Climate Change and Human Health

On April 4^th, 2016 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) posted on their official blog about how climate change threatens human health. The blog post identifies how human driven global warming from rising greenhouse gas concentrations results in increased temperatures, altered precipitation, increases in the frequency and intensity of some extreme weather events, and rising sea levels. These global changes threaten human health by affecting food and water sources, the air we breathe, the weather we experience (ex. coastal regions experiencing more severe hurricanes), and our interactions with the built and natural environments.

Sources:

https://blog.epa.gov/blog/2016/04/how-climate-change-threatens-human-health/