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What The Coming Climate Crisis Portends

Submitted by Woody--Tokin Librul on Sat, 2007-09-29 21:06.

Say goodbye to French wines, baseball and the Great Barrier Reef. Christmas trees. Fly fishing. Salmon. Gray whales.
Say hello to massive amounts of mosquitoes, the northwest passage and hurricanes. And bear attacks (until they’re hunted to extinction).

On Alternet, there’s a list of the top 100 changes you may actually live to see, if you are, say, under 40 today. Maybe it’s better if you DON’T read it; it’ll just harsh your buzz.
It harshed mine…

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How about brain-eating amoebas?

Submitted by Tinfoil Hat Boy on Sun, 2007-09-30 21:06.

They’re not just for breakfast.

It sounds like science fiction, but it’s true: Killer amoebas living in lakes can enter the body through the nose and attack the brain, where they feed until you die.
[…]
“This is a heat-loving amoeba. As water temperatures go up, it does better. In future decades, as temperatures rise, we’d expect to see more cases.”

“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead

woody, i've not been buzzed for some time

Submitted by chicago dyke on Mon, 2007-10-01 05:59.

and i saw that and still didn’t click on it, because i didn’t want to harsh my reality.

but yes, i recommend everyone do a little scifi reading. just as a sort of prep. human imagination struggles to grasp the Fury of mother nature, but soon, that won’t be a problem.

THB- i guess i won’t be swimming in any lakes anytime soon. Scary. but exactly what we deserve, i suppose, for acting as if the planet were our own personal toilet/cookie jar/pitbull fighting ring.

It's here already

Submitted by Sarah on Mon, 2007-10-01 10:58.

a local TV station carried this update last night. This case first broke on my last working day with the State public health department. The Arizona teen’s death is more recent.

Although there’s no reason to believe this lake-resident amoeba is connected with mosquitoes, wetter weather — the most obvious by-product, this year in Texas, of climate change — does encourage mosquito reproduction, as WGG notes.
It’s quite possible infected mosquitoes play a part in the spread of “avian influenza,” aka “pandemic flu.”

Dengue fever is carried by mosquitoes.

West Nile Virus is carried by mosquitoes.

Various other kinds of encephalitic (brain-case lining affective) diseases also travel by mosquito. Yellow fever used to be the bane of the South — and by the South, I mean from DC to the Gulf of Mexico.

There will be a resurgence in “tropical diseases”.
Mother Nature is patient, resourceful, and better armed than humans.

(Don’t think you can be effective alone?
Try spending a night in a tent with a mosquito.)

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0