Global warming cut death toll

According to the Ireland conference on the health implications of climate change discovered that the number of people dying due to respiratory disease and heart failure in Ireland during the winter season can be reduced due to the impact of global warming.

The conference further estimated that the no. of deaths in Ireland are particularly high in numbers during winter months due to the poor insulation in homes and fuel insufficiency as compared to other European countries.

NUI Maynooth lecturer commented while addressing the issue that how climate change may affect health in Ireland, with a toll in temperatures, said that it is expected that few elderly and week body structured people will die during the winter.

However he also warned that with the union of proximity between deaths and temperatures it could also go the other way around, as the high temperatures recorded in Kilkenny in 2003 were closely trailed by growing level of mortality. Also the European heat wave the same year had been responsible for the deaths of 35,000 people, approximately. Due to this, a range of food-borne diseases can also be expected such as salmonella which is also called as “a barbecue illness”, malaria from growing numbers of the current mosquito population and water borne problems effective due to the pollutants such as campylobacter and E.coli.

The head of the SD Commission in Northern Ireland cited the links between climate change and health, commenting that the Usage of cleaner energy can help in mutilating the respiratory disease rate, making people aware of the benefits of using public transport; and cycling and walking can help reduce cardiovascular diseases.

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Posted February 25, 2010 by Pranika Jain. Comments and trackbacks are closed.
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