Category Archives: Infection

Science And the Public

DSC03838 Hilarious! But deeper down, there are a couple of reasons behind this.

  1. Ebola, if you catch it, is much more immediate than climate change, although the latter is already detectably going on.
  2. Ebola sounds so individually horrible,  whereas climate change is out there, and does not seem to personally hurt us.

Of course, altogether, climate change is affecting everybody on earth right now, and could even conceivably be aggravating the ebola, by way of increasing stress of change on plant, animal, and human immune systems.

Climate change is already affecting us because we see a lot of drought, more fires, bigger storms, even earthquakes caused by fracking to access the natural gas, which we need to supplement the energy provided by oil and coal burning.