ProPublica reports that the “National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change.”
They are pretty sad about it but I’m not. They call it “catastrophic” and “devastating” but where has research like this got us? It only led to more misinformation like this from ProPublica:
“As extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, heat waves, wildfires and floods, continue to intensify and become more frequent, researchers are increasingly examining the impact climate change has on public health.”
Extreme weather events have gone down and the most extreme weather events that took the highest level of human toll were not recent. The strongest landfall wind hurricane to hit the U.S. was on Labor Day of 1935. The largest rainfall hurricane was Hurricane Easy in 1945. The worst storm to ever hit California was in December of 1961. The earth has experienced at least two periods of Global Warming above 2 degrees Celsius and recovered from both without research labs and green research and human mitigation.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services said this about defunding the health effects of climate change: “At HHS, we are dedicated to restoring our agencies to their tradition of upholding gold-standard, evidence-based science. As we begin to Make America Healthy Again, it’s important to prioritize research that directly affects the health of Americans. We will leave no stone unturned in identifying the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic as part of our mission to Make America Healthy Again.”
