Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Al Jazeera reporting on a Lancet claim that climate change exposes children to a lifetime of harm.
Climate change exposes children to lifelong health harm: Doctors
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Climate change is already harming people’s health by increasing the number of extreme weather events and exacerbating air pollution, according to an annual study published on Thursday in The Lancet medical journal.
The study warned that if nothing is done to mitigate climate change, its impacts could burden an entire generation with disease and illness throughout their lives.
“Children are particularly vulnerable to the health risks of a changing climate. Their bodies and immune systems are still developing, leaving them more susceptible to disease and environmental pollutants,” said Nick Watts, who co-led The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change study.
He warned that health damage in early childhood is “persistent and pervasive”, and carries lifelong consequences.
“Without immediate action from all countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions, gains in wellbeing and life expectancy will be compromised, and climate change will come to define the health of an entire generation,” he told a London briefing.
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Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/climate-change-exposes-children-lifelong-health-harm-doctors-191114065305748.html
The Lancet report is available here.
My question, if a few degrees warming is so harmful to human health, why don’t people living in warmer climates already suffer these harms?
Diseases, parasites and pests surely can’t tell the difference between warmer temperatures caused by global warming, and warmer temperatures caused by living closer to the equator.
Water and food security is a matter of investing in infrastructure. If all else fails, water security can be achieved with large scale desalination plants, like desalination systems used in the Middle East. All desalination requires is cheap energy and a society wealthy enough to build and maintain the required infrastructure.
I live on the edge of the tropics in a much warmer climate than anywhere in the USA. Yes my chances of encountering one of Australia’s nasty insect pests is slightly elevated by living in a warm climate. But there is this remarkable product called insect repellent which massively reduces this risk to my health.
The only thing holding back the life expectancy of people in poor countries is poverty, lack of resources to fix the problems which impact their life expectancy. Cheap fossil fuel energy infrastructure fixes poverty, as China and many other countries have demonstrated.
Doctors should be ashamed of themselves for putting their names to such wild claims.
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😐 Its becoming a joke now..
This is what Vox had to say about humans
https://youtu.be/tSA5HNFBwnk
Sunny this is not a joke It is a drive toward Authoritarian Socialism. That is anything but funny. These people seriously want to control every aspect of our life through central planning, under the guise they are saving the planet. They are making a horror movie and the general population are the victims.
Not only are Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn enemies of Socialism, but now they even harm children!
“Authoritarian Socialism” is redundant.
Yes, but it is clear.
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Speaking purely as an observer of children’s health and climate change due to green house gas changes. The evidence over the past 100 years shows, the world population has increased from ~2 billion back then when green house gasses were lower than today to ~7.6 billion today. Now it would be difficult for our medical experts to maintain something that increased the number of children surviving into adulthood is dangerous to children.
Maybe they can also explain using their strange medical logic, why the increasing greening of the planet due to increased CO2, is also damaging the environment by making it healthier?
These “doctors” should put their funnel hats back on.
So what environmental pollutants are they talking about. CO2 ? FFS.
Well-being and life expectancy will certainly be hard hit if they get their way. Especially for the poor in Africa and 3rd world.
Climate change alarmists exposes children to lifelong (mental) health harm
there, fixed that for them. It’s not the relatively negligible amount of (mostly if not entirely natural) warming that we’ve experienced since the depth of the little ice age that is causing children harm, Indeed a warmer world is a safer more prosperous world (cold kills). It’s the sky is falling/the world is ending hysterical lies that the alarmists are feeding these kids 24/7 that is damaging them mentally.
Here it is, Nov. 15, in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, with enough snow on the ground to force me to shovel the steps and snow blow our driveway while the ploughs and sanders were cleaning the streets and roads. One weather guy said this was the earliest snow fall since the 50’s. At least he was clever enough not to say global warming, aka, “climate change,” caused it to happen.
regardless of climate change, is it not obvious, the impact modern tech stuff is having on everyone, the means to bully you is a finger tip away, while minds on the climb are having to fight like turtles to get to the ocean. When the water quality drops, it affects all of us.
101,6% of all doctors demand an immediate return to the global optimal temperature, which existed for a long time when unicorns roamed the earth. If you don’t believe that, ask Attenborough.
He ought to know, he was there. It was perhaps his first documentary.
re “The only thing holding back the life expectancy of people in poor countries is poverty, lack of resources to fix the problems which impact their life expectancy. ”
Since this is Al Jazeera, how could you leave out WAR as the most serious issue holding back life expectancy in their listening public?
Igp, you are right on the money re Al Jazeera. They endorse young lions, kids with kalisnakovs, and think a thunderstorm will be bad for them. Lancet has gone cuckoo, which is a shame, it once was a good publication. Life expectancy relates to genetic factors and access to healthy food and care. Fossil fuels accentuate the latter two.
The Lancet stopped being a reputable magazine decades ago.
Yes but it does beg the question will these Doctors give me a medical for a couple of days off work with climate change induced trauma.
“… The only thing holding back the life expectancy of people in poor countries is poverty, lack of resources to fix the problems which impact their life expectancy….”
Yes sure, but pollution also shortens life expectancy. The mistake is just to include CO₂ as a pollutant,even though it is visible to some teenagers.
Climate change alarmism exposes children to lifelong mental health harm.
There, fixed.
Great minds Bruce.
They have fallen completely for the lie about the increased number of extreme weather events which only exist in the warped green universe.
See https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory?language=en#t-484781 for how easily we are misled by misinformation and created disasters.
See from the 8 minute mark for ideas pertinent to the CAGW issue. I.e. implanted memories/ideas
A movement like “climate change” can exist only if there are cynical people who push the fantasy, and stupid people who believe the fantasy. There seem to be plenty of each. And only a few who really seek the truth.
