Climate Change is a Medical Ethics Issue, and this graph shows why it’s real
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Medical ethicists and public health specialists have argued for some time that climate change is  a health issue and a medical ethics issue. The four links in the previous sentences are a nice starting point if you want to bone up on some aspects of why this is the case.

This brings us to an April 19th, 2017, article from Climate Central that went viral on Twitter the past few days.  This article included a graph that shows, for each month since the year 1880, which months were hotter than usual, or colder than usual.  Since “than usual” is a shifting target as more and more data is recorded, continual trends of “warmer than usual” show increasing warming, not just steady temperatures.

And that is precisely what the graph shows: there hasn’t been a cooler-than-usual month in 628 months. Each row on the graph represents one year, divided into 12 horizontal blocks with one for each month.  If the month is warmer than usual, it is a shade of red: the darker, the warmer.  If the month is cooler than usual, it is a shade of blue: the darker, the cooler.

From 1880, when the chart begins, through 1915 or so, we see a mix of warmer and cooler months. Between 1915 and 1940 or so, we see a definite visual trend toward warmer months with decreasing numbers of cooler months.  And from 1940 on, there are very few cooler months. As we move from 1940 toward the present, the graph grows decidedly darker read.

The world is warming.  We may not be able to prevent it from warming further. But we must be asking ourselves what we can do to mitigate this damage, and to help those made vulnerable by it.

Several IJFAB blogs and peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles have addressed this in the past, as have some works published elsewhere but authored by members of the FAB community. You may find them useful for digging into this issue:

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