{"id":446957,"date":"2026-05-28T05:18:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=446957"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:18:50","slug":"the-who-is-at-it-again-climate-change-repackaged-as-a-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=446957","title":{"rendered":"The WHO is at it Again: Climate Change Repackaged as a Health Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"485\" data-attachment-id=\"446959\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=446959\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0-The-WHO-is-at-it-Again-Climate-Change-Repackaged-as-a-Health-Emergency.jpg?fit=1168%2C784&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1168,784\" 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;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0 The WHO is at it Again Climate Change Repackaged as a Health Emergency\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0-The-WHO-is-at-it-Again-Climate-Change-Repackaged-as-a-Health-Emergency.jpg?fit=723%2C485&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0-The-WHO-is-at-it-Again-Climate-Change-Repackaged-as-a-Health-Emergency-1024x687.jpg?resize=723%2C485&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-446959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0-The-WHO-is-at-it-Again-Climate-Change-Repackaged-as-a-Health-Emergency.jpg?resize=1024%2C687&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0-The-WHO-is-at-it-Again-Climate-Change-Repackaged-as-a-Health-Emergency.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0-The-WHO-is-at-it-Again-Climate-Change-Repackaged-as-a-Health-Emergency.jpg?resize=768%2C516&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0-The-WHO-is-at-it-Again-Climate-Change-Repackaged-as-a-Health-Emergency.jpg?resize=640%2C430&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0-The-WHO-is-at-it-Again-Climate-Change-Repackaged-as-a-Health-Emergency.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/tilakdoshi.substack.com\/p\/the-who-is-at-it-again-climate-change\">Tilak\u00b4s Substack<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@tilakdoshi\">Tilak Doshi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"627\" height=\"480\" data-attachment-id=\"446965\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=446965\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-241.png?fit=627%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"627,480\" 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;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-241.png?fit=627%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-241.png?resize=627%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-446965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-241.png?w=627&amp;ssl=1 627w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-241.png?resize=300%2C230&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Vintage illustration of Hippocrates and his wife attending to the medical needs of a sick young boy (screen print), 1959. (Photo by GraphicaArtis\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Dutch Health Minister Ernst Kuipers, in his capacity as a member of the <strong>World Health Organisation\u2019s Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health<\/strong>, declared last week: \u201cThe impact of climate change is enormous\u2026 so enormous that there is really no escaping it.\u201d This statement, highlighted in a hard-hitting analysis published on Saturday by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/clintel.org\/propaganda-who-accused-of-fearmongering-over-climate-and-public-health\/\">Marcel Crok<\/a>&nbsp;of the Climate Intelligence (<a href=\"https:\/\/clintel.org\/\">CLINTEL<\/a>) network, perfectly captures the rhetorical strategy now being deployed by the WHO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WHO and aligned outlets like the<em>&nbsp;Lancet<\/em>&nbsp;are once again<strong> framing climate change<\/strong> as an<strong> \u201cinternational public health emergency\u201d<\/strong>, complete with dire warnings about heat-related deaths, extreme weather and the spread of infectious diseases. Yet, as Crok meticulously documents, these claims amount to <strong>\u201cshameless climate propaganda\u201d<\/strong> that conveniently ignores readily available data showing dramatic declines in weather-related mortality and vastly greater deaths from cold than from heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The timing is telling. Even as the IPCC has quietly moved away from its <strong>most extreme RCP8.5 scenario<\/strong> in preparations for its Seventh Assessment Report, the health scare machine is being cranked up to full volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The COVID-19 Model<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">H.L. Mencken, that most astute observer of the democratic follies of his age, famously remarked that the whole aim of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/34764-the-whole-aim-of-practical-politics-is-to-keep-the\">practical politics<\/a>&nbsp;is to keep the populace alarmed \u2014 and hence clamorous to be led to safety \u2014 by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. One wonders what Mencken would have made