The Wednesday October 2 PDN article “Climate change threatens health in Pacific Northwest” is full of lies, deceptions and unfounded claims.
The cause of more smoke in our area is not climate change, but grossly inadequate forest management. Wildfire data from the national organization coordinating wildfire-fighting efforts (the NIFC-NICC) proves that the number of wildfires has not increased over recent years. However, the acreage burned has increased, due to the failure to conduct controlled burns, quickly attack fires when the fire danger is high and harvest forests before they can burn.
It is highly deceptive to report more deaths during hot weather without noting that there has been a more marked decrease in cold weather deaths for a net reduction in temperature related deaths during the slight warming we have experienced.
Also, World Health Organization data shows a phenomenal 98+% decrease in world wide per capita deaths due to extreme events over the last 100 years – a great indication that we have used technology to avoid and adapt to weather problems.
It is also a lie to claim that increased CO2 causes “reduces nutrients in plants” or that a warming climate will cause more mosquito, flea and tick related illnesses. This is dominantly a public health issue not a weather issue. The worst malaria outbreak, in recent history, was in Siberia in the 1920s.
See http://climatechangereconsidered.org/climate-change-reconsidered-ii-biological-impacts/.
Proponents of bigger government, to get more control and achieve more socialistic type programs, are using climate change alarmism.
Gene Farr
Printed in The Peninsula Daily news
November 6, 2019
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