In a June 5 WorldNetDaily column, Jane Orient goes far afield from her stated profession of medicine (though she’s not exactly in the mainstream there, either) to opine on President Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord. As befits the leader of a group of fringe-right doctors, she approves.
She calls the accord an “economic suicide pact” and claims without evidence that “The average U.S. family would have to pay $30,000 more for electricity over the next decade.” (That apparently comes from the right-wing Heritage Foundation.)
Orient then finally stumbles upon a health-related angle: “What about heat waves and people perishing from heat-related illnesses? The physicians tout the health benefits of walking and bike-riding, but say nothing about turning off the air conditioning in Miami.” She names nobody who has actually demanded that the air conditioning in Miami be turned off.
Orient also complains that supporters of the Paris accords are “leaving out some 31,000 scientists who disagree.” That’s a reference to a petition promoted by climate denier Art Robinson; as we’ve pointed out, that number is a tiny fraction of the millions of scientists in America, and the vast majority of those signatories have no confirmed or demonstrated expertise in climatology.
That’s the kind of thing that happens when opine on things you don’t know that much about.