Cold and flu season? High blood pressure? Nah, its climate change!
From the Gristians, h/t to “ham salad” and “nixfu” in WUWT Tips and Notes.
Doctors are already seeing links between climate change and their patients’ health
Now, the nation’s leading medical practitioners — with the White House behind them — are stepping forward with a diagnosis that all of us should heed, because the symptoms are becoming undeniable and the risks tremendous: Climate change is a health threat.
The nation’s public health leaders, doctors, and nurses are seeing more and more evidence — both in their patients and in epidemiological data — showing the direct and indirect links. We’re seeing more respiratory illnesses, cardiovascular disease, and heat-related deaths.
As leaders of public health institutions, we cannot overstate the importance of the commitment from President Obama and the highest levels of our government to shine a light on the health impacts of climate change.
Last month, President Obama affirmed the threat that climate change poses to the nation’s health, and committed resources to strengthening health data and to enhancing our preparedness, including targeted responses for the most vulnerable in our society. At the same time, the U.S. Global Climate Research Program released a sobering draft Climate and Health Assessment. The draft — the work of numerous experts in scientific agencies, universities, and the private sector — found that climate change is not just a future threat, but is impacting Americans every day, and that every American is at risk. Later this spring, the surgeon general will host a Climate Change and Health Summit at the White House.
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Generations ago, doctors used to advise tuberculosis patients to spend time in drier or warmer climates to improve their health. In our time, it’s the climate we live in that needs the attention. The evidence, increasingly, is showing up in our patients and in our examination rooms.
Oy!
Since the terrible high carbohydrate/high polyunsaturated fats and low saturated fats/low cholesterol has been increasing heart disease and obesity for over 50 years, how can they link this to global warming (“climate change”, call it what you will, it’s still a scam)? Impossible claims for the very simple fact that (1) we are not warming and (2) we are not that sensitive to the climate, as it changes so much during a day, week, or month.
I have just really hurt my ribs… While falling off my chair laughing. Could someone furnish me with the telephone number of my nearest climate scientist so I can get my ribs looked at. I hear they are the ones to seek in a situation like this
I think you’re on to something Darren. Damaged ribs caused by…..climate change. Perhaps a grant to study who is more at risk to damaged ribs brought on by…..something related to climate change. Catastrophic to be sure.
Just when you think the climate idiocy can’t possibly get any more idiotic, it does.
OR….
Peoples declining health may be linked to the advice giving to eat grains and avoid fat and meat?
In not sure which is more corrupt science… nutrition or climate.
Food for thought …
Cholesterol is essential for brain function. Declining brain function leads to belief in widely advertised propaganda.
Fat is good.
Slightly off topic, but does anyone have Popper’s Rules of theory. I have lost them.
Yea, they’re over there in that bookcase. Second shelf.
hare ya go,
http://www.xenodochy.org/article/popper.html
The deception is actually worse than making something up. Air pollution in general and particulate pollution in particular (pun intended) have fallen dramatically over the past 50 years, yielding a significant improvement in public health.
But if you read the report you will find that the increase in temperature is not good. The growing season starts earlier and last longer, higher CO2 increases plant growth so more and longer lasting pollen pollution resulting in more asthma!
This report is 405 pages. Will take a while to read.
Written in IPCC style, but for the effect of global warming specifically for the USA.
Again, nothing new, CO2 will drive the increase in temperature.
Certainly in preparation for the next December USA delegation.
Just a quick look at it to find that “Rising carbon dioxide can directly influence the nutritional content of foods”. All examples given are obviously negative! Protein content of such and such will decrease from 19 % to 17% etc.
Obama went to the doctor the other day. The doc said, “You look like you’re feeling a little under the weather.”
As recent developments have indicated the foregoing is but one more reason one has to be careful what they say to Obama because simpletons take things way too literally.
Many of the most wide-spread and pernicious diseases we live with (thanks to a life expectancy extended by several decades in the last century alone!) still have unknown causes.
Diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, strokes, arthritis, hypertension, allergies and many forms of cancer are readily diagnosed but cannot be cured or prevented because modern medicine cannot yet be sure of the causes.
Throwing ‘climate change’ into the pot as just another confounding factor to distract the research and divert resources and attentions of the dedicated investigators does nobody any good.
It amounts to quack medicine.
A lack of vitamin D causes all of those. Autism and autoimmune disease (probably all of them) as well.
“We’re seeing more respiratory illnesses, cardiovascular disease, and heat-related deaths.”
Have they accounted for aging baby boomers, an increasing population, and increased migration? Do they even have any statistics to back up these claims, or is it all anecdotal? I would like to see the number of heat-related deaths compared to the number of cold-related deaths. I would bet that cold-related deaths have increased more. (But they would probably blame climate change for those deaths, too.)
Corrected title: “Doctors are seeing more visits from hypochondriacs”.
‘Climate science’ give people the vapours.
