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Climate change fueling spread of deadly tropical diseases

Bergslagstroll said:
The spread of insects from climate changes is also affecting forestry.

"A plague of tiny mountain pine beetles, no bigger than a grain of rice, has already destroyed 15 years of log supplies in British Columbia, enough trees to build 9 million single-family homes, and are chewing through forests in Alberta and the Pacific Northwest. Now, an outbreak of spruce beetles is threatening to devour even more trees in North America just as similar pests are decimating supplies in parts of Europe, creating a glut of dead and dying logs."


Millions Of Beetles Are Wiping Out Forests All Across The World
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The sky is falling...
 
 
Bergslagstroll said:
The devastating effects of climate change are already being felt all across the world.

Millions of children affected by devastating flooding in South Asia, with many more at risk as COVID-19 brings further challenges

Climate change aggravating ‘world’s most under-reported disasters’ - Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Climate change has cut Australian farm profits by 22% a year over past 20 years, report says | Australia news | The Guardian
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Contrary to Media Claims, Data Show Climate Change Not Making Natural Disasters Worse

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Honestly, if you don't burn dead wood in forests, you will get forest fires. There must be fire breaks, or as in Australia, and the people and farmers are up in arms because of the danger of Bush fires, but those climate change cretins demanding to allow nature to remedy matters....and the council giving them credence......refusing to burn...guess what..... they had massive Bush fires!
And as we enter the start of a massive solar minimum no sun spots, and freezing tempature, all that taxes raised on the backs of people just living there lives.... will need to stop!
NASA predicts It has started but Will come to problems growing food by 2025.

https://www.sott.net/image/s28/574589/full/Solar_Cycle_25_NASA_full.jpg

Climate change.... a truly natural phenomena
 
Highlanders said:
Honestly, if you don't burn dead wood in forests, you will get forest fires. There must be fire breaks, or as in Australia, and the people and farmers are up in arms because of the danger of Bush fires, but those climate change cretins demanding to allow nature to remedy matters....and the council giving them credence......refusing to burn...guess what..... they had massive Bush fires!
And as we enter the start of a massive solar minimum no sun spots, and freezing tempature, all that taxes raised on the backs of people just living there lives.... will need to stop!
NASA predicts It has started but Will come to problems growing food by 2025.

https://www.sott.net/image/s28/574589/full/Solar_Cycle_25_NASA_full.jpg

Climate change.... a truly natural phenomena
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Climate change are increasing the risk of wild fires all across the world.

"Climate change has played a key role in worsening western wildfires. In a new study in Environmental Research Letters, a number of foremost experts on California wildfires concluded that the combination of rising temperatures and declining autumn rain – both of which are linked to climate change – over just the past four decades has more than doubled the number of fall days with extreme fire weather conditions. Those findings are consistent with a 2016 study concluding that human-caused climate change doubled the area burned in western U.S. forests since the 1980s."


Climate change is worsening California's hellish wildfires >> Yale Climate Connections

Also climate makes it harder to safely make back burnings and also makes them less efficient.

Are hazard reduction burns effective in managing bushfires? The answer is complicated - ABC News

Hazard reduction burning had little to no effect in slowing extreme bushfires | Environment | The Guardian

Also both US and Australia have politciians that wants to spend billions on propping up the fossil fuel industry and deny the urgent need for action on climate change.

Daily chart - Donald Trump hopes to save America’s failing coal-fired power plants | Graphic detail | The Economist

Adani mine would be 'unviable' without $4.4bn in subsidies, report finds

While at the same both American and Australian federal agencies continue to acknowledge the urgent need for action on manmade global warming because the evidences are so overwhelming.

https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/

https://www.environment.gov.au/clim.../climate-science/understanding-climate-change
 
Bergslagstroll said:
Climate change are increasing the risk of wild fires all across the world.

"Climate change has played a key role in worsening western wildfires. In a new study in Environmental Research Letters, a number of foremost experts on California wildfires concluded that the combination of rising temperatures and declining autumn rain – both of which are linked to climate change – over just the past four decades has more than doubled the number of fall days with extreme fire weather conditions. Those findings are consistent with a 2016 study concluding that human-caused climate change doubled the area burned in western U.S. forests since the 1980s."


Climate change is worsening California's hellish wildfires >> Yale Climate Connections

Also climate makes it harder to safely make back burnings and also makes them less efficient.

Are hazard reduction burns effective in managing bushfires? The answer is complicated - ABC News

Hazard reduction burning had little to no effect in slowing extreme bushfires | Environment | The Guardian

Also both US and Australia have politciians that wants to spend billions on propping up the fossil fuel industry and deny the urgent need for action on climate change.