of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/europe\/news\/item\/17-05-2026-climate-change-is-a-health-crisis---and-fixing-it-is-a-health-opportunity\">World Health Organisation<\/a>&nbsp;in 2026, an institution that has perfected the art of the hobgoblin to a degree that would have made even the most brazen 20th century propagandist blush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following COVID-19, it was more recently <strong>bird flu and monkeypox<\/strong>, then it was <strong>Hantavirus and Ebola <\/strong>the past few weeks, and each of these is always&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/09\/americas\/hantavirus-cases-double-argentina-climate-change-latam-intl\">linked to climate change<\/a>&nbsp;in the legacy media. This week, the WHO\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/europe\/publications\/m\/item\/pan-european-commission-on-climate-and-health--call-to-action\">Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health<\/a>&nbsp;(PECCH) \u2013 a body convened by WHO Europe and chaired by former Icelandic Prime Minister Katr\u00edn Jakobsd\u00f3ttir \u2013 declared that climate change in Europe must be treated as an<strong> \u201cinternational public health emergency\u201d<\/strong>. The Commission\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/europe\/publications\/m\/item\/pan-european-commission-on-climate-and-health--call-to-action\">Call to Action<\/a>, published on May 17th, 2026, urges governments to formally have the WHO declare climate change a \u201cpublic health emergency of international concern\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WHO-declared COVID-19 pandemic during 2020\u201321 provided the perfect petri dish to convert <strong>fears of climate catastrophe<\/strong> into statements of public health. Epidemiological control over society represented the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tilakdoshi\/2023\/12\/29\/climate-change-and-health-the-final-frontier\/\">final frontier<\/a>\u201c for climate alarmists seeking to justify sweeping behavioural and economic controls of Orwellian extremes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Vanessa Kerry \u2013 daughter of John Kerry, the Biden administration\u2019s special climate envoy \u2013 was appointed as the first-ever <strong>Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health for the WHO <\/strong>in June 2023. In her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/seedglobalhealth.org\/2023\/12\/05\/dr-vanessa-kerrys-keynote-address-at-the-cop28-reaching-the-last-mile-forum\/\">keynote address<\/a>&nbsp;to the first-ever day dedicated to health at a <strong>UN climate conference (COP)<\/strong>, Dr Kerry claimed \u201cthe climate crisis is a health crisis. And it\u2019s killing us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In December 2024, WHO Director-General&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/healthpolicy-watch.news\/climate-catastrophic-for-global-health-who-chief-tells-icj\/\">Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus testified<\/a>&nbsp;before the <strong>International Court of Justice<\/strong> that climate change is \u201cfundamentally a health crisis\u201d that is already \u201cwreaking havoc\u201d on human health and overwhelming healthcare systems worldwide. The WHO\u2019s own&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/climate-change-and-health\">fact sheet on climate change and health<\/a>&nbsp;opens by declaring that climate change is \u201cdirectly contributing to humanitarian emergencies from heatwaves, wildfires, floods, tropical storms and hurricanes\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Catastrophe, crisis, emergency <\/strong>\u2013 the vocabulary of panic deployed with bureaucratic precision, amplified by a client mainstream media serving as stenographers. Nothing focuses the mind \u2013 or sways voters \u2013 like the fear of plague, famine or pestilence. Linking carbon emissions to personal health risks was always going to be a powerful tool for politicians, bureaucrats and their vast array of Left-wing billionaire-funded NGO allies. What\u2019s striking in mid-2026 is how little the playbook has changed despite inconvenient developments on the climate modelling front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The WHO\u2019s Fear Campaign Gains Momentum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent months, Tedros has repeatedly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/speeches\/item\/who-director-general-s-statement-at-the-international-court-of-justice---responding-to-the-climate-change-health-crisis---13-december-2024\">described<\/a>&nbsp;climate change as<strong> \u201cin essence, a health crisis\u201d<\/strong>. The organisation\u2019s Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/europe\/news\/item\/17-05-2026-climate-change-is-a-health-crisis---and-fixing-it-is-a-health-opportunity\">issued calls<\/a>&nbsp;to treat it as a public health emergency, while a fresh&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanpub\/article\/PIIS2468-2667(26)00025-3\/fulltext\">Lancet study<\/a>&nbsp;on European heat-related deaths has been widely cited to stoke urgency. Outbreaks such as the Ebola resurgence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Hantavirus cases in parts of South America have been opportunistically tied to climate-driven