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Valley fever is increasing in California’s Central Valley, as it has for years, and experts say that in the future cases could rise across the American west as the climate crisis renders the landscape drier and hotter.

Kern county, located just north of Los Angeles at the end of the Central Valley, has reported a substantial increase over the last decade. The county, where Purdie lives, documented about 1,000 cases in 2014. In 2021, there were more than 3,000 cases, according to public health data.

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Testing and awareness of Valley fever has improved in recent years, and at the same time the county has grown, leading to more cases. But there has also been a significant growth in the illness, said Dr Royce Johnson, the medical director of the Valley Fever Institute in Bakersfield.

“There’s enormously more Valley fever now. I can tell that just from the work,” Johnson said. “We think most of that has to do with climate and weather.”

The fungus that causes Valley fever needs hot and dry conditions to survive, which the US south-west provides, said Morgan Gorris, an earth system scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who has studied the relationship between climate crisis and Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis.

“Much of the western US is very dry already. When we look at projections of climate change it’s expected that the western half of the US will continue to remain pretty dry and that’s going to continue to support Valley fever,” said Gorris.
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AndyinPA wrote: Mon Aug 29, 2022 11:20 am https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ate-crisis
Valley fever is increasing in California’s Central Valley, as it has for years, and experts say that in the future cases could rise across the American west as the climate crisis renders the landscape drier and hotter.

Kern county, located just north of Los Angeles at the end of the Central Valley, has reported a substantial increase over the last decade. The county, where Purdie lives, documented about 1,000 cases in 2014. In 2021, there were more than 3,000 cases, according to public health data.

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Testing and awareness of Valley fever has improved in recent years, and at the same time the county has grown, leading to more cases. But there has also been a significant growth in the illness, said Dr Royce Johnson, the medical director of the Valley Fever Institute in Bakersfield.

“There’s enormously more Valley fever now. I can tell that just from the work,” Johnson said. “We think most of that has to do with climate and weather.”

The fungus that causes Valley fever needs hot and dry conditions to survive, which the US south-west provides, said Morgan Gorris, an earth system scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who has studied the relationship between climate crisis and Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis.

“Much of the western US is very dry already. When we look at projections of climate change it’s expected that the western half of the US will continue to remain pretty dry and that’s going to continue to support Valley fever,” said Gorris.
Its just about garan-bloody-teed that if you have been in Tucson for a week anytime between about May till November, you WILL have been exposed to Valley Fever. You may not get sick from it, but your lungs may have scars that can be mistaken for other nasty conditions.

My DOG got Valley Fever for gosh sakes. He wouldn't move from his doghouse for days. He didn't lose his appetite so he didn't starve, but I had to crawl into the dog house (it was a big doghouse, with lots of spiders in the roof, black widows...) to get the food to him. The vet said there nothing to do but keep him fed and it would pass. And so it did.
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keith wrote: Tue Aug 30, 2022 12:08 am My DOG got Valley Fever for gosh sakes. He wouldn't move from his doghouse for days. He didn't lose his appetite so he didn't starve, but I had to crawl into the dog house (it was a big doghouse, with lots of spiders in the roof, black widows...) to get the food to him. The vet said there nothing to do but keep him fed and it would pass. And so it did.
I had a mastiff that died of valley fever many years back in Phoenix. The vet had us do a full house decontamination of all clothes and blankets. It’s a scary thing.
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keith wrote: Tue Aug 30, 2022 12:08 am
AndyinPA wrote: Mon Aug 29, 2022 11:20 am https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ate-crisis
Valley fever is increasing in California’s Central Valley, as it has for years, and experts say that in the future cases could rise across the American west as the climate crisis renders the landscape drier and hotter.

Kern county, located just north of Los Angeles at the end of the Central Valley, has reported a substantial increase over the last decade. The county, where Purdie lives, documented about 1,000 cases in 2014. In 2021, there were more than 3,000 cases, according to public health data.

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Testing and awareness of Valley fever has improved in recent years, and at the same time the county has grown, leading to more cases. But there has also been a significant growth in the illness, said Dr Royce Johnson, the medical director of the Valley Fever Institute in Bakersfield.

“There’s enormously more Valley fever now. I can tell that just from the work,” Johnson said. “We think most of that has to do with climate and weather.”

