Climate change is an inevitable global phenomenon. It may not be stopped, but it can be slowed down.

Failure of the United States administration to act now could cause not just hundreds but approxiamtely 57,000 deaths per year by 2100 due to poor air quality.  

British medical journal Lancet released a new report stating that more people will be left unprotected from floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather related to climate change. 

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Peter Cox, from University of Exeter in Britain, is a climate-system dynamics professor. He co-authored a study providing an estimated number of people who are likely to experience the effects of climate change in the coming decades.

Compared to 1990s, people who will be exposed to extreme rainfall will increase to more than quadruple, and the ones that will be exposed to drought will triple. In addition, the heat wave exposure of older people is anticipated to go up by a factor of 12. 

Cox said that this new report is the first large-scale effort to quantify the effects of climate change on people, New York Times learned. What the professor would like to happen is a change in perspective. 

They want people to look at climate change from the perspective of how mankind is going to experience its effects, rather than just a mere atmospheric phenomenon across the globe. They want people to think that this is not just a problem in the atmosphere, but a problem for people. 

Pope Francis even called out to people about climate change. His encyclical stated that Earth is our home and it is our obligation. 

Climate change was declared by Lancet, in 2009, as the twenty first century's biggest global health threat. Nick Watts, a public health expert at the University College in London, said that everything that has been predicted in 2009 is now happening. 

A report was submitted by the Republicans in Congress seeking to undo the administration's policies pertaining to environment, according to The Washington Post. It included the expected plan by the Environmental Protection Agency targeting power plants fired by coals.

Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator, said that decisions should not wait fifty years. This report is already a wake up call for those who are not aware of the possible damages of climate change, Hamilton News reported. 

Meanwhile, President Obama may have prevented the GOP, but the Republicans are renewing their efforts now that they have control over the Senate and House.

There is a global treaty on preventing the effects of climate change, and the U.S. government has already pledged to cut up to 28 percent of its greenhouse gas emission as their contribution. 

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