Giving Compass' Take:

• Wellcome lists some of the health effects of climate change that are already being felt around the world. 

• How can philanthropists help to create a complete picture of the consequences of climate change? 

• Most in spite of the evidence, most Americans don't worry about climate change. 

How climate change is threatening health:

  1. An extra 125 million medically vulnerable adults were exposed to heatwaves globally between 2000 and 2016.
  2. 87% of cities globally are in breach of WHO air pollution guidelines – there were 803,000 premature and avoidable deaths in 2015 across 21 Asian countries.
  3. The Aedes aegypti mosquito population’s capacity to transmit dengue fever has increased by 9.4% since 1950, and the number of dengue fever cases has doubled every decade.
  4. Over 1 billion people globally will need to migrate within 90 years because of rising sea levels caused by melting ice shelves.

Read the full article on climate change and health at Wellcome.