The climate we live in affects many areas of our lives. A warmer world would be a sicker world.
Climate researchers predict that the world climate will become warmer. High temperatures in summer is becoming more frequent and very cold winters more rare. With winters becoming warmer, there are likely to be up to 20, 000 fewer cold-related deaths. However, there is a danger that bacteria would no longer die off seasonally during the cold period.
More heat waves may increase the number of hot-weather related deaths by up to 2, 800. They could cause an extra 5, 000 deaths a year from skin cancer and may cause an increase of up to 2, 000 cases of eye diseases.
Higher average global temperatures mean that diseases, or their carriers, may be able to move to areas that were too cold for them to survive at an earlier time. It's possible that a warm type of malaria (疟疾) will appear in some parts of the world and be a seasonal danger for up to four months each year. They will cause damage to our homes, food, and water supplies and then affect our health.
Those living in poor and developing countries are going to be less able to adapt to changes. Health effects are not likely to be limited to the human population, and wildlife would also be seriously affected.
A. It means that diseases may spread more widely.
B. Therefore, climate changes for the same period.
C. It's no secret that human activity is changing the climate.
D. Climate change is likely to have different effects on the world population.
E. Globally, there are likely to be more floods, more droughts, and more storms.
F. Warmer summers may cause up to 10, 000 extra cases of food poisoning (中毒) each year.
G. The food we eat, the water we drink, and our homes are all dependent upon our climate and weather.
