Hamburger with a Side of EpiPen
" The aliens are already here " Spurred on by NASA scientist James Hansen’s dramatic testimony to the Gore-Wirth congressional hearings on climate change in 1988 and 1989, I completed my book, Climate in Crisis, after nearly a decade of research and interviews with scientists on that topic. It referenced more than 8000 studies up to that time and included my own map projections of disappearing coastlines, migrating forests, and inundated floodplains. When it wasn’t melting polite dinner conversation by predicting catastrophes from Southern Europe to the Himalayas, the book made a modest little warning about vector-borne disease. The book warned: Changes in temperature and humidity will likely alter the ranges of bacteria and viruses as well as plants and insects. Both Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease are already considered serious public health problems in the United States, but the spread of these tick-borne diseases is expected to rapidly acce...
