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an article bout global warming KILLING people!
New Caledonia - Up to 10 000 people in the Asia-Pacific region could be dying each year as a result of factors associated with global warming such as severe weather and mosquito-borne disease, a World Health Organisation expert said on Thursday.
Based on data gathered in 2000, the UN health agency estimates that changing weather patterns already has a substantial impact on people in the Western Pacific region, which includes most of North Asia, parts of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, according to Dr Hitoshi Ogawa, WHO's regional environmental adviser.
"Roughly 10 000 people ... are estimated to die due to various factors" resulting from climate change every year, Ogawa told The Associated Press during a break in a WHO conference in Noumea, New Caledonia.
But, he warned: "That number could increase" over the next 50 to 100 years.
Preliminary research suggests that rising global temperatures have already led to an increase in extreme weather patterns in the region, including cyclones, typhoons, droughts and floods, he said.
Vulnerable to adverse weather conditions
For example, the incidence of storms in the Western Pacific region had risen by about two percent from the early 1980s to the late 1990s, Ogawa said.
"But the number of deaths due to various natural disasters - droughts, floods, storms - has increased (by) about 30 to 40 percent," he said.
Ogawa said it was not possible to pinpoint the exact reason for the rise in deaths, but said the region's increasingly aged population was more vulnerable to adverse weather conditions.
Rising temperatures also may reduce water quality in some areas and lead to a rise in diseases spread by mosquitoes, which breed in stagnant water, Ogawa warned.
He said regional governments should step-up measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but should also boost surveillance of climate change related illnesses.
"Of course we need to reduce the emissions," he said. "But in the meantime, knowing the increase in global temperature, we need to adapt ourselves or our way of living to ... the changing climate (and) weather patterns."
On Wednesday, WHO member states in the region held a ministerial round table to discuss the need for improving the health response to natural disasters.
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Posted: 2005-09-22 12:06:26
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Now we have Rita on our hands. Its God's fury raining down upon us. Pray, pray, before you breathe your last......
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Posted: 2005-09-22 13:56:42
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God just hates texas.
Having 3 friends from there I can see why.
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Posted: 2005-09-22 23:29:42
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Bush is from Texas right??
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Posted: 2005-09-23 08:00:26
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u r right, bush is from texas. mayb thts why all he fury is heading that way. Btw here is something more for all of u :-
A bus carrying elderly evacuees from Hurricane Rita caught fire and was rocked by explosions early Friday on a gridlocked highway near Dallas, killing as many as 24 people, authorities said.
"Deputies were unable to get everyone off the bus," Dallas County Sheriff's Department spokesman Don Peritz said. He said he believes 24 people were killed, but that number could change.
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Posted: 2005-09-23 15:50:02
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They killing themselves before the hurricane even strikes!
BTW when is it supposed to reach land?
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Posted: 2005-09-24 08:33:31
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More than 200,000 people have lost their jobs because of hurricane katrina, and more bad economic news is on the horizon as the aftermath of hurricane rita is awaited.
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Posted: 2005-09-25 08:40:36
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Typhoon Damrey hits Vietnam. Its the strongest typhoon in 30 years to do so. God's fury upon man.
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Posted: 2005-09-27 15:37:22
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Co2 must be trapped to save the world. Thats what the UN says. Emissions of carbon dioxide are the most important cause of climate change, so its vital that its emission be controlled and reduced. Only then its impact on the global climate can be reduced.
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Posted: 2005-09-30 13:45:06
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Its good it happened to the Americans, thatll teach them to mess with IRAINians!!! :lo:
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Posted: 2005-09-30 16:46:40
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