From the AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS and the “how do people survive the climate change when they move from New York to Miami?” department, comes this warning that has all these deaths attached to the press release. As I said about a similar press release wailing about potential excess deaths earlier today, show me death certificates that puts climate change as the cause.
ACP decries devastating impact of climate change order
“Today’s executive order moves us in the wrong direction on this issue,” said Nitin S. Damle, MD, MS, MACP, ACP President. “It signals a retreat from our nation’s efforts to curb carbon emissions and address climate change. Climate change is a problem we should be attacking aggressively on a global level.”
In a 2016 paper, Climate Change and Health, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, ACP outlined the negative consequences that climate change will have on public and individual health. The paper cited higher rates of respiratory and heat-related illnesses, increased prevalence of diseases passed by insects, water-borne diseases, food and water insecurity and malnutrition, and behavioral health problems as potential health effects of climate change. The elderly, the sick, and the poor are especially vulnerable.
The executive order specifically directs the EPA to rewrite, and presumably, loosen the standards set forth in the Clean Power Plan. As cited in ACP’s paper, implementing the Clean Power Plan in the U.S. would avoid 3,600 premature deaths, 1,700 heart attacks, 90,000 asthma attacks, and 300,000 missed work and school days.
“Climate change is real, is largely the result of human activity, and is affecting our health now. ACP is very concerned about the harmful health effects that climate change is having on our patients,” continued Dr. Damle. “We need to take action now to protect the health of our community’s most vulnerable members — including our children, our seniors, people with chronic illnesses, and the poor — because our climate is already changing and people are already being harmed.”
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“In a 2016 paper, Climate Change and Health, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, ACP outlined the negative consequences that climate change will have on public and individual health.” The journal’s name is misspelled. It obviously should be Anals of Internal Medicine…
You DO realize that no one but us reads this shit anyway? 😉
Well said Allen!
How do they sleep at night???? First, increased plant food may indeed cause more pollen which in turn may cause an uptick in asthma complaints. But the standard non-pharmocological treatment is to breath in less oxygen and more CO2 rich air such as from a paper bag.
The world is full of nutty professors.
The ACP are just mouthing the standard, boilerplate Alarmist bunkum, geared towards physicians.
Let’s not forget to consider the following too:
https://indoor.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/lbnl-47713.pdf
The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS), a two-year probability-based telephone survey (n = 9,386) of exposure-related human activities in the United States sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that respondents reported spending an average of 87% of their time in enclosed buildings and about 6% of their time in enclosed vehicles. That’s 93% of their lives spent inside climate-controlled enclosures.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~dib2/atmos/indoor.htm
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which also looks at patterns of human exposure to pollutants, has shifted to an approach using instruments small enough to be worn on the human body, and sophisticated enough to detect levels of a wide range of harmful substances. Studies of more than 3,000 subjects in 14 US states and 1 Canadian province tracked human exposure to 30 different Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs: hydrocarbons), PM10 (respirable particulates), pesticides, and carbon monoxide.
Robert
Right on. The outside air is so clean that cooking and smoking, emissions from carpets, furniture, human skin dust, dust mites, evaporating fillers in the walls, eroding paint, hair spray, varnish, nail polish remover, mould spores in the furnace filter and on and on are the major pollutants in an advanced society, largely because power stations, factories and vehicle emissions have been reduced so much in the past 50 years.
Not only that but keep an eye on developments as Colorado and California lead the way in legalized recreational marijuana outcomes — for respiratory, psychiatric, obstetric, perinatal (also passed in breast milk), as well as opioid drug gateway consequences as they demonstrate their real concern “for the children”. Will a special urgency even arise for self-driving cars spurred on by increasing injurious automotive outcomes from our drug-addled drivers (beyond the current promotional prospects of more relaxed and productive passengers)? Stay tuned.
Should your doctor bring up climate change during an exam, keep in mind as you weigh your response that as members of the upper classes, virtually all doctors have a higher than average carbon footprint.
So, … what I see are a lot of people championing combating climate change, when many of them are already doing this every second of their lives, MOSTLY INDOORS.
Indoor air pollution, then, seems like the more relevant concern.
But baring intelligent judgment on this realization, all champions of the environment seem to resort to some incarnation of “think of the children”, for example citing potential child mortality-rate increases resulting from continuing carbon dioxide emissions.
Yeah, real smart.
Of course, a doctor should bring up climate change, as he works in his accommodating climate-controlled office, to which he drove in his stylish, high-dollar, climate-controlled automobile, from his (presumably) upscale, climate-controlled house (one of several, perhaps).
My dear man, since you spend 93% of your entire life INDOORS, you would do well to focus on the effects of OUTDOOR climate on your health. Yeah, real smart.
Air pollution indoors can be much worse than outdoor air. If there is a cigarette smoker in the house, the family is exposed to air quality in terms of PM2.5 worse than ‘Beijing on a bad day’.
I have been reviewing the exposures measured in upland Kyrgyz homes (rural Kyrgyzstan). The doctor measured PM2.5 as high as 7000. Beijing declares a red alert above 300.
