Posted on 08/24/2016 2:07:11 PM PDT by PROCON
Earlier this month, an outbreak of anthrax in northern Russia caused the death of a 12-year-old boy and his grandmother and put 90 people in the hospital. These deadly spores – which had not been seen in the Arctic since 1941 – also spread to 2,300 caribou. Russian troops trained in biological warfare were dispatched to the Yamalo-Nenets region to evacuate hundreds of the indigenous, nomadic people and quarantine the disease.
Americans are likely to associate anthrax with the mysterious white powder that was mailed to news media and US Senate offices in the weeks following 11 September 2001. The bacteria – usually sequestered in biological weapons labs – killed five people and infected 17 others in the most devastating bioterrorism attack in US history.
But in Russia, the spread of illness was not the result of bioterrorism; it was a result of global warming. Record-high temperatures melted Arctic permafrost and released deadly anthrax spores from a thawing carcass of a caribou that had been infected 75 years ago and had stayed frozen in limbo until now. This all suggests that it may not be easy to predict which populations will be most vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Note to self:
Put bio-hazard suits under Christmas tree.
:)
They act like its “coming out of the earth”.
Instead its a carcass that thawed from 75 years ago.
When we had the previous global warming from all the SUVs
When they start putting up beachfront resorts in Siberia, THEN I might take this seriously.
Until then, I continue to relegate anyone who whines about this to the “Chicken Little” category.
I can’t wait for Mona Sarfaty breathlessly telling us Global Warming causes Brexit, if he/she hasn’t done so already.
It’s like everything about “climate change” gets pulled through a severe bias filter.
If it’s bad, and it can be tied to warming, and if anything about temperatures is from the recent era in history in which there was such a thing as thermometers, then put it out. Otherwise sit on it.
Soooo ... what caused the anthrax outbreak 75 years ago?
There was Glowbull Warming in 1941?
This is a bigger load than Hillary’s diaper.
So, what was going on in 1941? Was there global warming that was worse than now? Why?
You should pose that question at the Guardian website..
Each and every week the Guardian manages to out-asshat themselves.
Heck, it’s good entertainment.
They and the NYT are in a virtual tie for “who has the largest collection of marshmallow major writers” contest, but at least the Guardian does have better writers.
Yup, it happened right after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
Someone rode a sick caribou into the area?
Hey, I'm no scientist but if I were, I wouldn't read that liberal rag.
Hmm, no. It probably is a biowarfare sample getting out of that place.
No team soros is making sure diseases are comming back. Gotta kill of 100mil of the population so it helps control the masses with fewer people.
When the Russians accidentally released a half kilo of anthrax spores from a secret bioweapon lab in Sverdlovsk in, I think, 1979, they blamed “tainted meat”. Brezhnev later came clean.
So now they blame global warming on another anthrax release, and because of our global warming infrastructure, we’ll go along with this version of Official Reality.
So how does the writer stop melting ice?
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