Every year for the past seven years, the medical journal the Lancet has published a report summarizing the previous year's research on how climate change is affecting human health around the globe. In 2020, the journal drew an exceedingly grim conclusion: that climate change threatens to unravel 50 years of public health gains. This year's report, published Tuesday, is proof that the Lancet's 2020 report wasn't warning of a far-off threat — the health impacts of climate change are unfolding now, in real time.
The 2022 report, titled "Health at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels," says the worsening impacts of climate change "are increasingly affecting the foundations of human health and wellbeing."
