– May 18, 2020
THE health establishment was looking away when the coronavirus struck; it had other priorities. If you look at the World Health Organisation’s list of health threats, number one is climate change. Pandemics were down in third place, behind ‘non-communicable diseases’ such as diabetes and obesity.
Wherever you look, you will find some of the biggest names in the public health establishment declaiming on the risks of climate change to world health. On the eve of the outbreak, the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene declared that we would be seeing ‘mass migration, emerging infectious diseases such as dengue and a shortage of food’. As the first people fell ill in Wuhan, the WHO announced that in ten years we would be seeing 250,000 additional deaths per year from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress as a result of global warming. Epidemiologist Professor Andy Haines told readers of the Telegraph that ‘climate change is a threat to global and national security that is costing lives and livelihoods right now’.
Haines has made a career out of promoting the idea that global warming is going to bring about a public health disaster. As part of this effort, he was instrumental in setting up the Lancet Countdown, a coalition of 35 universities and UN agencies that produces a report to keep these ideas in the public eye. In 2018 it said unequivocally that climate change ‘the biggest global health threat of the 21st century’. In current circumstances, this claim looks rather foolish, but a new forensic review of the Countdown suggests that it is actually worse than that. You cannot come away from reading Indur Goklany’s The Lancet Countdown on Climate Change: The need for context, published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, without concluding that the Countdown’s authors didn’t set out to tell the whole story.
For example, Goklany observes that the Countdown’s Executive Summary makes a lot of vague insinuations that climate is causing serious public health problems. It says there are ‘downward trends in global yield potential for all major crops’ and that ‘trends in climate suitability for disease transmission are particularly concerning’. Apparently ‘the number of days suitable for Vibrio (a pathogen responsible for part of the burden of diarrhoeal disease) has doubled’ and ‘families and livelihoods are put at risk from increases in the frequency and severity of extreme weather conditions’. If that weren’t bad enough, ‘77 per cent of countries experienced an increase in daily population exposure to wildfires’.
But when you look at the dataset used by the Countdown, you uncover a very different story, and one that is unequivocal: climate-related mortality has collapsed, and is now less than half the level it was in 1990, when the dataset starts. This is nothing less than a public-health triumph.
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ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION: SCENARIOS FOR THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT [2010]
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NATIONAL SECURITY STUDY MEMORANDUM NSSM 200
Implications of Worldwide Population Growth For US Security and Overseas Interests (THE KISSINGER REPORT) December 10, 1974
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UNITED STATES (12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION
HUMAN EBOLAVIRUS SPECIES AND COMPOSITIONS & METHODS THEREOF [2012]
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Other than the absurd inclusion of Climate Change, the rest isn’t as bad as it sounds. Even Climate change is listed as Climate Change and Air Pollution and a lot of the text talks about air pollution.
Also, the list is not necessarily ordered. They are given as 10 threats, but not explicitly prioritized. SARS type pathogens is in the 6th item.
Obviously, they missed it, and obviously the WHO was/is complicit in covering up for the Chinese – but this list is really nothing special – something anyone with modest understanding of world health could write.
“In 2018 it said unequivocally that climate change ‘the biggest global health threat of the 21st century’. In current circumstances, this claim looks rather foolish . . .”
Current circumstances don’t make that claim look foolish at all. If what the alarmists are saying is true, the “climate emergency” is going to wreak a havoc that will make the coronavirus pandemic look like a mole hill next to the mountain of the climate apocalypse. Climate change WOULD be the biggest global health threat. And I suppose they may be right in one sense: the time, money, and professional expertise that will ultimately have been wasted on a phantom problem could have been used to solve any number of health crises.
De-fund them now! They are a policy pox upon the world.
Well I agree the medical services world wide were caught with there pants down,the biggest amount of deaths by far for medical reasons we could of avoided , again as the above states there concentrating on a global warming projected disease ,
I posted a month a go or so my concerns about NHS uk well heres some one who agrees https://youtu.be/nmX31zQ1LVU it’s less than 3 mins long, borrowed from Tony Heller.
