Climate Change and Public Health
In 2007, the APHA issued a policy statement entitled Addressing the Urgent Threat of Global Climate Change to Public Health and the Environment:
- The long-term threat of global climate change to global health is extremely serious and the fourth IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report and other scientific literature demonstrate convincingly that anthropogenic GHG emissions are primarily responsible for this threat….US policy makers should immediately take necessary steps to reduce US emissions of GHGs, including carbon dioxide, to avert dangerous climate change.
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