{"id":319712,"date":"2024-04-22T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=319712"},"modified":"2024-04-22T13:17:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:17:35","slug":"why-is-the-who-asking-doctors-to-lie-to-promote-climate-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=319712","title":{"rendered":"Why is the WHO Asking Doctors to Lie to Promote Climate Alarm?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"319722\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=319722\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0-communist.jpeg?fit=1920%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0-communist\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0-communist.jpeg?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0-communist.jpeg?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-319722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0-communist.jpeg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0-communist.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0-communist.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0-communist.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0-communist.jpeg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0-communist.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0-communist.jpeg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/04\/12\/why-is-the-who-asking-doctors-to-lie-to-promote-climate-alarm\/\">The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/author\/benjamin-pile\/\">BEN PILE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"405\" data-attachment-id=\"319713\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=319713\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-11-22.08.13.jpeg?fit=969%2C543&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"969,543\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Screenshot-2024-04-11-22.08.13\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-11-22.08.13.jpeg?fit=723%2C405&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-11-22.08.13.jpeg?resize=723%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-319713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-11-22.08.13.jpeg?w=969&amp;ssl=1 969w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-11-22.08.13.jpeg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-11-22.08.13.jpeg?resize=768%2C430&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, everybody\u2019s favourite intergovernmental agency, the World Health Organisation (WHO),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/22-03-2024-who-launches-new-toolkit-empowering-health-professionals-to-tackle-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a>&nbsp;a \u201cnew toolkit empowering health professionals to tackle climate change\u201d. The toolkit is the latest attempt to enlist one of the most trusted professions into the climate war. But not only is this transparently ideological and condescending \u2018toolkit\u2019 lacking in fact, it requires \u2018healthcare professionals\u2019 to use their authority to eschew science and lie to their patients and politicians. The climate war is, after all, political.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem for climate warriors of all kinds since the climate scare story emerged in the 1980s and became orthodoxy in the 1990s and 2000s has been the rapid improvement of all human welfare metrics the world over. On the one hand, all life on Earth and the collapse of civilisation hangs in the balance \u2013 that is supposedly the implication of data that shows the atmosphere has got warmer. But on the other hand, people living in economies at all levels of development are today living longer, healthier, wealthier and safer lives than any preceding generation. The era of \u2018global boiling\u2019, as UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres put it, also happens to be the era in which unprecedented social development has occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is a paradox if you accept the green premise that economic development comes at the expense of the climate. The UN, which has staked its authority on being able to address \u2018global\u2019 issues such as environmental degradation, is committed to defending the \u2018global boiling\u2019 narrative. But, at the same time, actively trying to retard the development of low-income countries risks undermining its authority in the developing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement made by the WHO\u2019s introduction to its new toolkit epitomises the feeble efforts to square this circle, which try to spin interference in the development of low-income countries as being for their benefit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our world is witnessing a concerning trend of warming temperatures, extreme weather events, water and food security challenges and deteriorating air quality. The frequency and intensity of these events are surpassing the capacity of both natural and human systems to respond effectively, resulting in far-reaching consequences for health.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Surprisingly, for a \u2018toolkit\u2019 aimed at people such as doctors, who have a proven capacity to understand scientific literature, the toolkit offers little evidence in support of these claims. It says that \u201cchanging weather patterns and extreme weather events can reduce crop yields,&nbsp;potentially leading to food insecurity and malnutrition\u201d and that the \u201cbreeding window for mosquito-borne disease is broadening due to changing weather patterns\u201d. The reference for both of these claims is given in a footnote, which provides a link to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/syr\/downloads\/report\/IPCC_AR6_SYR_LongerReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2023 IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report<\/a>, which says in relation to the first claim:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The occurrence of climate-related food-borne and water-borne diseases has increased (very high confidence). The incidence of vector-borne diseases has increased from range expansion and\/or increased reproduction of disease vectors (high confidence).