My own experience so far,me doctor I’m suffering from hypertension, doctor how do you know,me because I’m nearly fainting when I stand up, doctor your not as young as you used to be , we dont do blood pressure tests at the surgery anymore, buy a blood pressure machine, try the chemist’s, me but doctor I only need to see a nurse for 5 mins, doctor good afternoon Mr Clarke, bang. So the town the surgery are empty no one around, the chemist’s reply to me, the machine is broke at the moment ( needs calibration) yeah sure.
Human beings are well-known to lie to get what they want. Just about every TV and radio commercial tells you that. It is all about people getting hold of your money, so they can spend it on what they want. If you would like to improve your understanding of the true causes of natural climate variability and how a slight global cooling has taken over until at least the end of the century, why not look me up on Quora. Where I’m going in the end I don’t need your money and for now, COVID 19 doesn’t look like getting me there early. Hope you can feel the same way.
What with all the discovery of control through pandemic, I’m sure they will prioritize it higher now. I’m also sure they will prioritize population control over the actual medicine though. These are, after all, political organizations pretending to be medical organizations.
Amazing how little fact-checking occurs with these types of reports, and somewhat technical reports in general. When I gave a series of Gold Trends in Nevada presentations to various gold exploration companies, I insisted on having a computer running with wifi and that they fact check any assertion they either didn’t believe or were unsure of. This is as regards introspection, a characteristic of any real scientist, wherein they must take care in utilizing memories without verification, or data without cross-checking, or even conflicting interpretations of data. Of course, there is the other side, the fake news side, where data is presented in fragments, and echo-chamber experts carry on about it, and no contrary opinions are permitted. The fake news crowd is having a field day with the Covid-19 fiasco, and, wait for it, many are even blending the CAGW fiasco with the Covid-19 fiasco for a Grand Unified Theory of Why Trump is Bad. There, I said it and I feel better. Stay sane and safe.
“If you look at the World Health Organisation’s list of health threats, number one is climate change”
That’s because the WHO used to be a world health organization but now it is an agency of the UN and it takes its orders from Antonio Guterres the climate guy.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/03/18/the-eco-crisis-ambition-of-the-un/
I read that fast, and my first response was “?????????”
Global yields are *up* across the board, not down. A flat out lie, then?
Read carefully, have a lawyer handy:
They say “global yield potential,“, *not* “global yield”.
So what is the potential???
I suppose the potential is the amount of improvement which can be realized in the future, by some definition.
Sooo……..
If we realize crop yield gains this year, there is less potential left for gains in the future.
Or Something.
This is a classic example of the misdirection and subterfuge that makes this whole field one big waste of time. I, for one, have had enough.
“But when you look at the dataset used by the Countdown, you uncover a very different story”
Maybe they were using the graph upside down?
Doubts about Swedish experiment
“Sweden has over the last seven days reported the highest coronavirus death rate in the world, with an average of 6.05 deaths per day per million inhabitants.
That recent death rate still falls far short of the 28 deaths per day per million inhabitants reported by Belgium in mid-April, and over the course of the pandemic, Sweden’s total per capita death rate remains behind that of Belgium, Spain, Italy, the UK and France.
The Public Health Agency of Sweden reported on Wednesday that in the week ending May 3rd, 7.3 per cent of the samples from people in Stockholm were positive.
That’s extremely far away from something which can be called herd immunity, and I think the danger of letting this slow until we get to herd immunity is that you are causing a lot of people to die.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/21/swedes-breaking-loose-coronavirus-restrictions/
A month ago Swedish death rate was about same level as Portugal, but now is about 3 times greater, and Sweden currently is just behind France.
http://www.vukcevic.co.uk/EuropeCV.htm
“The future is uncertain and the end is always near.” – 20th Century Philosopher Jim Morrison
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Well … the WHO is absolutely correct about one thing! If the world continues to spend so much of our limited resources on the production of unhealthy meat … from chickens to cows … we’re all gonna DIE! Meat is Murder! Meat is death and disease; diabetes, and morbid obesity (the kind which Nancy Pelosi reminded us of) … underserved communities are starving as all our rainforests are dedicated to first world meat grazing. Ohhhhh mammmaaaa … the poor … and the colored are all victims of white first worlders.
