I Hate Al Gore » Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Newsletter – Warming Improves Health
In 1995, Thomas Gale Moore published the first of his pioneering efforts, “Why Global Warming Would be Good for You,” and in 1998, “Health and Amenity Effects of Global Warming.” He estimated that a temperature increase of 2.5 C in the U.S. would cause a drop of 40,000 deaths per year from respiratory and circulatory disease, based on U.S. Mortality Statistics as a function of monthly climate change.South Dakota: Cool Summer Weather Competes in Record Books
With summer about two-thirds gone, at least in a meteorological sense, Greg Harmon of the National Weather Service compared temperature readings so far with those of past years and discovered Sioux Falls readings are tied for the fifth-coolest on record.Met Office left red faced as Britain's forecast 'barbecue summer' turns into a washout | Mail Online
The record books go back to 1889.
As the Met Office rather sheepishly announced that it had 'revised' its seasonal forecast, the tourism industry was asking how the experts got things so badly wrong.New Brunswick reasoning: After all of seven cases of Lyme disease in twelve years, let's spend $125k to see if trace amounts of CO2 caused them
FREDERICTON - Climate change might be what's responsible for an increased risk of getting Lyme disease in New Brunswick -- or at least that's the instinct of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
The agency is putting $125,000 into a study of whether there's a link between climate change in New Brunswick and a marked increase of black-legged ticks in the province, which causes Lyme disease.
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Badcock said there have been seven human cases of Lyme disease in New Brunswick within the last 12-years. She said that number is low, but the risk of getting Lyme disease in the province is growing.
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