Understanding all climate-change related environmental and socio-economical impacts requires one of the large efforts in the science world. The effects of the global changes related to rapid modification in climate patterns are heterogeneous, complex, and vast. Think about public health and the ways in which it will be compromised through the changing climate.
George Luber – Associate Director for Climate and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – talks about this topics and focuses on a new area of concentration that is convening people in a wide variety of areas, involving epidemiology studies that are trying to assess what the thresholds for these health effects are.  An example? “Malaria and Dengue – Dr. Luber says – there is increasing evidence that those geographies are changing, as you would expect with climate change, increasing in latitude as well as increasing its reach in altitude as those habitats become more suited”.

The full interview, by Emanuele Bompan, is available on Climate Science & Policy, the CMCC online magazine. Go to the full interview