Posted on 05/16/2026 4:42:28 PM PDT by Libloather
The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, or millions more people will die unnecessarily, leading international experts have said.
The independent pan-European commission on climate and health, which was convened by the WHO, concluded the climate crisis was such a worldwide threat to health that the WHO should declare it “a public health emergency of international concern” (Pheic).
The international spread of vector-borne disease, such as dengue and chikungunya, as well as the health impacts of extreme weather events, global heating, food insecurity and air pollution make a Pheic necessary, said the commission’s report, which will be presented to European ministers on Sunday before the WHO’s world health assembly starts on Monday.
Pheics are the highest level of health alert. Previous declarations include infectious diseases such as Covid and Mpox. While declaring one would not on its own reverse climate change, it would trigger the kind of coordinated international response that the scale of the health crisis demands but has not yet materialised.
The 11-strong independent commission, which includes former health and climate ministers, said: “Far from being a fading priority or fake news, climate change poses an immediate and long-term threat to health, economic, food, water, environmental, personal, community and national security.”
In an interview with the Guardian, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, a former prime minister of Iceland who chaired the commission, said: “The climate crisis may not be a pandemic, but it’s still a public health emergency that threatens humanity’s very health and survival. And if we don’t act more quickly and comprehensively, many millions more people could die or face life-changing illness.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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Pheic that noise.
Remember how much we used to ridicule those people wearing sandwich boards declaring “the end is at hand”?
That is how we should (and many of us do) view Climate Alarmists.
Millions more????? Like are there any fouls dying now due to climate……. Other than people who already live in deserts etc.
Maybe they should produce another “vaccine”...
Greta Thunberg on steroids.
So glad Trump yanked us out of that cesspool called WHO.
My biggest laugh is man changing the time of the sunrise and sunset by changing the clock. omg...lol
I'm 82...They didn't have DST when I was a kid...and we survived....and the cows were happy...and the farmers were happy.
And now....the gofers are happy.
> The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization <
“And quick, send us more money,” they added.
These 'experts' are nothing more than fanatical climate-change religionists who still don't realize that the science was never on their side, yet they preach their false gospel of doom & gloom.
If the world warms up, everybody eventually dies. If the world gets colder, everybody eventually dies. There won’t be “extra deaths” whichever way it goes.
Funny how no matter what the problem is, communism is the proposed solution…
It’s all about money and power, but you knew that.
Wow! Didn’t see that coming /SSSSSSSSSSSSS
My gripe is they changed noon.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that “Climate Change” is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! For far too long Climate Activism has been used by Dumocrats to scare Americans, push horrible Energy Polices, and fund BILLIONS into their bogus research programs. Unlike the Dumocrats, who use Climate Alarmism nonsense to push their GREEN NEW SCAM, my Administration will always be based on TRUTH, SCIENCE, and FACT! President DONALD J. TRUMP
They obviously didn’t consult Al Gore who just a couple of weeks ago was warning us of an impending Ice Age - I can’t keep up!
Even Greta Thunberg knew that the gig is up. So she’s advocating for Gaza now.
If the world warms up, everybody eventually dies. If the world gets colder, everybody eventually dies.
And if the temperature stays the same, everybody eventually dies.
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