Global Warming: A Threat To Kids' Health
Children may be especially vulnerable to the effects of global warming and steps should be taken to safeguard their health as temperatures rise, according to a new report.
The American Academy of Pediatricians is calling upon the nation's government and physicians to recognize the impact global warming has on children's health and develop strategies to protect children from potential harm.
Beyond increasing the risk of heat-related conditions like heat stroke and dehydration, researchers say global warming exacerbates common childhood diseases such as asthma and allergies. Children are also at risk of losing a parent or caregiver due to extreme weather.
Global Warming Hurts Kids
According to the group's report, examples of the effects global warming could have on children's health include:
Increased susceptibility to injury or death, posttraumatic stress, loss of caregiver, disrupted education and displacement as a result of weather events such as floods, hurricanes, and droughts.
Damage to lung function and growth due to increased air pollution.
Increased waterborne and food-borne illnesses, including infectious diarrhea, from increased temperatures and disrupted food supplies.
Increase in infectious diseases spread by mosquitoes and ticks, such as West Nile virus, malaria, and Lyme disease.
Increased exposure and vulnerability to heat-related conditions such as heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
Researchers say children are often most vulnerable to adverse health effects from environmental hazards.
The group encourages pediatricians to be role models for minimizing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming by making changes such as switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs, reducing thermostat settings in the winter and increasing them in summer, and using cars less.
Their report was presented at a meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics in San Francisco.
For more information go to www.aap.org.
By Jennifer Warner
Reviewed by Louise Chang
? 2007 WebMD, Inc. All rights reserved
© 2007 WebMD, LLC.. All Rights Reserved. The American Academy of Pediatricians is calling upon the nation's government and physicians to recognize the impact global warming has on children's health and develop strategies to protect children from potential harm.
Beyond increasing the risk of heat-related conditions like heat stroke and dehydration, researchers say global warming exacerbates common childhood diseases such as asthma and allergies. Children are also at risk of losing a parent or caregiver due to extreme weather.
Global Warming Hurts Kids
According to the group's report, examples of the effects global warming could have on children's health include:
Researchers say children are often most vulnerable to adverse health effects from environmental hazards.
The group encourages pediatricians to be role models for minimizing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming by making changes such as switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs, reducing thermostat settings in the winter and increasing them in summer, and using cars less.
Their report was presented at a meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics in San Francisco.
For more information go to www.aap.org.
By Jennifer Warner
Reviewed by Louise Chang
? 2007 WebMD, Inc. All rights reserved
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In typical Global Warming propagandist fashion, prohb encouraged us all to "Get your heads out of the sand and blinders off your eyes" by ignoring the disconnect between prediction and reality. Who is the "naysayer?"
Let''s face it. The biggest problem which humans can effectively fix is not climate change, but the program of the "ruling elites," to use the phrase of USAProphet. Folks like:
Ron Paul;
George W.;
Al Gore;
All of the Democrat officials who got swept into office on promises to end the war in Iraq;
That woman who promises, if elected president, to end the war that her husband prolonged to protect his ability to cheat on her;
The other Clinton;
The Supreme Court, which has ordered the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide emissions;
The EPA;
etc.
Talk about draconian laws! We all exhale carbon dioxide. The EPA has been ordered to regulate this emission. How will you (or any children) survive without metabolizing?
In typical Global Warming propagandist fashion, prohb encouraged us all to "Get your heads out of the sand and blinders off your eyes" by ignoring the disconnect between prediction and reality. Who is the "naysayer?"
Let''s face it. The biggest problem which humans can effectively fix is not climate change, but the program of the "ruling elites," to use the phrase of USAProphet. Folks like:
Ron Paul;
George W.;
Al Gore;
All of the Democrat officials who got swept into office on promises to end the war in Iraq;
That woman who promises, if elected president, to end the war that her husband prolonged to protect his ability to cheat on her;
The other Clinton;
The Supreme Court, which has ordered the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide emissions;
The EPA;
etc.
Talk about draconian laws! We all exhale carbon dioxide. The EPA has been ordered to regulate this emission. How will you (or any children) survive without metabolizing?
Get your heads out of the sand and blinders off your eyes!