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Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 years, 6 months agoA long drought followed by an intense downpour is a recipe for multiple disease outbreaks, also encourages rodent and rodent-borne disease outbreaks as rodent populations boom in the wake of replenished water supplies. Also rising temperatures and extreme weather could also affect the breeding and spread of ticks that carry Lyme disease, according
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Eagle_Eye
April 24, 2007, 10:42 p.m.My head is still spinning after reading this because there is such a "Domino Effect" of things that can happen globaly to the human race and all life.
Along with these changes we also have virus' and bacteria that are being created or mutated anitbiotic resistant. It is becoming a different world than what I was raised in also very sad.
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Radiofreeeuropa
April 24, 2007, 10:56 p.m.Basic Newtonian science I'm afraid.
For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.
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Watchemoket
April 24, 2007, 11:09 p.m.Despite all the evidence, the naysayers will be flooding in to claim that this is all lies, a left-wing tree-hugger conspiracy to cheat and defraud poor, under-funded government agencies out of grant dollars chasing imaginary problems.
I really do not care if it is primarily man-made or not - the current warming trend is a proven FACT, despite the equally true fact that the world SHOULD BE in a coldward spiral.
What can it hurt to be more green - to conserve energy and non-renewable resources, increase recycling efforts to minimize the effects of human waste on nature and save money by using less energy and pushing renewable sources of energy? It can only hurt the corporations that feed energy to the world and make obscene profits doing so, the corporations that produce and market products that maximize waste and the politicians who are funded by them.
WAKE UP! How can you live with your heads in the sand?
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ningyo
April 25, 2007, 12:31 a.m.what a load of alarmist crud..they say that in the next decades...20-40 years for the numerically challenged democrats...milions will starve and tens of millions will be flooded...heloooo--it wont take decades..its happening now..and last year..and 50 years ago...climate inflicts havoc on the tenuous populations on earth--always has --always will--and no legislation or UN mandate or algore or earth days will stop the climate from doing what it does--be totally unpredicable--and killing millions in africa with drought--or drowning millions in china with floods--and no increase in our taxes to fund green socialism will change that
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Catie
April 25, 2007, 4:27 a.m.ningyo - you are the epitome of what everyone is talking about. Foolish, ignorant, and too stupid to realize that the only people that get hurt by "going green" are those obscenely rich oil companies who do nothing but exploit the people and the resources. You can complain all you want, but that won't change the fact that, even in the event that people are wrong about global warming, cutting back on oil, looking for alternative fuels, funding research that will allow us to improve what we can, and not raping the environment can only have positive effects on the world. As someone else already said, pull your head out of the sand.
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Amazing1
April 25, 2007, 9 a.m.It doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong. There will be no trophies at the end of the century.
However, if we cut our energy consumption by growing our own tomatoes, turning off the lights when we leave a room and throwing away the electric can opener, we will have great tasting tomatoes, a lower utility bill and develop wrist muscles just a bit. Not a bad thing. We will also help to soften the footprint of mankind on the planet. Also not a bad thing.
After all, where are we going to get another planet if we use this one up?
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lvrofwolves
April 25, 2007, 10:49 a.m.Well for those who are so concerned about $, if they'd only realize they can do things to help the environment AND save $ that sure would help! there needs to be more education out there on how to do things like that. I was really impressed about the couple on 20/20 last week and how they haven't had to pay an electric bill for 6 years, AND sell their unused electric back to the electric co.because they totally run on solar and wind. And for some who are afraid of making any sacrifices-those people had 3 computers, a big screen TV, washer/dryer all kinds of electrical appliances.
If I had the power to stop ALL new land developement, I would. you can remodel, rebuild new on existing building sites, but no more destruction of undeveloped land. cont-
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walden3
April 25, 2007, 10:52 a.m.let's do what we can. if you look at any city at night most of the office buildings are still 80% lit. replace incandescants with flourescent. check you tire pressure. each of us burning a gallon less a week would have some impact. invest in mass transit.
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Ciera-Marie
April 25, 2007, 11:09 a.m.Thanks EE for this article.
I agree that all of us no matter what our income levels, where we live (apartment, condo, townhome, trailer whatever) can make small changes that can have a big and lasting impact.
One thing I do is take the bus when I go to the MN state fair every year. I take to save on parking money and gas. I also take it when the Art Fair is in the Uptown area.
If anyone has an Ikea by them, they will accept your used lightbulbs (no matter the kind) and batteries.
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lvrofwolves
April 25, 2007, 11:27 a.m.About the Katrina disaster, I think there should have been some more focus on the wildlife, how that disaster affected the ecosystem as well. To have the main focus always being on rebuilding and all the suffering of the people there, they leave out many other important aspects of that disaster. think about all the rotting, diseased fish, game, domestic animals from farms, the polluted and stressed vegatation and waterways....people died-yes a tragety. buildings ruined, not so nice, but rebuilding. culture lost- a big shame, I hope it comes back. What about the ecosystem down there???