Daily chart - Donald Trump hopes to save America’s failing coal-fired power plants | Graphic detail | The Economist

Adani mine would be 'unviable' without $4.4bn in subsidies, report finds

While at the same both American and Australian federal agencies continue to acknowledge the urgent need for action on manmade global warming because the evidences are so overwhelming.

https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/

https://www.environment.gov.au/clim.../climate-science/understanding-climate-change
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Goodness me, climate change, is natural.
 
Climate change can also lead to an increase in flesh eating bacteria in seafood.

"Climate change may lead to unlikely illnesses in unexpected places, new research suggests: In the past two years, five cases of Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacterial infection spread by handling or eating contaminated seafood, have been tied to Delaware Bay, where water temperatures have been on the rise in recent years, according to a study.

These five patients were treated at one New Jersey hospital and serve as a warning that flesh-eroding bacterial infections are now occurring outside the traditional geographic boundaries, the authors said.

"It is important for physicians -- who may have never seen this infection before in their medical practice -- to have some awareness," co-author Dr. Katherine Doktor, an infectious disease specialist at Cooper University Health Care, wrote in an email.

Before 2017, Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, had seen only one case of severe Vibrio infection in eight years, explained Doktor, also an assistant professor at Cooper Medical School at Rowan University. Then, in just two years, the hospital saw and treated five patients, one of whom died."

https://6abc.com/flesh-eating-bacte...limate change may lead to,been on the rise in
 
Bergslagstroll said:
All the world's leading scientific organizations like for example these 31 American scientific organizations acknowledge the urgent need for action.

Thirty-one top scientific societies speak with one voice on global climate change – The Ecological Society of America
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I live in Scotland, I can get brilliant sunshine, bucketing rain, sleet, snow showers, howling winds, haar, too hot and too cold, all in the same day. I can get it raining on one side of the street and not on the other.

This I see with my own eyes.

I can also see the names of roads, which here is normally named after what had previously established prior to development. In newcastle, you had vine street. As prior to development there had been vines grown to make wine, which today certainly in not compatable with weather conditions.

In my early days as school, we were told by educators as they had a duty to educate, (and could be jailed for corrupting the morals of the young as they do today), that we would see a difference in the prevailing weather conditions. And from the twenty foot deep drifts of snow have never been seen in years. All I see today is individuals, groupings of companies attempting to get money to corrupt the facts, which have been proven time and time again. The reasons they gave, as they had no axe to grind, no profits to be made, no agenda, to ability to tax movement of minerals..... was the truth..... we were coming out of an ice age.
We would see a rise in CO2 as the rise in Temperatures the permafrost warming allowed vegetation to start to rot and release.

This sounds more plausible than looking at the companies involved in "supposed global warming" they have been caught out far to many times lying. Implying accurate records when the facts have been a mishmash of correlations which contains no reality to the known facts. Of glaciers going to disappear in the next ten years..... all fearmongering. But to me, the most disgusting thing thing they do, is going into schools and being allowed to undermine the education process of future generations, to make these children as neurotic as Americans.
Climate change is a natural process, which humanity should embrace and accept, instead of vested interests making a buck!
 
Bergslagstroll said:
Climate change can also lead to an increase in flesh eating bacteria in seafood.

"Climate change may lead to unlikely illnesses in unexpected places, new research suggests: In the past two years, five cases of Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacterial infection spread by handling or eating contaminated seafood, have been tied to Delaware Bay, where water temperatures have been on the rise in recent years, according to a study.

These five patients were treated at one New Jersey hospital and serve as a warning that flesh-eroding bacterial infections are now occurring outside the traditional geographic boundaries, the authors said.

"It is important for physicians -- who may have never seen this infection before in their medical practice -- to have some awareness," co-author Dr. Katherine Doktor, an infectious disease specialist at Cooper University Health Care, wrote in an email.

Before 2017, Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, had seen only one case of severe Vibrio infection in eight years, explained Doktor, also an assistant professor at Cooper Medical School at Rowan University. Then, in just two years, the hospital saw and treated five patients, one of whom died."

https://6abc.com/flesh-eating-bacte...limate change may lead to,been on the rise in
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Honestly one only needs to look at American military, and the biochemical warfare units surrounding Russia and China if one wants to know why we are seeing a spread of various diseases. Or South America to see what these vermin are doing to the indiginious nations. Or history and giving smallpox blankets to the indiginious nations. The actions have all been documented for generations, from syphilis being injected into natives to see the repercussions, to julanio mayor of New York allowing the drugs industry experimenting on orphans in New York children homes.
There is no low, the American military or bill gates won't go.... eugenics are part of the American culture, just look at bill gates parents!