ecological shifts in mainstream media coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The message is clear: the climate crisis is making us sick and only co-ordinated global action under the WHO and allied leadership in the appropriate <strong>UN agencies and multilateral institutions<\/strong> (such as the WEF, World Bank and the rest of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/01\/23\/government-by-hysteria-the-climate-and-covid-hobgoblins-begin-to-fade\/\">captured institutions<\/a>) can save us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not subtle. The WHO emphasises increasing frequency and intensity of extreme events while downplaying adaptation successes. Bj\u00f8rn Lomborg has rightly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BjornLomborg\/status\/2050607301099217305\">called<\/a>&nbsp;recent&nbsp;<em>Lancet&nbsp;<\/em>work on heat deaths \u201ctextbook climate deception\u201d, pointing out that observed increases are largely explained by Europe\u2019s ageing population rather than marginal warming. The same<em>&nbsp;<strong>Lancet<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;papers the WHO promotes have elsewhere estimated roughly five million annual deaths globally from suboptimal temperatures \u2013 with <strong>cold-related deaths<\/strong> outnumbering heat-related ones by nearly 10 to one (and, what may seem surprising to many, far higher ratios in regions like Africa). <strong>Meanwhile, deaths from extreme weather events (hurricanes, floods, droughts) have fallen more than 97% since the 1920s, even as populations and wealth have grown. Population-adjusted risk has declined by over 99%.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Institutional Ambitions and Influences<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WHO\u2019s enthusiasm for the climate-health nexus cannot be separated from its broader institutional incentives and funding realities. After the United States formally completed its withdrawal from the WHO in January 2026 \u2013 citing the organisation\u2019s mishandling of COVID-19, lack of reform and political influences \u2013 the funding gap has been partly filled by private actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chief among them is the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation has provided over $5.5 billion in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gh.bmj.com\/content\/10\/10\/e015343\">grants to the WHO<\/a>&nbsp;between 2000 and 2024, making it one of the organisation\u2019s largest contributors overall and a dominant force in global health priorities, particularly vaccines and infectious disease programmes. Through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/ideas\/media-center\/press-releases\/2025\/06\/gavi-vaccine-funding-outcome\">GAVI<\/a>, the <strong>Vaccine Alliance<\/strong> \u2013 which Gates helped found and has heavily funded \u2013 the foundation exerts enormous influence over international vaccination policy and supply chains. Recent pledges, including $1.6 billion commitments to<strong> GAVI<\/strong> to offset cuts in governmental funding, underscore how Gates\u2019s philanthropy has stepped into the void left by the US exit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critics have long noted the potential for such concentrated private funding to shape WHO agendas. With the US gone, Gates-aligned priorities \u2013 often focused on technocratic and pharmaceutical,<strong> \u201cexpert-driven<\/strong>\u201d solutions, always profitable of course \u2013 gain even greater sway. This is particularly relevant as the WHO pushes the <strong>\u201cOne Health\u201d framework<\/strong> that seamlessly integrates climate, environment, animals and human health into a single <strong>Orwellian governance<\/strong> domain. In May 2023,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/anJWQ5eDfio?t=579\">MEP Mislav Kolaku\u0161i\u0107 (Croatia) said<\/a>: \u201cThe World Health Organisation wants all countries to sign an agreement on handing over the authority to declare a pandemic, procure vaccines and drugs. It will be healthier and safer for humanity to sign an agreement with the Colombian drug cartel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compounding these concerns is the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/articles\/who-and-china-dereliction-duty\">documented influence of China<\/a>&nbsp;in the WHO\u2019s leadership. Tedros secured election as Director-General in 2017 with strong backing from China and a bloc of African and Asian nations. Beijing reportedly worked behind the scenes to support his candidacy over competitors such as the UK\u2019s David Nabarro. Shortly after taking office, Tedros publicly affirmed support for the <strong>\u201cOne China\u201d <\/strong>principle. During the early Covid-19 outbreak, he heaped praise on China\u2019s response and delayed critical actions \u2013 an episode that fuelled widespread accusations of undue Chinese influence. While Tedros has rejected claims of any \u201cdeal\u201d, the pattern of alignment has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/healthpolicy-watch.news\/allegations-that-china-bought-off-the-who\/\">noted<\/a>&nbsp;by close observers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Failed Pandemic Power Grab<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These