Climate Change Is Harming the Health of Americans

Wednesday, March 05, 2025

In the past decade, Americans have become increasingly aware that climate change is harming the health of people in the US, according to a new survey.

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In a few short weeks, President Trump has severely damaged the government's ability to fight climate change, upending American environmental policy with moves that could have lasting implications for the country, and the planet.

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) March 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM

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... The survey, which was conducted in December and released Friday, also shows increased trust in physicians, climate scientists, federal agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Environmental Protection Agency, local public health departments and the World Health Organization for providing information about the health harms of global warming.

These sources of information are under threat: President Donald Trump's administration has proposed cutting most of the EPA's budget and initiated mass firings at the CDC, taken down climate and health information from government websites, frozen or revoked funding for some climate research and interventions, stalled environmental justice initiatives, and proposed rescinding a 16-year-old federal finding that mandates government action on greenhouse gases. Trump also withdrew the US from the World Health Organization and the Paris climate accord.

The survey was conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication. Edward Maibach, a principal investigator of the survey, said its results are fundamentally irreconcilable with the actions of the Trump administration. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-04 11:02 PM | Reply

Climate change is a lost issue.

#2 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-03-05 05:51 AM | Reply

It would be so wonderful if republican policies only affected republicans. So THEY can cut their taxes to zero, THEY can go bankrupt, THEY can suck on pollution, and THEY can destroy their homes with climate change while the rest of us watch and laugh.

#3 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-03-05 12:54 PM | Reply

#3 Don't worry, you won't be affected by Doge since you are incapable of holding a job.

#4 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-05 01:50 PM | Reply

So far the biggest victims of the impact of climate change are red states, so that's a positive.

#5 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-03-05 05:35 PM | Reply

#5 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-03-05 05:35 PM | Reply | Flag

LMAO... Now climate change can detect state lines... and it knows which ones to attack...

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-05 06:14 PM | Reply

you Dems need to give up the global warming thing. you have been pitching this since the 70s and no one is believing it anymore

oh, I guess the Ozone Layer from the 90s is fixed now. we don't hear anymore about it

#7 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-03-05 06:39 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

oh, I guess the Ozone Layer from the 90s is fixed now. we don't hear anymore about it

#7 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-03-05 06:39 PM | Reply

We banned CFC's and it healed itself. Go read a book.

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-03-05 06:51 PM | Reply

you Dems need to give up the global warming thing. you have been pitching this since the 70s and no one is believing it anymore

oh, I guess the Ozone Layer from the 90s is fixed now. we don't hear anymore about it

#7 | Posted by Maverick

YOu're so stupid that you used an example of GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS WORKING to protect the environment, as part of your argument against governmental climate regulations.

This is how dumb you have to be to join trump's cult.

#9 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-03-05 07:42 PM | Reply

Climate change is a lost issue.
#2 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT

This is what happens when money used for a cause turns into a grift, people get cynical.

Like many Lumper causes, they start out feeling good and well meaning, I am all for fixing the climate, Teslas etal. But eventually grow into a money making greed operation, worse than any capitalist company you could complain about because these organizations just siphon off money with no real purpose other than to pay for jet setting jaunts and conferences.

For instance .

Despite reporting only $100 in total revenue in 2023, a $2 billion grant was awarded to a new nonprofit, Power Forward Communities.
www.epa.gov

There has been a laundry list of "new" green energy companies just created accepting Government money.

Tragic, its worse than big oil really.

#10 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-05 08:05 PM | Reply

YOu're so stupid that you used an example of GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS WORKING

This is feel good.

Once people knew the Ozone hole was caused by CFCs its useage dropped 50% before the government entered into the Montreal Protocol.

Its ironic too, because did you order a Tesla to "Save the planet", now you disown it just because you don't like the owner.

What bullshit artist you are.

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-05 08:07 PM | Reply

you Dems need to give up the global warming thing. you have been pitching this since the 70s and no one is believing it anymore

oh, I guess the Ozone Layer from the 90s is fixed now. we don't hear anymore about it

#7 | Posted by Maverick

He can't be serious, right?

Ozone depleted- world took action to limit chlorofluorocarbons-Ozone healed

Acid rain, world took action to control sulfur and carbon emissions from coal plants-problem solved

Rivers bursting into flames-US passes regulations controlling discharges of hazardous compounds into rivers-rivers are healing, no more firey rivers

People's IQs are literally sinking-remove lead from gasoline and paint-IQs rise steadily, likely a positive impact on crime reduction as a side effect

Birds dying at massive scale-ban DDT-birds recover

and on and on and on

Until idiots took over the republican party.

Think how healed the globe would be if Gore had won in 2000, we'd have 24 years of a climate change fight behind.

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-03-05 08:26 PM | Reply

I wish I could work up enough empathy to care.

I did, for a long time. I cared a lot.

I don't give a crap about my own species anymore.

We're demonstrably too stupid to be allowed to survive.

Life will continue on this planet long after humans are gone.

FYI - we're not special. There is no god.

It's hilarious that you idiot clowns believe any of that abrahamic nonsense.

No gods, no kings.

Everything happens for a reason.

Physics. That's it. That's all.

#13 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-03-05 08:31 PM | Reply