The Pentagon Bio-weapons - Dilyana.bg

I'm not creating any quotes from this site as I have been given points as it's not quoted in tabs.? What ever that is.....!
To me, surely the facts matter, unless one has an agenda, being pretty isn't important to the facts.... they should take precedence.
 
Highlanders said:
I live in Scotland, I can get brilliant sunshine, bucketing rain, sleet, snow showers, howling winds, haar, too hot and too cold, all in the same day. I can get it raining on one side of the street and not on the other.

This I see with my own eyes.

I can also see the names of roads, which here is normally named after what had previously established prior to development. In newcastle, you had vine street. As prior to development there had been vines grown to make wine, which today certainly in not compatable with weather conditions.

In my early days as school, we were told by educators as they had a duty to educate, (and could be jailed for corrupting the morals of the young as they do today), that we would see a difference in the prevailing weather conditions. And from the twenty foot deep drifts of snow have never been seen in years. All I see today is individuals, groupings of companies attempting to get money to corrupt the facts, which have been proven time and time again. The reasons they gave, as they had no axe to grind, no profits to be made, no agenda, to ability to tax movement of minerals..... was the truth..... we were coming out of an ice age.
We would see a rise in CO2 as the rise in Temperatures the permafrost warming allowed vegetation to start to rot and release.

This sounds more plausible than looking at the companies involved in "supposed global warming" they have been caught out far to many times lying. Implying accurate records when the facts have been a mishmash of correlations which contains no reality to the known facts. Of glaciers going to disappear in the next ten years..... all fearmongering. But to me, the most disgusting thing thing they do, is going into schools and being allowed to undermine the education process of future generations, to make these children as neurotic as Americans.
Climate change is a natural process, which humanity should embrace and accept, instead of vested interests making a buck!
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Yep.

I accept that we contribute to the climate change, but believe it is far less with greenhouse gasses than it is with pollution and land use changes. Climate change is going to happen with or without our help. We simply need to adapt as needed like we have throughout our known history.
 
Lord of Planar said:
Yep.

I accept that we contribute to the climate change, but believe it is far less with greenhouse gasses than it is with pollution and land use changes. Climate change is going to happen with or without our help. We simply need to adapt as needed like we have throughout our known history.
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Obviously we have too.... but most don't realise, without CO2 we die! All plant life, dies. The more CO2 the healthier the plant life, the happier animal life the healthier we humans are..... it's a fallacy, to make money from the neurotic, the sheep, and the weak and feeble minded.

Never do you hear these facts on media or climate change bodies paid by the extremists the right wing and the fascists. Scientists who would jump on the back of anyone giving free money.
 
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Highlanders said:
Obviously we have too.... but most don't realise, without CO2 we die! All plant life, dies. The more CO2 the healthier the plant life, the happier animal life the healthier we humans are..... it's a fallacy, to make money from the neurotic, the sheep, and the weak and feeble minded.

Never do you hear these facts on media or climate change bodies paid by the extremists the right wing and the fascists. Scientists who would jump on the back of anyone giving free money.
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Climate change already have an negative impact on farming.


"ABARES Senior Economist Dr Neal Hughes said that an observed shift to hotter and drier conditions over the period 2000 to 2019, relative to the period 1950 to 1999, has had a negative effect on the profits of Australian cropping and livestock farms.

“Average temperatures have increased by about one degree since 1950, while recent decades have also seen a trend toward lower winter season rainfall, particularly in the southwest and southeast of Australia,” Dr Hughes said.

“Controlling for all other factors, we estimate these changes have reduced average farm profits by around 22 per cent. These effects have been most pronounced in the cropping sector, reducing average profits by 35 per cent, or $70,900 per year for a typical cropping farm."

New insights on the effects of drought and climate variability on Australian farms


There increasing C02 levels can also leads to less nutrition in foods.

"Plants need carbon dioxide to live, but its effects on them are complicated.

As the level of carbon dioxide in the air continues to rise because of human activity, scientists are trying to pin down how the plants we eat are being affected.

Mounting evidence suggests that many key plants lose nutritional value at higher CO2 levels, and scientists are running experiments all over the world to try to tease out the effects."

As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise, Major Crops Are Losing Nutrients : The Salt : NPR
 
Bergslagstroll said:
Climate change already have an negative impact on farming.


"ABARES Senior Economist Dr Neal Hughes said that an observed shift to hotter and drier conditions over the period 2000 to 2019, relative to the period 1950 to 1999, has had a negative effect on the profits of Australian cropping and livestock farms.

“Average temperatures have increased by about one degree since 1950, while recent decades have also seen a trend toward lower winter season rainfall, particularly in the southwest and southeast of Australia,” Dr Hughes said.

