NEW: Atlanta has a below-average recognition of human-caused climate change and the scientific consensus behind it, according to newly released data from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the Mason Center for Climate Change Communication.

Amidst the Trump NIH's decision to end funding for studies of the health effects of climate change, primary care providers are trying to depolarize the issue and break through misinformation, one clinic visit at a time, writes Alex Music.

This story is co-published by Atlanta Community Press Collective and 285 South.

https://www.thexylom.com/post/the-fifth-vital-sign-atlanta-doctors-are-talking-climate-change-with-patients