[onlooker]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... study-says
Notice the second paragraph

But slashing fossil fuel use also presents greatest global opportunity to improve people’s health in 21st century, says Lancet and UCL commission

Well, if you slash fossil fuels you basically go back in time like a 150 years whereby you have lack of food, lack of sanitation and lack of medicines among other things. How will that improve peoples health? Just shows what a catch 22 we are in.

[Graeme]

One of climate change’s biggest dangers is one the world still isn’t talking about

Changes in climate and weather patterns worldwide are converging with social trends, shifting populations, land use change, and increasingly impaired water infrastructure to dramatically make life worse for those across the globe. We now have evidence that climate is a major factor increasing risks for food and waterborne diseases. While the linkages are complex, both temperature and precipitation are directly and indirectly associated with illnesses. It is critical to improve infrastructures and apply appropriate interventions to prevent climate-related risks to public health in water and food.

Climate change affects both water quality and food safety, which will both have important impacts on public health in the absence of appropriate interventions.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences notes that the potential effects of climate change on food-related illness may be indirect and moderate or unlikely in the US. On a global scale, however, the concern may be greater, arising from:

1. The direct correlation between water temperatures and certain microorganisms that cause human gastroenteritis.
2. Direct and indirect links between food contamination, certain foodborne disease outbreaks, and earth surface temperatures.
3. Possible changes in food production patterns due to climate—temperature, precipitation, humidity, and flooding are all factors in pathogen contamination.

quartz

[onlooker]

http://americannewsx.com/politics/clima ... m-florida/
Nasty pathogens emerging with GW
Climate Change’s Latest Gift: A Deadly Brain-Invading Worm Spreading Across Florida, Other States

[Cog]

An article written by a blogger who wants to impeach Trump. What a surprise.

[onlooker]

An article written by a blogger who wants to impeach Trump. What a surprise.

I swear I had no idea

[Cog]

An article written by a blogger who wants to impeach Trump. What a surprise.

I swear I had no idea

This picture at the end of the article might have tipped you off. But I did find another article about the brain eating worm. Apparently the risk is handling slugs or snails or eating them. The parasite is transmitted from rats to slugs or snails. Most people who get infected recover and rarely does anyone die from it.

[Tanada]

One of climate change’s biggest dangers is one the world still isn’t talking about

Changes in climate and weather patterns worldwide are converging with social trends, shifting populations, land use change, and increasingly impaired water infrastructure to dramatically make life worse for those across the globe. We now have evidence that climate is a major factor increasing risks for food and waterborne diseases. While the linkages are complex, both temperature and precipitation are directly and indirectly associated with illnesses. It is critical to improve infrastructures and apply appropriate interventions to prevent climate-related risks to public health in water and food.

Climate change affects both water quality and food safety, which will both have important impacts on public health in the absence of appropriate interventions.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences notes that the potential effects of climate change on food-related illness may be indirect and moderate or unlikely in the US. On a global scale, however, the concern may be greater, arising from:

1. The direct correlation between water temperatures and certain microorganisms that cause human gastroenteritis.
2. Direct and indirect links between food contamination, certain foodborne disease outbreaks, and earth surface temperatures.
3. Possible changes in food production patterns due to climate—temperature, precipitation, humidity, and flooding are all factors in pathogen contamination.

Graeme, can we get a check in?
How have things developed over the last couple years in your opinion?