The evidence for anthropogenic climate change is now clear and convincing. The Earth's
surface has warmed by more than 0.8 C over the past century, and by approximately 0.6 C in …

The most severe consequences of climate change will accrue to the poorest people in the
poorest countries, despite their own negligible contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. In …

Effects of climate change on health will affect most populations in the next decades and put
the lives and wellbeing of billions of people at increased risk. During this century, earth's …

The warming of the planet will be gradual but the frequency and severity of extreme weather
events, such as intense storms, heat waves, droughts and floods could be abrupt-the …

Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century: Effects of climate
change on health will affect most populations in the next decades and put the lives and …

Climate change and health has been given increas-ing attention during recent years, largely
initiated and triggered by the insightful report by McMichael and colleagues published a …

A now-famous study calculated in 2003 that at least 166,000 annual deaths and 5.5 million
disability-adjusted life years from malnutrition, diarrheal disease, malaria, floods, and …

Background The accelerating accumulation of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere
is changing global environmental conditions in unprecedented and potentially irreversible …

Health impacts of climate change and the need to prevent them should be at centre stage of
the ongoing debate on climate policies (1). We have specifically prepared this series of …

In the early 1990s, there was very little awareness of the risks posed to the health of human
populations by global climate change. In part this reflected epidemiologists' limited …