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Is Climate Change To Blame For The Ebola Outbreak?
Haaretz ^ | 2014-10-21 | Ruth Schuster

Posted on 10/21/2014 8:35:51 AM PDT by e-gadfly

From ecological destruction to changing weather patterns, man bears ultimate responsibility for the spread of deadly diseases.

Climate change is no longer controversial – it's happening. And some experts say it's responsible for the spread of Ebola to humans, as well as the increasingly frequent outbreaks of the deadly disease....

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


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; ebola; epidemic; globalwarming
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To: e-gadfly
I don't know about Ebola, but Global Warming will surely cause Democrats to get their ass kicked in the midterms.
21 posted on 10/21/2014 9:45:22 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did the little ice age in the 900 - 1300’s’s cause the black death? What about the potato famine?


22 posted on 10/21/2014 9:56:16 AM PDT by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: e-gadfly

Of course it is. It’s also responsible for the Lindbergh kidnapping, Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance, and disco.


23 posted on 10/21/2014 10:01:47 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: e-gadfly

Time and money wasted on climate change could be responsible for time and money not put into virus research and readiness.


24 posted on 10/21/2014 10:05:23 AM PDT by jetson (we got a bog fcking problem her)
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To: e-gadfly
*Is Climate Change To Blame For The Ebola Outbreak?*

Equally sensible question: “Are potatoes greater than the square root of snow tires in Guam?”

Both are non sequiturs.

25 posted on 10/21/2014 11:22:03 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: SMARTY

*I have a hang nail, and I just KNOW it’s because of climate change.*

If you have a hang nail, it’s because of climate change.

If your hang nail is cured, it’s because of climate change.

If you don’t have a hang nail, it’s because of a “Pause” in the Climate.

Whatever space the marble lands on in the Climate Change roulette wheel, the Government Supremacists win.


26 posted on 10/21/2014 11:24:50 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: e-gadfly

Oh good lord!


27 posted on 10/21/2014 11:37:16 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: e-gadfly

The Earth has been getting warmer or colder for 4,000,000,000 years. The only constant in Earths environment is change. It will continue to change till it’s consumed by the Sun.

Man has been on earth .00075% of Earth’s age or 300,000 years.
Earth will continue to change after man is long gone.

The universe is dynamic. Suns supernova, galaxies collide, planets are formed and lost in black holes daily.

Man is merely a brief observer, not the cause.


28 posted on 10/21/2014 2:40:52 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: e-gadfly

Why didn’t I think of that? It’s so obvious, right there in front of my face this whole time, I’m such an idiot. /s


29 posted on 10/21/2014 4:17:14 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

30 posted on 10/22/2014 5:20:38 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: e-gadfly; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

31 posted on 10/22/2014 8:51:19 PM PDT by null and void ("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
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