Is global warming making us sick?
The LA Times has an article talking about the spread of illnesses to new places due to global warming. It's the kind of article that makes you think, unless you are Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe and are incapable of thinking.Exerpt:
The spread of human disease has become one of the most worrisome subplots in the story of global warming. Incremental temperature changes have begun to redraw the distribution of bacteria, insects and plants, exposing new populations to diseases that they have never seen before.
A report from the World Health Organization estimated that in 2000 about 154,000 deaths around the world could be attributed to disease outbreaks and other conditions sparked by climate change.
The temperature change has been small, about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 150 years, but it has been enough to alter disease patterns across the globe.
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