Climate Change and Your Health:

Rising Temperatures, Worsening Ozone Pollution

Report demonstrates how climate change could increase "bad" ozone, threatening health and economy

Ozone pollution is bad for your health.

Millions of Americans suffer from the harmful effects of ground-level ozone pollution—be they children too sick to go to school, high school football players not allowed to practice outdoors in the summer, 65-year-olds with lung disease unable to take a walk in the park, or farmers at risk when they harvest their fields.

Ground-level ozone pollution exacerbates lung diseases such as asthma and can cause breathing difficulties even in healthy individuals. read more>>> {with the report download links}