Climate Change Already Affecting Human Health Says WHO Director General
WHO Director General Dr Margaret Chan said yesterday, 7th April 2008, World Health Day, that climate change was already affecting human health and was giving “a glimpse of the challenges public health will have to confront on a large scale”.Chan said the scientific evidence that the planet is warming is “unequivocal”: average air and sea temperatures are rising, ice caps are melting, and sea levels are increasing.
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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on April 11th, 2008