By placing an advanced combustion dung burning stove ($120) in their homes, the PM2.5 was reduced to the range of 10-40 microgram per cubic metre, meeting all three tiers of performance for developing countries (which are expected to meet them in stages) of 125, 75, 25 (or numbers similar to that).
I thought scare nonsense would die down some with the passing of the Obama God. I think they are taking the long view in waiting for the second coming of an over reach campaign. Their only real risk is in voter fatigue or a turn to voter anger. But then that is always the source of risk for Party loyalists just trying to do their part in a thousand uncoordinated efforts of doom (and bad science).
“implementing the Clean Power Plan in the U.S. would avoid 3,600 premature deaths, 1,700 heart attacks, 90,000 asthma attacks, and 300,000 missed work and school days.”
No promise of ‘avoidance’ is valid.
Please everyone, note that no ‘deaths’ are ’caused’ by the things they are avoiding. A premature death is someone who died of multiple statistically attributed causes before the age of 86 – the ‘standard age’ at this time (something some people have contested as unrealistic). Let’s accept it for the moment. Anyone who dies after 86 years of age has died postmaturely.
1700 heart attacks does not mean 1700 deaths. You get the idea? So keep your eye on the fake news outlets mis-reporting this sentence as “air pollution which was to have been prevented will kill 3600+1700+90,000 people per year”, or some such.
Also note that it is not possible to forecast the future of anyone’s premature death. We have no idea what their gender, nutrition, exposure, inoculations, water quality or genetic complement is.
The premature death numbers are attributed to the deaths of people who were born after 1931 and who are not alive now. What the future holds is unknown. It may be that the future exposures and consequences will be identical to those experienced since 1931, however this is unlikely in the extreme given their life expectancy at the time as in their 50’s.
In short, just because you can reasonably attribute contributing factors to the premature deaths of a cohort of the population that experience living >1931:<2017, does not mean that you can use the same 'exposures' to predict what will happen, or be avoided in future, for people who will die between now and the year 2103.
Who knows? By then global cooling or warming may have killed everyone with runaway feedbacks worse than a Hansen nightmare. Or not.
‘Climate change is real, is largely the result of human activity, and is affecting our health now.’
I wonder what part of their medical degree allows them to say this with such assurance? Or is it possible they are just parroting statements from alarmist practitioners of a discipline they don’t practice, which they just blithely trust out of hand? And then just pretty much lump any environmental factor that could potentially cause stress under the heading of Climate-caused?
Or am I just becoming cynical?
Watch the following conflict over the coming years.
In the US, western forested lands have been building up the fuel load since non-native settlers began moving in. Yes, there was logging but fires were suppressed and in-filling of other non-forested meadows and slopes began. Then Smokey Bear and friends got serious about putting out fires. Then the “viability regulation” within the National Forest Management Act (NFMA) of 1976 was applied to old growth forests to save the Northern Spotted Owl. [1991 – Seattle Audubon Society v. Evans case]
Fires need fuel, and now it is there.
Those studying the forests understand the need to deal with this issue. Prescribed burning is one way, perhaps the best way, of reducing the fuel load. However, the smoke irritates some people and is a serious danger to others.
So there’s the conflict. The choice is regular and smaller fires or so called mega-fires. Place your bets.
As Albert Einstein once said . ”Let the shoemaker stick to his last”
Don’t think much of the physicians. The body is 16% carbon. Our food is 16% carbon. In anaesthetics and emergency medicine, there are CO2 monitors to make sure that people have enough Carbon Dioxide in there body – too little and they die.
If these doctors believe carbon is such a pollutant and risk to our lives, I recommend they go on a carbon free diet.
We are accustomed to various special interest groups cooking the books to promote their interests in Washington. We don’t expect the science establishment to be cooking the science, but that is what is happening. The arrogance and irresponsibility exhibited by the science establishment is quite amazing. It will take a while for the public to adjust to the idea that organized science is as corrupt as the trial lawyers or the teachers’ union. Global warming theory is so malleable that it predicts anything! More cold, less cold. More snow, less snow. What a powerful theory. And what’s even more amazing is that climate change can be averted by just increasing your taxes! Thankfully, adults are now in charge.
From the article: ““Climate change is real, is largely the result of human activity, and is affecting our health now. ACP is very concerned about the harmful health effects that climate change is having on our patients,” continued Dr. Damle.”
I’m very concerned that there are so many deluded doctors in positions of authority. Someone should ask these doctors where they get all these crazy ideas.
Doctors can get deluded ideas from the same sources as non-doctors. They’re DOCTORS, … not people with specialized climate knowledge. They look to the same sources for CLIMATE information as anybody else who is not involved in the study of climate.
Doctors just happen to have a greater level of public trust than climate scientists currently do, and this fact is being exploited to try to elevate the catastrophic human-caused global warming proposition.
Oh bullshit! Nobody ever died from 500 ppm of co2!
Gee my wife and I go to Vegas at least once a year! I just don’t know how we survive the climate change?!