Do people who live in a warmer climate live longer than those of a colder one?

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Colder climate tied to longer animal lives The colder your environment, the longer you might live — if you're cold-blooded — a new study finds. This relationship between temperature and lifespan could have implications for cold-blooded species in our warming world, the study authors say. Stephan Munch and Santiago Salinas, both of Stony Brook University in New York, were intrigued by a major difference in the lifespans of two populations of pearl mussels.

One group in Spain had a maximum lifespan of 29 years, while another group in Russia lived up to 200 years. Despite the fact that there was only a small difference in the latitudes of the two populations — 43 degrees north latitude for Spain and 66 degrees north latitude for Russia (compared to say the equatorial tropics and the Arctic) — the researchers wondered whether the temperature variation between those spots could account for the drastic difference in lifespans. "While one might expect that local adaptations or geographic variations in predator and food abundance would account for this disparity, we wanted to see whether the geographical variation in lifespan that we see in all sorts of species has a common physiological basis in temperature," Munch said.

Munch and Salinas looked at lifespan data from laboratory and field observations for more than 90 species from land, freshwater and marine environments. They included cold-blooded organisms that ranged in average lifespan from 11.6 days for the copepod (small crustaceans) Arcartia tonsa to 74 years for the pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera). Their findings, detailed in the July 27 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that across the range of habitats and species, temperature was consistently exponentially related to lifespan — so the colder the climate, the longer the lifespan animals tended to have compared to the same species living in warmer temperatures.

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Cold is worse, Some would say the main reason for the bubonic plague happen was the mini-ice age cause people to huddle close together. hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/heatwa…Heat kills by taxing the human body beyond its abilities. In a normal year, about 175 Americans succumb to the demands of summer heat.

Among the large continental family of natural hazards, only the cold of winter -- not lightning, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or earthquakes -- takes a greater toll. In the 40-year period from 1936 through 1975, nearly 20,000 people were killed in the United States by the effects of heat and solar radiation. In the disastrous heat wave of 1980, more than 1,250 people died.

There are probably more deaths in the winter from hypothermia than deaths in the summer from hot days as it easier to protect yourself from the sun than it is from the cold. However if you take everything else into consideration - disease, drought, poverty (look at the distribution of wealth around the equator - most countries in hot climates are pretty poor) - the death rate per 1000 is pretty high. Sources: sg.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=... .

Maintain a working relationship with your personal physician, Eat right and Exercise regularly... It should help to try to limit the negative effects of your environment where and when you can...

2 If that's the case, I'm going to live to be 150.

If that's the case, I'm going to live to be 150.

3 Some data that seems to indicate there are other factors involved in enhancing longevity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people .

Some data that seems to indicate there are other factors involved in enhancing longevity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people.

They must have been here much longer then I have. Or is this all they do?" "Do you think that people who are happy and positive live longer" "Is there a place on Earth where people can live without government? " "Calling people with education in social sciences!

" "As the winter of 2008 was no colder than 1998, is climate change really true? Have a look at the graph on the link. " "Are there people no longer on Askville that you particularly miss?

" "in the book The Turtle from The Grapes of Wrath where does the turtle live that is like the climate of people suffering.

They must have been here much longer then I have. Or is this all they do?

Do you think that people who are happy and positive live longer.

Calling people with education in social sciences!

In the book The Turtle from The Grapes of Wrath where does the turtle live that is like the climate of people suffering.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.