Report raises alarm about deadly health effects of climate change

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Report raises alarm about deadly health effects of climate change

Climate change is killing Americans in surprising ways and waste created by health care itself is part of the problem, a report in one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals says.

The report, published this week in the British medical journal The Lancet, is part of a global study looking at how climate change is affecting the world’s health.

Climate change has created a health crisis that continues to worsen, one that threatens to undermine the last 50 years of gains in public health, it says.

The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report has been issued each year since 2016. This year’s report calls upon the nations of the world, and the United States, to rapidly reduce the amounts of fossil fuels being burned while increasing the transition to clean energy.

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