Another climate change effect: Disease

When people think of global warming, they conjure images of melting ice caps and rising sea levels that threaten coastal cities and nations. The U.N. Climate Panel has said that greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from human use of fossil fuels, are raising temperatures and will disrupt rainfall patterns and have impacts ranging from heat waves to melting glaciers.

Up until recently few have considered how increasing temperatures and fluctuating rain and humidity will disrupt the life cycles and distribution of disease-producing agents around the world.