Asthma, allergies, mental health, heart and lung illnesses and cancer...
Climate change is already affecting the nation's public health.
A new multi-agency report has been releasesd by the Obama administration. It is urging federal agencies to adapt their research and policies to limit future suffering.
The report says that climate change endangers human health.
One example is the recent pandemic of H1N1 virus. Diseases don't have international boundaries. Climate change can be a driver for disease migration.
Experts say reducing the use of fossil fuels will reduce not just emissions of greenhouse gases, which drive warming. But we also need to reduce particulate matter and other pollutants that factor in many conditions that are among the leading causes of death in the U.S., including heat and lung illnesses and cancer.
And this isn't the only concern.
The report includes a wide-ranging list of potential health impacts of climate change.
They include everything from worsening allergies and asthma, as warming temperatures lengthen growing seasons, to worsening mental health, as Americans cope with more extreme weather events.
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