Global warming is already affecting people’s health so much that emergency action on climate change cannot be put on hold while the world deals with the Covid-19 pandemic, medical journals across the globe warned on Monday.
“Health is already being harmed by global temperature increases and the destruction of the natural world,” read an editorial published in more than 220 leading journals ahead of the Cop26 climate summit in November.
Since the pre-industrial era, temperatures have risen around 1.1 degrees Celsius (3.4 degrees Fahrenheit).
The editorial, written by the editors-in-chief of over a dozen journals including the Lancet, the East African Medical Journal, Brazil’s Revista de Saude Publica and the International Nursing Review, said this had caused a plethora of health problems.
“In the past 20 years, heat-related mortality among people older than 65 years has increased by more than 50 percent,” it read.
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