National Climate Assessment: Health chapter
- Abstract
“We have to start connecting the dots between climate change and human health,” says Kim Knowlton, a convening lead author of the National Climate Assessment’s Human Health chapter. Climate change threatens human health and well-being in many ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, and illnesses transmitted by food, water, and diseases carriers such as mosquitoes and ticks.
- Resource Type
- Audio/video/movie clip
- Director
- The Story Group
- Date
- April 21, 2014
- Series Title
- National Climate Assessment
- Short Title
- National Climate Assessment: Health
- Running Time
- 1:42
- Organization Type
- Ngo
- Health and Human Impact
- Overview/general