Posted on 05/23/2018 11:32:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is wreaking havoc across the globe - melting ice caps, causing dangerous weather and decimating animal populations.
New research has found that it could also be increasing antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
A team of epidemiologists from Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital and the University of Toronto have found that higher local temperatures and population densities correspond with a higher degree of antibiotic resistance in common bacterial strains.
Previously, increase in resistance to common bacteria was thought to come from over-prescribing antibiotics.
'The effects of climate are increasingly being recognized in a variety of infectious diseases, but so far as we know this is the first time it has been implicated in the distribution of antibiotic resistance over geographies,' said lead study author and infectious disease specialist and research fellow at Boston Children's Derek MacFadden.
'We also found a signal that the associations between antibiotic resistance and temperature could be increasing over time,' he said.
The researchers found that an increase of 18degrees Fahrenheit is associated with increases of antibiotic-resistant strains of E. coli (4.2 percent), K. pneumoniae (2.2 percent), and S. aureus (3.6 percent).
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You cant find that something could.
You’re kinda stuck on climate change threads, huh?
Do the antibiotics work on those infected in Canada where it’s cooler? If not, then it has nothing to do with climate change.
May 17, 2018
At the NASA employee town hall, Bridenstine described how his thinking had “evolved” on the topic and laid out his current beliefs.
“I don’t deny the consensus that the climate is changing; in fact, I fully believe and know that the climate is changing,” he said. “I also know that we, human beings, are contributing to it in a major way. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. We’re putting it into the atmosphere in volumes that we haven’t seen, and that greenhouse gas is warming the planet.
https://www.space.com/40640-nasa-chief-bridenstine-climate-change.html
Apr 19, 2018
Trumps next NASA administrator is a Republican congressman with no background in science
Jim Bridenstines confirmation has been controversial even among members of his own party.
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/18/17253560/nasa-administrator-jim-bridenstine-confirmation
“”Climate change could be driving antibiotic resistance across the US””
or... It could be (illegal) Aliens
Climate change is wreaking havoc across the globe - melting ice caps, causing dangerous weather and decimating animal populations.
Four lies in the first sentence.
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Ya know, they're actually paid to have meetings about this...
Me too. Doom.
Gosh - they’re hitting it from all sides lately - next up, global climate change is affecting the Sun which then causes more problems....
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
Do these folks ever give up?
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As ice continues to increase at the poles, monkeys scream warming.
Tommy Robinson is the canary in the coal mine.
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The big thing it can’t do is make sense.
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