ABSTRACT
According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are significantly accelerating current global surface warming trends and are inconsistent with natural climate variation (Houghton et al., 1996). This century the Earth has warmed by about 0.6°C, and the midrange estimates of future temperature change and sea level rise are 2.8°C and 40 cm by the year 2100, respectively. If such changes occur, diseases that are influenced by weather factors could be expected to respond to an altered climate regime.
