Climate Postcards: Extreme Weather
Climate Postcards:
Climate Change Makes Me Sick!
Extreme Weather
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Below, you will find detailed information, resources, and opportunities to take climate-protective action.
Climate and Extreme Weather
Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme weather events like storms and hurricanes, resulting in more frequent flooding, water contamination and power outages. This can lead to severe and widespread harm to health.
Hurricanes
River and Coastal Flooding
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Severe Storms
Water Contamination
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Infrastructure Damage and Power Outages
Communities Most Affected
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Estimated Deaths from Extreme Events in the U.S., 2004-2013
This figure from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (2010) estimates the 10-year fatalities from extreme events from 2004-2013, indicating the human costs of extreme weather events over this time period.
NOAA, 2010: Weather Fatalities. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association
What can I do to fight climate change?
- Spread the knowledge by sharing our postcards!
- Use our postcards to query your federal, state or local government representatives: What are they doing to protect your community from the dangers to health posed by climate change?
- Climate change is accelerated by burning fossil fuels. In order to slow climate change and protect air quality, we must replace fossil fuels with renewable energy and energy efficiency
- Join PSR’s Activist List.
Resources
- U.S. Global Change Research Program (2016) The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment This government study documents “what we know about the impacts of climate change on public health, and the confidence with which we know it.” It examines a broad range of health impacts as they affect the health of the American people, not just in the future but right now.
- American Public Health Association: Warmer Water and Flooding Increase the Risk of Illness and Injury
- PSR: Climate and Health: Storms and Sea Level (Fact Sheet)
- PSR: Heat’s Deadly Effects (Fact Sheet)