Health Impacts of Climate Change

Lisa Del Buono was our speaker today and she spoke about the effects of climate change on our health. She presented on the ozone and smog which is the particulate matter caused from burning fossil fuels. Moving away from coal would prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths in the United States alone. The Director of the World Health Organization states that climate change is the number one issue of the 21st Century. It is a medical emergency and the rate of change occurring in the recorded ice pack in the ice caps. Within 800,000 years our parts per million in the ice cap has risen to amounts never seen since man first began walking on earth.