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Global warming may hit kids harder, pediatrics group says

by: Marilyn Elias    29 October 2007

Global warming is likely to disproportionately harm the health of children, and politicians should launch "aggressive policies" to curb climate change, the American Academy of Pediatrics said today.

In the first major report about the unique effects of global warming on kids, U.S. pediatricians also were advised to "educate" elected officials about the coming dangers.

There's evidence that children are likely to suffer more than adults from climate change, says the report's lead author, Katherine Shea, a pediatrician and adjunct public health professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

"We already have change, and certain bad things are going to happen no matter what we do," Shea says. "But we can prevent things from getting even worse. We don't have the luxury of waiting."

More greenhouse gases and a warming Earth will leave children particularly vulnerable in several ways, the report says:

•Air pollution does more damage to children's lungs, causing asthma and respiratory ailments, because their lungs are still developing, they breathe at a higher rate than adults and are outdoors more.

•Waterborne infections, such as diarrhea and other gastrointestinal problems, hit children especially hard. These infections rise sharply with more rain, which is expected as the climate warms.

•As mosquitoes are able to move to higher ground, the malaria zone is expanding. Kids are especially vulnerable; 75% of malaria deaths occur in children younger than 5.

The report briefly mentions that mass migrations are expected as regions become uninhabitable. "Children fare very poorly in these major population shifts," says Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University and president of the Children's Health Fund. "They're more fragile medically and nutritionally," says Redlener, who wasn't involved with the report. "They're less resilient, less likely to survive."

No matter what the risks, the pediatrics academy shouldn't be sending its members out to lobby, argues Janice Crouse, director of a think tank affiliated with Concerned Women for America, a conservative public policy group. "Let them issue a scientific report, and people can judge whether it has validity. For a scientific group to use children as a means of advancing a political agenda is beyond the pale," she says.

Julie Gerberding, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, briefed a Senate committee on the health risks of global warming last week. She mentioned increasing asthma, malaria and waterborne diseases but not children's vulnerability.

The Associated Press reported that Gerberding's speech was "eviscerated" by the White House, but CDC spokesman Tom Skinner denied it, adding that Gerberding said everything she wanted to say without constraint.

"This is not a political issue, it's a public health issue," Shea says. "If we know the health of children and future children is threatened, we have an obligation to act."

 

(Source: http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_read.asp?id=12391410292007)

[寻找] 大图 与 细节

今天，有感觉了。

无所事事的我，就呆呆地在电脑面前。随意地开了千千静听音乐播放软件，它能够显示歌词。

王力宏专辑，盖世英雄和改變自己。

其实，他的歌并不是我想象中的那么差。其实，这两张专辑都很好。

有好多首歌我多没有发觉它们的美丽的一面。我在这里和你们分享……

盖世英雄

• 花田错
• Kiss Goodbye
• 大城小爱
• 第一个清晨
• 爱因为在心中

改變自己

• 落葉歸根
• 我們的歌
• 你是我心內的一首歌
• 星期六的深夜

觉悟，因为很多时候我只是寻找大图而忽视了细节。细节常常就是困难和痛苦的。

比如………………………………………………

1.0……吵架,如果没有细节就不会吵架。

• 大图 - 你很丑！
• 细节 - 你不但很丑，丑得不像只猪！

2.0……记忆，如果没有记忆就没痛苦。

• 大图 - 朋友冲突！
• 细节 - 小时候被同学欺负，永远都在记忆。

3.0……音乐，如果没有拍子，节奏，就没有音乐。

• 大图 - 没有水准的专辑
• 细节 - 有拍子，节奏和水准的专辑。

4.0……

• 大图 - ………………
• 细节 - ………………

Noisy & Quiet

It 9.20pm now, I'm here in the Station One cafe near my place. The cafe here very crowded. Everybody is talking, chit-chat, playing game, and etc. I was alone sitting with my laptop.

Is raining heavely outside and when i look out i see the clear view no indication of raining but at the other hand u heard the raining.

Hmmm ...

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Lee hom Malaysia Promote Tour 2007


Date: 9th Nov 2007 (Friday)
Time: 8.00 p.m.
Venue: Sungei Wang, 4th Floor carpark