Climate takes the life of 60 thousand people a year

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the malnutrition , the shortage and water contamination , deaths caused by floods, heat waves and diseases such as malaria and dengue are some of the most serious impacts that climate change has on health, he said. UNAM , José Ramón Calvo , from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

In the conference "Climate change and its repercussions on health", he said that an estimate made from 1970 to 2000, shows that global warming has generated 150 thousand additional deaths per year.

He pointed out that as long as man produces more carbon dioxide (CO2) and greenhouse gases, the atmosphere will continue to warm up. The warmest years of record, he said, are 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

At the conference it was mentioned that during the summer of 2010, the temperature reached a record of 42 degrees in Russia; 48 in Niger; 52 in Iraq and Saudi Arabia; 53 in Pakistan, and 57 in the old Lithuania.

The most serious repercussions, he added, is that glaciers , immediate source of water production, melt on the oceans and in many cases they end up disappearing.

Calvo stressed that of the 300 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 that had been maintained, in 2010 they reached 390, and if global warming continues, by 2050, the figure of 400 ppm will be reached.

On the other hand, he commented that CO2 is responsible for a large part of the gases in greenhouse effect , causing 43.1% of air pollution.

Finally, he explained that coal mines, industrial processes, agriculture, fertilizers, vehicles, forest fires and oil production are the main sources of carbon dioxide, which affects the ozone layer.


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