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Medical heat for climate change
Author(s) -
Kefford Richard F
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00385.x
Subject(s) - climate change , environmental science , climatology , geology , oceanography
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 5 June 2006 184 11 582-582©The Medical Journal of Australia 2006www.mja.com.auViewpointost people in the scientific community believe that globalwarming is occurring, and that it will cause dramaticchanges in climate patterns, with potentially seriouseffects on human health in the form of widespread epidemics,trauma, malnutrition and, in vulnerable areas, famine.