Global warming may worsen diseases
Everyday, I work in front of my computer as part of my everyday life, What I like most in my line of work is that I get to discover a lot of new things and new information and data about the current happenings making me updated at my surrounding at all times. When I was browsing the net about my past write-ups, I got something that I think I have to share to people most especially to my readers and friends.
What I am talking about is an information that I would like to share to all of you in this post. About the “Deadly by the Dozen”, the 12 diseases that global warming may worsen. If you had already browsed at my post in the month of May entitled “Climate change and Global Warming” you will see the future effects of global warming to the humanity and to all the living as well. Now in this post, I want to show more about that what I call the “Deadly by the Dozen”.
- Bird flu
- Babesiosis
- Cholera
- Ebola
- Parasites (Baylisascaris procyoni)
- Lyme Disease
- Plague
- Red tides
- Rift Valley fever
- Sleeping sickness
- Tuberculosis
- Yellow fever
To cut it short, if we are already experiencing so many problems nowadays, There will be a lot more to come. I’m sure it’s not yet too late if we will all act towards it. Each and everyone has his part and role in his habitat. Let us all act towards it.
Smoking Kills…
Smoking kills! That’s a fact. It may not kill you right away the moment you put your cigarette on your mouth. But as you puff, every cigarette you’re taking is taking away 15 minutes of your life. Three forth of the top 10 causes of death in the world is caused by smoking. These are coronary heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, AIDS, tuberculosis, lung cancer, premature child birth.
If you love your life, decide to quit smoking now. There are therapies and medications that will help you quit smoking. An effective way is the Nicotine Replacement Therapy which helps smoker stop using cigarettes to get nicotine. This therapy is safe but you need to consult a doctor before using it if you have heart attack, irregular heart beat, high blood, pregnant, or below 18.
There are many Nicotine Replacement Therapy Medications you can buy even without prescription but, again, you need to consult your doctor before trying it. These are nicotine patch, Nicotine Lozenge, Nicotine Nasal Spray, Nicotine Gum. There are also medications that are nicotine free. But you need a prescription from your doctor before you use this. Some cigarettes nowadays come up with no nicotine on them. The good this about these is that they reduce your cravings for cigarette and reduce the withdrawal symptoms as well.
Using any of these medications increases your chance to succeed in your goal to quit smoking.
Climate Change and Global Warming…
Global Warming has one solid proof of evidence nowadays… Climate Change. Climate change is undeniably obvious. In some parts of Asia, people were surprised of the early arrival of storms when it is supposed to be extremely hot like in its last few years. China, Taiwan and Philippines are now experiencing storms and heavy rains. Climate change is just an effect of Global warming which is also caused by strong concentration of Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Human actions have effects on the level of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, which has other effects upon the system, Common greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons.
Future effects of Climate Change
- Food and water shortages
- Sea level rise and coastal inundation
- Increased coastal and inland storm damage
- Increase in regional flooding and droughts
- Large increase in species extinction
- Movement of disease-carrying insects into currently unaffected areas
When will we ever start implementing global warming solutions? By the time you’ll be able to observe the global warming effects for yourself, it might be too late for us to avoid disaster. Let’s not forget that greenhouse gases stay up in the atmosphere for a long time, and fighting this problem is more likely trying to stop a huge cargo ship—even after you stop the engines, it would take quite a while to make the ship stop. If we don’t take significant actions within this decade, the harmful effects of climate change might become seriously unpreventable.
Natural Skin Lighteners
I have heard of so many natural skin lighteners which can be easily made at home. Among these are rice, curd, milk powder, egg, oats, muscovado sugar, carrots, tomato, lemon, honey, papaya, potato, cucumber, yogurt and rose water. Of all these, I would recommend only six oats, sugar, lemon juice, cucumber, honey and potato.
Sugar, honey and oats had been known to lighten skin for a long time now. And it is proven. Lemon juice, on the other hand, when made juice and combined with cucumber juice is a good skin lightener but don’t leave it on your skin too long cause it can dry out your skin. Potatoes is said to have a bleaching agent in it. You could use its peel or the potato itself but just be careful because it may dry out your skin really bad if you use it too much. Also, you can prevent your skin from further darkening by staying away from the sun because the sun makes the maximum damage on your skin. Always apply a good sunscreen lotion with SPF20 or even higher to protect your skin from the sun’s darkening rays. Reapply it every hour if possible if you are staying directly in the sun. Use waterproof sunscreen lotion when you’re going to swimming
The Greenhouse Effect…
I searched for some definition of “Greenhouse Effect” to better understand the meaning of it. Here are some of the results I found from the two most reliable sources I browsed:
• noun the trapping of the sun’s warmth in a planet’s lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet’s surface.
- Oxford Dictionary
• noun warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of a planet (as Earth or Venus) that is caused by conversion of solar radiation into heat in a process involving selective transmission of short wave solar radiation by the atmosphere, its absorption by the planet’s surface, and reradiation as infrared which is absorbed and partly reradiated back to the surface by atmospheric gases.
- Meriam Webster’s Dictionary
Let’s illustrate Greenhouse…
Greenhouse effect goes simply like this, you parked your car at the parking area under the direct sunlight. Heat, of course enters the interior of your car. While the ambient temperature outside might be 85 degrees Fahrenheit, inside your car the temperature easily zooms upward to 130F. The greenhouse effect is what happens when heat is trapped in one way or another and then increases as more heat radiation is added.
Humanity’s Fault
Some people just take this fact for granted and still unaware of the visible proof of it nowadays. Some people don’t even think this is real. Greenhouse Effect is humanity’s fault, our own mistake, the trashes, plastics and rubber materials that we burned, Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) present in our refrigerators, hair sprays, etc. It is also out moral obligation to correct these mistakes. I remember my elementary teacher used to tell us always that “Prevention is always better than cure.”
