Global Warming Causing Widespread Famine And Malaria In The US

9 Responses to Global Warming Causing Widespread Famine And Malaria In The US

1. omnologos says:

   May 7, 2012 at 6:38 am

   Is belief in CAGW a side effect of years of alcohol and drug abuse?

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2. ntesdorf says:

   May 7, 2012 at 7:32 am

   We’d heard that unemployment was up in the US, but ” tropical diseases such as treponematoses, malaria, and neurocysticercosi” …Wow, who would have guessed it! How about throwing in a dose of Dengue Fever and Ebola Virus too!! He should go back to his drugs before he falls really ill!

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3. Andy DC says:

   May 7, 2012 at 2:32 pm

   There has not been a “major” (over 10%) corn crop loss in the heartland since 1988. There were two losses over 20% in the 1980’s and two close to 50% in the 1930’s, with a total of four over 20%. Greater CO2 has so far resulted in fewer bad crops.

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4. kirkmyers says:

   May 7, 2012 at 4:33 pm

   The “scientists” pushing the AGW rhetoric are becoming hilariously desperate. They can’t support their alarmist arguments with hard science, so they resort to scare tactics and unfounded speculation based on the flimsiest of data. Apparently, they’ll resort to any subterfuge in their ongoing quest to keep the research grants flowing and the “attaboy” back slaps coming from their pals and fellow purveyors of junk science now contaminating the halls of academia.

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5. John B., M.D. says:

   May 7, 2012 at 5:32 pm

   Is the author a high school student? Clearly he has no knowledge of epidemiology or pathogenesis of the infectious diseases he writes about.

   The vast majority of U.S. cases of malaria are in people who have travelled to or immigrated from areas where malaria is endemic. http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/distribution.html. Unless the U.S. turns into a tropical swamp, we will not see the mosquitos that transmit the infection. Drought reduces the ability of the mosquito to survive. Note that another tropical infection spread by mosquitos, West Nile virus, was imported into New York from Africa, not spread from the tropics due to global warming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Nile_virus

   Cysticercosis is caused by the oral injestion of pork tapeworm eggs from the environment due to poor sanitation in poor countries, not global warming. Undercooked pork helps perpetuate the disease. http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cysticercosis/. Neurocysticercosis is simply a type of cysticercosis that occurs when the pork tapeworm larvae migrate to the brain and form cysts, and can cause focal neurologic deficits and seizures.

   The treponematoses are a group of infectious illnesses causes by human-to-human spread of bacterial subspecies of Treponema pallidum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treponematosis. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/230403-overview. The only known reservoir is humans. Global warming has no role in this, but overcrowding, poor hygiene, and sexual activity do.

   I’ll defer to others to comment on the numerous non-medical errors in the brief text above.

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   • John B., M.D. says:

     May 7, 2012 at 5:42 pm

     I’ll excuse the high-schooler for writing a high-school level op-ed. But it is just that, an op-ed. It is poorly researched, not referenced, and I think reflects the indoctrination going on in our schools. I’m not talking just about being indoctrinated into liberal beliefs, but the lack of teaching of critical thinking skills.

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6. Jimbo says:

   May 7, 2012 at 9:47 pm

   Malaria used to rampant in the USA until the advent of DDT and heavy control. Same for Canada. Siberia (or was it Archeangel in the Arctic Circle?) suffered one of the worst outbreaks of malaria in history.

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7. Jimbo says:

   May 7, 2012 at 9:56 pm

   For those concerned about malaria please read the following.

   Peter W. Gething et. al. 2010
   Climate change and the global malaria recession
   Predictions of an intensification of malaria in a warmer world, based on extrapolated empirical relationships or biological mechanisms, must be set against a context of a century of warming that has seen marked global declines in the disease and a substantial weakening of the global correlation between malaria endemicity and climate.
   http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7296/full/nature09098.html

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8. Jimbo says:

   May 7, 2012 at 9:58 pm

   Here is something else to be worried about. A decrease in malaria in Africa due to global warming. Yes, you read it right. 😉
   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110202102908.htm

   When are these fear mongering scam artists going to give up?

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