This article explores the less discussed but equally significant impacts of climate change beyond rising sea levels and melting glaciers. It highlights the detrimental effects of air pollution on human health, particularly the dangers posed by particulate matter (PM2.5), emphasizing its link to respiratory illnesses and developmental issues in young people.
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service reanalysis shows the average PM2.5 surface concentrations for 2003–2022 and the anomalies in 2022 compared with the mean values for 2003–2022. Source: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts /CAMS. Source: World Meteorological Organization
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service reanalysis shows the average PM2.5 surface concentrations for 2003–2022 and the anomalies in 2022 compared with the mean values for 2003–2022. Source: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts /CAMS. Source: World Meteorological Organization.recently in which he explored all the small ways that climate change is affecting all of us.
“The familiar climate catastrophe framing may be missing some of the most important features of the real climate change story,” R. Jisung Park, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, notes in his excellent recent book. He argues that we have been so focused on apocalyptic scenarios that we haven’t focused enough on the other consequences of climate change.
Climate change may influence crime as well. The researchers find that murder, aggravated assault, and rape are more common when temperatures rise. One researcher estimated that the increase in temperatures because of climate change may lead to 1.6 million additional cases of aggravated assault and 200,000 additional rapes in the United States over this century. Even professional athletes are affected. One study looked at how tennis players do when temperatures rise.
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