Sen. Whitehouse sounds alarm on climate change, health.

PROVIDENCE – Brown’s Public Health Research Day in April took on a sense of urgency as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse delivered a sobering lecture on climate change and its effects on public health “in a time of unprecedented carbon release in the air and oceans.” Introduced by Brown President Christina Paxson, Senator Whitehouse delivered the annual Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Barnes Jr. Lecture on the interface of medicine, society and public health. He targeted climate-change deniers “who ignore all the scientific evidence,” including colleagues in Congress. He also stated his opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline. “Keystone would pump tar sands oil – one of the filthiest fuels on earth – a carbon