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Climate One

The Health Hazards of One Degree

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Climate One

Social Sciences, News, News Commentary, Earth Sciences, Science

4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Global warming is hitting closer to home than we think, from a neighborhood child gasping with asthma to a parent collapsing from heatstroke. These realities led U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to assert in April that climate change presents the most complex threat to public health in U.S. history. Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor, University of California, Berkeley Linda Rudolph, Director, Center for Climate Change and Health, Public Health Institute Robert Gould, Director of Health Professional Outreach and Education, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, UCSF Katrina Peters, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on April 5, 2016 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. A size too snug, but what could she do? But that's not where her story ends. Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends, she got her score into much better shape and relocated to a box fresh new place, with room to grow and a mortgage to suit. Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boot. Better your

0:23.7

Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready. Experian. Better your score. Better your story.

0:30.9

This Climate One podcast is sponsored by General Motors. How will we power our future?

0:39.8

Can we create a healthy and clean economy?

0:44.7

Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy,

0:46.3

economy, and the environment.

0:50.2

Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time,

0:53.2

Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.

0:55.6

With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, science and culture climate one founder gregg dalton gets to the heart of the matter

1:01.2

it's our future it's time to come together mosquitoes anyone i'm gregg dalton on the show today

1:10.1

we'll examine how global warming could impact your personal health more than your favorite cocktail or that decadent dessert that you love.

1:18.3

Mention global warming to your friends in the images that come to mind for many people, melting glaciers and scrawny polar bears, maybe rising seas and faraway lands. A growing number of doctors

1:29.6

say you should also think of the Zika virus, a child in your neighborhood gasping with asthma,

1:35.2

or your parent collapsing from heat stroke. In early April, the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murty

1:40.5

said that climate change presents the most complex threat to public health in

1:45.2

U.S. history. Over the next hour, we will learn about the connection between warming temperatures

1:50.1

and your health from doctors joining us today at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

1:54.9

Katrina Peters is a psychiatrist at San Francisco General Hospital, an associate clinical professor

2:00.1

of psychiatry at UCSF.

2:03.2

Robert Gould is a pathologist and president of the San Francisco chapter of Physicians for Social

2:08.3

Responsibility.

2:09.8

And Rachel Morello is a professor of environmental science, policy, and management at the UC Berkeley

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