https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-warn-that-climate-change-could-spark-the-next-major-pandemic/
Researchers anticipate that as the earth’s temperature continues to warm, wild animals will be compelled to migrate their habitats – most likely to areas with dense human populations – drastically raising the danger of a viral jump to humans, which might lead to the next pandemic.
This connection between climate change and viral transmission is described by an international research team led by scientists at Georgetown University in a paper entitled “Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk” which was published on April 28, 2022, in the journal Nature.
In their study, the researchers conducted the first comprehensive assessment of how climate change will restructure the global mammalian virome. The work focuses on geographic range shifts—the journeys that species will undertake as they follow their habitats into new areas. As they encounter other mammals for the first time, the study projects they will share thousands of viruses.
They argue that these shifts provide greater opportunity for viruses such as Ebola or coronaviruses to emerge in new places, making them more difficult to track, and into new types of animals, making it easier for viruses to jump across a “stepping stone” species into humans.
Of concern is that animal habitats will move disproportionately in the same places as human settlements, creating new hotspots of spillover risk. Much of this process may already be underway in today’s 1.2 degrees warmer world, and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may not stop these events from unfolding.
“At every step,” said Carlson, “our simulations have taken us by surprise. We’ve spent years double-checking those results, with different data and different assumptions, but the models always lead us to these conclusions. It’s a really stunning example of just how well we can, actually, predict the future if we try.”
“It’s unclear exactly how these new viruses might affect the species involved, but it’s likely that many of them will translate to new conservation risks and fuel the emergence of novel outbreaks in humans.”
Altogether, the study suggests that climate change will become the biggest upstream risk factor for disease emergence—exceeding higher-profile issues like deforestation, wildlife trade, and industrial agriculture. The authors say the solution is to pair wildlife disease surveillance with real-time studies of environmental change.
Now that the earth is 1.2 degrees warmer than it was a million years ago, we are going to have to mask more and do more social distancing. Oh, and of course get more injections of gene-editing serums that make trillions in profits for Big Pharma.
Gluttonous humans like to eat cows, and cows like to fart. The more beef we eat, the more greenhouse gases (i.e., cow farts) change the weather.
I don't think people understand how hot cow farts are. Like, they're "drop em like it's hot" kinda hot.
The next time you drive by a semi with a bunch of cows in the trailer, roll down your window and pull down your mask and take a big whiff. If you don't have long haul COVID you'll get to experience climate change in real time. That smell is actually what's causing the ice caps to melt in Antarctica.
One of the super-spreaders of COVID-19 was deer, as the Science! says that at least 33% of deer were infected by COVID. We aren't quite sure what their mortality rate was, but they obviously weren't masking or social distancing, so it was probably really high. It likely killed at least half.
The only solution is that people quit eating beef and quit hunting. If we didn't have so many cows we could cool the atmosphere by at least 20 degrees. Then we would never have any viruses pass from animals to humans. But humans would still need to mask when driving solo in their car, just in case cow flatulence was in the air from passing semis hauling cattle. You definitely don't want to inhale climate change, that could make you sick. Personally, when traveling on the freeway I opt for the standard surgical mask and then double that up with an N95 with windows always up, just to be safe.
Most people think that when the see someone double-masked solo in their car that they're just some unhinged liberal who is the ultimate conformist, but that's just not true. They are actually devout followers of Science! who understand all of the viruses that could get trapped in their car and make them sick. It's called doing your part and caring about others.
And even though they're masked, vaxxed and boosted, they still need to be cautious. Recent reports show that the vaxxed are dying more than the unvaxxed now. And that really is a shame, because if the unvaxxed would have just got vaxxed that would have never happened.
Hopefully people will quit eating beef and just eat bugs and soy for protein. If everyone would do that, and mask, distance and get vaxxed, we could all be safe and climate change wouldn't cause anymore pandemics.
Just do what our leaders tell us to do. They would never lie. They care about us!
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