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A warmer world already seems to be producing a sicker world, health specialists reported on Tuesday, citing surges in Kenya, China and Europe of such diseases as malaria, heart ailments and dengue fever.
"Climate affects some of the most important diseases afflicting the world," said Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum of the World Health Organization (WHO). "The impacts may already be significant."
Kristie L. Ebi, a U.S. public health consultant for the agency, warned that "climate change could overwhelm public health services."
The specialists laid out recent findings as the two-week U.N. climate conference entered its final four days this week, grappling with technical issues concerning operation of the Kyoto Protocol, and trying to set a course for future controls on global greenhouse-gas emissions.
Scientists attribute at least some of the past century's 1-degree rise in global temperatures to the accumulation in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases -- byproducts of power plants, automobiles and other fossil-fuel-burning sources.
The Kyoto accord requires 35 industrial nations -- not including the United States, which rejects the pact -- to reduce such emissions an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. President Bush says such emissions cuts would harm the U.S. economy and that poorer countries also should also reduce emissions.
In Nairobi, the Kyoto parties are discussing what quotas and timetables should follow 2012, and how to draw the United States into a plan for mandatory emissions caps.
Britain's environment secretary, David Miliband, an early arrival for high-level talks here, said participation of the United States, the world's biggest emitter, is "essential."
"I can't think of a greater legacy for the last two years of the Bush presidency than to work on a bipartisan basis with Democrats as well as Republicans" for an agreement to cut emissions, Mr. Miliband said.
Besides disrupting normal climate zones, continued temperature rises will "increase threats to human health, particularly in lower-income populations, predominantly within tropical-subtropical countries," a U.N. network of climate scientists has projected.
Those problems are arising in parts of the world that have contributed little to global warming, said Mr. Campbell-Lendrum noted. "It's a global issue, and a global justice issue," one that demands action by the industrial north to alleviate the disease burden on the south, the WHO scientist said.

In Kenya, where temperature increases have tracked the global average, malaria epidemics have occurred in highland areas where cooler weather had formerly kept down populations of disease-bearing mosquitoes, said Solomon M. Nzioka, a consultant at Kenya's Health Ministry.
Research shows that even a seemingly small rise in temperatures can produce a tenfold increase in the mosquito population, he said. "Highland malaria seems to be on the increase in the rainy season and when temperatures are high," Mr. Nzioka said.
Dr. Bettina Menne of the WHO said malaria, which two decades ago was present in only three southeast European countries, has spread north to Russia and a half-dozen other nearby countries. Russian press reported in September that larvae of the anopheles mosquito, the malaria carrier, had been found in Moscow.
Dr. Menne cited a threat from other mosquito-borne diseases as well. "There's an increased risk of local outbreaks, especially in the Mediterranean, of dengue fever and West Nile virus," she said.
China is trying to track excess deaths from rising average temperatures, said Dr. Jin Yinlong of China's Institute for Environmental Health. Authorities are particularly concerned about surging mortality from strokes and heart disease under warming conditions, he said. Global warming has been linked to more prolonged heat waves.
A study of three Chinese cities found annual excess deaths totaled between 173 and 685 per million residents, Dr. Jin said. Projected over the Chinese population of 1.3 billion, this could amount to as many as 890,000 deaths nationwide per year.

WORLD BRIEFINGS
By Charles J. Hanley
ASSOCIATED PRESS
November 16, 2006
http://washingtontimes.com/world/200...5748-4207r.htm

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Kimo

makes sense, warmer temps breed germs

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TripleXencoding

omfg lmao

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spunkmaster

"The Kyoto accord requires 35 industrial nations"

Yea and not even a single one will be close to meeting the reductions they
set for their own countries ?

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reynold

As lon as other countries won't be bold and just enough to redesign their prioritis, then I don't see any hope for this protocol.

CheneyRumsfeld

its that dumbfuckitis.
its spreading at an alarming rate.
and their is no cure for it, or even a vaccine.
the world is doomed.
kiss your fat, pimpley ass good bye.
but their is one good thing.
gfy won't be so slow.

DjSap

meh...as long as it doesnt reach canada it can take its course...more dead people, less money the gov has to give in the long run to poor nations...

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