GC23E:
Climate Change Impacts on Human Health and the Environment I

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Session ID#: 32432

Session Description:
Climate change is a threat to human health and the environment, and its impacts are increasing at a rapid rate. Rising temperatures, increasing drought severity, changing patterns in precipitation, increases in extreme weather events, and rising sea levels are exposing more people to public health risks in the US and globally. This session provides a platform for discussion of research into the relationship between climate change and its effects on human health and the environment. Topics include observed and projected climate change and the exposure pathways through which human health is affected such as poor air and water quality, reductions in food quality and availability, changes in infectious disease, and population displacement. Climate related risks to the environment including water resources, infrastructure vulnerability, and interconnections across sectors that can amplify the impacts of climate change also will be discussed.
Primary Convener:  Jay H Lawrimore, NOAA Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States
Conveners:  Ashok Luhar, CSIRO Oceans and Atmospheres, Aspendale, Australia, Silvia Trini Castelli, CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna, Italy and Jesse Eugene Bell, University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, Omaha, NE, United States
Chairs:  Jay H Lawrimore, NOAA Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States and Jesse Eugene Bell, University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, Omaha, NE, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jay H Lawrimore, NOAA Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4322 Health impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Assessment of the Long Term Trends in Extreme Heat Events and the Associated Health Impacts in the United States (275810)
Jesse Bell, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites North Carolina State, Asheville, NC, UNITED STATES, Jared Rennie, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, United States, Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States, Stephanie Herring, NOAA Boulder, National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, CO, United States and Heidi M Cullen, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States
Utility of High Temporal Resolution Observations for Heat Health Event Characterization (207641)
Michael A Palecki, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States
Global mortality consequences of climate change accounting for adaptation costs and benefits (227571)
James A Rising, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Amir Jina, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Chicago, IL, United States, Tamma Carleton, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Solomon M Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley, United States, Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, Chicago, United States and Climate Impact Lab
The Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN): Putting the Pieces Together (263018)
Hunter Jones, NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, United States, Joy Shumake, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland and Juli Trtanj, NOAA, Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, United States
Developing a Screening Model to Establish Human Risk from Glacial Meltwater Release of Legacy Organochlorine Pollutants at the Silvretta Glacier in the Swiss Alps  (214361)
Kimberley Rain Miner, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
The influence of current and future climate on the spatial distribution of coccidioidomycosis in the southwestern United States (287057)
Morgan E. Gorris, University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States, Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD, Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, Charles S Zender, Univ California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, Kathleen K Treseder, University of California Irvine, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Irvine, CA, United States and James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Potential Impacts of Future Climate Change on Regional Air Quality and Public Health over China (272209)
Chaopeng Hong1, Qiang Zhang1, Yang Zhang2 and Kebin He3, (1)Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (2)North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC, United States, (3)School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Assessment of Clmate Change Mitigation Strategies for the Road Transport Sector of India (286679)
Namita Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, Trupti Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Mumbai, India and Rangan Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of Energy Science & Engineering, Mumbai, India

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