How does/can the Greenhouse Effect leadto the spread of diseases?

Question

I have heard that the greenhouse effect can cause diseases to spread , i dont understand how?

Answer 1

The rise in temp will cause and increase in CO2.  This will cause mental disease in liberals who don't have a firm grasp on reality.

Answer 2

"Parasitic and other vectorborne diseases affecting hundreds of millions of people are sensitive to climate. "

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Green...

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The consequences of global warming and climate change could well include:

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spread of tropical diseases due to insect proliferation

http://www.moorlandschool.co.uk/earth/gr...

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Increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and global warming could also lead to more health concerns.  A statement released from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said, "Climate change is likely to have wide-ranging and mostly adverse impacts on human health, with significant loss of life."  As temperatures increase towards the poles, similar to farmland, insects and other pests migrate towards Earth's poles. These insects and pests could be allowed to migrate up to 550 Km or 550 miles.  Some insects carry diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.  Thus, an increase in these particular insects and pests closer to the poles results in an increase in these diseases.  This could lead to 50 to 80 million additional cases of Malaria annually, a 10-15% increase.  "Malaria and dengue fever are already beginning to spread pole wards", said Jane Lubchenco, past president of American Association for the advancement of science. (www.epa.gov/oppeoeel/globalwarming/impa... Physician Paul Epstein, of Harvard's School of Public Health, says "Climate change is already a factor in terms of the distributions of malaria, dengue fever, and cholera."

The most obvious health effect is directly from the heat itself.  With an increase in heat waves, there will be more people who will suffer from heatstroke, heart attacks and other ailments aggravated by the heat.  According to the EPA, "In July 1995, a heat wave killed more than 700 people in the Chicago area alone."  (www.epa.gov/oppeoeel/globalwarming/impa...  If this is happening already from heat, imagine what would occur in the future with global warming.  Hot conditions could also cause smoke particles and noxious gases to linger in the air and accelerate chemical reactions that generate other pollutants. (www.envirolink.org/orgs/edf/sitemap.htm... This leads to an increase in risk of respiratory diseases like bronchitis and asthma.

Global warming causes the oceans to warm and expand, inducing a rise in sea level. Eventually, the rising waters could take away land inhabited by people, forcing them to move.  Dr. Robert Buddemieir, of the Kansas Geological Survey said, "Bangledesh is massively populated, achingly poor, and something like a sixth of the country is going to go away" (www.envirolink.org/orgs/edf/sitemap.htm...  Bangladesh cannot afford to build barriers to hold back the sea, so people would have to move inland, increasing the populations density and leading to an increase in hunger and disease. (www.envirolink.org/orgs/edf/sitemap.htm...  The Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean have the same problem  They are a nation of 1190 islands with an average height of about 1.5 meters above sea level.  If the sea level rises, more than 200,000 people will have to abandon their homes. (www.envirolink.org/orgs/edf/sitmap.html...  Warming of the oceans could also promote toxic algae which can lead to cholera

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hope this helped!

Answer 3

A deep freeze is necessary to kill off germs in moderate climates.

Answer 4

In tropical climates, disease tends to spread rapidly, and diseases tend to be extremely severe.

In northern climates, the winter actually sterilizes the environment (swamps are frozen over etcetera). This leads to less prevalence of disease.

If global warming changes the severity of winters, more areas will have less severe winters, and that will lead to less sterilization of the environment during winter, leading to more disease.

Answer 5

A ten fold multiplication of diseases causing bacteria.

Answer 6

One disease that has not as yet been mentioned in relation to global warming is that an increase in the amount of sunlight reaching earth has definitively been shown to inrease the rate of skin cancer in humans.