The greatest global health threat of the 21st century is upon us and global emergency medicine (EM) is nowhere to be found.1 As other medical specialties articulate and advise the public and policy-makers on the health effects of a changing climate, EM is conspicuously absent, lacking a coherent message or even a single policy statement. Yet like it or not, EM is already in the centre of this issue and is best suited to lead and to author the narrative on the impending clinical impact.
The science is unambiguous. The health effects of anthropogenic climate change are more obvious than ever and are accelerating at an ominous pace. Global warming will now continue under all future scenarios, and the impact on human well-being will be significant and pervasive.
For the past few years climate change has dominated the news—2015 was the warmest year in the history of weather record-keeping and 2016...
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