GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT
The study was carried out to assess the global warming and human health in Akwa Ibom State.
The paper provided the concept of global warming noting that it is a phenomenon of climate
change characterized by a general increase in the average temperatures of the Earth, which has
modified the weather balances and ecosystems for a long time. It also gave an explanation of
the concept of Human health as the state of being free from illness or injury. It also reviews that
global warming endangers biodiversity, the oceans, humans, and the weather. However, the
effect of global warming in human health have increased global warming can also pose a threat
to national security, affecting food security, which, in turn, can lead to resource conflicts. As
regards the controls and remedies to global warming is believed to be the result of a
strengthening of the greenhouse effect, mostly due to human-produced increases in
atmospheric greenhouse gases. The study concluded that human health has always been
influenced by global warming. Changes in climate and climate variability, particularly changes
in weather extremes, affect the environment that provides us with clean air, food, water, shelter,
and security. Global warming, together with other natural and human-made health stressors,
threatens human health and well-being in numerous ways. Human activities, through changes
in land use, burning of fossil fuels, deforestation and an increase in population, are responsible
for the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that result in global warming. One
of the recommendations made was that the government should make policy priority of
protecting health from global warming and establish a plan for addressing and mitigating the
public health hazard.
KEYWORDS: Global Warming, Human Health and Akwa Ibom State