Climate change causes diseases

London: The effects of climate change aren’t just limited to melting glaciers and rising sea levels. Global warming is likely to affect human societies in all kinds of other ways, from higher rates of infectious disease to greater wealth disparities and even increases in civil unrest or war.

Now, new research has revealed another way climate change could affect us: increases in hot days could cause birth rates to fall. The study, by the National Bureau of Economic

Research, examined the effects of “temperature shocks” — specifically, days with an average temperature above 80 degrees Fahrenheit — on birth rates in the US, The Mashable said. The researchers found each additional day above 80 degrees caused a  decline in the birth rate nine months later, suggesting that hot days can negatively affect conception.
  

 

 

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