Climate and Health Country Profile 2015: United States of America

OVERVIEW

The United States of America is comprised of a variety of geographic landscapes, nine climatic regions within mainland USAa alone and approximately 95,470 miles of shoreline.b In 2010, it was estimated that over 123 million people, almost 40% of the nation’s total population, lived on a shoreline.c Climate change poses one of the most significant environmental and human health threats in America. Rising sea levels, warming oceans, expected increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and changes in temperature and precipitation patterns pose direct and indirect risks to the...