Global warming can kill 10,000 in Asia-Pacific
Rising Temperature Worldwide Is Causing Droughts Floods ,Typhoons, Cyclones Every Year.
Up to 10,000 people in the Asia-Pacific
region could be dying each year as a result of factors associated with
Global warming such as severe
weather and mosquito-borne diseases. A World
Health Organization expert said on Thursday.
Based on data gathered in 2000, the UN health agency estimates that changing weather
patterns already has a substantial impact on people in the West5ern Pacific region, which includes most of North Asia, parts of South east Asia and the South Pacific, according to Dr Hisashi Ogawa ,WHO’s regional environmental advisor.
Roughly 10,000 people… are estimated to die due to various factors resulting from climate change every year, Ogawa told The Associated Press during a break in a Who conference here ,But he warned That number could increases over the next 50 to 100 years./
Preliminary research suggests that rising global temperature have already led to an increases in extreme weather patterns in the region ,including cyclones, typhoons ,droughts and floods ,ha said.
For example, the incidence of storms in the Western Pacific region had risen by about 2% from the early 1980s to the late 1990s Ogawa said,
But the number4 of deaths due to various natural disasters—drou8ghts, floods ,storms—has increased (by) about 30 to 40% he said .Ogawa said it was not possible to pinpoint the exact reason for the rise in deaths , but said the region’s increasingly aged population was more vulnerable to adverse weather conditions.
Rising temperatures in different parts of the world also may
reduce water quality in some areas and lead to a rise in diseases spread by mosquitoes, which breed in stagnant water and become cause of epidemics, Ogawa warned.
He said regional governments should step-up measures ti reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The Official also asked governments too boost surveillance of climate change-related illnesses.
Of curse we
need to reduce the emissions he said But in the meantime .knowing the increase in global temperature, we need to adapt ourselves or our way of living to… the changing climate(and) weather patterns,
On Wednesday ,WHO member states in the region held a ministerial round table to discuss the need for improving the health response to natural disasters.
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