Guest review by Kip Hansen — October 3, 2024 – 850 words/3 minutes
Judging from the chronicles Cardiovascular Research Foundation This beautiful headline appeared above the news report (h/t Matt Briggs):
Global burden of stroke continues to rise as climate change impacts
What about the news? Nothing real, just another one global burden of disease Paper in The Lancet: “Global, regional and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021”
Johns Hopkins explain:
“A stroke or brain attack occurs when blood flow to the brain stops. This is an emergency.
There are generally three different types of strokes:
“Strokes can be divided into two broad categories:
Ischemic stroke. These are strokes caused by blockages in arteries (or, in rare cases, veins). About 87% of strokes are ischemic.
Hemorrhagic stroke. These are strokes caused by bleeding. About 13% of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes.
There are also two subtypes:
“A hemorrhagic stroke occurs when a blood vessel supplying the brain ruptures and bleeds…
Bleeding within the brain. The bleeding comes from blood vessels in the brain.
Subarachnoid hemorrhage. The bleeding occurs in the subarachnoid space (the space between the brain and the membrane covering the brain).
Another message:
“The occurrence of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a devastating cerebrovascular event that causes 5% All strokes”
You might ask yourself this question:
“What possible causal links exist between climate change and the occurrence of stroke in the general population globally?”
A good question is far more valuable than a good answer.
My answer? There is no cause-and-effect relationship—not even a biologically plausible connection or connection. nothing.
But as always, science must have its way, and science insists that if something is bad—like unpopular—then it must be caused by climate change.
Sure enough, a dedicated group (with a list of 1,700 authors) called the GBD 2021 Stroke Risk Factor Collaborators wrote Lancet Neurology Report linked in first paragraph.
Normally, I would immediately wonder if the reporter (in this case, Todd Neal) was paraphrasing what he thought the author said. But no, the paper includes the following:
“These findings are consistent with research showing that rising ambient temperatures, including heat waves, and climate change are associated with increased stroke incidence and mortality. Because ambient air pollution is interconnected with ambient temperature and climate change, all of these factors have a synergistic effect the incidence of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, and overall health, the importance of urgent climate action and measures to reduce ambient air pollution cannot be overstated. Experts recommend that governments step up the implementation of a clean energy economy and promote raw plants. sexual food choices and phasing out industrial animal agriculture globally.
If anyone needs more evidence of John PA Ioannidis' findings “Furthermore, as with many current fields of science, purported findings may often be only accurate measures of widespread bias.” – That’s it.
What is the evidence? 1,700 authors Is there any basis for this statement? Here is their visual summary:
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This is it – science. Let's take a closer look and see if we can find climate change as a “risk factor” on the left side of the four sections.
notes: Risk factors themselves are not causes. Risk factors are conditions or behaviors that have been found to be associated with an increased incidence of certain outcomes. The chart above shows risk factors, not causes.
Ah, the danger factor of climate change does not exist. In fact, in panels A, B, and C, there are no risk factors that are components of climate at all—not even components of weather.
However, there is always a way and the result is destined!
In group D on the lower right side, the following risk factors are involved: Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), It accounts for 5% of all strokes and we see at the bottom of the list, low ambient temperature and high ambient temperature.
Yeah, gosh, those yes Components of weather (the long-term weather adds up to climate).
We can see that they found low ambient temperature (How low? Who knows?) becomes a risk factor 4.5% of 5% Global incidence of stroke. it means cold possible is a contributing factor 0.225% of global stroke burden (0.00225).
and high ambient temperature? (How high? Who knows?) SAH is a risk factor for stroke at 1.1%, which, to repeat, only accounts for 5% of the total global burden of stroke. This brings an element of risk high ambient temperature The global burden of stroke reaches a terrifying 0.055% (or 0.00055).
Hey, but where's the evidence of change? Like climate change?
No.
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Author comments:
I wish I could say this coverage is an anomaly—the exception. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Now this has become the norm.
We continue to have propaganda replace news – propaganda replace science news – propaganda replace scientific research findings.
Don't ask me political questions.
Thank you for reading.
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