News Jul 21, 2011 at 4:00 am

Global Warming Will Make Us Sick—Literally

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Here's a sexy idea: how about offering real solutions that deal with the root cause of climate change? This includes ending imperialist war and making industry pay for their massive waste of energy and pollution of the environment.

It's not enough to ask individuals to turn off lights.
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Fuck turning off your lights and driving less. You need a serious wake-up call! Industrial civilization is destroying all life on this planet and you are offering up these petty Al Gore-esque ideas of reducing your carbon footprint. This would be laughable if it weren't so sad. Humans need to return to a paleolithic diet, stop using electricity entirely, tear down the dams that are responsible for destroying so many natural food sources that could be sustaining our life in a humble way.

We have a hyper crop of humans that the corporate thugs see as completely disposable living in abject poverty to rot and die. We need action to tear this system down, not good light switch habits.
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but portland seems to be getting cooler while everyplace else gets warmer???
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Solid news article, Merc. More of this!

On the topic, the real challenge is plant extinction. Plants can't migrate very quickly.

Know people with malaria, and it is nasty. Never knew it was here, and that J-bug sounds bad. But the cure is absinthe.
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While I am far from one of those 'Global Warming Deniers' (fools) I must also add I've been hearing about what is now called Global Warming for 30 years now, and each time the time frame was about 20 years from now, till much sooner. Coastal flooding. Cities such as Calcutta will simply be gone, etc. Still hasn't happened to the extent I've been hearing all these years.
Somehow though I just don't think Global Warming will be the biggest health threat to mankind in the 21st century. Could be wrong, but....
I shall take the opinions in this article with a BIG grain of salt.
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ZOMBIE, you perfectly described hell.
I pity you.
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I wish they never latched onto the phrase "Global Warming". Climate Change is far more accurate of a term as it is all inclusive.(i.e. changes in precipitation patterns, sea levels, temperatures etc. Plus the only time I hear someone mention Global Warming is when they are busy trying to deny humans have had any negative impact on the environment whatsoever.

MIT, Inadvertent Climate Modification: Report of the Study of Man's Impact on Climate (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1971), Wallace Broecker, "Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?" Science, vol. 189 (8 August 1975).

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@Franklieb, agreed it is indeed a real phenomena, but poorly understood even now. Does man play a role? I would say yes but to what degree? Climate change occurs all the time, and did so well before the industrial revolution, in fact it occurred when we were carrying spears (not Britney. And I know,"we were agricultural". Um...no. History/Anthropology fail. see ya next term). So, global warming eh? The out breaks of dengue/ yellow fever, etc in Asia and India,etc basically occurred because Indian and African mosquito's either cross bred (possible within the genus) or African Mosquito's ended up there(or possible human host vectoring). This is relevant because prior to this the disease's in question where only prevalent in Africa along with all kinds of other lovely stuff. There has not been a huge climate change on that continent. It also is'nt to hard to figure out how mosquito's from Asia ended up here (I don't really have to tell you do I?). There may very well be a genetic mutation ongoing in the mosquito genus, as these viruses appear to be changing. In fact the subtype of mosquito does'nt matter as other types can become vectors for disease by feeding on infected humans or primates. In fact there is a nice warning for Rift Valley Fever in North America. Charming, but it has absolutely zero to do with global warming. Incidentally the Aedes species of mosquito can survive cold weather (even snow) and is a disease carrier. And It's here! Feel better? Btw, I was just outside...does'nt feel to warm for July
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@disastronaut-agree completely.
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You wanna talk PORK, how about that $5.2 million to study the health affects of global warming.
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The article indicated that the 5.2 million 'is to tackle the health effects of global warming', that doesn't sound like a study but actual disease prevention like spraying for mosquitos or what not. So that actually ends up being a drop in the bucket.
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The sky is falling!
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Part of controlling the problem is in fact Mosquito spraying. I have found little environmental or scientific resistance to this measure
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