Essay by Eric Worrall
According to this study, warm weather is bad for us, because it either encourages people to stay indoors, or encourages enjoyment of water sports.
Analysis
Published:Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change
Camilo Mora, Tristan McKenzie, Isabella M. Gaw, Jacqueline M. Dean, Hannah von Hammerstein, Tabatha A. Knudson, Renee O. Setter, Charlotte Z. Smith, Kira M. Webster, Jonathan A. Patz & Erik C. Franklin
Abstract
It is relatively well accepted that climate change can affect human pathogenic diseases; however, the full extent of this risk remains poorly quantified. Here we carried out a systematic search for empirical examples about the impacts of ten climatic hazards sensitive to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on each known human pathogenic disease. We found that 58% (that is, 218 out of 375) of infectious diseases confronted by humanity worldwide have been at some point aggravated by climatic hazards; 16% were at times diminished. Empirical cases revealed 1,006 unique pathways in which climatic hazards, via different transmission types, led to pathogenic diseases. The human pathogenic diseases and transmission pathways aggravated by climatic hazards are too numerous for comprehensive societal adaptations, highlighting the urgent need to work at the source of the problem: reducing GHG emissions.
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Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01426-1
One of the risk factors identified in the study is the risk warm weather could encourage more water sports.
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Climatic hazards bringing people closer to pathogens
Climatic hazards also facilitated the contact between people and pathogens by moving people closer to pathogens. Heatwaves, for instance, by increasing recreational water-related activities, have been associated with rising cases of several waterborne diseases such as Vibrio-associated infections47, primary amoebic meningoencephalitis48 and gastroenteritis49.
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Read more: Same link as above
Of course staying indoors on hot days, instead of going for a swim, can also kill you.
… Higher temperatures have been associated with increased COVID-19 cases in some instances67, and although a mechanism was not outlined, it is possible that extreme heat forces people indoors, which can increase the risk of virus transmission, especially when combined with poor or reduced ventilation; …
Read more: Same link as above
Frankly I don’t think such studies are credible. Reading this study is like watching first year medical student hypochondriacs self diagnose all their rare diseases.
Studies which predict extreme disease risks in a warmer world fail to explain the benign environment of places which are already warm. If warmer weather was such a disease risk factor, Florida and Singapore would be unsurvivable disease ridden nightmares, instead of being the pleasant holiday destinations or places to live which they are.
Warmer weather might help ticks and mosquitoes to survive milder winters, but warmer weather also helps animals which prey on ticks and mosquitoes to survive.
Having said that, Mosquitoes don’t need any help to survive in cold weather. During the depths of the Little Ice Age, one of the biggest killers in Northern Europe was Malaria. Of course, hundreds of years ago, the disease wasn’t called Malaria, our ancestors called it Ague. Ague was such a problem in the 16th century, William Shakespeare’s plays referred to Ague at least 14 times.
How did our ancestors finally control Malaria? The same way we will be able to fix any problems which occur if the world continues warming, they figured out solutions to their problems. Our ancestors drained the worst swamps, and discovered cheap and readily available mosquito control chemicals such as light mineral oil and castor oil, which floats in a thin film on top of water and kills mosquito larvae.
Our ancestors adapted and prospered, just like we will.
“How did our ancestors finally control Malaria? … Our ancestors drained the worst swamps”
Now there’s a lesson worth learning, drain the swamp!
Well in the Mediterranean the progression was
Don’t live near the swamp
Take your Quinine 18th C onwards
Mosquito nets (1857 onwards)
Plant Eucalypts and drain swamps 19th C onwards
Wack the Anopheles to extinction with oil and DDT 1940’s ’50’s
Don’t catch Malaria locally (since then) expand tourist industry…
I don’t know about these clowns, but I get sick much more often in the winter than in the summer.
Cold temperatures are much better for health !
The average life expectancy of the male population currently living in Siberia is 53 years.
The watermelon/warmunists are trying to convince us that the Gulag camps indeed were holidays resorts.
Global warming is good for the Great Barrier’s health:
Great Barrier Reef records highest coral cover – TheBlaze
Another scare tactic.
Lack of clean water and proper sewer systems is what cause human diseases to become deadly. Reliable electricity is needed for these to work all the time. These people have no idea what happens in the real world
Is this, seriously, a peer-reviewed paper?! Have these ‘scientists’ genuinely spent time and effort putting this together?!
It’s absolutely u-n-b-e-l-i-e-v-a-b-l-e what counts as ‘science’ these days. Richard Feynman must be turning in his grave.
Please can somebody wake me up and tell me I’ve been dreaming about a Monty Python sketch…
The Archangels know him as ‘Revolving Feynmann’ these days.
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Totally divorced from reality. If the world is warmer why are we living longer, healthier and richer with the march of time?
Of course, this state of affairs may not continue if we spend — note I said “spend” not “invest” our resources and human ingenuity on solving non-existent problems such as non-existent catastrophic climate change.
Remember, only government approved NGO’s and workers can save you and the earth from climate change. You can’t do anything without government programs, it’s certain death. Government and NGO workers are standing by and eager to assist you. Send in all your money and we’ll get back to you soon.
Here’s another swamp that was drained. (Malaria used to be a problem in northwest Ohio.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Black_Swamp
It is well known that climate affects disease. When it is cold, people die from a variety of pathogens.
Book the eleven authors involved in this farce a trip to Canada’s Northern Boreal forest for June through August next year.
They’re to camp in tents, no houses, cabins, sheds, barn stalls or anything with hard floors and walls.
They’re to do without fossil fuels entirely. Banning anything made by/from fossil fuels.
Those dimwits ought to find the trip very educational, especially about how abundant mosquitos and ticks are where it gets cold every night.
It might, just might wake them up to how much of their life is dependent upon fossil fuels and that their alleged dangerous warming is minutely negligible in rural areas.
The alleged study is riddled with nonsense.
“Increasing recreational water-related activities”?
I assume these fools used somebody’s estimates for how many…
Here in Virginia, pools might open on Memorial Day (Last weekend in May) and close on Labor day, very early September.
Imagine that, all of that danger caused by the lucky few who go play in water during the roughly 90 days of warm weather…
Such danger as they imagine! Perhaps they should stick with Fruit-Loops for breakfast.
So if I move from Minneapolis to Florida I will more likely than not,die. Certainly a change in climate
So it’s good news then. Half of those diseases are NOT aggravated by Climate Change. Come on CC, Let’s have more CC. Unless you are half full glass pessimist of course
virtually every disease is more likely to kill you if your core body temp is low
this is why you run a fever to fight off infection, instead of telling all your mitochondria to stop driving SUVs