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Oh no .... there really is global warming ..... with dire conseq

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#1

Hi all, :wink: :slight_smile:

This is the counter point to the rants about the Green Treehuggers and assorted other “wackos”.

Imagine the “national” Canadian newspaper aka The Globe and Mail has an article in the Saturday edition about a fungus - C. gattii - which is spreading rapidly on the East Coast of Vancouver Island.

This particular fungus is usually found in tropical climates and it was a huge surprise to the medical fraternity when the fungus was diagnosed in humans and animals, even in sea mammals.

BTW SteveF be concerned, very concerned, this stuff has hit the coast in WA and OR. Between 1999 and 2005 there have been 165 human cases in BC, 8 of the cases were fatal.

To acquire the fungus all one needs to do is breath the air, it is air, soil and water borne. Real charmer!

How does a tropical fungus hit the temperate East Coast of Vancouver Island? Global warming!

Of course the naysayers could ascribe it to rapid continental drift whereby Vancouver Island is really much farther South, we just haven’t noticed yet. :wink: :slight_smile:

Do they recycle on Vancouver Island? You better believe it!

Do they have more than their share of tree huggers? You got that right!

Does that make a difference? No!

Hits more or less anyone, no discrimination!

#2
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
Hi all, ;) :)

This is the counter point to the rants about the Green Treehuggers and assorted other “wackos”.

Imagine the “national” Canadian newspaper aka The Globe and Mail has an article in the Saturday edition about a fungus - C. gattii - which is spreading rapidly on the East Coast of Vancouver Island.

This particular fungus is usually found in tropical climates and it was a huge surprise to the medical fraternity when the fungus was diagnosed in humans and animals, even in sea mammals.

BTW SteveF be concerned, very concerned, this stuff has hit the coast in WA and OR. Between 1999 and 2005 there have been 165 human cases in BC, 8 of the cases were fatal.

To acquire the fungus all one needs to do is breath the air, it is air, soil and water borne. Real charmer!

How does a tropical fungus hit the temperate East Coast of Vancouver Island? Global warming!

Of course the naysayers could ascribe it to rapid continental drift whereby Vancouver Island is really much farther South, we just haven’t noticed yet. :wink: :slight_smile:

Do they recycle on Vancouver Island? You better believe it!

Do they have more than their share of tree huggers? You got that right!

Does that make a difference? No!

Hits more or less anyone, no discrimination!


Nuclear Fusion will eliminate both problems…Fungi and Carriers of said virus…the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few!

#3

Amazing how this tropical fungus hasn’t killed off all the tropical humans and other air breathers . Or is that a dead belt on the maps round the equautor . ?
Tree huggers really do put out more crap than car exhausts .

And on the subject of idiocy . Skin cancer . This is caused by the sun getting more powerful , in effect . Mainly because the atmosphere is not as dirty as it was . 50 years ago , we (and another few million servicemen) ran around near naked in the tropical sun and never even heard of skin cancer . A hundred years ago , people didn’t take baths so the dirt protected them . Smartie points available for wisecracks .

More bs from the bs specialist then .

Mike

#4
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
How does a tropical fungus hit the temperate East Coast of Vancouver Island? Global warming!
You're kidding, right? Unless Vancouver is now considered a tropical climate, the obvious answer is that the fungus is no longer limited to the tropics. Either it never really was dependent on tropical weather, or it has adapted to cooler climes.
#5
Ray Dunakin said:
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
How does a tropical fungus hit the temperate East Coast of Vancouver Island? Global warming!
You're kidding, right? Unless Vancouver is now considered a tropical climate, the obvious answer is that the fungus is no longer limited to the tropics. Either it never really was dependent on tropical weather, or it has adapted to cooler climes.
Ray,

Actually it is a rare tropical fungus and climate change/global warming is at the very top of the list the scientists are looking at for the reason.

You can read the story yourself
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070209.wfungus0210/BNStory/ClimateChange/home

#6

And it was brought to Roswell, New Mexico by Little Green-greyish Men in the 1947-48 time frame…right?

I did like the part where they WOULDN’T tell anyone about the Virus BECAUSE it would hurt the tourism trade…Wasn’t that a statement made by the Town Mayor in Jaws?

#7

Let me give you a quote

Tony Blair plans to make last week’s Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Changepaper (IPCC) on global warming the basis for the British contribution to the G8 summit in June
However , he should exercise caution before doing so . The report is in many ways a disgraceful document ,and vividly reminiscent of the now discredited British and American Government dossiers on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction ,published in 2002 .There is no question that a large number of hugely distinguished scientists contributed to the IPCC report .
But , the problem is that very few were involved in the production of the summary —done by UN bureaucrats
Worse , the report on which the summary was based will not be published until immediately prior to the June G8 session , thus making it impossible for impartial observers to make their own appraisal .
Worse yet , the report will now be amended so that it reflects the summary .
This total lack of integrity should remind us that the IPCC document has become a dogma or an ideology rather than a scientifically testable proposition .

Mike .

Quoting news available to the public if you care to add it all together . Rarely put together , so that THEY can say “Oh , yes , we published all this”
but missing the fact it was published in several different documents .

#8

Let us use the logic , twisted as it is , of the tree huggers–who must be brave souls to hazard themselves to this fungus .
If the fungus kills all the trees , they won’t be all burned up and thus produce greenhouse gasses , right ?

Mike

#9

Well you have no one to blame but yourselfs… Al and me have been trying to tell you for years now it may be too late… Cant talk too much but I recently came across Dubya’s top secret “solution” to the whole global warming thing…

…no global warming on Mars, someone should tell him no oxygen either, nah let’em find out on his own :slight_smile:

#10

I was going to ignore HJ, but this is just too juicy to pass up.

It is amazing what you can find out when you don’t read the leftist newspapers and go direct to the source.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/13/1/51.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/13/1/42.htm

The molecular profiles of Oregon isolates differed from those found in BC and Washington.

This is not a TROPICAL fungus, as the kyotoits would have you believe, as the fungus is endemic and always has been endemic in Washington, Oregon, California and New Mexico. None of these places can be called TROPICAL by any stretch of the imagination.

What I took from reading those two articles from the Centers for Disease Control is that the fungus is not necessarily a tropical fungus as first thought, but is found naturally in the states mentioned. That it was probably carried to Vancouver Island in the wheel wells of automobiles, and that once there, it mutated so that it could stay. It thrives in the summer, and is not detectable in the winter. Hmmmm I wonder what that means.

It probably means that in order to protect the citizens of Vancouver Island, we should ban all tourist activity for the next decade, and just to make sure, we should ban all motor vehicle activity for the next century. We do so want to make sure that this little critter doesn’t get out of control, now, don’t we.

madwolf

#11
Steve Featherkile said:
It probably means that in order to protect the citizens of Vancouver Island, we should ban all tourist activity for the next decade, and just to make sure, we should ban all motor vehicle activity for the next century.
"Protect the citizens"? You've got it all wrong. The treehuggers solution would be to eliminate the citizens. The planet must be protected, from the disease that is humanity.
#12

I’m sorry, I got it all wrong. I’ll go fall on my sword.