Sen. Whitehouse Sounds Alarm on Climate Change, Health

摘要

PROVIDENCE – Brown's Public Health Research Day in April took on a sense of urgency as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse delivered a sobering lecture on climate change and its effects on public health "in a time of unprecedented carbon release in the air and oceans." Introduced by Brown President Christina Paxson, Senator Whitehouse delivered the annual Dr. and Mrs. Fred- erick W. Barnes Jr. Lecture on the in- terface of medicine, society and public health. He targeted climate-change deniers "who ignore all the scientif- ic evidence," including colleagues in Congress.