Climate change is good for your health?
Well, not quite. But it’s refreshing to have a climate change story where the result isn’t chaos and catastrophe - or at least, not entirely.
A team of scientists in the West Midlands has released a pioneering report examining the effects of climate change on health. It’s the first of its kind, focusing on the health impacts at a local rather than national or global level.
They took a range of climate-related illnesses and deaths and mapped them against government climate projections (UKCP09) to predict how the changes will affect the region over the next century.
The good news? (more…)