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In this October 1, 2018, photo, a doctor measures the arm of a malnourished girl at the Aslam Health Center, Hajjah, Yemen. A UN report says feeding a hungry planet is growing increasingly difficult as climate change and depletion of land and other resources undermines food systems.
Public health journal The Lancet released a report Wednesday warning that climate change is causing a long list of health risks.
Droughts, heatwaves, floods, and falling crop yields are causing more deaths and making people vulnerable to illnesses.
The Lancet report comes a few days after the Trump administration published its own report about the effects of climate change.
More than 150 million people are exposed to heatwaves, some infectious diseases are becoming more common and moving into new areas, and air pollution is contributing to millions of premature deaths.
These are just some of the dangers outlined in a report on climate change and human health that was published Wednesday by The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journal. The report, produced as a collaboration between the United Nations, intergovernmental agencies, and 27 academic institutions, comes ...
Both reports describe the various ways that climate change is affecting people's health, as droughts, floods, and other weather-related events become more common.
"Climate change is a medical emergency," report co-author Renee Salas, a doctor of emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, told USA Today. "It is truly harming the health of Americans, and especially the most vulnerable ... Children, the elderly, minorities, and the poor."
Take a look at some of The Lancet's findings about health risks caused by climate change.
Millions of people are being exposed to heatwaves, which can lead to heart problems, renal disease, and death.
People sit under umbrellas as they gather on the beach by the Mediterranean Sea as a heatwave with high summer temperatures continues in Marseille, France, on August 7, 2018.
The number of people vulnerable to heatwaves is going up; 157 million more people were exposed to heatwaves last year compared to 2000.
People who have diabetes, cardiovascular problems, or respiratory issues are more vulnerable to heatwaves. Heatwaves can also harm people indirectly by increasing livestock mortality, which in turn can lead to food shortages.
Those in Europe and the East Mediterranean are more vulnerable than people in Africa and southeast Asia, the report said. This is likely because the former two locations have more elderly residents and people who live in urban areas — factors that increase risk.
Floods, which are becoming more common, can kill people, exacerbate mental health issues, and spread infectious diseases.
A driver climbs out of a window of his car after driving onto a flooded road in Van Nuys, California on January 5, 2016.
The number of people exposed to floods could increase by 2 billion by 2100, according to the report.
Already, about 15% of all natural disaster-related deaths are due to floods.
South America and southeast Asia have seen the greatest increases in extreme rainfall, though the floods have become more frequent globally since 1990.
Some parts of the world already experience deadly droughts all year long.
The Theewaterskloof Dam, which supplies most of Cape Town's potable water, on February 20, 2018.
Droughts are dangerous because they can lower crop yields and reduce access to clean water, making it more likely that people will be infected by waterborne diseases.
Parts of South America, Africa, and southeast Asia already experience droughts all year long. By 2100, the number of people exposed to droughts annually could rise by 1.4 billion.
Deaths due to climate-related diseases, including skin cancer and dengue fever, have gone up despite many improvements in global health.
Patients suffering from dengue fever rest on a bed covered by a mosquito net at the Alonso Suazo hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Climate change has played a role in expanding the reach of dengue fever, the report said. Deaths from the disease are going up quickly, particularly in southeast Asia and the Americas.
Though skin cancer is rising in some areas as well, the connection to climate change is more behavioral than environmental. People are likely to spend more time outside during warmer, drier temperatures, which increases their exposure to ultraviolet radiation that causes skin cancer.
Malignant skin cancer rates have gone up in Europe, the Western Pacific, and the Americas.
Diseases caused by the waterborne Vibrio bacteria — like wound infections, sepsis, and the stomach flu — are also going up globally.
According to the report, the percentage of coastal areas susceptible to these infections has gone up in northern latitudes over the last few decades. The northeastern US and the Baltic region are particularly vulnerable.
At the same time, some climate-related diseases' mortality rates have gone down. Diarrheal diseases, for example, are on the decline in Africa. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine says greater access to safe water and sanitation has likely contributed to this decline.
Some countries are seeing decreases in crop yields, making malnutrition much more likely.
A worker of SABESP, a Brazilian enterprise of Sao Paulo state that provides water and sewage services, looks at the cracked ground of Jaguary dam in Braganca Paulista, 100 km from Sao Paulo, on January 31, 2014. The heat plus a severe drought fanned fears of water shortages, crop damage, and higher electricity bills.
While there is enough food to feed the global population, extreme weather is already causing crop yields to go down in many countries.
For some areas, falling yields mean that climate change is hurting crops faster than any new technology is trying to save food supplies. Without enough food, people will start showing symptoms of malnutrition, such as reduced muscle mass, lower stamina, and breathing difficulties.
Air pollution is too high in most cities, and it can lead to both cardiovascular and respiratory problems.
People in more than 90% of cities are breathing air with pollution levels above recommended World Health Organization guidelines.
