With a number of days this week setting—and sitting at—an unofficial international report for prime temperature, it’s crucial that we guarantee our native and international communities, and all of the folks that make our communities what they’re, have the information and assets to plan, reply to, and get better from the impacts of our altering local weather.
We’ve collected numerous useful assets that go into the relationships between local weather change and well being, and supply methods individuals can put together, adapt, and keep wholesome. Learn extra beneath!
Washington State Division of Well being
Our state’s Division of Well being (DOH) gives a wealth of knowledge on their web site in regards to the many alternative areas and methods local weather change can influence individuals’s well being and wellbeing—together with agriculture, air high quality, consuming water, excessive warmth, floods, and extra. Detailed data for every space can take you on a studying journey and there’s additionally data on how one can take motion.
College of Washington’s Local weather Impacts Group
Providing not solely an plentiful quantity of scientific analysis and papers on local weather change and its impacts, UW’s Local weather Impacts Group additionally gives technical assets in addition to a searchable database of initiatives that may assist inform communities of their efforts to handle impacts from local weather change.
Go to the Local weather Impacts Group web page
U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s Local weather & Well being Web page
Supporting the companies that assist communities throughout the nation, the CDC’s bought loads of data and assets for well being officers and neighborhood leaders alike, nonetheless there are additionally just a few assets which can be informative for people. Particularly, they’ve a useful downloadable infographic that outlines the influence of local weather change on human well being in addition to the interactive Warmth & Well being Tracker.
Examine Out CDC’s Local weather & Well being Web page
AirNow – Air High quality Knowledge & Maps
With data protecting a lot of the US in addition to Canada and Mexico, this official U.S. authorities web site gives key insights into native air high quality utilizing the Air High quality Index (AQI). With this data, individuals could make better-informed choices relating to their well being, actions, and potential publicity to unhealthy air.
AirNow additionally gives the Hearth and Smoke Map, which exhibits information from particular person air high quality screens in addition to fires detected by satellites or monitored by the U.S. Nationwide Interagency Hearth Heart. This map can present hyper-local insights into the connection between wildfires and air high quality.
Screengrab from the mini comedian e book from kingcounty.gov.
King County’s Sizzling Climate Preparedness Web page + Keep Secure within the Warmth Mini Comedian Ebook
Regardless of your location, this web page from King County has loads of good information about how you can put together for and navigate scorching climate. Particularly, the Keep Secure within the Warmth mini comedian e book gives particulars on what to look out for with heat-related well being impacts, how you can deal with them, and methods to remain cool when it does get scorching out. The mini comedian e book is on the market to obtain in quite a few languages, bettering its accessibility to quite a few communities.
Go to the Sizzling Climate Preparedness Web page
Local weather Modifications Well being Comedian
Cowl picture of Local weather Modifications Well being comedian through publichealthinsider.com
Just like the Keep Secure within the Warmth mini comedian e book talked about above, the Local weather Well being Motion Group at Public Well being – Seattle & King County revealed a comic book, Local weather Modifications Well being, on their Public Well being Insider weblog. The comedian covers well being impacts of local weather change and gives methods to make a special in an suave, panel-by-panel format.
Examine Out The Local weather Modifications Well being Comedian
From warmth waves to forest fires to flooding to drought, we’re already experiencing the local weather disaster right here in Washington. It’s crucial that we transfer collectively, proactively, and equitably to mitigate extra change, whereas additionally adapting our communities for a quickly altering world—one the place the well being of each individuals and nature are impacted by the altering local weather. All of those assets, and plenty of extra, can assist make a distinction. It’s by means of the collective motion of those organizations and companies, and numerous others, that constructive modifications are taking place. You may be taught extra about how we right here at TNC in Washington are participating in local weather motion on our local weather web page:
Be taught How TNC is taking local weather motion in WA
Banner picture of fireside camp at fairgrounds exterior of Okanogan, WA throughout the Okanogan Advanced Hearth in 2015. Picture by John Marshall.
