When you consider the wide reaching impacts of climate change, highlighted by the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)  report, it is easy to want to bury your head in the sand. It is easy to turn on the TV, read a book, or think about what to have for dinner.

But when something threatens the health and future of our kids, well, moms don't tend to walk away.

World scientists, governments, and health activists have been making the connections between climate change and public health for years. Here's some of what they found. Climate change is linked to:

• increases in infectious diseases
• increases in rates of child asthma
• geopolitical instability
• food shortages and increased poverty and inequality
• health costs of increased natural disasters such as super storms, drought, and hurricanes

All of these are having a profound affect on our children and their collective futures, limiting their ability to find health, happiness, and prosperity as they grow into adulthood.

With a problem as large as climate change, with the stakes being so high, it's going to take a waterfall of action, support, and mobilizing to halt the damage being caused now, and well into the future, from climate change. Thankfully, mothers are taking a leadership role in this fight against climate change, and we need every single one of them.

This past week's #EcoTipTue was on Moms and Climate Change. You may think "What a downer!" but no, you'd be wrong. While the statistics are sobering, the overall message of the chat was look what we can do if we put our heads together, mobilize, inspire, and act.

At the chat we hosted several climate change groups that are leading the way in this.

First, we had Moms Clean Air Force, with writer and Public Health Policy and Outreach Manager, Molly Rauch. She just wrote this important piece about the moms facing the terrible economic and health costs of fracking in their communities. Her tweets highlighted the convergence between parenthood and climate change:

@mollyrauch  A3: Someone needs to tell Congress that our kids #health trumps corporate profits! #ActOnClimate#EcoTipTuehttp://ow.ly/vgdjV 

@climateparents  A2 With soaring rates of asthma and allergies, #climatechange is hurting kids NOW. http://bit.ly/kidsimpact #EcoTipTuepic.twitter.com/NMG64dvhSD

@climateparents  Apr 1 A5 Some “leaders” can be bought off by fossil fuel companies - we must pass campaign finance reform. http://bit.ly/fossilfunded #EcoTipTue

RT@lisahoyos@climateparents is recruiting parents 2 speak up 4 strong power plant rules in ME, NC, MI, MN. Send prospects pls! #ecotiptue