A new report by nearly 300 top scientists from around the world paints a picture of a planet already transformed by greenhouse gas emissions and teetering on the brink of widespread, irreversible damage.
February 28, 2022
“People are now suffering and dying from climate change,” says Kristie Ebi, one of the lead authors of the report and an epidemiologist at the University of Washington. That ecosystem destruction will affect how much carbon dioxide lingers in the atmosphere, trapping heat. The results are sobering. “Climate change has already affected the physical and mental health of many Americans,” says Sherilee Harper, one of the report authors and a researcher at the University of Alberta in Canada.
Worldwide, poor people, Indigenous people and others who are marginalized are at the highest risk from heat and from the effects of climate change more broadly, the report notes repeatedly.
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