Global warming will cause ice to melt, which will release bacteria that had remained dormant for thousands of years
Posted on 10/16/2018 8:20:53 AM PDT by ETL
The melting of permafrost would release millennia-old bacteria into the global ecosystem, it has been claimed
GLOBAL warming could re-awaken ancient diseases and even the Black Death, according to an Oxford University professor.
Higher global temperatures would melt ice sheets that store long-buried bacteria, which could spread disease and potentially cause new global pandemics.
Global warming will cause ice to melt, which will release bacteria that had remained dormant for thousands of years
Professor Peter Frankopan offered his speculative prediction at the Cheltenham Literary Festival on Friday, as reported by The Times.
The professor of global history began by stating his view that there was "absolutely no chance" the international community would hit the Paris Agreement's target of keeping global temperature rises under 1.5C.
He said, "If we go over that degree change, it’s not about the Maldives being harder to visit on holiday or migration of people — it’s about what happens when permafrost unfreezes and the release of biological agents that have been buried for millennia."
And because ancient bacteria would be released again into the Earth's ecosystems, there would be a big risk of the global population being hit by diseases it can't handle.
Chief amongst such diseases is the plague, which Frankopan states was spread in the Middle Ages largely due to a rise in global temperatures.
"For example, in the 1340s, a 1.5 degree movement of heating of the earth’s atmosphere — probably because of solar flares or volcanic activity — changes the cycle of Yersinia pestis bacterium," he explained.
"That one and a half degree difference allowed a small microbe to develop into the Black Death."
According to Frankopan, such a possibility should be taken more seriously than a rise in sea levels or droughts, not least because the Black Death wiped out between 75 and 200 million people in Europe in the 14th Century.
"These are the things we should be hugely worried about," he said.
While his warnings draw a worst-case scenario for future global warming, there are recent examples of melting permafrost presenting a serious hazard to people.
In 2016, a 12-year-old boy died and over 40 people were hospitalised in Siberia, after having been infected by anthrax.
The anthrax had been released when high summer temperatures melted permafrost, which had kept a deer buried for decades following a previous outbreak of the dangerous bacteria.
Since this deer had been killed by anthrax, its exposure caused the previously frozen bacteria to be released into the area's water and soil, where it then entered the food chain.
Over 1,500 reindeer were infected and killed as a result, and since some of these had been eaten by local residents, they too were infected.
Frankopan's predictions also come amid a growing slew of studies examining some of the more indirect effects of global warming.
Yesterday, an international team of climate scientists publishing in the Nature Plants journal wrote that severe climate change would cause worldwide beer shortages.
Last month, a paper published in the influential Nature journal concluded that global warming is already causing a rise in large landslides and tsunamis.
While in July, researchers at Stanford University published research which found that rising global temperatures could result in 40,000 more suicides in the US and Mexico by 2050.
What worries you most about global warming? Let us know in the comments.
“Bring Out Your Dead!”
But open borders have nothing to do with it.
What’s the problem?
Globalist elites want to see world population dramatically fall off anyhow.
Climate Change could make monkeys fly out of your butt.
Marxist Liberals are more of a threat to the world.
Yet oddly enough, the warming since 1800 hasn’t done any such thing.
Now we're back to the UN saying we're all going to die in ten years if nothing is done. How many decades has this alarm been sounded?
And Al Gore says the planet is in an emergency crisis. Crawl back to your multiple carbon spewing homes and your private jet.
Doom and gloom. Fits right into the Left's political agenda.
Climate change: Woulda', coulda', shoulda' but it never happens.
Keep crying wolf, liberals. Eventually no one will listen to your scam at all.
The Global warming cult seems to have given up on convincing the heretics that the science is settled and now are relying on hysterical emotional appeals. This is around the fourth article I’ve seen this week warning of that we are faced with horrors beyond our widest dreams. Must be because Halloween is around the corner.
Mostly because since 1800, modern medicine and hygiene measures have drastically cut down in rampant diseases that would kill millions.
Posted on 10/8/2018, 2:00:28 PM by ETL
Earth is on track to face devastating consequences of climate change – extreme drought, food shortages and deadly flooding – unless there’s an “unprecedented” effort made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, a new United Nations report warns.
The planet’s surface has already warmed by 1 degree Celsius – or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit – and could see a catastrophic 1.5 C — 2.7 F — increase between 2030 and 2052, scientists say.
“This is concerning because we know there are so many more problems if we exceed 1.5 degrees C global warming, including more heat waves and hot summers, greater sea level rise, and, for many parts of the world, worse droughts and rainfall extremes,” Andrew King, a climate science academic at the University of Melbourne, said in a statement to CNN.
The stunning statistics were released Monday in a report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which warned that we must take “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” in order to save our planet.
Scientists with the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC said in order to have even a 50-50 chance of staying under the 1.5 degree cap, the world must become “carbon neutral” by 2050. Any additional carbon dioxide emissions would require removing the harmful gas from the air.
If nothing is done, Earth can expect heat wave temperatures to rise by 3 degrees Celsius, more frequent or extreme droughts, an increase in deadly hurricanes and as much as 90 percent of coral reefs dying off — including the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, according to the report.
Countries in the southern hemisphere would see the most drastic effects.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
That's because we haven't reached the "tipping point" yet.
I suspect we may reach it by about 3:35PM (EDT) next Thursday.
"In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism," said Sanders.
"And if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say, you're going to see counties all over the world...they're going to be struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops, and you're going to see all kinds of international conflict."
Sanders said at the second Democratic debate in Iowa that climate change poses the biggest threat to America's national security and to security of the world. ..."
______________________________________________________________
Bin Laden blasts US for climate change
CAIRO – Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming, according to a new audiotape released Friday.
In the tape, broadcast in part on Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden warned of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring “the wheels of the American economy” to a halt.
Bin Laden blasts US for climate change
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/bin-laden-blasts-us-for-climate-change/
“These are the things we should be hugely worried about,” he said.”
No, you worry about it.
Eaaaasy, Captain Hyperbole. Fetch the author a fainting couch.
In the 1300's, people also slept 10 to a hovel, along with their farm animals. Sanitation was largely unknown, and penicillin was called "moldy bread".
IIRC, the plague still exists in the American Southwest. A handful of cases crop up every year, and they're quickly treated with antibiotics.
But, let's not let facts get in the way of some good gloom and doom, no?
Absolutely nothing worries me about the global warming scam.
Except that we have to listen to these idiots telling us how ignorant they are.
Yes they are and sterilization is becoming a necessity.
So this gets the illegal immigrants off the hook when they bring these diseases into a developed country.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.