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!
I’m throwing the BS flag on this. People have been moving to warmer climates to extend their lives for decades, siting the average lifespan in Miami is 8 years longer than the average lifespan in New York. And the average temperature in Miami is more than 20 degrees F higher than New York. If an overall rise in average temperature for this country of 1 degree F over 70 years is causing health problems, then the health problems with people moving to warmer climates must be 10 times worse. The climate change you experience when you move from New York to Miami is an instantaneous change in average temperature that is 10 times greater than what anyone has experienced in their life from climate change if they have stayed in one place. So if climate change causes health problems then the government should be warning us about the health problems associated with moving and changing climates rather than the climate change experienced when staying in one location.
PsyOps.
The anticipation is killing me.
So now “Flu Season” wouldn’t exist if not for fossil fuel? Do we now, in addition to CAGW, do we have CAFS? (Catastrophic Anthropomorphic Flu Season)
Add that to the list of the (bad) things the wonder molecule, CO2, causes.
Here’s another thing it causes.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/12/24/uncontacted-tribe-attacks-amazon-village/
You guessed it!
The story throws in “Climate Change” as a cause of this all-to-human, if primitive, expression of greed.
(I do wonder just why the “H” these people aren’t “contacted”? To preserve their primitivity? So they can be our tutors once the globe follows the CAGW promoters’ “sustainable energy” plans?
SHEESH! Go in with inoculations against diseases they haven’t been exposed to then bring them into the modern world. Who here would want one of their kids to live like they do?)
Medicine, in case you hadn’t noticed, is the other vast sink for junk science, unproven dogma “everyone knows” is “true” and an endless gravy train for those who can successfully hoodwink their dupes into believing they “need” whatever the Scare of the Week prescribes.
At least 60% of modern medical practice has no scientific basis but a “belief system.” Which is an excellent reason to avoid it as much as possible, and understand its limitations when forced to use it. Read the books by Dr. Gilbert Welch for an airing-out of a very dirty business.
Hmmm….makes one wonder why tort reform wasn’t a part of Obamacare.
They didn’t want to cut down on those entertaining law firm commercials?
“If you or a loved one were diagnosed with (fill in the blank) and were prescribed (fill in the blank) and suffered (fill in the blank) or death, call the law firm of (fill in the blank). You may be entitled to a cash award!
The “ambulance chasers” have gone Green. They don’t burn gas, they advertise.
nothing is safe from the CAGW-funded academics:
5 May: The Conversation: Extreme heat poses a billion-dollar threat to Australia’s economy
by Kerstin Zander, Senior Research Fellow at Charles Darwin University,
Elspeth Oppermann, Post-doctoral researcher, the Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University &
Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods at Charles Darwin University
Disclosure Statement
Elspeth Oppermann has received funding from the NT department of health for research on heat stress, but not for the current study.
Stephen Garnett has received funding from the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility and the Australian Research Council
Kerstin Zander does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.
In a paper published today in Nature Climate Change, we and colleagues show that heat stress probably cost the Australian economy nearly A$7 billion in 2013-2014 through productivity losses such as those we’ve mentioned above…
That bodes ill for the future, with heatwaves forecast to get hotter and more common thanks to climate change…
Regardless of the reason, productivity loss from heat was a major cost to the Australian economy in 2014. Of 1,726 respondents sampled randomly from the Australian population, 7% did not go to work on at least one day in the previous 12 months because of heat stress…
Ten times that number (70%) went to work but thought they were less efficient…
This figure is conservative. It does not include productivity loss among those younger than 18 or older than 65, nor does not include the effects of heat on voluntary work or home duties…
http://theconversation.com/extreme-heat-poses-a-billion-dollar-threat-to-australias-economy-41153
4 May: New Scientist: Michael Slezak: Severe heat costs the Australian economy US$6.2 billion a year
Journal reference: Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2623
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27458-severe-heat-costs-the-australian-economy-us62-billion-a-year.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Conline-news
Following the Bama logic, electric bills “necessarily skyrocketing” will cause
many additional deaths due to unaffordable air conditioning for many senior
citizens.
Carbon tax will be the real killer.
The cleverly devised marketing term: ‘Carbon’ is another misleading word to capture the ill-informed masses. It can easily be interpreted as particulates, smog, dust, and fumes. This provides an opportunity to carefully steer away from CO2 and propagandize pollution in general with all the respiratory illnesses associated with particulates. And why are heat-related deaths increasing when the planet hasn’t warmed in 18 years?
Mind bending….more Goebbels BS
Australians still more susceptible to cold than heat..
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1307524/
Also Brits
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251773/Killed-cold-2-7-MILLION-winter-deaths-50-years-branded-national-disgrace.html
If the article linked to was written by a random blogger living in his mothers basement that would one thing.
However the article was written by a professor and a Dean (Jonathan Patz, professor and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and Howard Frumkin, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Washington).
Forget the imagined danger to human health, the real danger is sending our young adults to institutions run by imbeciles. What I mean by imbeciles are those who believe ignorance, lack of evidence and lack of critical thinking are virtues when supporting an ideology.
Universities should be required to come with a disclaimer; “The stupids are in charge – Use at own risk”
Nicely said.
This is sort of unrelated but inspiring none the less.
http://schatziesearthproject.com/2015/05/04/murdered-by-climate-change-deniers/
If we can only get all the greens to water ski in the Arctic
Americans are very mobile people. We move quite a lot. If someone moves and finds themselves exposed to a new climate and/or a new set of viruses to contend with, then how does that person, or a health care professional, separate this confounding factor? How does one factor aging into the question? This is nonsense.
Of course, the climate affects our health. Remember all those athletes who went to higher altitude areas for resistance training… ?