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Florida up first when global warming’s killer bugs invade America
South Florida Sun-Sentnel ^ | August 22, 2019 | by Fred Grimm

Posted on 08/23/2019 9:45:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Perhaps there’s a perverse rationale behind the Trump administration obstinate refusal to acknowledge the monstrous calamities threatened by global warming. Why sweat floods, droughts, forest fires, supercharged hurricanes, when the teensie maladies are gonna’ kill us first?

Because the hotter it gets — and Florida is coming off the hottest July, after the hottest June, after the hottest May in 125 years of record keeping — the better thermophilic bacteria, amoebas and parasites like it.

The Florida peninsula provides a disturbing preview of the kind of creepy-crawly climate-change horrors that will plague America’s future.

I do mean horrors. Already, Florida’s gulf coast beaches are beset with ghoulish reports of swimmers afflicted with flesh-eating bacteria that researchers say thrive in the warming waters.

This summer there have been reports from southern coastal states that at least five dogs have died after swimming in algae-tainted waters. Consider the doggies as the waterways’ equivalent to canaries in the coal mine. We’re the hapless miners trapped in the miasma.

And I haven’t even mentioned the damn spiders. A study published last week in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, examining the effects of global warming on wildlife, concluded that only the most aggressive spiders will survive the expected spate of superheated hurricanes.

Angry spiders may not be the most lethal possibilities we’ll face with climate change. Just the creepiest.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; humor; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 08/23/2019 9:45:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s quite a fairy tale, Mr. Grimm.


2 posted on 08/23/2019 9:46:26 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

don’t be so grimm, Fred.


3 posted on 08/23/2019 9:48:35 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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Perhaps the author hasn't experienced full blown bug-o-rama in Florida in mid summer? 🐛🐜🐲🐝🐉
4 posted on 08/23/2019 9:50:32 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So if Floridians move to Greenland when it’s ours will they still whine?


5 posted on 08/23/2019 9:50:59 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: Dr.Deth

‘That’s quite a fairy tale, Mr. Grimm.’

ha ha ha...


6 posted on 08/23/2019 9:52:47 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Do say..it's HOT in Florida! Some years More than others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_temperature_extremes
7 posted on 08/23/2019 9:53:53 AM PDT by caww
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Air conditioning is the only reason Florida is populated.
Once the left outlaws A/C everybody will move back to NY, NJ, CT, MA.


8 posted on 08/23/2019 9:54:59 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Florida Man will save us!..................


9 posted on 08/23/2019 9:57:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Dr.Deth

Right on Dr.D…
Grimm Fred needs to take a Biology course! Ignorance is embarrassing… to some…


10 posted on 08/23/2019 10:00:06 AM PDT by uncle peanut (eyeless in virginia)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OMG!!! And humanity is so technologically ancient, backward and stupid that it will NEVER EVER be able to cope with, adjust for and mitigate such a change!!!! NEVER. /sarc

Yes, everyone the sky is falling, the sky is falling. /sarc


11 posted on 08/23/2019 10:00:12 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: rktman

Watch out for palmetto bugs. And don’t let Burmese pythons eat your babies and dingos.


12 posted on 08/23/2019 10:01:51 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Many strains of bacteria can cause flesh eating disease and even a simple scrape can lead to it.


13 posted on 08/23/2019 10:02:33 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

[[Perhaps there’s a perverse rationale behind the Trump administration obstinate refusal to acknowledge the monstrous calamities threatened by global warming.]]

Perhaps there’s SOLID SCIENTIFIC rationale behind the Trump administration obstinate refusal to acknowledge the monstrous calamities threatened by global warming.

Fixed it!


14 posted on 08/23/2019 10:02:47 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Angry spiders”

I’ll take those over the barking kind any day.


15 posted on 08/23/2019 10:03:45 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thet messed up the headline...supposed to wrote “.....Trump’s global warming....”


16 posted on 08/23/2019 10:03:56 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (We need a consent decree for the FBI like Obama' DOJ was slaping on all those police agencies.)
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To: Vaquero

What about the “love bugs”?


17 posted on 08/23/2019 10:04:05 AM PDT by Ed Condon (subliminal messages here in invisible ink)
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To: Red Badger

TO THE RESCUE

18 posted on 08/23/2019 10:04:40 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

Been there done that. How many auto accidents due to your windshield being blacked out by love bugs? LOL!


19 posted on 08/23/2019 10:05:05 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Red Badger

[[Florida Man will save us!..................]]

He’s too busy driving his lawn mower down the turnpike drinking wood alcohol while getting a tattoo of Florida woman with no teef on his upper arm


20 posted on 08/23/2019 10:05:42 AM PDT by Bob434
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