MORE Australians will die from heart attacks, strokes and respiratory diseases as the planet heats up, a study has found.
Instances of obesity, food poisoning, and mosquito-borne diseases such as the deadly Ross River fever are also likely to rise as climate change raises average and extreme temperatures.
The Healthy Planet, Places and People report released yesterday, says mental health in rural areas is also likely to suffer from more frequent and more intense droughts.
Herald Sun: Climate change to lift death toll in Australia
"It comes as a timely warning of the surprises that might be in store as global warming upsets the exquisite balance between Earth's creatures."
ROFLMAO.
Once again Luke trots out his arsenal of AGW morons. There has never, ever, been and "exquisite balance between Earth's creatures". Species have come and gone and moved forever. The climate has been warmer than today several times in the past 10,000 years. Luke's moron uses romantic poetry to evoke images of manless perfection that anyone with two braincells to rub together could recognize as pure drivel. But then Luke doesn't have two brain cells to rub together, so we must excuse him.
Isn't it interesting that more drought is going to be bringing us more mosquitoes.
What utter utter drivel. Really are you totally bereft of all intelligence.
"how many years should we reduce human life expectancy to "combat AGW"?" - ummm zero -
conversely how much will life expectancy be reduced if you don't !!!!
You may have noticed that people do tend to die in climate extremes and episodic events.
AGW proponents like malaria ? - NO not at all - you just pulled that out of your festering neo-con backside. If you're such a s bleeding heart for Africa get your military in intervene in Darfur and Zimbabwe. And ban US tobacco companies addicting a whole new generation of Africans. But you wouldn't go near that would you, you hypocritical slime.
Greenfreaks will oppose it? Well I don't know any greenfreaks so I don't know. I won't oppose it.
GM crops - I don't have a problem. You may note I have written very positive comments on a number of occasions on GM cotton.
Neo-marxist am I - well you don't know me but if you did and put that to my friends and colleagues they'd simply say - I think you're confused with someone else.
But true to form Schiller-scum you are a died in wool neo-con, devoid of any discriminating ability, going down your checklist that big business has given you. Your myopic world model has no room for diversity of thought or action.
You're locked in a cold war that doesn't exist.
Indeed the more I see from you neo-conners - you're anti-diversity, anti-choice and really from your love of protectionist subsidies - anti-capitalist.
And you love to start wars as an excuse to get what you want.
Don't lecture me about democratic freedoms boyo - you're living in a nation where most don't vote, where a single individual has ridiculous levels of executive power, and national elections come down to decided whether little bits of paper are punched through or not. What bullshit.
You couldn't lay straight in bed neo-con scumoid !
Luke,
You complain that "those concerned about AGW... somehow don't understand how energy is related to standard of living."
Lovely.
Now tell me: by how many years should we reduce human life expectancy to "combat AGW"?
AGW proponents also like malaria in Africa because it reduces the number of humans.
Even so, make no mistake: if "Exxon will sell you the carbon neutral technology when the time comes," the greenfreaks will oppose it. Just because it comes from Exxon.
Just like the greenfreaks oppose resource-preserving GM crops, merely because Monsanto sells some.
Give it up, Luke. You don't give a %#!& about the planet, you're just a neo-Marxist hoping to establish something that the failed Soviet empire couldn't.
WTF - can someone translate?
Anyway - some interesting try-ons from the dedicated looney right.
That those concerned about AGW
(1) somehow don't understand how energy is related to standard of living
(2) would like to see us live in caves
Conversely the looney right are usually the last to acknowledge many technologies have side-effects which need to be mitigated; often with better technology or different technology.
Make no mistake Schiller - Exxon will sell you the carbon neutral technology when the time comes.
Sheesh.
This is not rocket science.
Increases in human-induced increases in CO2 contribute directly, i.e., causally, to increased human longevity.
Which means an increase in diseases associated with old age.
Work the proven causality the other way, you will find that forced reductions in CO2 will reduce human life expectancy.
Exactly what you would expect from people who believe that our worst "invention" was the domestication of fire.
Luke will likely chime in and say he eats only uncooked, dead things at our planet's "average" temperature.
Of course, eating like that will please the ghost of Malthus and kill billions, which is--actually--on the agenda for a number of eco-whacko groups.
Gosh, a spreading disease killed a million sheep. Circle the wagons, stop the world. Our Ministers for the Environment casually look the other way as 30 million 'Roos die a miserable death each drought. They neither supplement their feed or make any effort to cull the herd but will criticise a farmer for failing to conserve his fodder reserves faster than you can say Urban Spiv.
Tropical animals have already developed resistance so a vaccine couldn't be too far away. Unless it is left to the EPA to come up with a solution.