OPB: Portland`s Multnomah County today released its plan for responding to the health impacts of climate change, joining six others in the state that have looked at what global warming trends mean for people in the Northwest.
With climate models predicting hotter summers and wetter winters across the Northwest, Multnomah County health officials are preparing for more heat-related illnesses and deaths, mosquito-borne diseases, and asthma attacks from poor air quality and longer allergy seasons.
The...