Concentrations of air pollution have risen in nearly 70% of cities worldwide between 2010 and 2016, according to the report. About 7 million people die due to air pollution each year.
Phasing out fossil fuels could help lower these deaths, as coal use is responsible for about 16% of premature deaths related to air pollution. An average of more than 460,000 people die prematurely in connection with the burning of coal for electricity.
Climate change has already forced thousands of people to migrate in recent years, and millions more could be pushed to leave their homes.
Migrants try to stay afloat after falling off their rubber dinghy during a rescue operation by the Malta-based NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station ship in the central Mediterranean in international waters some 15 nautical miles off the coast of Zawiya in Libya, on April 14, 2017.
Health risks can cause people to leave their homes, but migration itself can also pose health risks.
Some of the most common health problems associated with migration and being a refugee are hypothermia, burns, cardiovascular issues, pregnancy-related complications, and hypertension.
According to the report, climate change is the primary reason behind thousands of people's decisions to migrate in recent years.
People can develop psychological problems due to trauma from extreme weather events, and heatwaves are particularly concerning.
Mental health can be affected by the frequency, intensity, and duration of weather-related events.
Heatwaves are especially concerning because they have been linked to rises in hospital psychiatric admissions and suicides, the report said. The authors cited a study in Australia that linked higher suicide rates to hot years.
Weather-related events can also harm people's mental health in indirect ways — if an event causes food shortages, homelessness, or damages sacred places, it could tear down sources of support that improve well-being.
As a whole, though, the effects of climate change on mental health are under-researched.
George Michael's Partner Says He Found Singer's Body: "We Don't Know What Happened Yet"
Fadi Fawaz says he discovered Michael dead at home when the pair were supposed to meet for Christmas lunch.
George Michael, who died of heart failure and was found in his home Christmas Day, passed away "peacefully" and alone, according to his partner Fadi Fawaz.
Fawaz took to Twitter on Monday to say it's a Christmas he will never forget after "finding your partner dead peacefully in bed first thing in the morning." Adding, "I will never stop missing you."
The death of the English singer, songwriter and record producer, who rose to fame with the group Wham! in the 1980s, was unexpected but there was "no foul play whatsoever," Michael's longtime manager, Michael Lippman, told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 53.
Fawaz, a hair stylist who had been romantically linked to Michael since 2011, told Britain's Daily Telegraph that he had planned to meet the "Faith" singer for Christmas lunch.
"I went round there to wake him up and he was just gone, lying peacefully in bed," he said. "We don't know what happened yet."
He added that the pop star had been looking forward to the holiday.
"Everything had been very complicated recently, but George was looking forward to Christmas, and so was I," he told the newspaper. "Now everything is ruined. I want people to remember him the way he was. He was a beautiful person."
The Thames Valley Police called Michael's death "unexplained but not suspicious."
Since his death, many in Hollywood have taken to social media to mourn the untimely loss of another music legend gone too soon. Stories of his secret generosity continue to surface and fans have taken to paying their final respects outside his London home.
Michael's former longtime partner Kenny Goss, who was with the singer for years before they announced their separation in 2011, said in a statement that he was "heartbroken."
"I'm heartbroken with the news that my dear friend and long time love George Michael has passed," said Goss in the statement. "He was a major part of my life and I loved him very, very much. He was an extremely kind and generous man. The beautiful memories and music he brought to the world will always be an important p...
Michael’s death falls as he was planning a comeback next year with a new album and documentary.
The documentary, which has a working title of Freedom: George Michael, is being produced by Sony Music Entertainment and had been planned to air on Showtime and Channel 4 in the U.K. According to a release, the documentary about the star features interviews with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Liam Gallagher an...
According to a final post on Michael's official Instagram page, published seven weeks ago, the documentary was set to air in March, coinciding with the rerelease of the singer's second studio album, Listen Without Prejudice, which came out in 1990.
Funeral plans are expected to be announced shortly.
Using Excel as a scheduling tool is a great skill to have under your belt.
Excel’s SUM, DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, Nested IF, and IF/OR functions came to mind as I was watching a 1969 film called If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, about American tourists on a whirlwind tour of Europe. It occurred to me that companies are often required to create schedules based on the weeks (as opposed to the day...
Imagine that you work for a magazine that covers sporting events all over the world, and it’s your job to create the schedule for the journalists and videographers that cover these events. For example, on the third Tuesday of a given month, the event is figure skating and the location is Belgium; on the fourth Tuesday,...
Define: The SUM function is quite versatile. It can used to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and/or perform dozens of other calculations.
Define: Provides a date based on three values: year, month, day.
Define: If the statement is true, then do A, If the statement is true, then do B, If the statement is true, then do C, else/otherwise do D.
Define: =OR(is condition 1 true, OR condition 2 true, OR condition 3 true; etc.
NOTE: Remember, OR means if condition A or B or C is true, then answer YES; if none of these are true, answer NO. AND means A, B, and C must ALL be true to get a YES; but if only one is true and the other two are not true (false), then the answer is NO.
