{"id":46336,"date":"2019-12-20T18:31:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=46336"},"modified":"2020-01-13T17:23:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T16:23:10","slug":"paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul D Thacker: Climate change is a medical, not environmental story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When world leaders gathered in Madrid this December for the UN Climate Change Conference, there was a notable difference in media coverage of global warming. When I first started covering this topic, around fifteen years ago, climate change was an environmental story with much of the news appearing in the science section of American newspapers. That seems to have changed, with public health experts and physicians beginning to take centre stage, voicing increased concern that fossil fuel combustion and climate change are a threat to the health of both humans and medical practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More and more studies continue to document how global warming is altering medical practice, and The Lancet and the World Health Organization recently released comprehensive reports detailing the health impacts of human caused climate change on people across the globe. During the UN climate conference, one panel examined the mutual benefits to public health from climate change and air pollution policies. \u201cReducing methane production from agriculture lets you tackle both air pollution and climate change,\u201d says <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eeb.org\/who-we-are\/staff\/#popup-5de66913dc0b0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Margherita Tolotto<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a policy officer at the environmental group EEB, who spoke on the panel that day. Tolotto says that around 64% of methane produced in the EU comes from agriculture. While a potent greenhouse gas, methane is a major source of ground-level ozone that harms human health, ecosystems, and food crops.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the last year, several journals have published studies pointing to the health effects of climate change, such as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-019-0632-4.epdf?referrer_access_token=v9ffbvQ4K0hYbF1ok3BxZ9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0O-SAsIwaUsGJe1dg9ifLA5RawofO0gCTO0ejTFUTYuyKAcdV0vHfTKTc_bSYs4qxK8NQ9V73dKqydmybHEq4wrDhSGDrnpHkM1H_ofavJ0ZXaHKZZIjdwGZ-2gBuGL4j6D4y8K84nDQXZthPahWN1TrH6g1z0ChL07o0VYoUpKsCTkAxU44HTPDzyTq4rsdOI%3D&amp;tracking_referrer=time.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">new study in Nature Climate Change<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> finding that hot weather is shortening gestation time, increasing delivery risk in pregnant women, and potentially harming infant health. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/366\/bmj.l5302\"><em>The BMJ<\/em> published a widely read analysis<\/a> arguing that climate change threatens the achievement of effective universal healthcare. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/03-12-2019-climate-risks-to-health-are-growing-but-prioritized-funding-lacking-to-safeguard-human-health-from-climate-change\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WHO\u2019s report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> surveyed 101 countries and found that only half have national health and climate change strategies, with the majority struggling to implement them. The most common climate change health risks, reported by these countries, were heat stress, followed by injury or death from extreme weather, and vector-borne diseases such as cholera, dengue or malaria.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/03-12-2019-climate-risks-to-health-are-growing-but-prioritized-funding-lacking-to-safeguard-human-health-from-climate-change\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cClimate change is not only racking up a bill for future generations to pay, it\u2019s a price that people are paying for now with their health.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lancet\u2019s report is the third they have published on key climate change and public health indicators. \u201cI believe we have funding to continue this monitoring through 2024,\u201d says Max Boykoff, Director for the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, and one of the review authors. The report states that climate change will shape the lives of every child born today, as people across the globe face weather extremes, changing patterns of infectious disease, and food and water insecurity. Limiting global average temperature rise to well below 2\u00b0C is still possible, however, the report authors argue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe only solution is to get rid of fossil fuels in power production, industry and transportation,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/04\/climate\/climate-change-acceleration.html?action=click&amp;module=Latest&amp;pgtype=Homepage\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said Petteri Taalas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization, which released its annual state of the global climate report last week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boykoff adds that media coverage on climate change health effects have increased in recent years, and can foster ongoing education and vital conversations for everyday people, in all countries. One change to education is happening in America\u2019s medical schools, which are now adding climate-related content to their curriculum. Medical students at Stanford developed a climate change and health elective that will start next year that involves lunch seminars with speakers addressing allergy and asthma, risk of fires, and other climate health problems. Similar classes and tweaks to curriculum are happening at other medical schools, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, such discussions appear to be upsetting to industry, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/energy-and-environment\/2019\/2\/22\/17140166\/climate-change-lawsuit-exxon-juliana-liability-kids\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">which faces a number of lawsuits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the United States for their role in creating in the crisis. In a recent editorial, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2756117\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">editors at JAMA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> noted, &#8220;Virtually every time JAMA publishes an article on the effects of pollution or climate change on health, the journal immediately receives demands from critics to retract the article for various reasons.