CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) citizens can expect to suffer from more insect-born diseases as global warming creates climatic conditions favouring the breeding of mosquitoes, fleas, ticks and other pests, a European Environment Agency (EEA) report has warned. It added that heat-related conditions such as heatstroke were also likely to increase, as well as diseases sparked by pollution after flooding generated by climate change inspired increased rainfall. Noting that the European average temperature had increased by 0.95C in the last 100 years and was ...
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