Global warming will hike mental health woes, study finds

Mental health problems will increase the rate of change, a new study warns.

The researchers said that over five years, at 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), CNN reported.

The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Lead author Nick Obradovich, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, told CNN.

"For example, what is the cause of mental health problems?" We have a lot of work to do to what is what, "Obradovich said.

For the study, the researchers compared 2 million Americans with daily weather data from 2002 and 2012, CNN reported.

In the study, those who are most vulnerable to mental health problems, those with lower incomes, and women.

Dr. Jonathon Patz, a professor and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the study, reported CNN.

He noted that people may be experiencing "stress and despair" "as governments and industry fail to react to the pace by multiple scientific assessments."

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More information:
Nick Obradovich el al., "Empirical evidence of mental health risks posed by climate change," PNAS (2018). www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1801528115