Sorry, Esquire, Climate Change Not Causing the Spread of Diseases
By H. Sterling Burnett -August 19, 20221
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Citing a single new study, the corporate media was abuzz recently with stories claiming climate change is likely to cause the spread of a variety of diseases, including often deadly or debilitating insect borne diseases. This is false. The study’s claims are based on computer model projections of the impact of climate change, not real world data. In addition, large volumes of prior research refutes the claim that global warming increases the range and incidences of diseases.
ABC News, USA Today, Weather.com, and Esquire, among many other corporate news outlets, carried stories linking supposed human caused climate change to the spread of diseases. The stories all cited a single new study in Nature as proving the connection.
Esquire’s story, titled “Apparently Climate Change Is Good for One Thing: Disease,” was typical of the mainstream media’s uncritical coverage of the Nature report, “Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change.”
Quoting the from the Nature’s summary Esquire writes:
https://climaterealism.com/2022/08/sorry-esquire-climate-change-not-causing-the-spread-of-diseases/
