Climate Change, Health and YOU! A special training for health
professionals on climate change: what causes it, and how to stop
it Presented by Chesapeake PSR Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Cathedral of Incarnation, Peabody Room 4 East University Parkway
Baltimore, MD 21218 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Light dinner will be
served. Please register below in advance. Climate change poses a
massive threat to the public's health. Health impacts from
climate change include: - More heat-related illness and death -
More heart and lung disease from worsening air quality -
Injuries and long-term health effects from more frequent severe
storms - Greater risks from infectious disease, worsening water
quality and water shortages - Increasing malnutrition and food
insecurity - Greater risk of global and local conflict from
shrinking resources Greenhouse gases, the primary causes of
climate change, are emitted primarily from burning fossil fuels:
gasoline and diesel fuel for transportation, coal, gas and oil
for energy generation. Burning o