Climate changes and extreme weather and how they impact on our health
Climate Changes:
Climate means the usual condition of the temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, and other meteorological elements in an area of the Earth's surface for a long time. In simple terms climate is the average condition for about thirty years.
Changes in the climate affect the air we breathe both indoors and outdoors. Warmer temperatures and shifting weather patterns can worsen air quality, which can lead to asthma attacks and other respiratory health effects.
People in developing countries may be the most vulnerable to health risks globally, but climate change poses significant threats to health even in wealthy nations such as the United States. Certain populations, such as children, pregnant women, older adults, and people with low incomes, face increased risks.
Extreme Weather:
Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather.
The most most common extreme weather are:
Tornado: clouds, strong wind, rain, hail.
Hurricane or cyclone: strong wind, heavy rain.
Blizzard: heavy snow, ice, cold temperatures.
Dust storm: strong winds, arid conditions.
Flood: heavy rainfall.
Hail storm: cold or warm temperatures, rain, ice.
Ice storm: freezing rain
I have only experienced some mild flooding and a hailstorm out of these extreme weathers. Once on holiday in Italy there was a very heavy thunderstorm. It made me feel scared and anxious.
The impacts of climate change include warming temperatures, changes in precipitation, increases in the frequency or intensity of some extreme weather events, and rising sea levels. These impacts threaten our health by affecting the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the weather we experience.
Comments (13)
27 Apr 2020
Don't forget that we really want to hear your opinion in each post - can you tell us what you think about extreme weather and it's impact, now you have read the facts?
27 Apr 2020
I really agree with you.climate-change and extreme weather affects our health by the food we eat
Thanks for your contribution awesome_robin! You say that climate change impacts the food we eat. Can you expand on this? How do these impacts affect different people across the world?
me too
27 Apr 2020
What I think about extreme weather is that, it is an undesirable event that causes harm to people and their environment. Some of these harms are loose of lives, destruction of properties and others.
i really think the same way as you do
28 Apr 2020
Here in Kenya the extreme weather which affects us is floods. The floods destroys and kills. People say that the corona virus can survive well in cold and rainy places. Is it true? Can it survive well in hot places?
28 Apr 2020
Ok, I said that because extreme weather can create a condition that can change our deit
What sort of foods change? Can you give some examples?
29 Apr 2020
The landslides that are currently in my country Kenya has led to many people losing there lifes due to extreme weather
It has brought alot of losses in properties, buildings swept away, people seeking help in the nearby schools.
The Red cross has assisted the families that have been left homeless and left to sleep in the cold at night
Many people are really strunded on how they can arrived home the bank of The Tana river is flooding with a volume of water
We are currently experinceing a large storm in the country which has led to floods
I'm very sorry to hear this, ethical_conversation.
04 May 2020
Climate change increases the risk of illness through increasing temperature ,more frequent heavy rains runoff, and the effects of storms.Health impacts may include gastrointestinal illness like diarrhea,effect on the body's nervous and respiratory systems ,or liver and kidney damage.
Most people would agree ,sudden weather changes can make you feel under the weather.It can't actually make you sick,you need to be exposed to the actual bacteria or viruses.
11 May 2020
The extreme weather sometime leads to some problems in our world.
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