Commentary Almost every mainstream media “news” outlet last week uncritically parroted a joint statement issued on behalf of more than 200 medical journals claiming climate change poses a dire threat to human health. Had the media checked the facts, they would have found the medical journals’ statement was wrong. Data consistently show human health has steadily improved during the recent period of modest warming. Premature deaths from extreme temperatures, extreme weather events, and weather-related illnesses and mosquito-borne diseases have declined dramatically, and should continue to do so if Earth continues its modest warming trend. CNN, The New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo News, and dozens of other national and international mainstream media outlets covered the statement. The statement claimed, among other things, that the lack of action on climate change poses the “greatest threat to global public health,” and that unless we drastically cut fossil fuel use …