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But dig a little deeper into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg2\/chapter\/chapter-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IPCC\u2019s discussion on vector-borne diseases<\/a>\u00a0and you find the following figure depicting mortality risk of various climate-related factors for six regions of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"548\" data-attachment-id=\"319716\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=319716\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-321.png?fit=823%2C624&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"823,624\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-321\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-321.png?fit=723%2C548&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-321.png?resize=723%2C548&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-319716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-321.png?w=823&amp;ssl=1 823w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-321.png?resize=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-321.png?resize=768%2C582&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the data clearly show, since 1990 there have been radical reductions in mortality caused by malaria, malnutrition, diarrhoeal disease, natural disasters and exposure to temperature extremes. The only departure from those trends is dengue, which in any case is of far less significance than the other factors, claiming approximately just 1.75 lives per 100,000 per year, compared with malaria, which claims more than 50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do these data compare with the WHO\u2019s claim that \u201cthe frequency and intensity of these events are surpassing the capacity of both natural and human systems to respond effectively, resulting in far-reaching consequences for health\u201d, and the \u201coccurrence of climate-related food-borne and water-borne diseases\u201d and the \u201cincidence of vector-borne diseases\u201d have increased? They do not compare. In Africa, deaths from malnutrition have fallen by three quarters between 1990 and 2017.&nbsp;Diarrhoeal disease mortality has fallen by two thirds in the same period. Malaria deaths have halved. Consequently, more than 10,000 fewer infants die in the world&nbsp;<em>each day<\/em>&nbsp;than died each day in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is, or ought to be, all the more remarkable to anyone who tracks developmental data, because of the WHO\u2019s longstanding attempt to link these diseases of poverty to climate change. In the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/9241562072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2002 World Health Report<\/a>, the WHO claimed that 154,000 deaths were attributable to climate change, almost exclusively in High Mortality Developing Countries (HMDCs) \u2013 a figure obtained by estimating climate change\u2019s impact on each of these diseases of poverty. Yet despite the radical progress that has been shown since 2000, the WHO has shown no interest either in revising its understanding of climate change or in developing an understanding of what has driven these improvements in global health, in spite of its name. Instead, it has doubled down on the climate-health narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A similar \u2018paradox\u2019 can be shown by comparing the WHO\u2019s statements on food security with other UN agencies\u2019 data. There is no evidence of climate change adversely affecting agricultural production in vulnerable economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"481\" data-attachment-id=\"319718\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=319718\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-322.png?fit=926%2C616&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"926,616\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-322\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-322.png?fit=723%2C481&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-322.png?resize=723%2C481&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-319718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-322.png?w=926&amp;ssl=1 926w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-322.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-322.png?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the WHO\u2019s toolkit urges \u201chealth professionals\u201d to \u201ccommunicate\u201d the urgent climate crisis to ordinary people and to use their authority to influence politics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things you could say to a policymaker: Climate change is here now, and I am already seeing the impacts on my patients\u2019 health. The health of some people is affected more severely, including children and elderly people, disadvantaged communities, remote communities, and people with disabilities or chronic illness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People are living longer and healthier lives. Infant mortality is way down. Far fewer people are living in poverty. But the WHO wants doctors and nurses to claim that the opposite is true. And worse than that, the toolkit advises those doctors and nurses not to debate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t debate the science Don\u2019t get caught up in conversations that question climate science. It\u2019s not up for debate. If conversation veers into this territory, redirect it back to your professional expertise and the links between climate change and health.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there are no \u201clinks between climate change and health\u201d. And if there appear to be, these local or regional health trends run counter to the global trends. Therefore, there must be a better explanation than \u2018climate change\u2019. It may well be that extreme weather afflicts a place, or even that unusual weather causes the population of that place a number of problems, as it always has. But \u2018extreme weather\u2019 is both rare and as yet not attributable to climate change,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rogerpielkejr.substack.com\/p\/what-the-ipcc-actually-says-about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on the IPCC\u2019s own analysis<\/a>. And so, if small changes in weather are coincident with negative economic change or health metrics, the cause is less likely to be meteorological than political in nature. For example, incompetence, especially that of undemocratic regimes\u2019 bureaucracies, is very often the cause of hunger, thirst and the lack of basic services. And in their haste to find politically expedient correlations between weather and welfare metrics, researchers fail to consider alternative causes, despite the knowledge that humans are far more sensitive to economic forces than to nature\u2019s whims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t believe me? Well,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/disease-burden-to-communicable-diseases-vs-gdp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the evidence<\/a>\u00a0is extremely stark. Whereas the WHO wants to persuade doctors to ignore science to claim there are \u201clinks between climate