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Extreme weather conditions will pose severe perils to human life: report

AIMAN INAM

ATLANTA: What researchers here have asserted is certainly alarming for all of us!

They believe that more fatal heat waves, outbreaks of specific communicable ailments as well as tragic food scarcities are lurking in the upcoming annum. 

Such occurrences will be the result of climate change that would ultimately trigger causalities, held experts from the Carter Center in Atlanta.

It has been estimated by the World Health Organization that between 2030 and 2050, climate alteration will cause approx 250,000 deaths annually from heat stress, undernourishment and the diffusion of contagious virus (such as malaria).

Supporting this belief, around 97 percent scholars concur that climate change is real and human toxic waste is chiefly liable.

It is pertinent to mention here that heat spell is accountable for the more fatalities all across the United States as compare to tornadoes, floods and lightning.

Senior researcher from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Kim Knowlton maintained in his key note that due to the dispersion of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, the Earth is warming rapidly. Therefore, it goes without saying that this threatens human health.

Apart from heat stress, the scorching weather condition could also escalate the dissemination of infectious epidemics.

Warmer weather can offer idyllic conditions for blood sucking species to burgeon and prop-up the mosquito-borne illness and zika is the best instance of this.

Health professionals stressed that sans more wasting of time, there is a need for urgent utilization of extreme science so as to defend the public from upcoming health hazards.

Savants are convinced that by containing the hazardous climate changes, rising death rates could be stopped. 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.