Wednesday, January 09, 2008

The next gift of global warming

dengue mosquitoThought melting ice caps and drowning polar bears were the big threat? Looking forward to milder winters and sweatier summers? Those of you who, like me, live in temperate climes may be surprised to learn that tropical diseases such as dengue fever are expected to spread across the US in coming years, following the northward spread of the range of their favorite mosquitos (previously limited to South America, etc.). Great stuff, should be really fun . . .

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Woohoo! What a treat!

ACM said...

there's a song in Annie called "We'd like to thank you, Herbert Hoover" that I think might deserve an update for W "for really showing us the way" . . .