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Michael Bastach reports that the White House wants doctors and other medical professionals to teach Americans about global warming and how climate change could make their health worse. At a summit the White House called to bring together health and medical professionals, academics, and other stakeholders to empower people and communities with the information and tools they need to protect public health in the face of climate change, Obama told medical professionals in a taped address that he needs "doctors, nurses and citizens, like all of you to get to work to raise awareness and organize folks for real change." The central message: doctors should warn their patients that global warming could make their health worse. "We need to engage medical students themselves," said Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General, "to demand the curriculum change" to prepare them for a warmer future."
Critics of the White House summit argued the event highlighted the collusion between the Obama administration and activist groups and called out the White house for teaming up with the American Lung Association (ALA) to promote the link between global warming and public health. "The involvement of the ALA in promoting and organizing today's White House summit on climate change and health is yet another sign that the Obama administration has been co-opted by outside pressure groups, and has politicized the EPA's decision-making process," wrote Karen Kerrigan, president of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @05:35AM
Who said anything about CO2? Climate change is higher temps or outside of the normal weather for a area. Explaining that the extra hot summer might "effect" your blood pressure and then say if you start to feel this effect call me because this med makes you feel weak because of the heat isn't preaching about climate change, its doing their job. All the White House requested is that climate changed be studied and effects of it passed onto doctors. Again nothing is being said about having the doctor tell you about climate change and how to stop it only its effects on you.
So what you say about little exercise and proper diet is just the kind of advice this is to bring about. Heat and cold effect people in different ways. Some of the drugs I have warn me to stay out of direct sunlight for extended time frame. One says something about not being out in the heat when above 90F because of its side effects. And these are the ones they warn you about.