Climate Change and Extreme Heat: What You Can Do to Prepare

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• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Environmental Protection Agency. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Extreme heat events in the United States are already occurring and expected to become more common, more severe,
  
  and longer-lasting as our climate changes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed this booklet to identify steps that you can take now to prepare for an extreme heat
  
  event—and to help your families, friends, and neighbors, too.
  
  This booklet answers some of the key questions about extreme heat in a changing climate: why extreme heat is on the rise, how it might affect you, and what you can do before and during an extreme heat event to reduce your health risk.
  
  Scientific information used in this document is derived from peer-reviewed synthesis and assessment products, including those published by the United States Global Change Research Program and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as well as other peer-reviewed sources and federal agency resources.
  
  extreme-heat-guidebook.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Extreme Heat Heat Exhaustion Hot Temperature
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Pages in Document:
  19 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/59784/cdc_59784_DS1.pdf
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