“More than half of all human-caused diseases could be exacerbated by climate change” – Watts Up With That?
Essay by Eric Worrall
According to this study, warm weather is bad for us, as it encourages people to stay indoors or encourages the enjoyment of water sports.
Analysis
Published:More than half of all human-caused diseases could be exacerbated by climate change
Camilo Mora, Tristan McKenzie, Isabella M. Gaw, Jacqueline M. Dean, Hannah von Hammerstein, Tabatha A. Knudson, Renee O. Setter, Charlotte Z. Smith, Kira M. Webster, Jonathan A. Patz & Erik C. Franklin
abstract
It is relatively well accepted that climate change can affect human-caused diseases; however, the full extent of this risk has yet to be quantified. Here, we conducted a systematic search for empirical examples of the effects of ten greenhouse gas (GHG) sensitive climate hazards on each of the known human diseases. know. We found that 58% (i.e., 218 of 375) infectious diseases faced by humanity worldwide were at some point exacerbated by climate hazards; 16% has at some point dropped. Case studies show 1,006 unique pathways in which climate hazards, through different modes of transmission, lead to disease-causing diseases. Human diseases and routes of transmission exacerbated by climate hazards are too numerous to be fully adapted to society, highlighting the urgent need to address the source of the problem. : reduce GHG emissions.
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Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01426-1
One of the risk factors identified in the study was the risk that warm weather could encourage more water sports.
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Climate hazards bring people closer to pathogens
Climate hazards also facilitate contact between people and pathogens by moving people closer to the pathogen. For example, heat waves by increasing water-related recreational activities, are associated with increased cases of certain water-borne diseases. As Vibrio-related infections47primary amoebic encephalitis48 and gastroenteritis49.
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Read more: Same link as above
Of course, staying indoors on hot days, instead of going swimming, can kill you, too.
… Higher temperatures have been linked to increased COVID-19 in some casessixty sevenand although a mechanism is not outlined, it is possible that extreme heat forces people to stay indoors, which can increase the risk of virus transmission, especially when combined with poor or reduced ventilation; …
Read more: Same link as above
Honestly, I don’t think such studies are reliable. Reading this study is like watching first-year medical students self-diagnose all of their rare diseases.
Studies that predict extreme disease risk in a warmer world do not explain the benign environments of already warm places. If warmer weather were such a disease risk factor, Florida and Singapore would be incurable epidemic nightmares, rather than as exciting vacation destinations or places to live as they are.
Warmer weather can help ticks and mosquitoes survive milder winters, but warmer weather also helps tick and mosquito hunters survive.
Having said that, Mosquitoes don’t need any help to survive in cold weather. Throughout the depths of Little Ice Age, one of the biggest killers in northern Europe is malaria. Of course, hundreds of years ago, this disease wasn’t called Malaria, our ancestors called it. Ague. Ague was such a problem in the 16th century, By William Shakespeare drama mentioned Ague at least 14 times.
How did our ancestors finally control malaria? Similar to how we can fix any problems that arise if the world continues to heat up, they have found solutions to their problems. Our Ancestors drain the worst swampsalso discovered cheap and readily available mosquito control chemicals such as light mineral oil and castor oilFloats into a thin film on the surface of the water and kills mosquito larvae.
Our ancestors adapted and prospered, just as we would.
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