Global climate change and body functions.

The following text is an excerpt of the Keynote Address delivered by Professor (Sir) A.C. Ugwu, of the University of Benin, at the Annual National Conference of the Physiological Society of Nigeria at Lagos, on Thursday, the 26th of August, 2010.In 1896, a Swedish Chemist, Savante Arrhenius, predicted Global Warming. Global Climate or Global W arming, is a gradual process that threatens sea level elevations, crop failure and famine, global rainfall patterns, changes to plant and animal populations and serious health effects....