<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Scientific American. September 16, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Climate Change Is Having Widespread Health Impacts</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 50, 50);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Children, pregnant people and the elderly are the most at risk from extreme weather and heat—but the impact is already felt across every specialty of medicine</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(101, 101, 101); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(101, 101, 101); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 50, 50);" class=""></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">By <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/emily-holden/" class="">Emily Holden</a> </span></li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-having-widespread-health-impacts/" class="">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-having-widespread-health-impacts/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">1st 2 paragraphs</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The climate crisis is making people sicker—worsening illnesses ranging from seasonal allergies to heart and lung disease.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Children, pregnant people and the elderly are the most at risk from extreme weather and rising heat. But the impact of the climate crisis—for patients, doctors and researchers—is already being felt across every specialty of medicine, with worse feared to come.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 50, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 50, 50);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-having-widespread-health-impacts/" class="">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-having-widespread-health-impacts/</a></span></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.”<br class=""><br class=""></span>Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change MAY 2018<br class=""><br class="">Published online: 27 April 2018 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4" class="">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4</a> <br class=""><br class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“What we are witnessing is a temper tantrum against the mere suggestion that there are limits to what we can consume.” <br class=""></span><br class="">Naomi Klein<br class=""><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/" class="">https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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