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WASHINGTON - Global climate change will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and hospitalizations by 2030, a new federal report released Monday predicted, spurring the Obama administration to announce a series of new initiatives aimed at lessening that impact.
“This isn’t just about glaciers and the polar bears; it’s about the health of our family and our kids,” said Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, one of eight U.S. agencies that contributed to the report.
The report, the result of three years of research by nearly 100 health and science experts, attributed the likelihood of increased deaths and hospitalizations to more air pollution, extreme heat and severe weather brought on by climate change.
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EVERY AMERICAN IS VULNERABLE TO THE HEALTH IMPACTS ASSOCIATED WITH CLIMATE CHANGE.
John Holdren, senior Obama science adviser
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“The assessment finds that every American is vulnerable to the health impacts associated with climate change, but in different combinations and in different places,” said John Holdren, President Barack Obama’s senior science and technology adviser. “And the other key is that some are more vulnerable than others.”
In response to the report, the Obama administration announced a handful of initiatives that seek to curb those health impacts.
The White House will debut a website later in April with advice for health care facilities on how to deal with climate change.
The report did not offer specific policy recommendations but rather used data, computer modeling and the analysis of more than 1,800 peer-reviewed publications to outline how global temperature rise might affect public health.
The report noted, for example, that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can make crops less nutritious. It said natural disasters caused by climate change pose not only physical threats to humans, but mental health risks as well.
“Years ago, we may have thought it was just one or two ways in which climate change actually adversely impacted health, but we now see that there are actually many,” Murthy added.
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