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Zika Outbreak Could Be an Omen of the Global Warming Threat
The New York Times ^ | February 18, 2016 | By JUSTIN GILLIS

Posted on 02/18/2016 8:40:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The global public health emergency involving deformed babies emerged in 2015, the hottest year in the historical record, with an outbreak in Brazil of a disease transmitted by heat-loving mosquitoes. Can that be a coincidence?

Over the coming decades, global warming is likely to increase the range and speed the life cycle of the particular mosquitoes carrying these viruses, encouraging their spread deeper into temperate countries like the United States.

lready, climate change is suspected - though not proven - to have been a factor in a string of disease outbreaks afflicting both people and animals. These include the spread of malaria into the highlands of eastern Africa, the rising incidence of Lyme disease in North America, and the spread of a serious livestock ailment called bluetongue into parts of Europe that were once too cold for it to thrive.

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To: cuban leaf

But don’t tell anyone...it’s a “secret.”


21 posted on 02/18/2016 8:59:25 AM PST by henkster (Hillary Clinton's supporters are beginning to realize they are fettered to a corpse.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Call it what it is - a potential genetically engineered pandemic.


22 posted on 02/18/2016 8:59:47 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Or...not.


23 posted on 02/18/2016 8:59:50 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: datura

Yep. Whenever I see the word “may” in a story, I mentally add “or may not”.


24 posted on 02/18/2016 9:00:50 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The global public health emergency involving deformed babies emerged in 2015, the hottest year in the historical record, with an outbreak in Brazil of a disease transmitted by heat-loving mosquitoes. Can that be a coincidence?

Says who?

Lost in the relentless pressure for total government control, is the FACT that the global warming morons are 99,9% science imbeciles, the remainder are just nuts.

But most importantly, what these maniacs are "fighting" is weather, not climate, as defined by the pre-hysterical Real Science community. Climate must be defined as it always have been, weather long term trends over at least a few hundred, if not thousands of years.

That changes have occurred over millions of years, beyond the of any human agency gives science and any normal modern civilized human pause.

How is the First Megalomaniac's project to lower sea levels coming along?

As for "Computer models," the other undeniable fact, "Garbage in Garbage out" is firmly an unchangeable reality.

If you are too stupid to understand the test for that, you are too neurotic and/or retarded to grasp it at this point.

25 posted on 02/18/2016 9:01:03 AM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: henkster

Jackie O’s Secret UFO Diet.”

Hey, it really works!
I call it the “Unidentifiable Food Diet”.


26 posted on 02/18/2016 9:04:03 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

27 posted on 02/18/2016 9:18:08 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: All

No it is not Global Warming or Climate Change (AKA Weather). It is and has always been the ban on DDT.


28 posted on 02/18/2016 9:26:03 AM PST by thegrump (It is who we are. It is what we do. Live for nothing or die for something !)
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To: thegrump

According to global warming alarmists, “Lack of rainfall will increase desertification”.

From that we should conclude:
- More desertification, fewer water puddles.
- Fuwer water puddles, fewer mosquitoes.
- Fewer mosquitoes, less Zitka.


29 posted on 02/18/2016 9:35:49 AM PST by Patron92
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Since you didn’t stop global warming you are going to die from Zika”.
That’s the message, and they are insane.


30 posted on 02/18/2016 9:37:08 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“the hottest year in the historical record...” - puke.

Yeah, with a 38% confidence level, based on ground measurements that get “adjusted” and cherry picked, not satellite data that shows no such warming.

...gotta love how this will now be repeated as fact.


31 posted on 02/18/2016 9:38:45 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
32 posted on 02/18/2016 9:48:09 AM PST by B4Ranch (https://www.22kill.com/)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Global Warming caused bad breath and zits too..../s


33 posted on 02/18/2016 9:53:10 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary has 416 'superdelegates'... Bernie has 14...Democrats don't trust the people - it's rigged.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Zika Outbreak Could Be an Omen of the Global Warming Threat


Or not.


34 posted on 02/18/2016 10:00:28 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
with an outbreak in Brazil of a disease transmitted by heat-loving mosquitoes.

Easily solved, remove Rachel Carson from their list of saviors and send the DDT down there.

I should sue someone because the military used to issue DDT powder, I am not sure why. [:-)

35 posted on 02/18/2016 10:02:29 AM PST by itsahoot (1st impression. Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences. VoteTrump)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course global warming is the cause. Of that and every other problem in the world.


36 posted on 02/18/2016 10:07:45 AM PST by MarMema
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, here in the 21st century were replacing science with omens?

One of the worst place on earth for mosquitoes, is Alaska.

Try again, mr. Gore.


37 posted on 02/18/2016 10:54:21 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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