Climate change is likely behind the global outbreak of monkeypox, a professor of health systems has said. The disease had largely been eradicated due to smallpox vaccines but the few people who do contract it usually do so in tropical rainforest areas of central and west Africa – often after coming into contact with animals. … “Climate change is driving animal populations out of their normal ranges and human populations into areas where animals live,” Professor Staines of DCU explained to On The Record with Gavan Reilly. … “So this is what living with climate change looks like.”
By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot
https://www.newstalk.com/news/climate-change-to-blame-for-monkeypox-outbreak-says-professor-1348966
Climate change is likely behind the global outbreak of monkeypox, a professor of health systems has said.
The disease had largely been eradicated due to smallpox vaccines but the few people who do contract it usually do so in tropical rainforest areas of central and west Africa – often after coming into contact with animals.
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“Climate change is driving animal populations out of their normal ranges and human populations into areas where animals live,” Professor Staines of DCU explained to On The Record with Gavan Reilly.
“There’s a very detailed analysis of about 40 years of data published in [the journal] Nature a few months ago that documents what has happened and predicts what may happen in the future and it’s very much driven now by climate change – and to an extent by human population growth.
“But climate change is pushing people into cities, it’s pushing animals into closer proximity with people and we’re seeing connections that we never saw before.
“So this is what living with climate change looks like.”
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Monkeypox is very rarely fatal and most sufferers develop a fever, rash and swollen lymph nodes. Symptoms last for up to a month and the disease is transmitted through skin to skin contact, body fluids, respiratory droplets or contaminated items such as bedding and clothing.
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Climate change likely to blame for monkeypox outbreak, expert says
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“Climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers.” Climate Change Could Spark Future Pandemics – “The research, published in Nature, uses modeling to map how climate change could shift the geographic ranges of 3,100 mammals species and the viruses they carry by 2070. … The findings suggest that climate change could “easily become the dominant [human] driver” of cross-species virus transmission by 2070, the authors say.”
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Marc Morano: “They want to keep both climate and COVID fears humming along to push their so-called solutions, so what better way than to merge the two issues!? Worried about COVID-19, then support the UN Paris climate pact, the Green New Deal, carbon taxes, etc. or else you are a gramma killer!”
Meanwhile, the data does not support this latest speculative computer model COVID/Climate scare story: See: H. Sterling Burnett’s analysis: Science Crushes Claimed Link Between COVID & Climate– ‘In reality, if a modestly warming Earth has any impact on viruses and pandemics, it is to make them less likely and less severe…Historically, we know that the Black Plague arose and ran rampant in Europe and elsewhere during the Little Ice Age.’
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Bill Gates: “It’s quite clear in this case, [Covid] came across through animals. And almost all our diseases, like HIV, crossed over from chimpanzees in Africa quite some time ago; Ebola came from bats, this also, with one step in between came across from bats.” – “So it’s going to keep happening, particularly with climate change where we’re invading a lot of habitats. And you want to catch it as soon as you can.”
“It’s always something…”. SNL skit from many moons ago. So true then and today.
Gates commenting on anything, immediately dismissed as blather. Along with a bunch of other “esteemed” useful idiots of the left.
Monkeypox? A pox on your monkeys, I say.
So, climate change is pushing people into urban heat islands. Nuts!
Sounds like Griff’s research level.
So, Al Gore really is a Monkey’s Uncle.
What is Climate Change? Is it colder or warmer? Is it drier or wetter? Is it more major weather events or fewer major weather events?
How Climate Change is combatted will be determined by what we are fighting.
Are we fighting CO2? Here is a Google Search on what does increasing CO2 have on plant growth:
Studies have shown that higher concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide affect crops in two important ways: they boost crop yields by increasing the rate of photosynthesis, which spurs growth, and they reduce the amount of water crops lose through transpiration.
[Social] Climate Change, not unlike the change that accompanied and precipitated AIDS, Covid-19, 20, 21, and 22, etc.
“Climate change is driving animal populations out of their normal ranges”
He’s right you know.. I have noticed an alarming increase in the number of baboons giving lectures in universities..
They are latecomers. Primates have been part and parcel of the Church of England for donkeys, or is it monkeys?, years.
No, chi’drens, the bushmeat sellers and unvetted illegal immigrants from the source countries in Africa are the cause of this “outbreak”. Climate change has f**kall to do with any of this fakedemic crap.
It’s a rat borne virus. Wtf has that got to do with bushmeat?
