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Category: Economy-health
12 Ways the Planet Could Truly Be Saved | Bjørn Lomborg | EP 345
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Bjørn Lomborg go through each of the “doable dozen,” a series of issues that cost relatively little to solve, and yet doing so would yield…
Bloomberg and NewsBusters Show ESG Is Neither Virtuous Nor Profitable
… numerous states have also begun to wake up to the damaging effect of ESG-focused investment.
Avoiding a Malthusian Future
Though apparently horrified by the fruits of human ingenuity, the authors seem dimly aware that material wealth is essential for solving the myriad problems they predict, but only insofar as…
CNN Hypes False Dengue Fever Claims, Putting Climate Fears Ahead of Facts, Again
As CNN’s own story notes, dengue bearing mosquitos are already endemic to the countries it discusses, causing thousands of illnesses and hundreds of deaths each year.
Climate Change – Is It Time to Say Goodbye to Inhaled Anaesthesia?
Every sector must play its part in reducing both emission of harmful gases and overall energy use.
The Real Climate And Health Crisis
Congress, courts, states and voters must act now, to reverse the damage that climate and “green” energy policies are having on our economy, jobs, health, well-being, wildlife and environment.
Increased temperatures contributed to more than 200,000 cases of kidney disease in 15 years in Brazil alone, world’s largest study finds
In the paper the authors – who are also from the University of Sao Paulo – argue that the study “provides robust evidence that more policies should be developed to…
Wind Power Health Effects (latest from Scientific Reports)
In view of the adverse health impacts of exposure to turbine-generated LFN, it is recommended that the government set regulations on the requisite distances of wind turbines from residences, for…
Lomborg on Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes
So, what’s the point, except to scare?
Medical Journals Commit Malpractice with Climate Change Misdiagnosis
Data consistently show human health has steadily improved during the recent period of modest warming. Premature deaths from extreme temperatures, extreme weather events, and weather-related illnesses and mosquito borne diseases…
Czech Extreme Weather Fatalities Study Finds “Statistically Significant Falling Trend”…Most Related To Cold!
A study of Czech extreme weather fatalities show that the trend has been “significantly falling”. Most weather extreme fatalities were related to cold…less than 2% “heat related”!
Why mRNA vaccines could revolutionise medicine
The first Covid-19 vaccine given to British people this month is not just a welcome breakthrough against a grim little enemy that has defied every other weapon we have tried,…
African Polio Outbreak Linked to Vaccine
There is no doubt Polio vaccines have been an overwhelming benefit for humanity. Extensive use of Polio vaccines has led to the near eradication of this dreadful disease. But Polio…
How climate change affects allergies, immune response and autism
The changes in the environment and biodiversity brought on by climate change could be responsible for increases in allergies, autoimmune diseases and autism, according to a Rutgers researcher
Extreme Floods / Covid-19 / China Food Shortage Fears
China is not having a good year. Following China’s largely self inflicted Covid-19 disaster, and months of extreme rain pushing floodwaters against the structurally questionable Three Gorges dam, failure of…
Amazing Grace Saves A Wretch
What’s Natural Guest post by Jim Steele, Published June 30, 2020 in the Pacifica Tribune It’s curious how we find threads of good fortune interwoven with tragedy. Over a month…
Remaking Post-Covid-19 Capitalism in the West: Lessons for the East
Reposted from Forbes By Tilak Doshi As the world emerges painfully from the lockdown cure that is likely to be far worse than the disease of Covid-19, we are now…
Genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida and Texas beginning this summer – silver bullet or jumping the gun?
Brian Allan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Chris Stone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Holly Tuten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer Kuzma, North Carolina State University, and Natalie Kofler,…
Heat now more lethal than cold for people with respiratory diseases in Spain
Women and older adults are the populations most vulnerable to high temperatures Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) Barcelona, 20 May 2020. A new study by the Barcelona Institute for…
Coronavirus Blowback: Trump Threatens to Withhold Funds from the “China Centric” UN WHO
Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Trump has announced threatened the USA will withhold funds from the WHO in the wake of their gross mishandling of the Chinese Coronavirus outbreak.…
Warming Improves Our Health – part 1
What’s Natural Guest post by Jim Steele, It’s deeply disturbing to hear people uncritically regurgitate media misinformation suggesting global warming threatens our health far worse than the COVID pandemic. Scientific…
GreenBiz: “climate change could make the coronavirus seem like the good old days”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Greens desperately trying to harness concern about Covid-19 for their fake climate crisis. COVID-19 and climate change: A healthy dose of reality Joel Makower Monday,…
Column: A Stake Through the Heartland – Inflation and Supply Chain Issues Are Greatly Stressing the Country’s Producing Class
But global mismanagement of the fuel system – following very bad advice that the old can be now starved of capital and dismantled because erroneous fanatics have led to believe…