dynamics matter because the WHO has not abandoned its ambitions for greater authority. For years, it pushed a <strong>Pandemic Agreement <\/strong>(often called the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/questions-and-answers\/item\/pandemic-prevention--preparedness-and-response-accord\">Pandemic Treaty<\/a>\u201c) that many feared would erode national sovereignty by granting the organisation sweeping powers over health policy, intellectual property and emergency responses during future crises. Intense negotiations and resistance from governments wary of ceding control ultimately produced a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/healthpolicy-watch.news\/countries-say-yes-to-pandemic-agreement\/\">watered-down text<\/a>\u00a0that largely preserved national sovereignty. The WHO\u2019s latest attempt to centralise global health governance largely failed to deliver the expansive powers the globalist insiders sought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Covid and climate change have been the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tilakdoshi\/2020\/05\/14\/coronavirus-and-climate-change-a-tale-of-two-hysterias\/\">two great hysterias<\/a>&nbsp;of our times, both sharing tactics of fear amplification, junk model-driven panic, suppression of dissent and justification of extraordinary measures in the name of public health. The climate-health linkage is only the latest iteration of this age-old pattern of authoritarians who claim expert knowledge to order people\u2019s lives onto the road to serfdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Evidence of Human Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of this alarmism squares with the broader empirical record of human well-being.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/\">Our World in Data<\/a>&nbsp;documents extraordinary gains: global life expectancy has roughly doubled since 1900; extreme poverty has collapsed from nearly 40% in 1980 to single digits today; access to clean water, sanitation, electricity and healthcare has soared; and deaths from communicable diseases have plummeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These improvements occurred alongside climate fluctuations and were powered by economic growth, technological innovation and affordable energy \u2013 most of it from fossil fuels. Indur Goklany\u2019s extensive scholarship, including&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/books\/improving-state-world-why-were-living-longer-healthier-more-comfortable-lives-cleaner-planet\">The Improving State of the World<\/a><\/em>, demonstrates how fossil fuel-enabled prosperity has been the greatest liberator from Malthusian traps. Higher energy access supports better agriculture, refrigeration, air conditioning, infrastructure and disaster resilience \u2013 the exact factors driving down <strong>climate-related mortality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Paul Ehrlich\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Population Bomb<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;predictions of mass famine and collapse (famously illustrated by his apocalyptic visions of Calcutta from the vantage of a taxi window) were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/innovation\/book-incited-worldwide-fear-overpopulation-180967499\/\">spectacularly wrong<\/a>&nbsp;for the same reason: human ingenuity and energy abundance defied neo-Malthusian logic. Yet the spirit of Ehrlich-style environmental catastrophism lives on in today\u2019s climate-health narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/malaria\/history\/index.html\">malaria precedent<\/a>&nbsp;remains instructive. Once widespread in Europe and North America, the disease was eradicated there through drainage, insecticides, economic development and public health infrastructure \u2013 not by \u2018cooling the planet\u2019, whatever that means. In poorer nations today, restricting affordable energy in the name of <strong>climate goals risks<\/strong> reversing hard-won health gains far more than modest warming itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hobgoblins and Human Flourishing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Climate changes (\u2018natural variability\u2019) <\/strong>and human activities may both have contributed to climate change, but the data do not tell us by how much, as the physicist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tilakdoshi\/2021\/04\/30\/lets-work-for-science-with-integrity-steve-koonins-new-book-unsettled\/\">Steve Koonin has argued authoritatively<\/a>. Prudent adaptation \u2013 resilient infrastructure, improved healthcare systems, technological innovation in energy and agriculture \u2013 makes eminent sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does not make sense is the relentless campaign to portray every health challenge as another symptom of the <strong>\u2018carbon dioxide crisis\u2019<\/strong>, even as the IPCC retreats from its most apocalyptic scenarios and real-world data show humanity becoming far more resilient to environmental extremes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WHO\u2019s leadership in this effort, amplified by influential funders like the Gates Foundation in the wake of the US withdrawal and shadowed by past