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Kim Knowlton is Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Kim Knowlton
Kim Knowlton is Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
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March 16, 2012
Climate change affects human health, right here in the US. One face of climate change is the face of an asthmatic child, using an inhaler to breathe. NRDC has been working for years to connect the dots between the rapidly-growing body of evidence about carbon pollution, which causes climate change, and its effects on human health. Carbon pollution is causing climate change. Climate change makes temperatures rise and worsens smog pollution, which causes asthma attacks and other serious respiratory illnesses. There are 25 million Americans with asthma , and those numbers are rising, according...
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March 16, 2012
It’s just the beginning of hot weather across many northern states, but time to recall what rising temperatures do to air quality. Heat worsens air pollution, which harms health in ways that are measurable and pose concerns for society’s most vulnerable, especially children. Warmer temperatures lead to higher concentrations of ground-level ozone, or smog. A warming climate will worsen this situation. It’s projected to increase emissions of the chemicals that form ozone smog, and speed up ozone-forming chemical reactions in the air, worsening health symptoms . A growing body of scientific...
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