This article is based on the papers by Donohoe, M T, “Global Warming: A Public Health Crisis Demanding Immediate Action”, (Parts I and II), Medscape Public Health and Prevention, 2007, available at, http://www.medscape.com.
This article reviews the causes and environmental and health consequences of global warming. Corporations have employed unsound science and legislative influence to refute the existence of and to impede the progress towards curtailing, global warming. The media have also obfuscated the issue of global warming. The roles of individuals, governments and health professionals in confronting this major environmental and public health crisis are then analysed.