The fungus that causes Valley fever needs hot and dry conditions to survive, which the US south-west provides, said Morgan Gorris, an earth system scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who has studied the relationship between climate crisis and Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis.

“Much of the western US is very dry already. When we look at projections of climate change it’s expected that the western half of the US will continue to remain pretty dry and that’s going to continue to support Valley fever,” said Gorris.
Its just about garan-bloody-teed that if you have been in Tucson for a week anytime between about May till November, you WILL have been exposed to Valley Fever. You may not get sick from it, but your lungs may have scars that can be mistaken for other nasty conditions.

My DOG got Valley Fever for gosh sakes. He wouldn't move from his doghouse for days. He didn't lose his appetite so he didn't starve, but I had to crawl into the dog house (it was a big doghouse, with lots of spiders in the roof, black widows...) to get the food to him. The vet said there nothing to do but keep him fed and it would pass. And so it did.
From CDC: The fungus was also recently found in south-central Washington.
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Hey everybody, let's see if we can tell the difference between a hot year in Pasadena, and a clear trend.
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Its just sunspots.
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Chevron Is Using Captain Planet and Batman Returns to Deflect Blame for Its Climate Denial
In a legal filing, the oil giant makes a lot of surprising cultural references to argue it wasn't involved in disinformation campaigns around climate science

Big Oil wants you to believe that, because climate change was mentioned in children’s cartoons and a Batman movie in the 1990s, companies like Chevron hold no responsibilities for the current climate crisis.

That’s the gist of a brief filed by Chevron in Hawaii’s First Circuit Court, first reported Wednesday by E&E News. The massive brief was filed as part of a lawsuit brought against the oil giant by the city and county of Honolulu, which charges a number of oil companies for their role in contributing to sea level rise by spreading climate denial and misinformation about their product. In the brief, Chevron asks the court to dismiss the suit, which has been inching closer to a trial than many other similar cases brought by cities and states against oil companies.

“[The] Plaintiffs’ Complaint tries to construct a narrative that oil and gas companies had some unique knowledge about climate science and withheld it or misrepresented it in some way that impacted policy responses and consumer choices. That narrative is false,” the brief reads. “...Attempting to ‘fix blame’ on a handful of energy companies for a widely discussed phenomenon that is inherent to modern industrial society and the economic foundations of modern life is fundamentally misleading and improper and, more importantly, does nothing to address the problem of climate change.” The brief then goes out to construct an exhaustive list of the “cultural commentary” on climate change since the 19th century, as a way of trying to support this claim.

Some of the pop culture references contained in the brief are... pretty wild. There’s a cultural reference here for everyone. Did you like reading Calvin and Hobbes? There was a 1987 strip about climate change, so it’s not Chevron’s fault that the world kept using oil after that. A fan of the show Cheers? One character mentioned global warming in a joke in an episode in 1991, so don’t be mad at Chevron. Did you go see Prince of Tides, Batman Returns, and/or The American President when they were in theaters in the 90s? Those movies contained at least one reference to climate change, so clearly the world was paying attention to scientists’ warnings. Were you a 90s kid who watched The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Beverly Hills, 90210, Frasier, Alf, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Captain Planet, and/or Power Rangers? All those shows had a mention of global warming, so you really should have known better.
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It's possible this isn't really a Chevron commercial. Possibly.
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These 5 Countries Are the Most Vulnerable to Climate Change


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Southeast Asia is most at-risk from climate change. Extreme weather events are increasing and the countries are already suffering from the compounded problems of floods, typhoons, cyclones, high sea levels, heatwaves, and droughts. The Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia are all extremely vulnerable.

Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is the fastest sinking city. The highly populated country is the largest economy in Southeast Asia and was the fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2015. Indonesia has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions by 29%-41% by 2030, but Climate Action Tracker rates its targets as highly insufficient. MIT’s report has analyzed that the country pushed back its climate change agendas after the pandemic.
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Pumpkin spice season has arrived and with it shorter days, cooler nights and the unshakable feeling that winter is coming. But some people wait all year for fall, rejoicing in the splendor that is autumn foliage. Before leaves are shed, each turns a shade of rusty brown, amber, vibrant yellow, maroon or a fiery red.
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However, this year’s fall flock may be duller than usual in many places because of an exceptionally hot and dry summer, which put the trees under stress. Massachusetts, one of the most popular places for leaf peeping in New England, was in a severe drought for much of the summer and is feeling the effects. Portions of the Midwest and the West were — and still are — experiencing severe to exceptional drought.

