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Bjorn Lomborg: The WHO’s climate prescription is bad medicine

Heat deaths are up, though mainly because old people are a much larger share of the population, while deaths from the cold are way down

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As a rare strain of Ebola wreaks havoc in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organization is once again mixed up in climate advocacy. A high-profile WHO commission made up of politicians and green advocates last month urged the organization to declare climate change a “public health emergency of international concern.”

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This is a flashback to the 2010s when the WHO’s director-general named climate change the most important health issue of the 21st century. Not long after, COVID-19 arrived — and........

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