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Climate Change is Making Us Sick, Top U.S. Doctors Say

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CLICK HERE - REPORT - Medical Alert - Climate Change Is Harming Our Health (26 page .PDF report)

usatoday.com - by Doyle Rice - March 15, 2017

From increases in deadly diseases to choking air pollution and onslaughts of violent weather, man-made climate change is making Americans sicker, according to a report released Wednesday by 11 of the nation's top medical societies.

The report was prepared by the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, a new group that represents more than 400,000 doctors, who make up more than half of all U.S. physicians.

“Doctors in every part of our country see that climate change is making Americans sicker,” said Mona Sarfaty, the director of the new consortium and a professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.

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CLICK HERE - Press Release - Nation's physicians act against climate change; it's making patients sick

CLICK HERE - The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health

CLICK HERE - National Climate Assessment

CLICK HERE - The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment

CLICK HERE - American College of Physicians - Climate Change Toolkit

CLICK HERE - Medscape - Medical Societies Come Together on Harms of Climate Change

 

 

 

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