CBS gets savaged for pushing study blaming climate change for childhood obesity: 'May be one of the dumbest things I've read in a while'https://www.theblaze.com/news/twitter-reactions-cbs-mornings-child-obesity-climate-changeBlazeTV personality Sara Gonzales: "Or! Their parents are fat and lazy. And bad parents. Didn’t even need a study to give you that truth."
Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya: "Public health bureaucrats closed playgrounds, limited kid's sports, and made a virtue of extended screen time. They closed schools and PE classes. In some places this went on for years. Maybe this headline writer lives in Florida or Sweden and missed the lockdowns?"
Writer Pradheep J. Shanker: "This may be one of the dumbest things I've read in a while."
Former Congresswoman Nan Hayworth: "NO. NO. NO. Many factors contribute to children's lack of fitness, but climate change is NOT one of them. This is propaganda that CBS, as with all 'mainstream' media, pushes to scare Americans into accepting Government intervention--at any cost!!--against climate *apocalypse*."
Author Matt Walsh: "Yes, climate change is causing childhood obesity and not the fact that parents feed their kids sh**ty food and let them sit around staring at screens all day. Great piece of reporting here."
Writer Kyle Becker: "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."
Columnist Stacey Lennox: "Bulls**t. You locked them at home for two years & there is an epidemic of helicopter parents who don’t let them engage in unsupervised play. Give me a break. I played outside in upper 90 & 100 degree heat because I was allowed to."
Commentator Ken Gardner: “'Climate change' is a damn cult. And these 'studies' are junk science at best, a fraud at worst. Childhood obesity, in most cases, begins with crap parents who spoil their children and allow them to form bad eating habits."
Physician Nicole Saphier: "Blaming rising childhood obesity on climate change is next level absurd. How about the fact we have generated a lazy society with electronics and the cancellation of activities from nonsensical Covid policy?"
Editor Spencer Brown: "This has nothing to do with kids and everything to do with pushing an agenda. If they cared about the health of kids they would have blasted Dems for spending two years dismantling playgrounds and keeping kids locked indoors learning through computer screens."
Writer Inez Stepman: "Climate change is responsible for wars and storms and now obesity."
Podcast host Jedediah Bila: "Newsflash: kids don’t care about hot weather. It’s not climate change’s fault that kids are fat and out of shape. They’re fat and out of shape because they eat garbage food and bury their heads in phones and iPads all day while eating that garbage."
Editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg: "Seriously, the idea that American kids are more obese because they’re spending less time outdoors because of climate change is the dumbest, most intelligence-insulting, science and sociology-denying bulls**t I’ve heard in long time."
Former national champion gymnast Jennifer Sey: "As a kid I trained in 90* heat, no air conditioning, 7+ hours a day & needing water every 5 min wasn’t a thing. Maybe it’s screens+coddling+school/sports/playground closures. Not every issue is climate change."
Writer David Angelo: "Lol climate change. That's why kids in Connecticut are more out of shape than kids by the equator? You ever listen to yourselves?"
Commentator Joey Jones: "Then the study is nothing more than propaganda."
Talk show host Erick Erickson: "The media that cannot tell you what a woman is can tell you with certain that climate change is causing childhood obesity. Is it any wonder so few people trust the press these days?"
Data analyst Kyle Lamb: "And you thought it was already ridiculous how much they blamed COVID for their own failed policies. Now if you break a nail it’s climate change."
Journalist Erielle Davidson: "Kids are playing video games and are attached to their phones. Problem compounded by living in a city where parents might be worried about crime. But sure, climate change."
Former Texas political candidate Patrick McGuinness: "Not sedentary lifestyles, not kids' videogames, not rise of fast food, not COVID-era closing playgrounds, forcing kids to stay inside & making kids more obese and less fit ... no, a tiny increase in CO2 and tiny rise in temps drove kids indoors."
Canadian political candidate Roman Baber: "Children are 30% less fit than their parents were at the same age. Not because kids are on their devices or lockdowns, but because of climate change! Don't be a science denier. If you pay the government a carbon tax your kids will be fitter."
Commentator Hans Mahncke: "They made kids fat by shutting schools, playgrounds, parks and beaches. Predictably, they're now blaming 'climate change.' If there aren't severe penalties for the fraudsters who pushed lockdowns, it'll happen again."
Bodybuilder Marc Lobliner: "Being lazy and eating crappy food is child abuse, not climate change. You lying pieces of garbage. The media is evil."
Radio host Colin Dunlap: "'Kids are out of shape because of the weather' is top 3 dumb s**t I’ve ever heard in my life. And I’ve heard — and said — a whole lot of dumb s**t."
