Too Hot to Exercise? TIME Reports Climate Change Will Make Us All … Lazy?
Joseph Vazquez
March 18th, 2026 10:46 PM
Kick up your recliner chairs because you’re not going to believe this one! TIME magazine is out with a new report prophesying that climate change threatens to make us all lazy slobs!
“Scientists Warn of Health Risks As Climate Change Reduces Physical Activity,” read the knee-slapper headline from TIME reporter Simmone Shah. Shah waved around a new wacky study published in Lancet Global Health to foam at the mouth over how “rising global temperatures due to climate change could lead millions of people to be less physically active” and will supposedly lead to an increase of half a million deaths by 2050.
Yes, they’re actually projecting this nonsense out 24 years into the future, giving the misleading implication that humanity writ large is completely incapable of adaptation. But as Hoover Institution Visiting Fellow Bjorn Lomborg argued in November 2022, “Around the world, far more people die each year from cold than heat.” And that’s according to — get this — another report by The Lancet that Lomborg cited at the time. So which is it?
Climate Depot founder Marc Morano blasted Shah’s propaganda in comments to MRC Business. “Here we go again. TIME magazine just keeps churning out the most simplistic climate fears based on ‘models’ and ‘projections.’ It’s hard to believe that the magazine can even write this stuff anymore.” Countering Shah’s underlying thesis, Morano retorted, “What if we work out in air conditioning? Wouldn’t AC make this argument moot?” But as Morano pointed out to MRC, Shah is on record pushing to get rid of AC units too, as her February 2026 headline clearly illustrated: “New Study Finds Air Conditioners Will Exacerbate Climate Change As Planet Warms.” Incredible.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2026/03/18/too-hot-exercise-time-reports-climate-change-will-make-us
