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"Inhaling smoke is bad for you. Smoke from any kind of fire, from bonfire to
burn-off to uncontrolled wildfire, can have serious consequences.
Even low levels of smoke can make many heart and lung diseases worse, sometimes
triggering a rapid deterioration in health. When we are repeatedly exposed over
months and years, air pollution, including smoke, makes us more likely to
develop heart, lung and other chronic diseases.
Now, new international research has linked the warming climate to some of the
deaths from exposure to fire smoke in large parts of the world, including
Australia.
In 2012, I led the first team to estimate the number of landscape fire
smoke-related deaths globally each year. Our estimate of 339,000 deaths did not
attempt to pull out the influence of climate change. But we noticed much higher
impacts during hotter and drier El Niño periods.
The researchers behind the new study took this a step further, estimating how
much of the historical burden of fire smoke-related deaths might be
attributable to climate change. They found a considerably increasing
proportion, from 1.2% in the 1960s to 12.8% in the 2010s."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
