Spread of new epidemics likely to be facilitated by climate change

[Crabtownboy]

Not good news.

Science has been pointing to what will happen to the Earth if climate change continues unchecked for quite some time now. Warnings of polar ice melt that could raise sea levels high enough to turn cities like Miami into places that look more like Venice aren’t news; neither is the warning that continuing to pour hydrocarbons into the atmosphere unchecked is going to contribute to more severe weather events such as destructive hurricanes or long-lasting drought. However, the newest warning – that of an increased abundance of parasitic and contagious disease – is new to the scene; sadly it’s all too possible as well, according to scientists.

http://www.smnweekly.com/spread-of-new-epidemics-likely-to-be-facilitated-by-climate-change/16191/

 

[Revmitchell]

 

[InTheLight]

--Dateline 2044--Chicago Cubs win World Series. Climate change said to facilitate championship.

 

[Crabtownboy]

It would be nice if y'all would be rational.

The present global emergence of infectious diseases is clearly associated with the social and demographic changes of the past 50 years, particularly urbanisation and globalisation, with the attendant spread of pathogens (agents causing disease) via infected humans, hosts, vectors or commodities. The change in the environment caused by human activities is also apparent in the transformation of much of our landscape and conversion of regional systems once dominated by natural ecosystems. Factors include expansion into urban or peri-urban habitat, deforestation, and the spread of intensive farming. The environment’s role in the emergence of diseases is apparent in the connections between the direct consequences of human changes to urban and rural landscapes and ecosystems, and the secondary effects on disease emergence factors. Developing irrigated agriculture, for example, can create breeding grounds for mosquitoes, a vector for malaria. Likewise the inadequate storm drainage and sewerage systems often associated with rapid urbanisation not only increase the breeding habitat for disease vectors but facilitate the spread of waterborne pathogens causing cholera and leptospirosis.

Overwhelming evidence points to human demographic changes as the major direct and indirect factor contributing to the increase in infectious disease, with somewhat different dynamics and mechanisms at work in urban and rural environments. In the first case the increasing number of people crowded into dense settlements has dramatically increased opportunities for food, water, rodent and vector-borne pathogens to “colonise” and persist in human populations. Each pathogen has unique transmission and adaptive characteristics that determine a minimum population for survival (the threshold for measles is about 250,000 people). Whether the threshold is 100,000 or a million the number of large urban settlements and the average settlement size has been growing fast in recent decades. The number of cities of one million or larger was 76 in 1950, 522 in 1975, 1,122 in 2000, and is set to exceed 1,600 by 2015. This 20-fold increase translates to a roughly similar increase in global infectious disease vulnerability due to this one factor alone.

http://www.grida.no/publications/et/ep4/page.aspx

 

[Bro. Curtis]

--Dateline 2044--Chicago Cubs win World Series. Climate change said to facilitate championship.

I guess so. Since those dominant coastal teams will be all drowneded by then. Next will be the Chiefs.

 

[HankD]

--Dateline 2044--Chicago Cubs win World Series. Climate change said to facilitate championship.

Dateline 2015--Patriot football deflation found to be facilitated by Global Warming (oops, I meant Climate Change).

HankD

 

[Revmitchell]

Rational? It is not rational to present bad science that purports claims that have already been debunked created by scientists who have been found fraudulent in their findings.

 

[righteousdude2]

CTB ... you are almost as delusional as you president.
The truth is any new epidemics will be caused by and spread by the influx of illegal immigrants.

 

[church mouse guy]

Climate change made Biden sick in the head???

 

[ShagNappy]

I am going to ask this again, even though I know I am wasting O2 doing it.

The same people who claim climate change is a man made problem that we must fix, also claim that 12,000 years ago we were in an ice age. Vast portions of the earth were formally ocean, places like Salt Lake, but the ice age trapped the water drying many parts of the earth. The earth has thus been returning to it's natural state for the last 12,000 years.

So, the earth has been warming for 12,000 years. Why is it that it has been the last 30 years that it is man's fault? If earth is returning to it's natural state from an ice age, then the oceans need to rise and resume their natural state.

I am convinced that climate change people are just ice age lovers and want to return earth to an unnatural, frozen state. Bunch of whackadoos, move to Canada or Siberia and leave the rest of us alone. I have frozen trees hanging over my bedroom and was without power for almost 2 days because of your absurd ice. I am going outside and crank my car and spray hairspray in the air and warm this place up!