1. First, let’s quickly build the spreadsheet. Enter the following headers in columns A through I: (A) YEAR, (B) MONTH, (C) WEEK—(D)WEEK, (E) DATE, (F) EVENT, (G) LOCATION—(H) LOCATION, (I) JOURNALIST/ VIDEOGRAPHER. Columns C and D are merged with the one column header WEEK. Columns G and H are the same (one merged col...
2. In column A, enter the year 2019, from A2 through A20, skipping every fifth row; that is, every fifth row is blank (for aesthetics only). In column B: Enter the number 1 for January in B2:B5; the number 2 for February in B7:B10; the number 3 for March in B12:B15; and the number 4 for April in B17:B20.
3. In column D, enter 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th in each four-row block; that is D2:D5; D7:D10; D12:D15; and D17:D20. The remaining columns are formulas except column H, which could be a formula, or you can just manually enter the country that matches the city in column G. Because we have more than enough formulas for this spr...
1. The formula for column C (WEEK) is a SUM function, which defines the week number in each month and can be entered in any one of the four different syntax statements: =1+7*1; or =SUM(1+7*2); or =SUM(7*3+1); or =SUM(7*4)+1.
2. In English: one plus seven, times one, equals 8, which corresponds to the first week of the month; one plus seven, times two, equals 15 (second week); one plus seven, times 3, equals 22 (third week); and one plus seven, times four, equals 29 (fourth week); and so on if there are five weeks.
3. Enter these four formulas in the first four-row block; that is C2:C5. The result will be 8, 15, 22, and 29. Copy these four rows down to rows C7:C10; C12:C15; and C17:C20.
NOTE: Column D, which you have already entered (instructions above), is unnecessary for the calculations or understanding of this worksheet. It’s there for aesthetics only.
4. The formula in column E (DATE) determines the DATE from columns A, B, and C, then subtracts the WEEKDAY DATE A, B, and C minus the Day of the Week number; i.e., 3 for Tues, 4 for Wed, etc. (see chart above under Formulas/Functions, #3 Weekday). Remember to enter, then copy.
Now that you have the actual event dates for the four weeks of the month, you can enter formulas that reveal which event is scheduled for each of those four weeks, the location of each event, and which journalist/videographer team is scheduled to cover those events.
6. The formulas for column F (EVENT) change with each month.
7. Enter the formulas for column G, the cities/LOCATION where each event is held.
8. For column H (the countries/LOCATION), you can manually enter the countries that match the cities in column G or work out a formula yourself to automatically enter the country that matches the city. However, you MUST enter the corresponding countries in column H or the formulas in column I (JOURNALIST/VIDEOGRAPHER) ...
HINT: For starters, you should create a table off to the side that lists all the countries and, for future formulas, number the countries from 1 through 14.
9. The last formula (column I) reveals which team (JOURNALIST/VIDEOGRAPHER) will cover which events; for example Team 1 covers Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
10. Use the countries table you created in number 8 above to simplify the formula in column I; for example 1= Australia, 2 = Belgium, 3 = Canada, etc. (it’s still long, but much shorter than the original). Note that formulas can only be 8,192 characters long, which really is a lot, but managing and/or editing extremely...
11. First, you must enter the correct country number in column J. You can also write a custom formula to perform this task as well. Note that each IF statement is followed by a series of OR conditions, which allows you to assign several countries to each team.
NOTE: It’s always advisable and much more efficient to create tables with numbered entries as opposed to “hardcoding” the data into the formulas. By using country numbers instead of country names, you can add, delete, or change countries by just modifying the country table.
For example, in 2020, the event held in Canada moved to Sweden. Instead of editing all of your formulas to replace Canada with Sweden, you just enter Sweden into the slot (number 3) where Canada used to be. And, if you assign the journalists and videographers to numbered teams, you can easily change the members of each...
12. Consider color-coding certain elements of your spreadsheet so it’s easier to scan the information quickly for immediate retrieval when presenting your ideas to clients, co-workers, and corporate executives. Creating charts for your spreadsheets also help to convey your message.
Iraq’s US-appointed Governing Council has announced the names of 24 men and a woman who will act as ministers in an interim government until elections are held in the occupied country.
The new cabinet, revealed on Monday, is divided up among the country’s various ethnicities and religions, with 13 ministries going to Shia, five to Sunnis, five to Kurds, one to Turkmen and one to Christians.
The key oil ministry goes to Shia Ibrahim Muhammad Bahr al-Ulum, said a council source. The interior ministry will also be held by another Shia, Nuri Badran.
The foreign affairs portfolio will be held by a Kurd, Hoshyiar al-Zibari, while finance goes to Sunni Kamal al-Kailani, said council member Nasir al-Shadershi.
Nisrin Mustafa Burwari will be the only woman to hold a ministerial post, but it is unclear in which one.
The new interim government will not have defence and information ministers, said the Council’s head last week.
It also does not intend to appoint a prime minister.