycoons get a fair share of their air time and contribute to the popular impression that the facticity of global warming, its causes and implications are not yet settled. When we turn to the scientific community, however, the picture looks completely different. Very few people conducting research related to climate change seriously doubt that the planet is warming. Nor do they doubt that it is caused by human activity. This does not mean, however, that there is no room for disagreement. Rather, that it is located elsewhere. The paper will proceed in three parts and will argue that, first, the real question is not the reality of climate change but rather its intensity. The question, in other words, is not whether but by how much the climate will change. Second, it will show that the anthropogenic nature of climate change should no longer be a matter of contention. Third, and finally, the paper will touch on perhaps the most difficult issue climate change makes us face: how to measure its risks and effects. Unlike the reality and the cause of global warming, impact assessment is a much more open ended issue because it essentially requires value judgments. It is argued, however, that, although this problem cannot be resolved once and for all, there has been movement in the right direction.

To commence, the effects of global warming to the human body and vigor are both indirect and direct. Through the warming of the earth, extreme meteorological conditions and patterns will ensue with more regularity; storms, inundations, heat waves, and droughts will proliferate and will affect human condition directly in such manner that destroys homes, contaminates water sources, and diminishes food resources. These events will consequently entail a high risk of disease and exposure to disease. Persons with pulmonary complications and conditions, such as asthma and allergies, are at peril for other hazards. As air quality steadily worsens due to the burning of fossil fuels and carbon emissions, people with existing conditions of asthma could experience more asthma attacks and further aggravation of the lungs. Rising temperatures and higher concentrations of carbon dioxide will also stimulate plants to mature earlier, grow faster, and produce pollens that are more potent, worsening conditions of allergies of people around the world. Since allergy related diseases rank among the highest chronic illnesses in the United States, productivity levels will likely diminish as a result. However, cutting carbon emissions and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of the Earth could improve air quality, and as a result, improving pulmonary conditions of million.

Global warming is causing health and safety problems to humans and species worldwide because of its effects such as; heat waves, drought, flood, storms, and sea level rises. It is important to fight global warming because if we don't all of these effects can kill us. The article “Global Warming Caused by Air Pollution will Harm Human Health,” informed that in Chicago 1995, 514 people’s death was related to heat (Patz). When there are heatwaves, there is a high chance people can experience heat stroke and heat exhaustion. It will be harder to grow food in areas that are in droughts. If the whole world is in a drought, we can go onto famine

Imagine this; Our world with thick coal colored clouds, we’re having to wear gas masks to breathe. Animals, except fish, are going extinct due to not having grass to eat. There isn’t any fresh water so we have to boil our water over terribly hot fires. The nights are freezing cold and the days are extremely hot with humid thick air, even sometimes there are immensely strong rainstorms of acid rain. Our world doesn’t need to be like this; Man is the cause of climate change due to the overuse of fossil fuels, using aerosol products, and even deforestation..

Climate change is one of the most harmful things to humanity because it affects everyone who lives on Earth. Though there are social problems, such as war or racism, that may affect certain groups of people, even those with no human contact are affected by climate change in some way.

The planet that is our home never ceases to amaze mankind with its seemingly never-ending mysteries. Home to about 8.7 million various species that roam the globe; the Planet Earth is considerably the most habituated planet in our solar system. Despite numerous attempts to research the other fellow planets in our system, it appears that many drastic changes have been taking place on our home planet. From the evolution of plants and animals, to the advancements in modern technology, every decade on earth seems to exponentially grow to new heights even greater than the last. Despite the physical growing trends that take place on our planet, we also face numerous changes that have lately been taking place on our atmosphere.

Nowadays the climate of the Earth is changing rapidly due to the increase of greenhouse gases. 90% of this gases released in environment is due to the human activity by burning of fossil fuels. Due to the climate change the health sector is affected mainly children, adults and whole population. The climate change is danger to the health system, the increase in temperature is causing in heat waves that leads to less rainfall, rise in sea level and flood. Due to this the health of population is affecting by various diseases like respiratory problems, heart diseases, cancer and many more. The world health Organization states that the increase in global warming is due to human activities that changes in climate

In response to the threat climate change poses, the Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty adopted by the UNFCC in the year 1997, which entered into force in 2005 [3]. In particular, the protocol hopes to legally compel ratifying and industrialized countries into lowering global warming through the reduction of six greenhouse gases that affect it. Quantifiable targets included reducing collective emissions by 5.2% compared to 1990 levels, with each country having a “common, but differentiated” responsibility that was based on their contribution to global emissions (see Appendix A) [3]. Each country’s target had to be met with either national measures or the following three flexibility mechanisms that would

This essay will discuss global warming and the degree to which it will negatively affect people’s health and well being. Negative global warming related health effects will vary greatly due to geographical location and socio-economic status. Generally developed countries will be far better placed to confront the health challenges of climate change, than the developing word that already experiences a lower average state of health and less developed infrastructure.

harm global warming has on our health. Not only from physical health, such as, lungs, but there