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The list of ways that climate change is already killing us goes on: Hot summer days increase ground-level ozone to dangerous levels in US cities. The shifting ranges of disease-carrying insects lead to a wider distribution of Dengue and Chikungunya in the Americas and Europe, Lyme disease in Canada, and schistosomiasis in China. Pathogen damage to food crops exacerbates malnourishment. More speculatively, there are even mental health effects, those that come in the aftermath of natural disasters like hurricanes. One recent study found a link between high temperatures and suicide in Japan. And this list is far from exhaustive.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:28:52 +0000

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