What are the social effects of global warming? Especially regarding raising children. I have a four year old son who loves to be outside, but is very fair skinned. I dont let him out between the hours of 11 and 4, because even with a good sunblock he burns.
Now my father griped, %26quot;When I was a child, we spent all day outside. It didn%26#039;t hurt us.%26quot;
Whats different now? Alot, actually. The planet itself has changed. Thinner ozone means higher U.V dangers. This is especially difficult on young children, and old people.
Then too, higher temperatures make the playground scalding and dangerously hot for certain hours of the day.
My son brings his little spiderman umbrella on the hottest days when we need to go outside in the early afternoon, and people look at him oddly for it.
I wonder what other everyday things are going to be changing for people, because of hotter days?

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My son is not embarrassed to use his umbrella. He likes it, and asks to.
I live in Canada, in the city of Edmonton, and temperatures have been crazy here for the last couple of years. With both cold AND hot extremes.
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It is a threat to health, since a warmer world is one in which infectious diseases such as malaria and yellow fever will spread further and faster. Innnumerable other infectious diseases will thrive. It could imperil the world%26#039;s food supply, as rising temperatures and prolonged drought render fertile areas unfit for grazing or crops. 0% 0 Votes

If your son enjoys playing outside, take him to a park in the early evening when it is cooler. Or, let him play in the shade in your yard or encourage him to wear protective clothing. You could try taking him indoor swimming for exercise. 0% 0 Votes

The ozone layer is as good as ever .. I always blistered when I was young. I worked so much in the sun I now have skin problems...
The weather people are confused and call the pollution ozone but it is NO2. Ozone is O3 and will kill U. O3 does not come out of the exhaust of a car.. 0% 0 Votes

Fair skinned children need to be protected more. You are a good mother.

Try to find playgrounds in the shade. Most county, city, or state parks have one. 0% 0 Votes

Mass hysteria and delusion. 0% 0 Votes

What HOTTER days? 0% 0 Votes

Nerd suggest infectious diseases will increase. He is obviously misinformed. In fact, if it warms, that will decrease exposure to infectious disease. Many more people die of cold related infectious diseases (such as in winter when doors are closed and people are indoors) than heat related. One of the last biggest malaria outbreaks was in Siberia, which is one of the coldest places on Earth. The sun is the same as it was before. We are marginally warmer as it has warmed since the cold period in the 1970s and generally since the Little Ice Age that ended around 1700s. My doctor would be glad you are protecting him from too much sun but he is a boy and if you let him sit in front of a Nintendo all day, that would be far worse for his health. That is the problem with medicine, it doesn%26#039;t seem to matter what you do, there are always negative consequences. I would suggest that if he goes out to play, that is the far healthier past time. fair skinned geologist and environmental consultant 0% 0 Votes

The problem with the ozone layer is only distantly related to global warming (and it%26#039;ll eventually fix itself as we%26#039;ve mostly stopped using the substances that caused that problem).

The temperature increase on a global scale isn%26#039;t that much (but you don%26#039;t much to cause problems) although the seasons are becoming more extreme (i.e. hotter summers and colder winters) and there are significant local variations in terms of temperature trend (if you are in an urban area there is also the heat island effect to add to any increase from global warming).

If someone is burning even with sunscreen then it%26#039;s a good clue that the sunscreen isn%26#039;t any good (a tanning response is a also a similar clue (it is the body trying to limit further damage)). 20% 1 Vote