Weather can be hot or cold, dry or wet, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Climate is the average weather in a place over a long period of time. Changes in climate may be due to natural forces or from human activities. Today climate changes are happening at an increasingly rapid rate.
Climate change is altering weather and climate patterns that previously have been relatively stable. Climate experts think that climate change will bring increasingly frequent and severe heat waves and extreme weather events, as well as a rise in sea levels. These changes have the potential to affect human health in direct and indirect ways.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Climate Change: Basic Information(Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/basicinfo.html
- Health Effects(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/climatechange/effects/default.htm
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Climate and Health(World Health Organization) - http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs266/en/
Also available in Spanish http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs266/es/
- Climate Change and Your Health(InteliHealth, Harvard Medical School) - http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtPrint/EMIHC267/35320/75768/1060609.html?d=dmtHMSContent&hide=t&k=basePrint
- Climate Change: Health and Environmental Effects(Environmental Protection Agency) - http://epa.gov/climatechange/effects/health.html
- As Earth Warms, Lyme Disease Could Flourish(04/23/2009, HealthDay) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_83293.html
- Staying Slim Is Good for the Environment(04/22/2009, HealthDay) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_83237.html
- Prevention and Preparedness(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/climatechange/prevention.htm
- Climate-Sensitive Disease(Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/aging/resources/climatechange/climate-sensitivedisease.htm
- Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, and Energy(Dept. of Energy) - http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf/brochures/greenhouse/Chapter1.htm
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Health Effects of Climate Change
(National Institutes of Health) - Links to PDF - http://www.nih.gov/about/researchresultsforthepublic/climate_change.pdf
- Article: Climate change kills at least 300 000 every year. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=19374081&tool=MedlinePlus
- Article: Climate change and impacts on human health in the Arctic:... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=19331244&tool=MedlinePlus
- Article: Prevention and management of health hazards related to heatwaves. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=19331238&tool=MedlinePlus
- Climate Change -- see more articles - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=greenhouse+effect[majr]+AND+English[la]+AND+humans[mh]&doptcmdl=summary&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_EDatLimit=last+1+Year&tool=MedlinePlus
- Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov/
- National Center for Environmental Health(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/
Also available in Spanish http://www.niehs.nih.gov/about/community/espanol/
- Climate Change and the Health of Children(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/climate.htm
- Climate Change Kids Site(Environmental Protection Agency) - http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/
- Air Pollution - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/airpollution.html
- Ozone - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ozone.html
- Poisoning, Toxicology, Environmental Health - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/poisoningtoxicologyenvironmentalhealth.html
The primary NIH organization for research on Climate Change is the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/