The largest unnatural risk to your health is air pollution. Air pollution is responsible for 1 in 8 deaths. WHO reports: In new estimates released today, WHO reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died – one in eight of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more […]
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Climate Change Health Hazard
Physicians For Social Responsibility report: High in the Earth’s atmosphere, naturally occurring ozone is essential to protecting life on Earth from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun. However, here on Earth’s surface, ground-level ozone is a harmful pollutant. Source of Ozone: Ground-level ozone is formed when two major classes of air pollutants — nitrogen […]
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Tagged air pollution, Asthma, chronic bronchitis, climate change, emphysema, health impacts, ozone, pneumonia, respiratory and cardiovascular ailments, sunburn of the lungs
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Background Ozone
Low level ozone (Tropospheric Ozone) is deadly to plants and animals. The huge increase in human respiratory problems and asthma is largely attributed to ozone. NASA has released a new study on ozone pollution: Levels of “background ozone” — ozone pollution present in a region but not originating from local, human-produced sources — are high enough in […]
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Tagged air quality, Asthma, climate change, ozone pollution, respiratory disease, Tropospheric Ozone
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Health And Air Quality
by Daniel Brouse Q: What causes the most illness in the United States? A: Bad air quality The leading causes of bad air quality are Particulate Matter, Ground Level Ozone, Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) and Nitrogen Oxide (NOx). Asthma is a chronic lung disease that affects an estimated 16.4 million adults and 7.0 million children in […]
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Tagged action alert days, air quality, Asthma, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, climate change, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, health, ozone, wellness
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Sea Level Warning
A new study, written by James Hansen (NASA’s former lead climate scientist) and 16 co-authors, concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will melt 10 times faster than previous estimates. The result could be a sea level rise of at least 10 feet in the next 50 years. Hanson said the new findings would be […]
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Tagged civilization, climate change, economic collapse, sea level rise, threatening, ungovernable
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EPA: Climate Change Report
WASHINGTON –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released one of the most comprehensive analyses to date on the economic, health and environmental benefits to the United States of global climate action. The peer-reviewed report, “Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action,” examines how future impacts and damages of climate change across […]
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Tagged benefits, climate action, climate change, costs, extreme weather events, health, healthy
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Catastrophic Impacts of Climate Change
A study by University College London (UCL) concludes we heave severely underestimated the health impacts of global warming. “The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events will dramatically increase.” “In essence, whether we respond to “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century” is no longer a technical or economic question — it is […]
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Tagged climate change, extreme weather events, global warming, health impact
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The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Here
Researchers from several universities have released a study that concludes the Earth has entered into its sixth mass extinction. Rob Jordan author of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment states, “There is no longer any doubt: We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity’s existence.” The onset of the extinction is due to […]
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Tagged climate change, global warming, mass extinction, sixth mass extinction
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Is Opposition To GMO Crops Irrational?
By Daniel Brouse There is evidence of genetically modified crops for over 8,000 years. There is no evidence of harm from eating GM foods. The Bible compares the grafting of an olive branch to a human being grafted to God. Romans 11:17 — “But some of these branches from Abraham’s tree — some of the […]