Statement from climate scientists and health
professionals:
Call to reveal ALL funding behind climate
sceptics
What motivates the Heartland Institute? As climate and
other scientists and health professionals, we view the systematic
sowing of unjustified doubt about mainstream
international climate science as confusing at best,
and inhumane at worst. The Hippocratic Oath, the values of which
generations of health professionals have adhered to, declares
‘first, do no harm’. In 2009, The Lancet declared, "climate
change is the biggest global health threat of the twenty-first
century". Healthcare professionals have a duty to protect
patients from disease and environmental harm. Biomedical
treatment is just one form of healthcare. Public health
professionals study relationships between climate change,
sustainability, human health, carbon, physiology, and weather
events. Scientific evidence demonstrates that sustainable
development can bring with it health benefits, making it a
win-win scenario (Lancet, November 2009). We only have a few
years to drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to avert
dangerous climate change. Given the disproportionate influence
given to climate sceptics by the media, it is in the public,
national, and global interest for all funding behind their
activities to be revealed. This will help people to make up their
own minds about the truth of the climate change threat, so that
action can be planned on the basis of evidence rather than
confusion.
Signed by:
Professor Chris Rapley CBE, Professor of Climate Science,
University College London
Dr. Jim Hansen, Climatologist, Columbia
University
Anthony J. McMichael AO, FTSE
Professor of Population Health, and NHMRC Australia
Fellow
The Australian National University
Professor Tim O'Riordan OBE, DL, FBA
Corinne Le Quéré,
Professor of Climate Change Science and Policy
Professor Martin McKee CBE MD DSc
Professor of European Public Health, London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Professor Sue Atkinson CBE
Visiting Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public
Health, University College London
Professor Sir Andy Haines,
Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH
Professor and Director, Global Health Institute
University of Wisconsin
Dr Andrea Forde
BMedSci, MBChB, MACTM
Public Health Physician, Visiting Fellow Australian National
University
Dr Richard Jaine, BSc MBChB MPH FNZCPHM
Senior Lecturer and Public Health Medicine Specialist
Department of Public Health, University of Otago
Roland Clift CBE FREng FIChemE HonFCIWEM FRSA
Emeritus Professor of Environmental Technology,
Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of
Surrey
Walter Wehrmeyer MA PhD MIEMgt CEnv FRSA
Centre For Environmental
Strategy, University of Surrey
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg,
Professor and Director,
Global Change Institute,
University of Queensland
Dr. Robin Stott,
Physician, (retired)
Michael Moore
CEO, Public Health Association of Australia
Professor Anthony Capon MBBS PhD FAFPHM
Head, Discipline of Public Health, Faculty of Health
University of Canberra
Professor Paul Ekins
Professor of Energy and Environment Policy
UCL Energy Institute, University College London
Chris France
Professor of Environmental Technology
Director of the IDC in Sustainability for Engineering &
Energy Systems
University of Surrey
Dr Jamie Hosking
MBChB, MPH, FNZCPHM
Senior Research Fellow
University of Auckland
Dr Rebecca Randerson
MBChB(dist) FRNZCGP
General Practitioner/Lecturer
Wellington New Zealand
Professor John Wiseman
Professorial Fellow
Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute
University of Melbourne
Fiona Armstrong
Dr George Laking
MD PhD FRACP
Consultant Medical Oncologist
Auckland District Health Board
Doug Sellman MBChB, PhD, FRANZCP, FAChAM,
Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand
Associate Professor Richard Milne PhD, MRSNZ
School of Population Health
University of Auckland
Dr Peter Tait, RACGP General Practitioner of
the Year 2007, Canberra
Dr Sudhvir Singh MBChB BMedSci
Waitemata District Health Board
Dr. Catherine Brogan MBBS FFPHM
Chief Executive
Public Health Action Support Team CIC
Dr Graeme Lindsay, FNZCPHM
OraTaiao: New Zealand Climate & Health
Dr Vivian Fu, MBChB, medical registrar
Dr Alex Macmillan MBChB, MPH
Senior Lecturer Environmental Health, School of Population
Health, University of Auckland and OraTaiao, NZ Climate and
Health
Monique Decortis
Dr Scott Metcalfe
MBChB, FNZCPHM
Chief Advisor Population Medicine, public health physician
Co-Convenor, OraTaiao: New Zealand Climate and Health
Joanna Santa Barbara
MB.BS, FRANZCP, FRCP(C)
Research Associate, University of Otago
Stephan Lewandowsky
Australian Professorial Fellow
School of Psychology
University of Western Australia
Russell Tregonning MBChB, FRACS, FNZOA.
Orthopaedic Surgeon and Senior Lecture,
University of Otago
Forbes McGain
Anaesthetist and Intensive Care Physician
Western Health, Victoria
Dr Susie Burke, Senior Psychologist, Public Interest,
Environment & Disaster Response, Australian Psychological
Society
Dr Bronwyn Wauchope, Clinical Psychologist
Colin Axon, Senior Research Fellow, School of Engineering
and Design, Brunel University, UK
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