“Controlling for all other factors, we estimate these changes have reduced average farm profits by around 22 per cent. These effects have been most pronounced in the cropping sector, reducing average profits by 35 per cent, or $70,900 per year for a typical cropping farm."

New insights on the effects of drought and climate variability on Australian farms


There increasing C02 levels can also leads to less nutrition in foods.

"Plants need carbon dioxide to live, but its effects on them are complicated.

As the level of carbon dioxide in the air continues to rise because of human activity, scientists are trying to pin down how the plants we eat are being affected.

Mounting evidence suggests that many key plants lose nutritional value at higher CO2 levels, and scientists are running experiments all over the world to try to tease out the effects."

As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise, Major Crops Are Losing Nutrients : The Salt : NPR
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Goodness me, speak about clutching at straws!

Climate change is natural, accept it, one does not need to be scared, or fear change, it's happened before, it will happen again!
It will get colder from now on, much much colder, we are going though a sun spot and solar minimum. It has been getting colder and will continue to get colder.
Please grow up, and stop reacting to scare mongerers.
It doesn't matter if the reaction of CO2 is complicated, without it, we all die! The more of it, the healthier the plant life.
Realise, climate change is a tool, the bogey man, the new al Baghdadi..... the nuclear family..... the new story....to create fear for the weak and feeble of mind.
Stand on your feet, and face life without fear.
 
Jack Hays said:
[h=3]NPR Makes False Connection Between Climate Change and Disease[/h][FONT=Muli !important]DISEASE/VIRUS AUGUST 28, 2020[/FONT]
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There you go with accusing others of "lying" when it may be a simple disagreement. The source you cite claims NPR is "lying" which means that NPR knows differently but chooses to publicize the INCORRECT information. And to support that they cite a piece of denialist literature from the Heartland Institute.

Now, while the denialist literature surely also cites real science we must accept that the Heartland Institute, is, itself not lying. Which I am fine with doing. I disagree with their position based on the science. But I am certain that they actually BELIEVE what they say.

I disagree with you, Jack, but I don't think you are lying all the time. In fact I think you are being extremely honest.

Am I wrong?
 
istodolez said:
There you go with accusing others of "lying" when it may be a simple disagreement. The source you cite claims NPR is "lying" which means that NPR knows differently but chooses to publicize the INCORRECT information. And to support that they cite a piece of denialist literature from the Heartland Institute.

Now, while the denialist literature surely also cites real science we must accept that the Heartland Institute, is, itself not lying. Which I am fine with doing. I disagree with their position based on the science. But I am certain that they actually BELIEVE what they say.

I disagree with you, Jack, but I don't think you are lying all the time. In fact I think you are being extremely honest.

Am I wrong?
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NPR is a media outlet, accountable for their claims.
 
Jack Hays said:
They published a lie.
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I would very much like you to pull out the quote from the Heartland Institute article your source cited that clearly establishes what NPR posted was a "lie". And I would prefer you to show me how NPR knew ahead of their posting that what they were saying was something the KNEW TO BE INCORRECT.

You say a lot of things I don't agree with. Are YOU lying all the time?
 
istodolez said:
I would very much like you to pull out the quote from the Heartland Institute article your source cited that clearly establishes what NPR posted was a "lie". And I would prefer you to show me how NPR knew ahead of their posting that what they were saying was something the KNEW TO BE INCORRECT.

You say a lot of things I don't agree with. Are YOU lying all the time?
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None of this was a secret.

". . . . However, as detailed in Chapter Four of Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels, the vast body of scientific literature refutes NPR’s claim that climate change is likely to exacerbate the spread of mosquito borne diseases.

Studies from Africa, to England and Wales, to North and South America, to Thailand and beyond refute any link between climate change and the spread of malaria, Dengue fever, West Nile virus, and other vector-borne diseases. For example, a 2010 study in the peer-reviewed journal Nature reports, “[The study’s authors] compared historical and contemporary maps of the range and incidence of malaria and found endemic/stable malaria is likely to have covered 58% of the world’s land surface around 1900 but only 30% by 2007.” Clearly, malaria has become less prevalent and deadly as the climate has warmed.

The authors rebut potential assertions that there would be even further reductions in malaria but for global warming. The authors write, ‘widespread claims that rising mean temperatures have already led to increases in worldwide malaria morbidity and mortality are largely at odds with observed decreasing global trends in both its endemicity and geographic extent.’

Vector-borne disease expert Paul Reiter, a member of the World Health Organization’s Expert Advisory Committee on Vector Biology and Control, has written extensively on the transmission of vector-borne diseases. Reiter concludes any links between such diseases and climate change are not supported by evidence. . . . "
 
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