Sunday, February 25, 2007

Global warming making you sick

Don't tell Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, but global warming is making people sick.

From the LA Times:
The spread of human disease has become one of the most worrisome subplots in the story of global warming. Incremental temperature changes have begun to redraw the distribution of bacteria, insects and plants, exposing new populations to diseases that they have never seen before.

A report from the World Health Organization estimated that in 2000 about 154,000 deaths around the world could be attributed to disease outbreaks and other conditions sparked by climate change.

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