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Climate Variability and Change: Food, Water, and Societal Impacts

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Global Climate Change and Public Health

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Climatologists now state with a high degree of certainty that global climate change is real, is advancing more rapidly than expected, and is caused by human activities, especially through fossil fuel combustion and deforestation. Environmental public health researchers, in assessing future projections for Earth’s climate, have concluded that, on balance, adverse health outcomes will predominate under these changed conditions. The number of pathways through which climate change can affect the health of populations makes this environmental hazard one of the most perilous and intricate challenges that we face in this century. By contrast, the potential health co-benefits from departing from our current fossil fuel-based economy may offer some of the most beneficial health opportunities in over a century.

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