Jesus, why are we still debating this? "Climate Change Brings Health Risks." No shit. The carbon-based economy isn't helping anyone these days unless you're sitting atop the food chain, or leeching off of it. And who the fuck is still listening to anything the idiots who got the last 7 years wrong on every fucking count anyway? Oh right, the media.
"To the science, there is strong evidence the carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas ... and that there is strong evidence that climate change affects public health in many ways," responded Frumkin, carefully gauging his words, when pressed by Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif., on the issue.
....Among them, the prospects of more heat waves that are of special danger to the elderly and the poor; more incidents of extreme weather posing a danger of drought in some areas and flooding in others; increase of food-borne and waterborne infectious diseases; more air pollution because of higher temperatures; and the migration into new areas of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases such as Lyme disease, West Nile virus, malaria or dengue fever as seasonal patterns change.
"Over the next few decades in the United States, climate change is likely to have a significant impact on health," Frumkin told the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Gee, I wonder how many people would have been spared of these things had our incompetent federal and state agencies paid attention to "the science" even 5 years ago.
UPDATE: I do realize that I didn't say anything in this post about a Carbon tax. I know that, I was just suggestively throwing it out there. Will address in detail in a future post, after sleep.
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