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A warming world gives viruses more chances to hitchhike from species to species That puts humans at greater risk, too
The Verge ^ | 4-28-22 | Justine Calma

Posted on 04/28/2022 5:23:19 AM PDT by dynachrome

Climate change is pushing mammals into new territory, increasing the number of opportunities for viruses to jump from species to species — including humans. By 2070, if global temperatures continue to rise as predicted, there could be a total of 15,000 new cross-species “viral sharing events,” according to new research published today in the journal Nature.

Of the at least 10,000 virus species in mammals capable of infecting humans, most are still only circulating among animals in the wild. The worry is that more of those viruses could eventually make the leap to humans, potentially sparking a health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Ultimately, this work provides us with more incontrovertible evidence that the coming decades will not only be hotter but sicker,” Gregory Albery, a disease ecologist at Georgetown University and co-lead author of the study, said in a call with reporters.

(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: globullwarming; viruses
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To: dynachrome

Science has devolved to sitting around, getting stoned, and coming up with totally awesome, or like, really probable kind of things happening.


41 posted on 04/28/2022 6:46:34 AM PDT by robel
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To: dynachrome

This “theory” is utter bullshit. Just one more angle to attempt to seize greater control


42 posted on 04/28/2022 6:59:22 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

“Climate Change” is the greatest financial scam in the history of the world (to date). Real science does not support much of anything in the “Climate Change” narrative. The world could take a small portion of the $150 trillion the elites want to spend on “Climate Change” and do some really good things with cleaning up the environment, advancing medicine, etc., but it would need to be done outside the auspices of “government”, which is anathema to the left.


43 posted on 04/28/2022 7:08:31 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: dynachrome

Another daily dose of fear-porn, global-warming hysterics.

Either humanity is the product of billions of years of evolution or the design of a Creator. Either way, humanity would not exist if it was as fragile as the manmade-global-warming activists want us to believe.

Their decades of failed predictions should clue everyone in to the fact that their beloved theories are wrong.

If they can’t identify the problem correctly, they certainly can’t figure out a solution, either.

I suspect that with COVID we all would have been much better off if we had done absolutely nothing in response than making the response we did globally. That is, it should have been treated like we treat the flu every year. Likewise, any supposed tiny increase in global temperatures is the kind of change we can adapt to and go on living our lives as normal.

With libs, the cure is worse than the disease.


44 posted on 04/28/2022 7:20:10 AM PDT by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: kearnyirish2

Well viruses aren’t coming to Georgia anytime soon as it simply refuses to warm up here this spring.


45 posted on 04/28/2022 7:43:33 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: dynachrome

“By 2070, if global temperatures continue to rise as predicted, there could be a total of 15,000 new cross-species “viral sharing events,” according to new research published today in the journal Nature. “

I heard it would as many as 1.5 million new cross-species “viral sharing events

comedian...


46 posted on 04/28/2022 8:03:32 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: dynachrome
Even if that's true, then it's a good thing the world is no longer warming:

Surface Temperature from US Climate Reference Network:


47 posted on 04/28/2022 8:16:27 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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To: antidemoncrat

Right; they also don’t mention that many of those “mammals” moving into new territory are unscreened Latin Americans (and anyone else looking to enter on the southern border).


48 posted on 04/28/2022 8:23:57 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

It’s cold here in NJ as well but apparently we’re still seeing a “surge”.../s


49 posted on 04/28/2022 8:24:30 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: dynachrome

A warming world means more food production and lower fuel consumption.


50 posted on 04/28/2022 8:35:06 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: dynachrome

Will these lunatics ever stop their BULLSHIRT!


51 posted on 04/28/2022 8:52:16 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: dynachrome

So that’s why flu season is in the fall and winter….? Hmmmmm?

Ex-Con


52 posted on 04/28/2022 9:53:48 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: dynachrome

So it’s a good thing all the dire predictions about global warming are lies!


53 posted on 04/28/2022 10:19:37 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
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To: dynachrome

Two propaganda combined will make it scarier. /s


54 posted on 04/28/2022 12:13:58 PM PDT by Trillian
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