Climate Quackery

Vincent J. Curtis

26 Dec 24

RE: Health care and the climate crisis. By Wendy Levinson. Op-ed the Hamilton Spectator 26 Dec 24.

Professor of Medicine Wendy Levinson of the University of Toronto is another climate activist to whom the Spectator has lent its platform.  Let’s ignore for the moment that there is no climate crisis, according to 2022 Nobel Laurate in Physics, Dr. John Clauser.  Let’s ignore for the moment that the “carbon dioxide causes bad weather” thesis is falling apart as the censorship of free speech is eased.  Let’s ignore for the moment that Canada’s contribution to so-called greenhouse gas emissions is insignificant. Let’s focus on the hard evidence offer by Dr. Levinson to make her specific claims.

All the evidence are percentages of this and that under the unwarranted assumption that these are dangerous to the climate: she offers us accounting games without references. We have no evidence of the quality of her non-data: who made these estimates, and based on what?  Never mind that percentages of nothing aren’t hard data anyhow.

It doesn’t occur to her to consider the costs of reducing use these medications, or of any other of her recommendations. What does it cost the patients in pain and survivability to allegedly save the climate? She has no analysis of that. It doesn’t occur to her to say that medicine is too important an area to cut.

Dr. Levinson is another half-informed climate activist whose disastrous recommendations would cost her nothing if implemented.

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