Climate change is causing ‘catastrophic harm to health’ and action to tackle it cannot be put off because of Covid, medical journals warn


This is nonsense on stilts.  Warm weather is good for you. Winter is the season of dying.  And the claims about disasters also range between exaggerated and false.  For instance, the claim that agriculture is suffering is the reverse of the truth.  Almost every year grain crops are in glut


'Health is already being harmed by global temperature increases and the destruction of the natural world,' read an editorial published in more than 220 leading journals ahead of the Cop26 climate summit in November.

Since the pre-industrial era, temperatures have risen around 1.1 degrees Celsius (34 degrees Fahrenheit).

The editorial, written by the editors-in-chief of over a dozen journals including the Lancet, the East African Medical Journal, Brazil's Revista de Saude Publica and the International Nursing Review, said this had caused a plethora of health problems.

'In the past 20 years, heat-related mortality among people older than 65 years has increased by more than 50 percent,' it read.

'Higher temperatures have brought increased dehydration and renal function loss, dermatological malignancies, tropical infections, adverse mental health outcomes, pregnancy complications, allergies, and cardiovascular and pulmonary morbidity and mortality.'

It also pointed to the decline in agricultural production, 'hampering efforts to reduce undernutrition.'

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  1. The following was posted on the fake news network website some days ago. It is an opinion by a professor and an atmospheric scientist who studies extreme events - a professional disaster who can barely pretend to be concerned with facts.

    https://tinyurl.com/n87zwcxu

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