Mental health effects of climate change

Health effects of climate change.

HUMANS ARE NOW MAKING UNprecedented changes to the global environment. Economic development has been fostered by the use of fossil fuels but the accompanying accumulation of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide and methane, has implications for the world’s climate (BOX). Since the 1850s when temperature records began, the world has warmed by approximately 0.6°C, largely in the last 3 d...

Climate Change and Health Effects

Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK HEALTH EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE UK

Monitoring the health effects of climate change

Detection and measurement of health effects of climate change are necessary to provide evidence on which to base national and international policies relating to control and mitigation measures. Unequivocal evidence of health effects, and accurate measurements of their size, can come only from hard data. However, climate varies naturally as well as through human influences and in turn is only on...

The impact of climate change on mental health (but will mental health be discussed at Copenhagen?).

Climate change will shortly be assuming centre stage when Copenhagen hosts the United Nations Climate Change Conference in early December 2009. In Copenhagen, delegates will discuss the international response to climate change (i.e. the ongoing increase in the Earth's average surface temperature) and the meeting is widely viewed as the most important of its kind ever held (http://en.cop15.dk/)....