A United Nations sponsored organization made up of over 2500 of the world s leading scientists examined the impact global warming will likely have on human health and concluded that human-induced climate change "is likely to have wide-ranging and mostly adverse impacts on human health, with significant loss of life." Global Warming & Health is a timely and important book that looks at global warming in conjunction with human health. It explores the causes of global warming and documents the effects on people, including greater prevalence of infectious disease caused by warmer water encouraging the growing of bacteria; more frequent deadly weather, such as heat waves, drought, flooding all of which severely impact food and water supplies and can lead to unsanitary health conditions; and how climatic change and pollution decrease air quality, leading to more cases of asthma and other respiratory diseases. Global Warming & Health goes on to discuss what can and is being done, such as initiatives put forth by the United Nations, the policies of individual countries, how education can help, the role of politics and industry, and much more. Global Warming & Health uses an abundance of special features to capture the interest of students: * over 60 full-color photos and illustrations * ask the expert sections, providing real answers to insightful questions * find out more sections, directing readers to additional resources * glossaries of terms at the beginning of each chapter, reinforcing important terms * real-life stories and events, providing examples to reinforce the text * excerpts from primary sources, modeling document-based questions and answers, providing cross-curriculum links.