Posted on 09/14/2017 7:48:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Animals around the world are on the move. So are their parasites.
Recently, scientists carried out the first large-scale study of what climate change may do to the world’s much-loathed parasites. The team came to a startling conclusion: as many as one in three parasite species may face extinction in the next century.
As global warming raises the planet’s temperature, the researchers found, many species will lose territory in which to survive. Some of their hosts will be lost, too.
“It still absolutely blows me away,” said Colin J. Carlson, lead author of the study and a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.
Deer ticks, for example, spread Lyme disease, and climate change models suggest they have a rosy future as they expand northward. “We’re not worried about them going extinct,” said Mr. Carlson.
Migrating parasites like these will arrive in ecosystems where other parasitic species are disappearing. With less competition, they may be able to wreak more havoc — and not just on animal hosts. Many human diseases are the result of parasites and pathogens jumping from animal species to our own.
“If parasites are keeping disease down in wildlife, they might also be indirectly keeping them down in humans,” Mr. Carlson said. “And we might lose that.”
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Yeah, we’ve noticed the dementocRATS have been changing a lot in recent years. But it’s more likely standard adaptation and NOT the lie of climate change.
and climate change models “
This alone tells you it is Religion and not based on ANY Real Science, for if it were, there would only be 1 Model and it would be accurate as hell and results for the past could easily be verified against Real World Scientific Data.
BUT IT ISN’T!
Algore ?
“Climate Change Threatens the World’s Parasites”
Wrong. One fat parasite, Al Gore, thrives on it.
It starts with unquestioning belief - like a religion - in the phony climate “models” and then all the predictions proceed from that, and also on as shaky a foundation with many assumptions lacking empirical evidence for them and many variables left out.
“Climate Change Threatens the World’s Parasites”
New York Times hardest hit.
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