Opinion: Climate change is affecting health now. Our leaders must take action
Deadly hurricanes and wildfires serve as brutal warnings that climate change is affecting human health today. Our leaders must take action now.
Among the scientific and policy highlights of 2018 were landmark reports on climate change and human health. These brought more insight and urgency to the reality that climate change is happening now and harming our lives in a host of ways. How the U.S. and the rest of the world respond in 2019 will chart the course for our future.
Both reports — one written by 13 federal agencies and released by the Trump administration, the other written by an international group of health experts and published in the prestigious journal the Lancet — specifically point to the fact that climate change is harming human health.
Here’s one of the summary conclusions from the U.S. report: “Impacts from climate change on
