The Zombie Diseases of Climate Change

[C C]

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...ge/544274/

EXCERPT: [...] The newly active permafrost is packed with old stuff: dead plants, dead animals, mosses buried and reburied by dust and snow. This matter, long protected from decomposition by the cold, is finally rotting, and releasing gases into the atmosphere that could quicken the rate of global warming. This matter is also full of pathogens: bacteria and viruses long immobilized by the frost. Many of these pathogens may be able to survive a gentle thaw—and if they do, researchers warn, they could reinfect humanity. Climate change, in other words, could awaken Earth’s forgotten pathogens. It is one of the most bizarre symptoms of global warming. And it has already begun to happen....

MORE: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...ge/544274/

[RainbowUnicorn]

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...ge/544274/

EXCERPT: [...] The newly active permafrost is packed with old stuff: dead plants, dead animals, mosses buried and reburied by dust and snow. This matter, long protected from decomposition by the cold, is finally rotting, and releasing gases into the atmosphere that could quicken the rate of global warming.  This matter is also full of pathogens: bacteria and viruses long immobilized by the frost. Many of these pathogens may be able to survive a gentle thaw—and if they do, researchers warn, they could reinfect humanity.  Climate change, in other words, could awaken Earth’s forgotten pathogens. It is one of the most bizarre symptoms of global warming. And it has already begun to happen....

MORE: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...ge/544274/

i thought the world was only 6000 years old according to the bible ?

which means that anything that has been frozen for 10,000 years doesnt exist...

[Syne]

There's a difference between creationism and young-earth-creationism...hence the specific name.

[Yazata]

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...ge/544274/

EXCERPT: [...] The newly active permafrost is packed with old stuff: dead plants, dead animals, mosses buried and reburied by dust and snow. This matter, long protected from decomposition by the cold, is finally rotting, and releasing gases into the atmosphere that could quicken the rate of global warming.  This matter is also full of pathogens: bacteria and viruses long immobilized by the frost. Many of these pathogens may be able to survive a gentle thaw—and if they do, researchers warn, they could reinfect humanity.  Climate change, in other words, could awaken Earth’s forgotten pathogens. It is one of the most bizarre symptoms of global warming.

This looks like it's somebody's speculation.

And it has already begun to happen....

I'd like to see credible evidence that it's really happening. And happening at a rate that would make it a public health danger and not just a scientific curiosity. Are people in polar regions really more diseased than people in tropical regions? Isn't the reverse more typically true?

Rates of biological decomposition in the soil would seem to be much greater in tropical regions. And tropical diseases are very prevalent in those places, which have long had a reputation for being very unhealthy. Even there, I'm not sure that the connection between rates of soil decomposition and the diseases has been established though.

[RainbowUnicorn]

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...ge/544274/

EXCERPT: [...] The newly active permafrost is packed with old stuff: dead plants, dead animals, mosses buried and reburied by dust and snow. This matter, long protected from decomposition by the cold, is finally rotting, and releasing gases into the atmosphere that could quicken the rate of global warming.  This matter is also full of pathogens: bacteria and viruses long immobilized by the frost. Many of these pathogens may be able to survive a gentle thaw—and if they do, researchers warn, they could reinfect humanity.  Climate change, in other words, could awaken Earth’s forgotten pathogens. It is one of the most bizarre symptoms of global warming.

This looks like it's somebody's speculation.

And it has already begun to happen....

I'd like to see credible evidence that it's really happening. And happening at a rate that would make it a public health danger and not just a scientific curiosity. Are people in polar regions really more diseased than people in tropical regions? Isn't the reverse more typically true?

Rates of biological decomposition in the soil would seem to be much greater in tropical regions. And tropical diseases are very prevalent in those places, which have long had a reputation for being very unhealthy. Even there, I'm not sure that the connection between rates of soil decomposition and the diseases has been established though.

it has been talked about in the scientific community for close to 20 years now.

Scientists have been not openly discussing it in the media for 10 years because they did not want to spread panic.

ironically soo now it seems the public(in the usa) have been brainwashed to think science is just another religous cult people go to on a sunday

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There's a difference between creationism and young-earth-creationism...hence the specific name.

you mean like LGBTQ  ?

[Syne]

There's a difference between creationism and young-earth-creationism...hence the specific name.

you mean like LGBTQ  ?

Is that just a non sequitur, or is that somehow related?
Tangentiality is a medical symptom. Might want to look into that.