Climate change, air quality, and pulmonary health disparities

N Smirnova, AC Shaver, AJ Mehta… - Clinics in Chest …, 2023 - chestmed.theclinics.com
Human activity has already changed the climate, with profound implications for human
health and health-care delivery. 1, 2 The world has warmed by an average of w1 C above …

Update on climate change: its impact on respiratory health at work, home, and at play

HM Shankar, MB Rice - Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2020 - chestmed.theclinics.com
There is no dispute among climate scientists that the Earth's climate system is warming due
to emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases. 1 As early as 1896, it …

Impact of global climate change on pulmonary health: susceptible and vulnerable populations

H Bayram, MB Rice, W Abdalati… - Annals of the …, 2023 - atsjournals.org
As fossil fuel combustion continues to power the global economy, the rate of climate change
is accelerating, causing severe respiratory health impacts and large disparities in the degree …

Climate change and respiratory diseases: a 2020 perspective

M Joshi, H Goraya, A Joshi… - Current opinion in …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Climate change and respiratory diseases: a 2020 perspective : Current Opinion in
Pulmonary Medicine Climate change and respiratory diseases: a 2020 perspective …

Lungs in a warming world: climate change and respiratory health

AS Bernstein, MB Rice - Chest, 2013 - Elsevier
Climate change is a health threat no less consequential than cigarette smoking. Increased
concentrations of greenhouse gases, and especially CO 2, in the earth's atmosphere have …

Environment, global climate change, and cardiopulmonary health

H Bayram, AK Bauer, W Abdalati… - American journal of …, 2017 - atsjournals.org
Global mean temperatures have risen markedly in the last century, in large measure as a
result of human activities that emit greenhouse gases (GHGs)(1)(Figure 1). This perturbation …

Climate change and the new normal for cardiorespiratory disease

TK Takaro, SB Henderson - Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2015 - hindawi.com
Climate change is already affecting the cardiorespiratory health of populations around the
world, and these impacts are expected to increase. The present overview serves as a primer …

An official American Thoracic Society workshop report: climate change and human health

KE Pinkerton, WN Rom, M Akpinar-Elci… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - atsjournals.org
This document presents the proceedings from the American Thoracic Society Climate
Change and Respiratory Health Workshop that was held on May 15, 2010, in New Orleans …

Climate change and lung health: the challenge for a new president

NS Hopkinson, N Hart, G Jenkins, N Kaminski… - Thorax, 2017 - thorax.bmj.com
This is a story from recent history that we believe incoming President Trump urgently needs
to hear. In 1985, a huge and growing hole in the planet's ozone layer was identified. Ozone …

Climate change and respiratory health: a European Respiratory Society position statement

AM Vicedo-Cabrera, E Melén… - European …, 2023 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Extract The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that climate change is the biggest
global threat to humanity in the 21st century [1, 2]. By 2050, climate change is expected to …