From the NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Dennis Ambler
Newest poppycock from the Guardian:
The following pandemic could come not from bats or birds however from matter in melting ice, in accordance with new knowledge.
Genetic evaluation of soil and lake sediments from Lake Hazen, the biggest excessive Arctic freshwater lake on this planet, suggests the chance of viral spillover – the place a virus infects a brand new host for the primary time – could also be larger near melting glaciers.
The findings indicate that as international temperatures rise owing to local weather change, it turns into extra doubtless that viruses and micro organism locked up in glaciers and permafrost may reawaken and infect native wildlife, notably as their vary additionally shifts nearer to the poles.
For example, in 2016 an outbreak of anthrax in northern Siberia that killed a toddler and contaminated at the least seven different folks was attributed to a heatwave that melted permafrost and uncovered an contaminated reindeer carcass. Earlier than this, the final outbreak within the area had been in 1941.
So, the Guardian is saying that there was life the place there’s now ice? Possibly as not too long ago as 1941?
Actually the precise research doesn’t help the Guardian’s newest foolish scare story anyway. In line with Wikipedia, Lake Hazen shouldn’t be a melting glacier.
The world across the lake is a thermal oasis inside a polar desert, with summer time temperatures as much as 20 °C (68 °F). The lake itself is roofed by ice about ten months a 12 months.
And in accordance with the research’s creator, Arwyn Edwards:
“For all we all know, it [the potential for host switching identified in Lake Hazen] may very well be the identical because the probability of host switching posed by viruses from the mud in your native pond,”
Earlier than she added the cash line:
“We do urgently must discover the microbial worlds throughout our planet to know these dangers in context”
Little question it would preserve the gullible Guardian readers awake at evening although!