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Paul D Thacker<\/strong> is a freelance journalist. <strong>Twitter<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thackerpd\">@thackerpd<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong> I have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and note that I am paid to write for various media outlets, consult part time for a nonprofit research institute that studies brain disorders, and have had universities provide expenses for talks on corruption in science and medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When world leaders gathered in Madrid this December for the UN Climate Change Conference, there was a notable difference in media coverage of global warming. When I first started covering [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paul D Thacker: Climate change is a medical, not environmental story - The BMJ<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paul D Thacker: Climate change is a medical, not environmental story - The BMJ\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When world leaders gathered in Madrid this December for the UN Climate Change Conference, there was a notable difference in media coverage of global warming. When I first started covering [...]More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The BMJ\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bmjdotcom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-20T17:31:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-13T16:23:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/03\/climatechange_march.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"BMJ\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@bmj_latest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@bmj_latest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"BMJ\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"BMJ\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ba3da426ed20e8f1d933ca367d8216fe\"},\"headline\":\"Paul D Thacker: Climate change is a medical, not environmental story\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-20T17:31:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-13T16:23:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":751,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/files\\\/2018\\\/03\\\/climatechange_march.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Climate change\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/\",\"name\":\"Paul D Thacker: Climate change is a medical, not environmental story - The BMJ\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/files\\\/2018\\\/03\\\/climatechange_march.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-20T17:31:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-13T16:23:10+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/files\\\/2018\\\/03\\\/climatechange_march.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/files\\\/2018\\\/03\\\/climatechange_march.jpg\",\"width\":540,\"height\":350},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Paul D Thacker: Climate change is a medical, not environmental story\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/\",\"name\":\"The BMJ\",\"description\":\"Helping doctors make better decisions.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The BMJ\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/files\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/The-BMJ-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/files\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/The-BMJ-logo.jpg\",\"width\":852,\"height\":568,\"caption\":\"The BMJ\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/bmjdotcom\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/bmj_latest\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ba3da426ed20e8f1d933ca367d8216fe\",\"name\":\"BMJ\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b4d8f39281bcae118348a1c027347b8e53b82d42520e774a8b50dd9a6ac6c01d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b4d8f39281bcae118348a1c027347b8e53b82d42520e774a8b50dd9a6ac6c01d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b4d8f39281bcae118348a1c027347b8e53b82d42520e774a8b50dd9a6ac6c01d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"BMJ\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/bmj\\\/author\\\/admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Paul D Thacker: Climate change is a medical, not environmental story - The BMJ","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Paul D Thacker: Climate change is a medical, not environmental story - The BMJ","og_description":"When world leaders gathered in Madrid this December for the UN Climate Change Conference, there was a notable difference in media coverage of global warming. When I first started covering [...]More...","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/","og_site_name":"The BMJ","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bmjdotcom\/","article_published_time":"2019-12-20T17:31:58+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-13T16:23:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":540,"height":350,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/03\/climatechange_march.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"BMJ","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@bmj_latest","twitter_site":"@bmj_latest","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"BMJ","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/"},"author":{"name":"BMJ","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/#\/schema\/person\/ba3da426ed20e8f1d933ca367d8216fe"},"headline":"Paul D Thacker: Climate change is a medical, not environmental story","datePublished":"2019-12-20T17:31:58+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-13T16:23:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/"},"wordCount":751,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/03\/climatechange_march.jpg","articleSection":["Climate change"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/","name":"Paul D Thacker: Climate change is a medical, not environmental story - The BMJ","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/03\/climatechange_march.jpg","datePublished":"2019-12-20T17:31:58+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-13T16:23:10+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/03\/climatechange_march.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/03\/climatechange_march.jpg","width":540,"height":350},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/20\/paul-d-thacker-climate-change-is-a-medical-not-environmental-story\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Paul D Thacker: Climate change is a medical, not environmental story"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/","name":"The BMJ","description":"Helping doctors make better decisions.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/#organization","name":"The BMJ","url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/05\/The-BMJ-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/05\/The-BMJ-logo.jpg","width":852,"height":568,"caption":"The BMJ"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bmjdotcom\/","https:\/\/x.com\/bmj_latest"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/#\/schema\/person\/ba3da426ed20e8f1d933ca367d8216fe","name":"BMJ","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b4d8f39281bcae118348a1c027347b8e53b82d42520e774a8b50dd9a6ac6c01d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b4d8f39281bcae118348a1c027347b8e53b82d42520e774a8b50dd9a6ac6c01d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b4d8f39281bcae118348a1c027347b8e53b82d42520e774a8b50dd9a6ac6c01d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"BMJ"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/"],"url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}