9 Facts Proving That Global Warming Is Already Killing You

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9 Facts Proving That Global Warming Is Already Killing You

1 Heat Waves

Traditional scientific consensus has been known that if we can manage to keep global temperature increases below two degrees Celsius, we’ll manage to avoid the doomiest and gloomiest of what global warming has to offer.

In fact, since 1960 India has seen the total number of heat waves with more than 100 deaths increased by 150%.

The Asian nation has nearly 200 million people who fall below the global poverty line of $1.90 cents per day, meaning that they’re incredibly dependent on favorable farming weather and can’t afford to protect themselves from the fatal temperatures.

At its peak in 2017, neighboring Pakistan recorded a temperature of 53.5 degrees Celsius.

It followed a similar heat wave in 2015 that killed 2,000 people and forced the Muslim population to break Ramadan in order to survive.

2 Bees

Bees really are having a rough time right now and the punches just keep rolling in.

For a decade, now honeybee populations have been dropping at an unprecedented rate- sometimes as high as 30% of colonies per year.

First, it was pesticides called Neonicotinoids accelerating colony collapse, then it was diseased that attack their blood and cripple their wings.


3 Seasonal shifts

Over the last few decades, we’ve seen a subtle sometimes not-so-subtle shift in the lengths of seasons.

In fact, summers now tend to start as much as eight days earlier than 50 years ago.

This kind of shift could have a major effect on the natural balance between plants, animals, and people.

4 Wildfires

In the last 40 years, instances of forest fires have increased fivefold, lasting five times longer and affecting six times the area.

5 Economic Decline

As of 2010, the symptoms of global warming are costing the world 1.2 trillion dollars annually, burning 1.7% of the world’s economic output.

Most of the staggering cost comes from the farming losses, where it’s estimated that a 1 degree Celsius temperature increase cuts yield by 10% and it’s propped up by the cost of dealing with increasing ecological disasters.

All in all those factors are causing 400,000 deaths per year, and it’s only going up.

By 2030, global losses are expected to nearly double to 3.2% and deaths are said to increase to 630,000.

6 Mosquitoes

So it’s great to know that with rising temperatures, the world could be seeing them a whole lot more often.

The World Health Organization has pointed to climate change as being instrumental in the spread of the Zika virus, which has had as many as 400,000 suspected worldwide cases.

And if that wasn’t enough, the non-governmental organization has also predicted a 5% increase in malaria as a result of climate based mosquito movements.

7 Flooding

Due to the increase in global temperatures, some regions are seeing a lot more moisture in the air, and just like with smoke and fire, where there’s moisture there’s rain – and lots of it.

According to the National Wildlife Federation, massive precipitation events should normally only happen once every 20 years.

But they’re increasing in frequency and will be four times as likely by the end of the century.

In 2015, South Carolina fell victim to a flood that might only occur every thousand years, killing nine people, submerging streets and drawing houses across the state.

Likewise in Louisiana, the state experienced eight flooding events between summer 2015 and 2016 that exceeded the amount of rainfall that should be expected once in 500 years.

8 Coral Reef Collapse

Increases in ocean temperature is leaving the coral reef vulnerable to disease and causing it to undergo mass bleaching, not to mention increasing carbon in the water causing it to acidify.

9 Dormant Diseases

There’s a good deal of evidence to suggest that shifting climate conditions could leave you feeling sick as a dog, or maybe a seal if your home gets submerged by rising sea levels.

The permafrost, which is ground ice, is starting to warm up at alarming rates, about a degree every decade, and revealing some stone-cold horrors.

In 2016, a layer of permafrost in Russia gave way to a preserved dead reindeer that was carrying what has been dubbed ‘zombie anthrax’ because it was lying dormant in the ice.

The outbreak killed over 2300 reindeer, hospitalized more than 100 people and led to the tragic death of a 12-year-old boy.

Since then, scientists have become worried that bygone diseases like Smallpox and Spanish Flu could thaw out and make a comeback, or even unknown ancient pathogens that blighted our ancestors.