Much of the public discourse on global warming has focused on temperatures, melting glaciers, and slowly rising seas, but climate change is already harming the health of people around the world. Coauthors Dan Ferber and Paul Epstein, M.D., MPH, profile doctors, patients, scientists and others from Kenya, Honduras, and the United States who are already wrestling with these changes. The book reveals the surprising links between climate change and cholera, malaria, Lyme disease, asthma, and other maladies. Ferber, a contributing correspondent for Science and an Indianapolis freelance, and Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, also highlight serious health risks that climate change poses via disruption of forests, coastal oceans, and agriculture. The book draws on large, multidisciplinary efforts that Epstein helped lead to document thepublic health dangers of climate change and devise a suite of innovative solutions that preserve public health. Al Gore has called the book “a landmark book that will raise our consciousness.”