See. It’s so easy to write utter bullshit. Where do I sign up for a fat 6-figure job? I can write this crap all day long …
Thank you, Charles, for cross posting this, and thank you, Andrew, for preparing it. Well done.
Stay safe and healthy, all.
Bob
From the article: “THE health establishment was looking away when the coronavirus struck; it had other priorities. If you look at the World Health Organisation’s list of health threats, number one is climate change.”
Lol !!!
One more reason why we should not be giving any money to the WHO.
Daily Telegraph: First drugs to treat coronavirus could be available as early as June, scientists say:
“More than 10,000 patients who have tested positive for coronavirus have been involved in the Recovery trial, which has been assessing whether five medications, which are already in use for other conditions, could help with Covid-19.
The drugs being tested are lopinavir-ritonavir, a commonly used treatment for HIV, dexamethasone, a type of steroid that reduces inflammation, and hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial championed by Donald Trump.
There is also the antibiotic azithromycin, a commonly used antibiotic, and tocilizumab, an anti-inflammatory treatment given by injection.
Professor Landray said thousands of lives could be saved if a drug could reduce fatalities even by one fifth, however he believes that combination therapies may be needed.
Professor Peter Horby, who is leading the trial, warned that coronavirus was likely to become endemic in Britain and that drugs would be needed in the long term.
Even if we get an effective vaccine, I think it will be impossible to eradicate this virus, he said.
It will be with us probably forever.
POTUS Trump has given the World Health Organisation 30 days to get its act together in a letter dated 18 March:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Tedros-Letter.pdf
The letter catalogues the failures of the WHO leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths from CV19. The closing paragraph presents this condition:
The entire UN should be defunded. It focuses on programs that are politically correct and keeps the politically correct funds rolling in. It is like our local council declaring a Climate Emercency. I have no idea why the local council is wasting money on Climate Emergency when they could be lowering my rate charges. The difference with the local council is that it has to face constituents every few years. IN administrators are never called to account – until now. I am VERY hopeful that Tedros falls on his sword. If I was Trump, that would be the only acceptable outcome along the path to completely defunding the UN.
“It says there are ‘downward trends in global yield potential for all major crops’ “…
The more you increase yield the more you reduce the potential for further increases.
The inference must be that yields have been increasing.
And there is plenty of potential for increased production and yields…a bit of honest management in Africa would help.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/agriculture/our-insights/winning-in-africas-agricultural-market
http://www.fao.org/giews/countrybrief/country.jsp?code=ZWE
Let’s think about the logic.
Under the Paris Accords, China is not required to do anything about CO2 emissions until 2030 and even then it need only identify its voluntary action plan. Meanwhile they build hundreds of coal power plants.
Western countries are expected to drastically cut their CO2 emissions, which is expected to have little actual effect on the climate but a devastating impact on their economies.
Thus greatest beneficiary of the “fight against Climate Change” is China.
Despite years of generous U.S. funding, China controls the World Health Organization.
Is it really a surprise the WHO identifies Climate Change as the greatest threat to human health?
Here is one for the books regarding the burst dams in Michigan. The owners applied to the state to allow for release of extra water to reduce the threat from high waters on a known weakened dam. The state of Michigan would not issue the permit for the release because it might imperil mussels downstream. It’s about 11 minutes in. The video might not stay up, it is Fox News Bret Baier’s nightly show. … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb8hUzBN0QU
In the past, people were fired for exhibiting gross incompetence in their job responsibilities, especially if such contributed to the death or injury of one or more persons.
The WHO exemplifies the “new normal” that we’re now living in. Job responsibilites? . . . pppffthht!