“If we are going to be a hot country soon, we need to think in the same way” – Interested in that?
Essay by Eric Worrall
I usually get a little 10,000 – 60,000 winter deaths every year . But obviously we should be worried about the 2,800 deaths in the summer.
Climate crisis poses ‘growing threat’ to health in UK, expert says
Exclusive: Professor Jenny Harries warns of food security hazards, floods and insect-borne diseases
Hannah Devlin Science reporter @hannahdev
Sunday, October 23, 2022 22.00 AEDTThe climate crisis poses a “significant and growing threat” to health in the UK, the country’s most senior public health expert has warned.
Speaking to the Guardian, Professor Jenny Harries, UK chief executive Health The Security Service says there is a widespread misconception that a warmer climate will provide net health benefits due to milder winters. However, the climate emergency will bring broader health impacts, she said, with food security, floods and mosquito-borne diseases posing threats. .
“This summer’s heatwave has really had a direct impact on people,” Harries said. “But that is the breadth of the impact. It’s not just the heat.”
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“Colleagues from Pakistan… are suffering from the effects of floods. They are dealing with stagnant water, a higher risk of sewage spilling into publicly accessible water spaces,” she said. “We’re seeing a number of things that could happen in the UK.”
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This summer, the UK experienced record temperatures of 40.3 degrees Celsius and six separate heatwaves linked to more than 2,800 deaths. “If some of the planes explode and we lose a lot of people it will be front page news in terms of health protections,” Harries said.
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“We have a lot to learn from countries that currently have warmer temperatures,” she said. “If we are going to be a hot country any time soon, we need to think the same way.”
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Warm weather = claims about mosquito-borne diseases are complete nonsense. Malaria Is a Big Killer in Shakespeare’s England, in the middle of the Little Ice Age, but most people are not aware of this. The reason is that our ancestors didn’t call it Malaria, they called it Ague.
Mosquito-borne diseases are controlled by draining marshes and killing mosquitoes, not by controlling CO2 emissions. Mosquito problems after floods in Pakistan can be cured overnight with a few thousand tons paraffin and DDT.
As for the claim that Britain is becoming a hot country, I put it in the same category as all the mythical “end of snow” predictions.
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