Effects of Global Warming on Health Submitted by Glen Luckman

A report of the effects of global warming on health published by WHO, has estimated around one million fifty thousand deaths every year due to global warming. Further it declared that each year five million people are suffering from health problems and diseases caused for this global warming. The rising concern over this matter has led many scientists and researchers to take a deeper look and prepare a plan to save human civilization from this onslaught.

Global warming has caused changes in temperature, ocean current flow, sea level ecosystem, economy, agriculture, industry, settlements and related to all these – the health and living. Warmer world has created congenial atmosphere for the breeding and life expanse of various virus, bacteria and carriers of infectious diseases. Few evidences of global warming leaving negative effects on human health are -

- The vectors distribution of infectious diseases have been altered for global warming.

- Heat wave resulted for global warming are causing deaths.

- The seasonal distribution of few species of allergenic pollen have been altered for global warming.

- Various extreme conditions of global warming like droughts, heat and cold wave, storm, flood, fire will increase the death tolls as well as injuries and diseases.

- Malnutrition and disordered development of children are few long term results of global warming.

- Global warming will cause increase of malaria, diarrhea, cholera, dengue, encephalitis and other diseases.

- There will be constant rising rate of mortality due to ground level ozone related diseases as well as high cardio respiratory morbidity for global warming.

Thus global warming will affect human health in two major ways – with extreme weather conditions and with rising infectious diseases. IPCC in a study of one of the most global warming affected area of Illionis, Chicago, has provided an apprehensive report that by 2020 extreme climate condition like heat wave will raise the climate average deaths to 400 and to 497 by 2050 from the present average of 191. European heat wave of 2003 is an example of its severity. Heat waves will even cause cardio respiratory complications resulting to high rate of deaths.

The results of ill health due to global warming and infectious diseases are already evident. Houston as well as many tropical countries are experiencing frequent outbreak of malaria, dengue and other encephalitis diseases. Even colder regions like Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Queens are severely suffering from malaria since 1990 as a result of global warming. McAllen of Texas also suffered a dengue epidemic in 1995. Florida, New Oreleans, Arizona, Mississippi, Texas, Colorado, and California – all are experiencing encephalitis epidemic for global warming since 1987. According to IPCC, 65% of world population will suffer from high risk of infectious diseases in near future. The risk itself will be increased by 20%, only as a result of global warming.

Facing such an impending calamity due to global warming, the requirement of proper planning and organized adaptation to new and changing condition has received a new dimension. Along with urgent and basic adaptation practices to fight the immediate effects, a longer planning and elaborate gradual methodology are also necessary to address the severity of future conditions resulted from global warming. A participatory approach to the holistic development of human health is expected to sober down the effects of global warming on health to some extent.

Author: Christophe Catesson

Thanks to Glen Luckman

Glen Luckman On Effect of Global Warming on Health

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PRESS RELEASE                                      Dymon Self Storage Corporation

October 31, 2006                                          380 Hunt Club Road,

                                                            Ottawa, ON  K1V 1C1

                                                                        Contact:  Andrew Sayer

                                                                        613-842-9900

                                                                        asayer@driveinselfstorage.ca      

Ottawa, ON  - Senior Officials at Dymon Capital Corporation today announced the start of construction of their second Drive-In Self Storage facility located at Hunt Club Road and Prince of Wales Drive in Ottawa.  This follows the very successful July 2006 launch of the Corporation’s flagship location on Coventry Road in Ottawa (across from Lynx Stadium). 

“We have been very pleased with how great the leasing has been going at Coventry Road.  A combination of great space, great rates and our rigorous focus on customer service is being well received by the marketplace”, said Glen Luckman, CEO of Dymon Capital Corporation.

As part of its strategic program, a total investment of over $90 Million will be made at ten (10) state-of-the-art Drive-In Self Storage facilities across the Ottawa region, representing in excess of 1 Million square feet of space.  Three (3) facilities are also planned for the Gatineau region.  The Corporation has already secured exceptional sites at the best possible locations across the entire region.  Construction will commence this fall/winter on Drive-In Self Storage facilities at Tenth Line and Innes in Orleans, Kanata Centrum, South Keys, and Carling at the Queensway.  In addition, negotiations are nearing completion for a 150,000 sq. ft. Drive-In facility in the core of the City. 

“We have been involved with the construction of thousands of self storage facilities in the US, Canada and Europe and I can honestly say that the Drive-In Self Storage facility is of the highest caliber we have encountered in any of today’s markets”, said Chip Cordes, Vice President of US Door.

Drive-In Self Storage provides the ideal solution for home and business storage needs, offering storage units that range in size 15 to 400 sq. ft., complete with 9 ft. ceilings.  The unique drive-in access provides customers comfort and complete protection from the weather.  All customers are offered free transportation of their possessions or goods from their home or business to the Drive-In Self Storage facility. 

“I have never seen anything like this before. People only need to walk in the front door and they’ll be sold.  The free transportation to the facility is like icing on the cake”, said Krista Nicholds, a Drive-In Self Storage customer.

Dymon Capital Corporation is locally owned and operated.  Having been in business for over a decade, it has developed over 1.2 Million sq. ft. of commercial, industrial and retirement home properties in the Ottawa-Gatineau region.  Under its Dymon Healthcare banner, the Corporation operates the City’s most preeminent retirement home addresses, including Governor’s Walk, Lord Lansdowne, and the Duke of Devonshire.

Posted by Glen Luckman

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Green House Gases and Their Effects on Our Planet

By: Jerome Exner

Placed by Glen Luckman
Green house gases, are they as big of a problem as people say? People who know little about green house gases, truly are not aware how its effecting our earth, so hopefully this information clears some of this up, and will show you how serious this problem is actually is.

For 2.5 million years, the earths climate has constantly been changing, from our ice ages to warmer years, but in the last century our climate’s temperature has been rising unusually fast, from about 1.3 to 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit. Scientists believe that it is our own human activity, thats driving the temperature up, and this process is called ” global warming”.

Dating back to the times when the industrial revolution began, factories, trains, and eventually cars, have burned fossil fuels such as oil and coal, which were and still are, releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide, and other gas’s into our earths atmosphere. These green house gases, or trapped heat near the surface of the earth, are formed by a natural process of the sun, and this is called the ” greenhouse effect”. The green house effect, begins with the sun and the energy it radiates to the earth. The Earth and the atmosphere absorb some of this energy, and the rest is radiated back into space. Now with that being said, these naturally occurring gases, in the atmosphere trap some of this energy and reflect it back, thus, warming the earth. Scientists now believe that the green house effect is getting intensified by all the extra green house gases that humans are releasing.

Signs of global warming, include a recent pattern of very warm years. 1998 was one of the warmest years in history, with 2005, a quick runner up. Furthermore, readings taken from ice core samples, Show that green house gas’s, C02, and methane, have hit there highest levels in 420,000 years, and our sea ice is also shrinking.Our sea ice has declined 10% in the last 30 years.

As long as our nations around the globe, consume these energy’s, and increase their fuel consumption, the overall mass of green house gas’s will continue to rise. Researchers predict that our temperature will increase by 2 – 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. What is uncertain is what rising temperatures,will mean for our planet. Some forecast rising sea levels which of coarse would mean floods, along coastal areas around the world. Weather patterns are changing also, making hurricanes more frequent, severe drought is more common in warm areas, and species which are unable to adapt to this change will face a huge drop in numbers and inevitably, extinction.

Glen Luckman Climate Change

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