Told ya so – Washington Post links Ebola to Climate Change
Posted on August 7, 2014 by Anthony Watts
Is there *any* disaster which climate change can’t make worse?
About three days ago I tweeted this:
Watts Up With That @wattsupwiththat Follow
Waiting for the inevitable opportunistic BS story that #EbolaOutbreak is a result of climate change.
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Eric Worrall writes:
The Washington Post has in my opinion stooped to a new low, by trying to tie the ongoing Ebola misery in Africa to the issue of Climate Change. According to the Post;
“A 2002 study published in the journal of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing found that sudden shifts from dry to wet conditions were associated with Ebola outbreaks from 1994 to 1996 in tropical Africa.
As the globe warms, precipitation extremes are projected to increase. Periods of drought are expected to become more frequent in some areas while heavy rain events, when the occur, are forecast to become more intense. Presumably, those areas which see precipitation variability increases – with abrupt shifts from extremely dry to extremely wet periods – would be most vulnerable to Ebola outbreaks.” (h/t Breitbart)
Ebola is a horrible disease which is ravaging the poorest people of Africa. The new outbreak, which has demonstrated a frightening ability to spread to new victims, and to infect and kill health workers, may yet become the new global plague we all fear – with every new victim, Ebola improves its ability to strike at our vulnerabilities. We are all at risk.
To try to tie this continent wide tragedy to the promotion of global warming alarm, to exploit a catastrophe which is afflicting the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world, and to play on people’s deepest fears, to advance an unrelated political position, is in my opinion a new and disgusting low point in the current standards of what passes for mainstream journalism.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/07/told-ya-so-washington-post-links-ebola-to-climate-change/
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- “CO2 NEVER causes anything that is less than extreme.”
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Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7 says:
August 7, 2014 at 6:53 am
- Eric Worrall writes:
- The Washington Post has in my opinion stooped to a new low, by trying to tie the ongoing Ebola misery in Africa to the issue of Climate Change.
Surely Eric knows better — who here was not expecting exactly this story?
This example of climate scaremongering is not unprecedented; it falls within the natural variations of slimy journalism.
Richard Greene says:
August 7, 2014 at 6:54 am
My knee hurts when the barometer is falling and a storm is coming. I am a victim of “weather change”, but “climate change” is so often used to explain just about any problem that “climate change” should apply to my problem too.
Today I’m applying for aid as a climate change victim from Tom Steyer’s new ‘climate victim fund’.
I plan to ask for $500,000, but would be willing to settle for $50 a day for the rest of my life.
The fact that so many humans could be convinced to fear a climate catastrophe based on a tiny change in the average temperature over 150 years, and computer game wild guesses about the future climate from climate astrologers, is the ultimate comedy.
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CD (@CD153) says:
August 7, 2014 at 7:05 am
The Journal of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing? Now there’s a real mainstream media publication for you! One can’t help be wonder how much the editors at WaPo had to dig to find that paper. They obviously decided that the link between climate change and Ebola MUST have been made somewhere, so they finally found it in a twelve year old issue of a very obscure publication. It would be laughable if it wasn’t pathetic. Idiots.
BTW, what are photogrammetric engineering and remote sensing anyway?
Edwin Crockford says:
August 7, 2014 at 7:20 am
photogrammetric engineering and remote sensing – taking pictures to help draw maps. Very climate related!
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Somewhere there is an academic writing a grant application to study climate change impacts on ebola and he will strike gold. |
