Reuters – A sudden spate of urgent cardiovascular syndromes resulting in severe chest pain that required emergency department visits among residents of Sydney, Australia, in 2005 has been traced to high solar radiance and ozone levels.
Cardiovascular disease cluster linked to pollution (Reuters)
More than 3,000 flying foxes dropped dead, falling from trees in Australia. Giant squid migrated north to commercial fishing grounds off California, gobbling anchovy and hake. Butterflies have gone extinct in the Alps.
Global warming wreaks havoc with nature (AP)
More than four times the number of natural disasters are occurring now than did two decades ago, British charity Oxfam said in a study Sunday that largely blamed global warming.
Natural disasters have quadrupled in two decades: study (AFP)
AP – The world isn’t just getting hotter from man-made global warming, it’s getting stickier. It really is the humidity. The amount of moisture in the air near the surface — the stuff that makes hot weather unbearable — increased 2.2 percent in just under three decades. And computer models show that the only explanation is man-made global warming, according to a study published in Thursday’s journal Nature.
Global warming may make humidity worse
AFP – Europe needs to take drastic action to reverse complex environmental issues that have shortened the life expectancy of its people by almost a year, the European Environmental Agency said Wednesday.
Climate change deadlier than car accidents: European agency
Reuters – The number of heat-related deaths in and around New York City will nearly double by 2050 – and could rise as high as 95 percent — due to global warming if no efforts are made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a new study shows.
Heat may kill hundreds of New Yorkers (Reuters)
Reuters – Arctic sea ice declined this year to the lowest levels registered since satellite assessments started in the 1970s, extending a trend fueled by human-caused global warming, scientists said on Monday.
Scientists see dramatic drop in Arctic sea ice
From The Daily Green…
Study: By Mid-Century, There will be 47% to 95% Increase in Summer Heat-Related Mortality
Because of global warming, the New York City area will experience an increase in heat-related summer deaths of 47% to 95% by the 2050s, according to a new study by the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. The study will be published in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Public Health.
Those predictions are based on an annual average temperature increase 2.5 – 6.5 degrees, and an average summer temperature increase of 2.7 – 7.6 degrees.
Read the full story at: Global Warming Could Double Heat Deaths in NYC
