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Author Parker, Cindy L., 1959-

Title Climate chaos : your health at risk : what you can do to protect yourself and your family / Cindy L. Parker and Steven M. Shapiro
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) : illustrations
Series Public health, 1942-8812
Public health (Westport Conn.)
Contents Series foreword -- 1. A climate change tale -- 2. Climate chaos : what may come -- What this book is about -- What's happening to our climate -- Why the climate is changing -- The greenhouse effect -- Greenhouse gases and temperature -- Sea level rise -- Dangerous climate change -- The most worrisome greenhouse gases -- The speed of climate change -- Greenhouse gas emissions across nations -- Peak petroleum -- The book's outline -- 3. Temperature : home is getting hotter -- It could get hot -- Heat and our health -- The most vulnerable to heat stress -- Poverty : another risk factor for heat stress -- Geography matters -- Gender considerations -- Race and ethnicity -- Fewer deaths from cold weather? -- Global warming and behavior -- Solutions -- 4. Air : breathing harder -- The climate-air pollution connection -- Ozone and health -- Who is most vulnerable to ozone effects? -- Children -- Other vulnerable populations -- Particulate matter -- Forest fires and breathing -- Dust -- Other air toxins -- Pollen and climate change -- Who decides how clean our air will be? -- Air quality and your mental health -- Solutions -- 5. Water : water, water everywhere or neverthere -- Risks to our water -- How we use water -- Where our water comes from -- How much water we need -- Droughts affect health -- Droughts and infectious disease -- Droughts and fires -- Floods affect health -- Climate change and water availability -- Melting snowpack -- Melting glaciers -- Desalination -- Bottled water -- Water conservation--more than just personal virtue -- Water scarcity, conservation, and mental health -- Solutions -- 6. Cataclysmic events : pounding people and the planet -- A cavalcade of harm -- Floods and inundations -- Floods, contamination, and disease -- Floods, mold, and more -- Storm surge -- Saltwater contamination of wells -- Erosion -- Other effects of cataclysmic events on health -- Risk to infrastructure and health -- Displaced people -- Conflict --Cataclysmic events and mental health -- The science of a rise in sea level -- Thermal expansion -- Melting inland glaciers -- Greenland's melting ice -- Melting Arctic Sea ice -- Melting Antarctica -- Melting ice = sea-level rise -- The science of hurricanes and other storms -- Solutions
7. Infectious disease : bacteria, viruses, and parasites, oh my -- The relationship between climate and infectious disease -- Malaria and climate change -- Other diseases mosquitoes carry -- Diseases from other insects -- Diseases carried on ocean and wind currents -- Foodborne diseases -- What's next? -- Infectious disease and mental health -- Solutions -- 8. Food : nature's bounty bashed -- Plants, climate change, and our food supply -- How crops grow -- Heat's harm to crops -- Climate change and pesticide use on crops -- Soil, erosion, and climate change -- Plants and ozone -- After peak oil and its effect on food -- Aquatic and marine food supply -- Climate change and food toxins -- How much of an effect? -- Meat : what we eat drives climate change -- Other contributors to climate change -- Biofuels -- Climate, food, and mental health -- Solutions -- 9. Ecosystem health : cycles of life ... or death -- Ecosystems and our health -- Farms and prairies -- Mountains -- Forests and biodiversity -- Coastal wetland ecosystems and storm buffers -- Marine ecosystems -- Marine dead zones -- Biodiversity loss and infectious disease -- Biodiversity loss = extinction -- Energy and ecosystem health -- Coal's damage to ecosystems -- Oil's damage to ecosystems -- Reducing the impact of fossil fuels on the climate and ecosystems -- Energy efficiency -- Geoengineering -- Alternatives to fossil fuels -- Renewable energy -- Nuclear energy -- A final word on ecosystems -- Solutions -- 10. Human behavior : choice to change -- Where human behavior and climate change meet -- How we come to behave -- How we change our behavior -- Individuals and climate change -- Brains and behavior -- Environmental concern and emotions -- Thinking : beyond concern to attitudes, beliefs, values ... -- Personal responsibility and self-efficacy -- Risk perception and fear -- Sociodemographic variables -- Hope for individual behavior -- Community factors and climate change -- Economics -- Government and institutional policies -- Media and communications -- Social identity : norms, connections, and movements -- Place -- Other external factors -- Hope for the meeting of individual and community factors -- Solutions -- 11. Epilogue
Summary Why should we care about climate chaos and global warming? Because, among other risky outcomes, they may seriously harm our health! Scientists around the world are in agreement that global warming, more aptly named climate change, is occurring and human activity is the primary cause. The debate now is in the scientific and policy worlds about just how harmful climate change will be and what are the best ways to stop it. One of those scientists is author Cindy Parker, who believes climate change is the most health-damaging problem humanity has ever faced. Parker has thus immersed herself during
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-213) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Climatic changes -- Health aspects -- Popular works
Medical climatology -- Popular works
Environmental health.
Environmental Health
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious.
MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
Environmental health
Climatic changes -- Health aspects
Medical climatology
Genre/Form Popular works
Form Electronic book
Author Shapiro, Steven M., 1959-
ISBN 9780275998592
0275998592