HS415_Unit9_Assignment.docx HS415 Climate Change and Human Health HS415: Environmental

HS415_Unit9_Assignment.docx  HS415  Climate Change and Human Health  HS415: Environmental Health  Climate change has had drastic effects on the environment which helps to provide us with shelter, food, security, clean air, and clean water. Some of these effects are shown around the world with the changes in air and ocean temperatures increasing, sea levels having risen, glaciers and ice coverage  in the artic showing significant melting, the weather brining an increase in natural disaster, and the ozone layer having significantly reduced in size (Frumkin, Hess, Luber, Malilay & McGeehin,  2008). In the United States specifically, the average temperature has increased by 1.9*F since 1895, floods have increased in the Northeast and Midwest, extreme precipitation has increased across the nation however specifically in the Northeast and Midwest, category 4 and 5 hurricanes have become more frequent with longer durations, sea level in parts of the Gulf Coast and along the Mid-Atlantic Ocean have increased by almost 8 inches in 50 years, drought has increase in the West, heat waves have increased intensity and frequency in the West, and wildfires have been starting earlier in the season and lasting later into the fall leading to an increase in burn acreage in the West (USGCRP, 2016). These things tell us that climate change is real, and the Earth is suffering. Through this data and findings, we can see that climate change is very much so real, and very much so a danger to not just the living creatures and envi