“Oct 9, 2014 – Life expectancy in the USA rose in 2012 to 78.8 years – a record high.” — USA Today
If climate change is causing more health problems and more deaths in the USA, wouldn’t life expectancy be going down instead of hitting a record high? Life expectancy actually correlates better with increasing CO2 than temperatures do. So how in the world can they claim that CO2 is a health threat? It’s more likely that the increase in CO2 helps improve life expectancy. It certainly hasn’t hurt it.
The tropical paradise that is Hawaii, Alaska s arctic cold, the deserts of Arizona. I won’t go on.
The USA has many climates so I’m assuming the “The nation’s public health leaders, doctors, and nurses” will find the perfect state with the perfect climate. (before it changes of course)
This really makes me sick…
As another victim of climate change, are you going to request reparations?
It’s true. Look at all those old people who retire to Florida after living in northern states such as Connecticut, New Jersey and New York all their lives. Once they move to Florida, they are dying from heart disease, strokes, cancer, pulmonary disease and a host of other diseases. So it must be the change to a warmer climate that is causing these deaths.
Per their website:
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established by Presidential Initiative in 1989 and mandated by Congress in the Global Change Research Act (GCRA) of 1990 to “assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.”
Their budget is 2.5 billion … about half coming from NASA and another 300 million from the Dept of Commerce.
Imagine the quality of work we could get from them if we doubled their budget.
Imagine the quality of work we could get from them if the budget was cut by 90%.
Which should happen?
Pure, unadulterated Climate Quackery.
climate change is wreaking havoc here in FL. obama said so.
Perhaps it’s the people living on the coast who are trying to escape their flooded condos due to rising oceans and are trapped in tent cities filled with the other sick climate refugees and giant spiders.
Other than that, I’m still trying to visualize the “havoc”
noun
1.
destruction; devastation; ruin
2.
(informal) confusion; chaos
3.
(archaic) cry havoc, to give the signal for pillage and destruction
4.
(often foll by with) play havoc, to cause a great deal of damage, distress, or confusion (to)
definitions 3 and 4 could be at play here.
has the bam given the signal?
Has the bam caused a great deal of damage, distress, or confusion….most definitely.
Not so crazy, really.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0111712
It’s common sense, really, especially for those who like to note, correctly, that CO2 is plant food.
Big fat red herring there. CO2 is NOT climate change. Furthermore, there’s a HUGE difference between what they are talking about -“respiratory illnesses, cardiovascular disease, and heat-related deaths” and perhaps some increased hay fever.
You don’t think there’s any connection between allergies and respiratory illnesses? I beg to differ. But of course I did neglect to mention the increase in ground level ozone and poor air quality days.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/groundlevel-ozone-pollution-to-increase-952823.html
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/climate-change-and-ozone-pollution.html#.VUkpzflViko
For what it’s worth, here in the Mid-Atlantic, US, there has been a definite uptick in poor air quality days in the summer months.
‘Results show that across audience segments, the public health focus was the most likely to elicit emotional reactions consistent with support for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Findings also indicated that the national security frame may possibly boomerang among audience segments already doubtful or dismissive of the issue, eliciting unintended feelings of anger.’ From A public health frame arouses hopeful emotions about climate change: A Letter in Climatic Change, January 2012.
http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/Myers et al_A public health frame.pdf
Looks like the Consensus took the advice of Myers et al. Another part of the seemingly endless effort to achieve yet more emotional engagement, and just the right sort of emotions too, in order that the pressure of persuasion is ratcheted up still further. After decades of such emotional targeting, of course this has worked extremely well upon most scientists and politicians and policy makers, which explains their huge emotional bias.
You have to cut and paste the whole link above for it to work. The embedded spaces appear to have fooled the hyper-linking.
Causes damage to target organs in human? The appropriate pictogram already exists for it. Now, how to glue it into the atmosphere?
http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/danger/publi/ghs/pictograms/silhouete.gif
Don’t forget to turn your air conditioners on! Don’t worry the planet won’t boil over!
This is true …. But certain Aussies, Argentines, NZ’s and SA’s are going to get reallllllly cold if they turn on their A/C.
“86. With all of this evidence pointing to physical, mental and long-term disorders even long
into the future (including cancers and mutant newborns), is this honestly worth the risk to our
next generations for the sake of just a few metres of wire and a plug. As shown, the dangers of
low-level, below-thermal microwaves, have been known to governments for >50 years. I was
educated in microwave technology by the Military (United Kingdom) in the early 1960’s, and
even then we were instructed of these dangers. Nothing has changed to suddenly make
microwaves safe.”
http://www.wirelesswatchblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2001/11/20-Amended-Declaration-of-Barry-Trower.pdf
Obviously, then, the solution is to divert funds from medicine to Climate Change, because then those funds will be serving two purposes…health and Climate Change. Fight the problem at the root!
My guess is, the “Leading Doctors” might just then change their minds…