Essay by Eric Worrall
Sooo 2024 – “… The health harms of climate change are growing faster than the world’s response to them …”
Ahead of COP31, 146 Scientists Urge UN to Declare Climate Change a Global Health Emergency
“The health harms of climate change are growing faster than the world’s response to them, and in many cases even accelerating.”
JULIA CONLEY
Oct 28, 2026With less than two weeks to go until the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP31, brings world leaders to Antalya, Türkiye to discuss the need to transition away from fossil fuels, nearly 150 international experts warned that climate change brought on by greenhouse gas emissions constitutes a “global health emergency” whose harms are accelerating.
The “2026 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change,” written by researchers at University College London and the World Health Organization (WHO) and published in The Lancet, tracks dozens of indicators that link climate change to public health, including drought, extreme hurricanes and flooding, and economic losses.
But one top indicator that planetary heating has caused a worsening public health crisis is the extreme heat that was blamed for more than 50,000 deaths across Europe this summer, and which could lead to 450,000 excess deaths in the coming months as the climate emergencyis compounded by this year’s “Super El Niño.”
According to the report, annual average heat-related deaths have surged by nearly 36% since the Paris climate agreement was signed in 2015, securing pledges from governments to draw down fossil fuel emissions, compared to the decade preceding the deal.
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Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-change-and-public-health
Its almost nostalgic, these climate scientists trying to drum up engagement and enthusiasm for yesterday’s climate crisis.
Only globalist elites take the fake climate crisis seriously nowadays. The world has moved on, the fake artificial intelligence crisis is far more exciting.
As for world leaders turning up to that conference in Turkey, the COP31 host city Antalya is a 4 hour muscle boat ride from Latakia, Syria’s main seaport. I’m wondering how many security chiefs are having a quiet word with leaders who are considering attending.
President Erdogan of Turkey might think he has earned some consideration by engaging in diplomacy with terrorists, but that is not how this game works – there is always some splinter faction which isn’t happy. Just look at all the times Irish Republican Army splinter factions acted independently.
Of course if something bad does happen, I’m sure COP31 “President of Negotiations”, Aussie climate and energy minister Chris Bowen will save the day with his diplomacy skills.