controversies over <strong>Chinese influence<\/strong>, suggests groupthink and institutional incentives at work. Health scares justify growing budgets and policy influence. They also detract from the proven drivers of better health outcomes: prosperity, affordable energy and practical engineering. Health and human flourishing are not achieved through global targets set by \u2018experts\u2019 and \u2018philanthropists\u2019 like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/11\/06\/bill-gatess-climate-u-turn-real-epiphany-or-expedient-pivot\/\">Mr Gates<\/a>, or philosopher-queens like the unelected European Commission President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/10\/19\/europes-terminal-decline-the-philosopher-queens-and-their-ruinous-rule\/\">Ursula von der Leyen<\/a>, pushing the latest vaccines, social media censorship and digital ID initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Mencken understood, the mightiest hobgoblin is the threat to health. But the data tell a far more optimistic story. Humanity is healthier, wealthier and better equipped to handle environmental challenges than at any point in history (except for the shocks to global human welfare caused by the Covid lockdowns and, most recently, by the Strait of Hormuz blockade). Real public health progress has always come from technological innovation and economic growth, not from perpetual climate alarmism that demands we sacrifice development to meet abstract planetary goals. Policymakers and citizens should insist on evidence-based approaches that prioritise human flourishing over the latest iteration of the climate-health hobgoblin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article was first published in the Daily Sceptic <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2026\/05\/26\/the-who-is-at-it-again-climate-change-repackaged-as-a-health-emergency\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2026\/05\/26\/the-who-is-at-it-again-climate-change-repackaged-as-a-health-emergency\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dr Tilak K. Doshi is the&nbsp;<\/em>Daily Sceptic<em>\u2018s Energy Editor. He is an economist, a member of the CO\u2082 Coalition and a former contributor to&nbsp;<\/em>Forbes<em>. Follow him on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tilakdoshi.substack.com\/\">Substack<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tilakdoshi\">X<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not subtle. The WHO emphasises increasing frequency and intensity of extreme events while downplaying adaptation successes. Bj\u00f8rn Lomborg has rightly called recent Lancet work on heat deaths \u201ctextbook climate deception\u201d, pointing out that observed increases are largely explained by Europe\u2019s ageing population rather than marginal warming. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, deaths from extreme weather events (hurricanes, floods, droughts) have fallen more than 97% since the 1920s, even as populations and wealth have grown. Population-adjusted risk has declined by over 99%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":446959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819134,691818056,691818152,691819743,691818195,691838747,691843229,691842178,691843325,691829557],"class_list":["post-446957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-alarmism","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-emergency","tag-climate-propaganda","tag-covid","tag-ipccs-rcp8-5-model-scenario","tag-pan-european-commission-on-climate-and-health-ecch","tag-pandemic-response","tag-public-health-emergency","tag-who-world-health-organisation","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1SgZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":324431,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=324431","url_meta":{"origin":446957,"position":0},"title":"Legal Absurdities in Climate Policy: A Critical Review of Tilak Doshi\u2019s Analysis","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/27\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"In his recent Forbes article,\u00a0Tilak Doshi criticizes a landmark ruling by Europe\u2019s highest human rights court, which mandates countries to protect their citizens from the consequences of climate change.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0njmptva.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0njmptva.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0njmptva.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0njmptva.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0njmptva.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":445916,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=445916","url_meta":{"origin":446957,"position":1},"title":"Sorry, Health \u2018Experts\u2019 and The Guardian, Climate Change Isn\u2019t Causing a \u2018Public Health Emergency\u2019","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"05\/22\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The Guardian published an article promoting a call by some scientists for the World Health Organization (WHO) to \u201cDeclare climate crisis a global public health emergency.\u201d The fact is there is no climate induced public health emergency meriting such action by the WHO. 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