Well, this stupid assertion is as dumb as all the other stupid assertions that climate change is to blame for ___ when it is clear the climate has not changed to any significant degree.
If a particular disease is associated with the tropics, so what? The Earth has always had tropics where it was warmer and wetter than the rest of the planet, even during the glaciation eras. For most of our planet’s lifetime, it’s been mostly tropical, with it only being in the last 2.6 million years that much of the planet was not tropical.
As far as anyone knows, the tropics are no larger or hotter or wetter today than they were last year, or last decade, or last century, or last millennium.
Wrong. The Climate change pox is caused by monkeys calling themselves scientists.
If the climate got cooler we would still catch “Monkey Pox” given that climate change cause “Monkey Pox”. So the only way we can’t catch “Monkey Pox” is if the climate never changes. Meanwhile, the climate has been changing for the last 4.5 billion years.
It looks like we’re all going to catch “Monkey Pox”.
The annual range of Earth’s temperature is at least 250 deg F, with a standard deviation of several ten’s of degrees, with a long tail on the cold side. Diurnal changes in the desert can be about 100 deg F. The average global temperature and rate of increase are biased upwards by anomalous Arctic warming. The increase at night and in the Winter is greater than the day and Summer. Even so, the global average increase over the last 50 years is less than 2 deg F.
So, we are expected to believe that tropical animals that experience seasonal temperature changes, which may be an order of magnitude larger than the diurnal changes, are going to be driven to migrate laterally to flat areas where people build, rather than up-slope 1,000 feet if they have little tolerance for warming.
There are a lot of assumptions behind the claim, and little evidence to support it! I never cease to be amazed at the bald-faced claims made by well-educated people who are supposed to be objective.
If I recall correctly, the index case of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) which is endemic in African chimpanzees was found in an airline steward who flew from Africa to Haiti and then onto Canada. Huam transmission initially was men having sex with other men. A person so infected results in Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDs) which then sped around the world.
Monkey Pox, endemic in African tropical rainforests of Central and West regions may be found in monkeys with a natural reservoir in rodents. The latest outbreaks were in Europe amongst two large gatherings, one in the European Union and the other in Great Britain.
So what did we learn coming Out of Africa? direct contact with monkey, chimpanzee and rodents has yielded viral infections unique to Africa get transmitted human to human elsewhere in the world, again requiring direct skin to skin contact, unless of course one is bitten by a rat.
Really? I was under the impression that it was a rat borne disease and that monkeys were as susceptible to it as humans and several other animals.
Bill Gates was often the standard response when intelligent and motivated, but anti-social, teenagers struggled in school and talked about dropping out. He became the richest man in the world through his obsessive drive to create operating systems for computers. Well, that and IBM’s refusal to see that computers could use good operating systems.
However, it stands to reason that Bill Gates is still Bill Gates. Anti-social and mostly uneducated. He’s basically Greta Thunberg with a wallet.
There has clearly been a large outbreak of ClimatePox. Symptoms include wailing, teeth-gnashing, sackcloth and ashes, along with hallucinations and visions of impending doom. One remedy is WUWT, but the afflicted have an aversion to truth and common sense, so avoid it like the plague.
Did he offer studies to support the claim or is it just his opinion? If it’s his opinion without science to support it, then he’s not a professor/researcher. I though that Bill Gates dropped out from college, when did he get his PhD in microbiology and where can we see his dissertation published project/papers??
Not even his opinion. It’s a robotic knee-jerk reaction totally devoid of rational thought due to being infected with the climastrology bug.
Then I don’t have to worry since the Climate in the Northwest remains unchanged for many decades now.
Snicker…..
Saying something this absurd should be grounds for being fired on the spot. It’s intentionally fallacious, utterly absurd, and designed to scare people.
I stubbed my toe the other day, got a slight sunburn, sneezed a few times, had trouble falling asleep last night, forgot something on my shopping list, and felt slightly sad earlier today. These maladies are clearly due to climate change…
It is increasingly obvious that this pox is just the next VD associated with ‘lifestyle choices’. Maybe it should be called the Rainbow Pox.
Well of course! EVERYTHING bad is caused by climate change!
Was Joe Biden caused by climate change? Maybe he is a climate change joke!
Humans come into close contact with domestic animals and pets all the time. Most pet owners kiss their pets and cuddle them.
Maybe we ought to worry about catching disease from domestic animals.
Michael Jackson says “hi.”
Spinning wind turbines blow the virus everywhere….be very afraid.