Forbes and Frist Are Wrong About Climate Change Harming Human Well-Being
By
Linnea Lueken
January 15, 2025
Healthcare and medical business concept
A recent article in Forbes written by Bill Frist, titled “The Changing Climate Is A Health Crisis: A Call To Action For Human Well-Being,” makes the oft-repeated claim that climate change is threatening to harm and already actively harming human health. This is false. Many of the conditions Frist claims are worsening are not actually worsening, and others lack sufficient data to place blame on climate change.
Frist, a medical doctor and former Republican U.S. Senate Majority Leader, begins by attributing the still burning Los Angeles wildfires, and recent hurricanes, and heat waves to climate change. Climate Realism has touched on why none of these are due to the modest warming of the past century, regardless of any human contributions, here, here, and here, respectively.
“The connection is undeniable: a progressively warming planet with increasing extreme weather patterns and biodiversity loss is reshaping the conditions necessary for human survival, with profound consequences for the well-being of each of us, both for today and tomorrow,” writes Frist. He lists several ways by which this is supposedly occurring, and while we won’t cover each in detail in this post, none of his points break new ground — each and every claims is based on the false premise that climate change is a catastrophic threat.
https://climaterealism.com/2025/01/forbes-and-frist-are-wrong-about-climate-change-harming-human-well-being/
