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WHO Official Peddles False Pandemic Link To Climate Change

by H. Sterling Burnett
April 14, 2020, 5:09 PM
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coronavirus-mask womanWorld Health Organization (WHO) officials are diverting attention away from the real causes of global pandemics and the Chinese government’s culpability in the spread of the Wuhan COVID-19 coronavirus by launching propaganda falsely linking pandemics to global warming.

In the latest example, WHO researcher Arthur Wyns authored an article in Scientific American falsely claiming climate change may “make the effects of a current or future pandemic worse.”

Overwhelming scientific evidence, however, shows a warmer climate reduces the likelihood and severity of epidemics and pandemics.

Wyns’ article, “Climate Change and Infectious Diseases,” dismisses without scientific support the likelihood that warmer temperatures inhibit the spread of coronavirus, just as scientists know warm weather inhibits the spread of influenza.

Transmissible diseases like the flu and the coronavirus are far more prevalent during the late-fall, winter, and early spring, when the weather is cold and damp, rather than in the summer months when it is warm and dry.

Everyone knows the “flu season” runs from fall through early spring. And colds, while not unheard of, are less common in the summer as well.

In fact, cold temperatures kill many more people globally than warm or hot temperatures.

In an article published in the Southern Medical Journal in 2004, W. R. Keatinge and G. C. Donaldson noted: “Cold-related deaths are far more numerous than heat-related deaths in the United States, Europe, and almost all countries outside the tropics, and almost all of them are due to common illnesses that are increased by cold.”

More recently in a study published in the Lancet in 2015, researchers examined health data from 384 locations in 13 countries, accounting for more than 74 million deaths, and found cold weather, directly or indirectly, killed 1,700% more people than warm or hot weather.

Wyn also tells tall tales when he writes, “climate change is causing widespread drought and desertification in much of the world, threatening the availability of water for consumption, food production, personal hygiene, and medical care, including for infectious disease.”

Yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the supposed ‘gold standard’ of scientific consensus, finds no such link.

As reported in Climate at a Glance: Drought, “The U.N. IPCC reports with ‘high confidence’ that precipitation has increased over mid-latitude land areas of the Northern Hemisphere (including the United States) during the past 70 years, while IPCC has “low confidence” about any negative trends globally. (See here, p. 191.)”

As reported by Climate Realism, this isn’t the first time that a WHO official exploited the coronavirus to promote climate change extremism and socialism.

In an address for the radical activist group Extinction Rebellion about coronavirus and climate change, Michael Marmot, a commission chairman at the WHO, praised massive government programs that will “socialize the economy.”

Blaming pandemics on climate change may take attention away from the Chinese government’s culpability in the spread of coronavirus and the WHO’s incompetent response to coronavirus, but it advances shameful misinformation that is costing people their lives.

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Comments 8

  1. Amber says:
    6 years ago

    W.H.O. is about to become extinct .
    Their lies and backing of China has resulted in at least 100,000 pre- mature deaths to date .
    They blow $200 million on business class , first class and five star hotels .
    Bye Bye WHO you won’t be missed . … OK maybe by China .

    Reply
  2. Russell Johnson says:
    6 years ago

    Simply put WHO is another power ravenous, global bureaucrat, fraternity cabal, hellbent to play their cards leading to world domination.

    Reply
  3. Spurwing Plover says:
    6 years ago

    The Useless Nations has always been a Globalists group of Dictators,Despots,tyrants and Terrorists sponsoring Nations it was founded by Joe Stalin and its the enemy set up right here on American Soil We need to pull out of tge UN evict them from America and let them set up in Moscow where they would be more at home lets tear up all those treaties and either tear down the UN facility or turn it into Homeless Shelter especialy for Homeless Vets

    Reply
    • Graham McDonald says:
      6 years ago

      Just a little bit of a correction. FDR instigated the setting up of the initial meetings in San Francisco. He sent his trusty aide Alger Hiss to do the leg-work. You’re probably aware that the US code-breaking organization in WW2 was copying all sorts of cablegrams, even those of nominal allies – including the USSR – ie Stalin. It wasn’t until 1994 when the US released the Verona Papers that many people even knew what was happening in secret. One of the individuals identified as a soviet spy – Alger Hiss. Yes – he had a ‘code’ name. One cablegram mentioned that three Americans had accompanied Stalin back to Moscow after a Big Three conference. Hiss was one of them. In several other cables, his code name was placed in certain locations at particular times. So it became a matter of, what one person matched all of the times and places. Hiss was a spy.

      Interesting – in the UN’s own web site history, they mention JFK as a reporter for the Hurst newspapers. I’d never heard that before…..

      Reply
  4. Charles Higley says:
    6 years ago

    “Transmissible diseases like the flu and the coronavirus are far more prevalent during the late-fall, winter, and early spring, when the weather is cold and damp, rather than in the summer months when it is warm and dry.”

    So global warming would shorten the flu season. Where is the problem here?

    If you look at various regions, you will see that northern regions have a short, intense flu season because of the indoor crowding, while the flu season is longer in southern regions due to less intense crowding. This is not rocket science.

    Reply
  5. Chaamjamal says:
    6 years ago

    The WHO is an agency of the UN and takes its orders from Guterres. It is no longer credible as a health organization. The UN is now in the climate business and its agencies have to serve that overriding cause. Pls see

    https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/03/18/the-eco-crisis-ambition-of-the-un/

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  6. Alan Stewart says:
    6 years ago

    Transmissible diseases like the flu and the coronavirus are far more prevalent during the late-fall, winter, and early spring, when the weather is cold and damp, rather than in the summer months when it is warm and dry.

    There is a massive difference certainly in the temperate climates. In the cold WE LOCK UP IN SMALL SPACES. In the summer windows and doors are open with FRESH air that must disperse pathogenic molecules better. Am I stupid?????? Somebody think about it and reply.
    Cheers

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