The New Hampshire Public Health Association (NHPHA) recognizes the world-wide scientific community’s consensus that the earth’s temperature is rising at a rate faster then any other time in history as a result of humankind’s contribution of increasing levels of “greenhouse gases” in the earth’s atmosphere. The increased concentration of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere has effects, both current and future, on our environment and on our health. 
The NHPHA supports the following actions:

• Research and public policy that strengthens the climate change science, technology, and institutions;
• Support local, state, regional, national and international initiatives to prevent and reduce greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change; such measures to include energy conservation, reduction in the use of fossil fuels for our energy needs, shift to renewable energy sources, and sustainable land use and transportation policies and practices; and
• Responsible adaptive and community resilient strategies from the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

Resources:

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fourth Assessment Report; Climate Change 2007:  Synthesis Report, http://www.ipcc.ch/ipc...rts/ar4-syr.htm

Jackson, Richard and Kyra Naumoff Shields, “Preparing the U.S. Health Community for Climate Change,” Annual Review of Public Health 29:25 (2008) 25.1-25.17.

Patz, Jonathan, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Holly Gibbs, and Rosalie Woodruff, “Health Impact Assessment of Global Climate Change:  Expanding on Comparative Risk Assessment Approaches for Policy Making,” Annual Review of Public Health 29:13 (2008) 13.1-13.13.

Shea, Katherine M. and the Committee on Environmental Health, “Global Climate Change and Children's Health,” Pediatrics.120:5 (November 2007): e1359-e1367.

US Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “CDC Policy on Climate Change and Public Health.”  http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/climatechange/

Wilkinson P, Smith KR, Joffe M, Haines A. “A Global Perspective on Energy: Health Effects and Injustices,” Lancet.  370:  9591 (September 15, 2007)965-978.