Climate Change & Public Health - Maine Public
Climate Change & Public Health | Maine Public
Climate Change & Public Health
Maine Public
This is a rebroadcast of an earlier show (original air date Nov 13, 2023); no calls will be taken.
Former Maine CDC director Nirav Shah—now with the US CDC—joins us to discuss the impacts of climate change on public health, and how to adapt or prevent illness and disease.
Panelist:
Nirav Shah, principal deputy director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; former director, Maine CDC
Resources: Maine Public is a sponsor of an talk by Dr. Nirav Shah for Free(port) Speech about climate change and public health
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.