“In general, moderate heat and drought can move leaf senescence (leaf drying up and dropping),” Andy Finton, a conservation ecologist at the Nature Conservancy in Massachusetts, wrote in an email. He said the fall colors are likely to feature more yellows and browns in these drought-stricken areas.
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Scotland, the UK's tropical vacation land?
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Reduces diesel usage by 10%.
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The US Atlantic coast has become a breeding ground for super-charged hurricanes which are likely to batter coastal communities even harder if the world remains hooked on fossil fuels, a new study found.

Global heating caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning oil, gas and coal is the main factor contributing to increasingly severe storms and flooding affecting the American east coast over the past four decades. Rapid intensification has led to storms gathering strength so quickly it has become increasingly difficult to provide timely warnings and evacuation orders to residents.

The warming planet is poised to bring hurricanes that intensify quicker and, with them, a heightened risk of flooding to east coast communities which modeling suggests will get even worse without radical action to curb greenhouse gases, according to the study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

“The nearshore environment has absolutely become more favorable for hurricanes near the Atlantic coast and that’s very consistent with the rising hurricane intensification we’ve observed in the region,” said Balaguru, a climate scientist and lead author. “Our findings have profound implications for coastal residents, decision- and policy-makers.’
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Images showing thick clouds of wildfire smoke drifting thousands of miles away have become commonplace in the US in recent years as the country’s western states battle megablazes with increasing frequency. But a new study from US Department of Energy suggests the harmful impact of those behemoth blazes may extend much further.

The new study, published by the department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for the first time links extreme hail, dangerous deluges, and the growing risk of flash floods in states like Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma and Nebraska to the growing intensity of wildfires in the west.

As fire season in the west stretches longer, sparking threats earlier in the year, big blazes are increasingly coinciding with storm formations in other states, the research showed.

“Western wildfires significantly increase the intensity of severe storms over the central United States,” said Dr Jiwen Fan, an earth scientist at the lab. “This is the first study where we are really showing that wildfires can have a significant impact on the downstream weather.”
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You really need to re-elect the former guy. He will nuke the Atlantic and prevent hurricanes forever! :twisted:
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Nearly a year ago, flood waters inundated swaths of south-western British Columbia. Mudslides destroyed sections of highways and swollen, turbid rivers washed away houses and bridges.

Now, the region has the opposite problem: months of drought have begun to take a toll on what was once dubbed Canada’s “wet coast”.

And as unpredictable weather events become a hallmark of a changing climate, experts warn that the two events are linked – and that a culture of overconsumption and poor resource management threaten to further amplify the effects of the current crisis.
British Columbia’s western coasts have seen little rain over the past five weeks and several regions are in drought level four.

The impact of the prolonged dry spell was underlined by recent footage showing some 65,000 dead salmon clogging a dried-up creek. More than 200 forest fires are blazing, and scores of heat records have fallen in recent weeks. The province’s energy regulator has already warned the drought will have an impact on its hydroelectric operations.
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The next pandemic may come not from bats or birds but from matter in melting ice, according to new data.

Genetic analysis of soil and lake sediments from Lake Hazen, the largest high Arctic freshwater lake in the world, suggests the risk of viral spillover – where a virus infects a new host for the first time – may be higher close to melting glaciers.

The findings imply that as global temperatures rise owing to climate change, it becomes more likely that viruses and bacteria locked up in glaciers and permafrost could reawaken and infect local wildlife, particularly as their range also shifts closer to the poles.

For instance, in 2016 an outbreak of anthrax in northern Siberia that killed a child and infected at least seven other people was attributed to a heatwave that melted permafrost and exposed an infected reindeer carcass. Before this, the last outbreak in the region had been in 1941.
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RTH10260 wrote: Mon Oct 17, 2022 5:36 pm You really need to re-elect the former guy. He will nuke the Atlantic and prevent hurricanes forever! :twisted:
Heard Jason Chaffetz on Brian Kilmeade's radio show this morning, apparently if you listen to science hurricanes in the Atlantic region are both less frequent and less intense overall in the last decade despite an anomaly like Ian. :roll:
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