Climate change and health is described at the WHO
Mögliche Auswirkungen der Klimaveränderungen auf die Ausbreitung von primär humanmedizinisch relevanten Krankheitserregern. 2003.
http://www.umweltdaten.de/publikationen/fpdf-l/2291.pdf
Auswirkungen des Klimawandels, in Kombination mit Armut ist im World Resource Institute zusammengefasst. http://earthtrends.wri.org/features/view_feature.php?theme=4&fid=57
"Good health is a basic component of human well-being and a necessity for earning a livelihood. Unfortunately, the poor are much more vulnerable to ill health, and ill health is itself an important factor in reinforcing the poverty cycle. The health vulnerability of the poor has many facets, with environmental exposure being one of these faces."
Auswirkungen auf Krankheiten in der
Tier-und Pflanzenwelt sind
hier von der Union of Concerned Scientists beschrieben
Im Februar 2008 wurde im PNAS eine Studie veroeffentlicht, die zeigt, dass beim uebergang vom palaeozaen zum Eozaen, einer Warmzeit, Insektenbefall stark erhoeht war.
Züricher Oberland Online - Der Klimawandel begünstig die Malaria (20.11.2007)
A cool map about the spread of infectious diseases is bygoogle earth.
October 24, 2007
Climate Science Watch has obtained a copy of the testimony on the health impacts of climate change as drafted by Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This draft testimony was substantially cut by the White House before Dr. Gerberding was allowed to testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on October 23. See Details for the document.
Censored draft testimony (13 pages) of Julie L. Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of Health and human Services
for Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing October 23, 2007
Written testimony as submitted to the committee (6 pages)
Julie Louise Gerberding M.D., M.P.H.
Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hearing on “Examining the Human Health Impacts of Global Warming”
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
(includes an archived webcast of the hearing)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 24, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House significantly edited testimony prepared for a Senate hearing on the impact of climate change on health, deleting key portions citing diseases that could flourish in a warmer climate, documents obtained by The Associated Press showed Wednesday.
The White House on Wednesday denied that it had ''watered down'' the congressional testimony that Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had given the day before to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
But a draft of the testimony submitted for White House review shows that six pages of details about specific disease and other health problems that might flourish if the Earth warms were not delivered at the hearing.
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The draft noted that ''scientific evidence supports the view that the earth's climate is changing'' and that many groups are working to address climate change. ''Despite this extensive activity, the public health effects of climate change remain largely unaddressed. CDC considers climate change a serious public health concern,'' the draft declares.
That paragraph was not in Gerberding's text as approved by the White House.
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Referring to the draft, one CDC official familiar with both versions, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the review process, said that ''it was eviscerated.''
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''She testified yesterday. Her spokesperson said that she was able to say everything she wanted to say,'' Perino said. ''It was not watered down in terms of its science. It wasn't watered down in terms of the concerns that climate change raises for public health.''
The CDC official said that while it is customary for testimony to be changed in a White House review, these changes were particularly ''heavy-handed.''
The deleted sections of the draft, covering more than half of the original text, included a list of specific impacts on which ''climate change is likely to have a significant impact on health.'' The list included the effect of more frequent hot spells on vulnerable populations, the impact of extreme weather, more air pollution in drought areas, and greater likelihood of vector-borne and waterborne diseases as well as mental health problems.
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