Another day, another record-breaking heat wave. And this one is really really bad.
Amazon workers are going on strike…construction crews on the Canadian border are knocking off early to avoid heat…Florida utility workers are postponing checks for gas leaks due to excessive heat risks
Yet some folks still don’t think we humans are the problem…they call up all kinds of specious arguments supported by “I read an article…” “They said…” “This one scientist”
I’ve put together a handy point:counterpoint addressing deniers’ arguments…feel free to plagiarize!
About global warming!
Denier: Scientists don’t agree that humans are driving global warming or, another equally wrong argument that “non-human events” (volcanoes??) are the driver.
Well…Net is even four years ago, almost every climate scientist agreed global warming is caused by humans.
Every credible scientific organization agrees.
More than 400 billion metric tons of carbon have been released into the atmosphere from the consumption of fossil fuels and cement production since 1751- half of which was emitted since the 1980s.
There are no credible sources asserting non-human greenhouse gas production is a significant contributor to the 45% increase in carbon over the last 150 years. (If you have any, please post in comments below)
Please consider keeping your column focused on Workers Compensation issues.
Hello JD and thanks for your note.
MCM covers a broad array of health care issues usually with an emphasis on work comp.
By any measure global warming is having and will continue to have a very significant impact on comp. Alas many deniers are finding their ideologically-driven biases are coming up against the hard truth that we are changing the
climate.
Similar to how I note the effects of CMS policy changes, regulations, and other factors on comp and other payers systems I’ll continue to try to convince deniers so they too can help develop mitigations.
Be well Joe