I don’t claim to have all the truth, but taking into account what I’ve seen personally (I’m in my 8th decade) and what I know of the past from scientists who do honestly seek the truth in my opinion, “climate change” is not a problem – not nearly as much as the normal and variable change of the four seasons in a year in temperate zones, or the normal variations of weather and climate that occur from time to time in various places. That people can be convinced that all this is Man-caused and that it is catastrophic shows how devoid of common sense people can be, and how mass delusions can take hold of those who lack common sense…and of course, we must always ask, cui bono?
We now have numerous examples of individuals who are experts on the subjects of all aspects of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, politics, engineering, medicine, history and all others that humans might encounter and need to understand. There is a word(s) for this. The real experts know the limits of their knowledge or become educated about it.
“They called for urgent action to reduce outdoor and indoor pollution through the introduction of cleaner fuels and vehicles, and policies to encourage safe and active transport such as walking and cycling.”
I’m sure without humanity’s fractional contribution to C02 everything would be just like they want it.
“… everything would be just like they want it.”
A world with no CO2 would have no losers.
Well…, except for that whole global extinction thing.
But I guess the greenies would prefer we just start over with silicon-based life, or something else they saw on Star Trek.
So taking your kids to the med for holiday kills them because they are exposed to a 10C rise in temperature in 2 days?
What utter bollocks. Who writes this crap?
Take away the benefits of fossil fuels from those children and see what lifelong harms they face.
So, their best medical advice is to treat affliction with reduced anthropogenic CO2 – by reducing otherwise beneficial human activity. Hmmm.
I don’t know any medical professionals that have bought in to the Climate Crisis and a few are liberals.
NOAA records of “Days over 90 degrees, and Days over 100 degrees” in the HCNS Network of Stations are declining. And Overnight Low temperatures are rising. See Tony Heller’s Video: https://youtu.be/Vyig6r8lgWE
The Climate is getting steadily milder since early last century.
Temperature extremes are what count when considering Weather-related morbidities…especially amongst infants and children.
The Lancet, a once great publication, is now amongst the propagandists.
How is this happening?
I think it is a general societal thing, perhaps best described as media-inflation. People publishing in any field, whether it be medical journals or reports of the local football team, feel under pressure to make what they say exciting and more newsworthy.
You don’t get much attention by simply reporting the truth without elaboration and “comment”. In many MSM organisations you may quickly find yourself out of work if you don’t say something alarming because that is what grabs people’s attention. The BBC, who were supposed to be largely immune to such commercial pressures, also started down this road some decades ago because they were still always watching the ratings in search of self-validation.
When will simple truthful and questioning reporting become more widely fashionable again? I don’t know. I currently find it in a handful of Youtube individuals, whom big tech discriminates against quite openly.
“Doctors should be ashamed of themselves for putting their names to such wild claims.”
How Dare they…… 😛 🙂
Yeah but I can’t do the glare… 😉
“I can’t do the glare”
Some talented person need to run up a Greta emoji. I did manage to produce a cyclone emoji that goes clockwise rather that Algorewise, but can’t seem to get it into the public domain.
Go Vegan…, you’ll have it down pat in a week….
From the article: “Climate change is already harming people’s health by increasing the number of extreme weather events”
Wrong. There is no evidence that extreme weather events are increasing.
The only way the alarmists can find to promote the human-caused climate change speculation is to lie about it, like they are doing here.
I just about died laughing at that report, I actually had to check it wasn’t a satirical article. These people are b@tsh1t crazy.
Hey I thought children dodging bullets, missiles, landmines, bombs, radicalized adults, famine, disease, slavery, neglect and abuse would all rate but apparently nope Climate Change traumatizes them.
Greta is obviously an early emergent case of what the trauma looks like …. How dare you all.
There seems to be differing opinions between UN organisations. This WHO affiliated reports says “Crop growth season duration has reduced by 2.9% for maize, 3.8% for winter wheat and 3.1% for soybean crops from 1988 to 2017, with potential implications for global undernutrition.”
But FAO´s longtime prognosis for global nutritional situation speaks of no “potential implications for global undernutrition.” Quite the opposite. Perhaps the doctor doesn´t always know best.
http://www.fao.org/state-of-food-security-nutrition/en/
Here’s my contribution to the global children. Read science and don’t be manipulated by agenda groups.
DEET gives humans an ‘invisibilty cloak’ to fend off mosquito bites
DEET may chemically ‘cloak’ humans from malaria-carrying mosquitoes, rather than repel them
Date:
October 17, 2019
Source:
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Summary:
Since its invention during the Second World War for soldiers stationed in countries where malaria transmission rates were high, researchers have worked to pinpoint precisely how DEET actually affects mosquitoes.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191017111651.htm
In Australia you need the heavy duty 40%!DEET and a few of the buggers still manage to get through. But it’s better than nothing.
I stopped paying any attention to anything published in The Lancet after the overblown drivel about casualties in Iraq as the insurgency was most vigorous.
The paper in question was plain as day a hatchet job using an incompetent method for the purpose where local data from know ‘hotspots’ was extrapolated nationally which required the assumption that the violence was occurring nationwide fairly evenly. It clearly wasn’t and the whole thing was just so much statistical crap, just a fraud in my opinion. The authors even outsourced the data collection to locals.
This paper is aimed at a similarly contentious matter ( ‘climate change’ vs the US invasion of Iraq) and I suspect is similarly contrived in its conclusions.
Looks like Al Jazeera is still carrying water for Al Gore, despite the disputes between them after Al Jazeera’s purchase of Gore’s TV network.