Merging of climate & public health: AMA Journal of Ethics: ‘Why Climate Literacy Is Health Literacy’ – Warns of the ‘health problems of global warming’
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/why-climate-literacy-health-literacy/2024-02 Abstract Feb 2024 Health problems of global warming are daunting in severity and magnitude and will only get worse. Yet literacy about these problems is poor and plans to alleviate them are too early in development to be responsive to current levels of global threat and individual need. Social and ecological determinants of health […]
Support Green New Deal — Or you are a Gramma killer?! American Medical Association: ‘Curbing climate change can help stop the next viral pandemic’
American Medical Association: “Continued climate change is expected to exacerbate transmission in environments shared among plants, humans and animals.”
WHO: Communicating on climate change & health – Climate ‘toolkit for health professionals’ – Suggest ‘you could say to a patient…anxiety related to climate change is becoming more common…here is a list of actions you can take to reduce your own personal contribution’
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240090224 Overview While climate change is a big threat to health, implementing solutions to address climate change presents a huge opportunity to promote better health and protect people from climate-sensitive diseases. Communicating the health risks of climate change and the health benefits of climate solutions is both necessary and helpful. Health professionals are well-placed to […]
Suddenly activists concerned about unborn children?! Peer-reviewed study: ‘Climate change increases the risk of preterm births by 60% & will devastate children’s health without fast global action’
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1035106 Increased numbers of preterm births, higher incidence of respiratory disease and death, and more children in hospitals are some of the stark health outcomes the world is facing from the impacts of extreme climate change. Peer-Reviewed Publication FLINDERS UNIVERSITY IMAGE: IMPACT OF TEMPERATURE EXTREMES ON CHILDREN’S HEALTH. CREDIT: FLINDERS UNIVERSITY. view more CREDIT: IMPACT OF […]
The WHO & more European countries mainstreaming ‘climate change’ in their health policies – WHO calls for ‘making climate a health issue’
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The next big climate scare: Counting climate change deaths
Steve Goreham in Washington Examiner:
In December 2023, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at COP28, the 28th United Nations Climate Conference, and mentioned climate-related deaths. “We are seeing and beginning to pay attention and to count and record the deaths that are related to climate,” she said. …
On Jan. 30, Dr. Colin J. Carlson of Georgetown University published a paper in Nature Medicine titled, “After millions of preventable deaths, climate change must be treated like a health emergency.” Carlson claims that climate change has caused about 166,000 deaths per year since 2000, or almost 4 million cumulative deaths. Carlson admits that most of these deaths have been due to malaria in sub-Saharan Africa or malnutrition and diarrheal diseases in South Asia. But he goes on to claim that deaths due to natural disasters and even cardiovascular disease should also be attributed to climate change. If death from cardiovascular disease can be counted as a climate death, almost any death can be counted.
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Pielke Jr.: The Weaponization of ‘Scientific Consensus’ – Only science offers a path to truth, not surveys of expert opinion
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-weaponization-of-scientific-consensus By ROGER PIELKE JR. Excerpt: In September, 2022 California Governor Gavin Newsome signed into law a bill that prohibited medical professionals from sharing “misinformation” with patients. Specifically, the law stated that it would be [U]nprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to disseminate misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19. The law defined “misinformation”: “Misinformation” means false information that is contradicted […]
Technocracy: Critics Slam UN ‘Climate Scientists’ Bid for Dictatorial Power
https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/un/climate-conference/technocracy-critics-slam-un-climate-scientists-bid-for-dictatorial-power/ by Alex Newman DUBAI — Top leaders at the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are seeking the power to prescribe “climate” policy at the international level and then potentially even oversee its implementation and enforcement. Critics, however, warned that the demands were not just unscientific, but would undermine self-governance while ushering in […]
‘The climate crisis is a health crisis,’ Declares WHO’s ‘First-Ever Special Envoy for Climate Change & Health’ Vanessa Kerry
John Kerry’s daughter Vanessa Kerry: “There’s a very real opportunity for us to have a health-centered approach to climate change.”
Biden’s National Climate Assessment Links Climate Change To Pandemics & Pathogens
The Fifth National Climate Assessment report asserts that pandemics will become more likely and worse as the projected effects of climate change set in over time, the combined effects of which “[require] early collective action and systemic change” to avoid or mitigate.
“Climate-driven changes in ecosystems increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases by altering interactions among humans, pathogens and animals and changing social and biological susceptibility to infection,” and particularly heightens “the risk of infection among people at the front lines of exposure, especially those with fewer resources,” the report states.