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WCFIELDS
April 25, 2007, 11:36 a.m."... rodent populations boom..."
A NEW source of protein! GOOD NEWS!
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Eagle_Eye
April 25, 2007, 11:46 a.m.LOL, keep thinking like that because our Government and Corporations are couting on you.
I hope you have no children.......
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walden3
April 25, 2007, 12:04 p.m.please park your car in your garage, start it up and set up a lawnchair for yourself in the garage. report back to me about the lack of effect that human created waste has on the environment. i'll be waiting.
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cleare
April 25, 2007, 5:30 p.m....vastly overrate our importance...
well, human beings successfully denuded europe of its forest, eaten 90% of the game fish in the ocean, wiped several dozen species off the planet, strip mined mountains into molehills, clear cut and slash and burned whole forests, left tons of trash in orbit around our planet, generated a huge hole in the ozone...the list goes on.
i'd say we've had a pretty significant impact on our fragile home.
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Eagle_Eye
April 25, 2007, 11:43 a.m.When thinking about these things happening most think of 3rd world countries.
But right here in America it has been happening for several years.
In Arizona and New Mexico they have problems with rodents spreading the Hanta Virus. Also last month a major media networks news program featured downtown Washington D.C. being full of rats (4 legged kind). They showed the rats running the streets at night as well as all over restaurants counters and floors.
There is a town just North of Disney World called Apopka that is having a MAJOR mouse explosion (to bad it isn't a little farther south).
Right now a good portion of New Jersey is flooded and there are draughts in our farming areas. It is happening here but you don't hear about it in the media, don't want mass panic.
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ABANOCLA
April 25, 2007, 11:45 a.m.Yep it is the developers fault about those condos, wouldn't want to point a finger at your neighbors who sold the property for what must have been a profit.wow takes the bus once a yr to the fair, that is really going to help.And how is all of this going to stop the sun from having its largest solar flares and CME coronal mass ejections that have ever been recorded? Guess we are causing those as well, and the heating up of mars as have been reported....those two mars rovers must really be churning out the co2 up there, even while running on solar power to heat up mars.....or gee, here is an idea, the earth has cycles and the sun is the cause,,,,NAW it just can't be that.
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ABANOCLA
April 25, 2007, 11:49 a.m.off the point, lvrofwolves, did you happen to see the show 1 or 2 days ago about how some think that dogs are descendents of wolves but not in the way most people, that it happend thru domestication, it was very intersting.
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ABANOCLA
April 25, 2007, 11:55 a.m.I find it quite amusing you make jokes about the span we have been studying solar flares, I would say it is equivalent to the time frame we have been studying global warming that you whole heartedly embrace as our fault and scientifically proven. There also is recoreded evidence of polar shifts, that we didn't cause, rapid switches, so you better get your rope and pulley system out and tie us to the moon so that can't happen again.
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ABANOCLA
April 25, 2007, 11:59 a.m.P.S. you also failed to explain how we lessened mars atmosphere which is warming also, or did you just forget that little fact cause it doesn't fit within your only our sky is falling mentality?
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ABANOCLA
April 25, 2007, 12:05 p.m.You are correct about sun worship, some have switched to Gore worship:)
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ABANOCLA
April 25, 2007, 12:52 p.m.Maybe mars isn't our problem, but why is it heating up? You just evade the question, cause you have no explanation for it, other than the sun is causing it, or that it has natural cycles just like earth....and that wouldn't fit in with we are the reasons earth is heating up. Got an ANSWER?
or maybe it is something you know nothing about.
scientists used to believe the world was flat, I think that hypothesis has fallen out of favor tho, and where was the "New ice age" that scientists were ranting about 30 or so years ago, guess they couldn't get the funding to secure their livlihood in perpetuity to study it, so now it is global warming after the non existant ice age, their new revenue streams.
So you have an answer to the no ice age, your gifted and trusted scientists were WRONG about, or the ministers, teachers et all?
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ABANOCLA
April 25, 2007, 12:54 p.m.You ever heard of three card monty? I bet your wallet could be emptied with one card monty.:)
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ABANOCLA
April 25, 2007, 12:56 p.m.And if a comet collision was large enuf to shift our poles, it would have been an extinction event, and you would not be here incorrectly saying that is what caused it.
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contrast
April 25, 2007, 12:56 p.m.there is a lot to worry about. I am worried about getting my bills paid on time and making the next bump up in my career. Worrying about the future of the human race and such is on the back burner. I KNOW what is going to happen to humans. Every go to a museum and see the dinosaur bones? We cant stop it. we cant control it. Nature is the master not us. If she decides to wipe us out then she will and we cant stop it since she is in control..we are her children not her masters. And if we do it to ourselves we damned well deserve it now dont we?
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