change and health\u201d, by far the strongest predictor of health is in fact wealth. Accordingly, the WHO 2002 report found practically no climate-related deaths in \u2018Low Mortality Developing Countries\u2019 and \u2018Developing Countries\u2019. There are no deaths \u201cfrom climate change\u201d where malaria, malnutrition and diarrhoea are eliminated by rising income levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"504\" data-attachment-id=\"319719\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=319719\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-323.png?fit=884%2C616&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"884,616\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-323\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-323.png?fit=723%2C504&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-323.png?resize=723%2C504&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-319719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-323.png?w=884&amp;ssl=1 884w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-323.png?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-323.png?resize=768%2C535&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seen from this perspective, the WHO\u2019s mobilisation of health professionals looks very much like a political campaign against wealth. Only such an ideological \u2013 and anti-science \u2013 aversion to wealth could put such emphasis on the link between health and weather, because whereas doctors can and should say that income and health are linked, the WHO presses them not to: the best thing that can be given to poorer people is \u2018stable weather\u2019, apparently, not higher incomes. The toolkit even anticipates this criticism, advising people how to answer the argument that \u201cclimate action is perceived as detrimental to the economy\u201d. According to the WHO, this is \u201can untrue and unhelpful perception held by some people\u2026 which was repeated by some businesses and governments to delay the implementation of climate solutions\u201d. A conspiracy theory, no less, which is supported only by the highly dubious claim that \u201cfor every dollar spent on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, approximately $2 are saved in health costs\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any doctor who took such an extraordinary and unevidenced claim about a new drug at face value and promptly started prescribing it to their patients would have his or her licence taken away. Britain, for instance, spends around \u00a310 billion per year on subsidising its green electricity transition alone, yet there is no evidence of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/healthandsocialcare\/healthcaresystem\/bulletins\/ukhealthaccounts\/2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NHS budget<\/a>&nbsp;benefiting by \u00a320bn. An analysis of Germany\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Energiewende<\/em>&nbsp;estimates the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleanenergywire.org\/factsheets\/how-much-does-germanys-energy-transition-cos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">annual cost<\/a>&nbsp;at \u20ac45 billion, yet per capita&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.destatis.de\/EN\/Themes\/Society-Environment\/Health\/Health-Expenditure\/_node.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expenditure on healthcare<\/a>&nbsp;rose from \u20ac3,500 in 2009 to \u20ac5,700 in 2021 \u2013 an increase of 62%. Moreover, Germany\u2019s green deindustrialisation has come at a heavy price, signalling to the world that not even a first-tier industrialised and wealthy nation can survive such environmentalism, with far reaching consequences looming for similar policies in the rest of Europe. The country\u2019s status as Europe\u2019s deep-green policy champion has passed and now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ecfr.eu\/publication\/getting-the-european-parliament-election-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">half of Germans believe<\/a>&nbsp;that lower prices should be put before emissions-reduction policies. German tractors, and for that matter French and Dutch ones as well, aren\u2019t heading to the capital\u2019s streets to protest against green economic and health miracles. The WHO\u2019s claim is simply mad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason the WHO\u2019s toolkit is so bereft of evidence and logic is because it\u2019s just political propaganda. The document credits authors who are not medical doctors and climate scientists, but psychologists at the Centre for Climate Change Communication located at George Mason University, led by Dr. Ed Maibach. As I have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/03\/25\/behavioural-scientists-arent-just-wrong-about-how-to-win-over-electorates-to-crackpot-progressive-policies-their-evident-contempt-for-the-masses-has-contributed-to-the-global-populist-revolt\/\">pointed out previously<\/a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<em>Daily Sceptic<\/em>, climate shrinks\u2019 unwelcome intrusion into climate politics does nothing to improve debate and only serves to antagonise increasingly intense conflicts. And their involvement in producing the WHO\u2019s toolkit is no exception. This remote, conflicted intergovernmental agency claims the authority of \u2018experts\u2019, but its guidance instructs doctors to eschew science, evidence and debate \u2013 it literally advises them not to engage in debate \u2013 and instead to promulgate green ideology: the mythical claim that there are \u2018links\u2019 between climate and health, that the green \u2018transition\u2019 will improve health and that complying with emissions targets is cheap as chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The toolkit may give \u2018healthcare professionals\u2019 the justification to lie to the public and politicians, but that\u2019s not \u2018empowerment\u2019, it\u2019s just fibs. And its recruitment of psychologists to mobilise doctors and nurses as the instruments of a political agenda is yet more evidence of the urgent need to dismantle the WHO, for the sake of billions of people\u2019s health and wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Subscribe to&nbsp;Ben Pile\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>The Net Zero Scandal&nbsp;<em>Substack&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/netzeroscandal.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, everybody\u2019s favourite intergovernmental agency, the World Health Organisation (WHO),\u00a0published\u00a0a \u201cnew toolkit empowering health professionals to tackle climate change\u201d. 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