It couldn’t possibly be due to poor eating habits and such, right? It has to be because you drive a fossil fueled vehicle, eat meat, and have an ice maker in your fridge
Climate change is worsening diabetes worldwide
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As heat-trapping gases cause the climate to warm, one often overlooked consequence of extreme heat is its impact on people with diabetes mellitus: 830 million people globally, 101 million of them in India.
The most common forms of diabetes are type 1 and type 2. In type 1, the immune system attacks the pancreas, producing little to no insulin. Type 2 diabetes, which is more prevalent, occurs when the body’s cells become resistant to insulin, and the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin to meet the body’s needs.
World Health Organization data shows diabetes has skyrocketed by 315% since 1990, with cases surging in low- and middle-income countries. A 2017 study indicated that rising heat may explain some of that rise, perhaps by reducing the activity of a certain kind of fat. The researchers found that a one-degree Celsius rise in temperature could cause over 100,000 new diabetes cases annually in the U.S. alone.
In 2021, more than 2 million people worldwide died from diabetes and related kidney diseases, and more than half those affected by diabetes did not take medications in 2022. Still more could suffer as global warming exacerbates the disease. One study found that in a high-emission scenario, China’s heat-related diabetes mortality could multiply eightfold by the 2090s.
Could. May. In other words, they do not know. They’re just scaremongering. Because that’s what they do.
Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist
The pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, according to renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen, who said the international 2C target is “dead”.
A new analysis by Hansen and colleagues concludes that both the impact of recent cuts in sun-blocking shipping pollution, which has raised temperatures, and the sensitivity of the climate to increasing fossil fuels emissions are greater than thought.
The group’s results are at the high end of estimates from mainstream climate science but cannot be ruled out, independent experts said. If correct, they mean even worse extreme weather will come sooner and there is a greater risk of passing global tipping points, such as the collapse of the critical Atlantic ocean currents.
Just leave us alone.
Our esteemed host quoted:
101 ÷ 830 = 0.121686, or 12.17%. Yet India has 17.78% of the world’s population, so diabetes rates in that very warm country are lower than the world average.