Standing Committee on Emerging Science f Board on Life Sciences Division on Earth and Life Studies
Climate change poses risks to human health and well-being through shifting weather patterns, increases in frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and other environmental effects. Those risks occur against a backdrop of changing socioeconomic conditions, medical technology, population demographics, environmental conditions, and other factors that are important in determining health. Models of health risks that reflect how health determinants and climate changes vary in time and space are needed so that we can inform...
Climate change poses risks to human health and well-being through shifting weather patterns, increases in frequency and intensity of heat waves and...