This is the same NIH which was funding gain of function research at the shady and lax Wuhan Institute of Health on COVID
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.
The guidance, which was distributed to several staffers last week, comes on the back of multiple new directives to cut off NIH funding to grants that are focused on subjects that are viewed as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities, such as gender identity, LGBTQ+ issues, vaccine hesitancy, and diversity, equity and inclusion.
It shouldn’t be funding or studying any of that stuff. If private researchers want to do it, go for it. This shouldn’t be something the taxpayers are funding, and government employees should be looking at real issues, not political ones.
While it’s unclear whether the climate guidance will impact active grants and lead to funding terminations, the directive appears to halt opportunities for future funding of studies or academic programs focused on the health effects of climate change.
“This is an administration where industry voices rule and prevail,” said Dr. Lisa Patel, executive director of The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, a coalition of medical professionals that raises awareness about the health effects of climate change. “This is an agenda item for the fossil fuel industry, and this administration is doing what the fossil fuel industry wants.”
She called the new guidance “catastrophic” and said it would have a “devastating” impact on much-needed research.
I don’t see that many Warmists giving up their own use of petroleum, and, they can ask private companies for funding. They rely on Los Federales way too much, because it’s easy money for which there is little to no oversight.
” … for people who make a living doing that research.
Personally, I have to wonder if they have been doing such research for co long, why haven’t they finished yet? Could it be because there was never any intention of finishing but it was simply another rice bowl being perpetually filled by government funding?
It is rich to hear people talk about how corporations are the only voice the Trump administration hears as if their own corporations were not making huge profits last year.