by Nick Pope
The Daily Caller News Foundation
The Biden administration published a report Tuesday on the state of climate change in the U.S. linking the phenomenon to increased pandemic risks.
The report, known as the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA 5), features a full section examining the relationship between climate change and pandemics like COVID-19. The report asserts that pandemics will become more likely and worse as the projected effects of climate change set in over time, the combined effects of which “[require] early collective action and systemic change” to avoid or mitigate.
“Pandemics are caused by infectious diseases, viruses and bacteria,” Steve Milloy, senior legal fellow for the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation regarding the pandemic section of the report. “There’s no evidence that the slight warming we have seen over the last 150 years has anything to do with any of that… mosquitoes are not impacted by the average global temperature, that’s not how it works at all. It’s about hygiene and insecticides.”
