(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) “CBS Mornings” reported on a study attempting to connect climate change and childhood obesity rates in a recent feature.
According to Fox News, host Nate Burleson introduced the study published in a journal titled “Temperature,” arguing that “climate change, specifically warmer temperatures is making our children more inactive and more obese.”
The study found that children were 30% less “aerobically fit” than their parents, and attempted to prove that hotter temperatures were preventing kids from playing outside and getting daily exercise.
Despite the insistence on the effects of climate change, Burleson did concede that technology may also be a factor in rising childhood obesity.
“Now listen, it has been a lot hotter, and the weather has been crazy, but I think it also has to do with technology, you know,” Burleson said. “It’s one thing not to go outside, but these kids don’t go outside because they can stay inside and be on their phones, play video games, and be social without having to go outside and be social.”
Many social media users aptly pointed out that playgrounds, schools and parks down during the COVID lockdowns also effected children.
Do you think it could be… nah, couldn’t be. Must be the climate change. https://t.co/Duttz69hD8
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 14, 2022
How much fraud can you put into a report?
I exercised for hours in 100 degree+ weather in 90% humidity when I was growing up in South Carolina over thirty years ago.
Maybe it’s the screen time? Or your idiotic Covid hysteria?
No, it couldn’t be. You con artists.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 13, 2022
Joe Gabriel Simonson, reporter for the Washington Free Beacon, also pushed back against the story for specifically pushing a “climate agenda.”
this seemed too insane even for left-wing climate scientists so I read the study summary. the authors don’t blame climate change for children getting fatter, but that fat children may have a harder time dealing with climate change because fat people don’t do as well in the heat https://t.co/CSez8mstek
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) August 13, 2022
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