‘Shocking’ data shows the climate crisis and invasive mosquitos mean chikungunya could spread in 29 countries

‘Shocking’ data shows the climate crisis and invasive mosquitos mean chikungunya could spread in 29 countries

An excruciatingly painful tropical disease called chikungunya can now be transmitted by mosquitoes across most of Europe, a study has found.

Higher temperatures due to the climate crisis mean infections are now possible for more than six months of the year in Spain, Greece and other southern European countries, and for two months a year in south-east England. Continuing global heating means it is only a matter of time before the disease expands further northwards, the scientists said.

The analysis is the first to fully assess the effect of temperature on the incubation time of the virus in the Asian tiger mosquito, which has invaded Europe in recent decades. The study found the minimum temperature at which infections could occur is 2.5C lower than previous, less robust, estimates, representing a “quite shocking” difference, the researchers said.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Since there is no such actual thing as “law” when it comes to power and wealth, the best we can do right now is keep the horrors fresh enough for long enough that hopefully the administration collapses (likely) or that we see the current legislative and judicial branch decide to take action (a snowball’s chance in hell) so no, no arrests will happen until the fascies are out of office. And even then, it will hinge on the political will for a new administration or new set of representatives to take on.

      There is a very strong chance it will never go anywhere. There are a lot of Epsteins out there and they’re not going to face justice for the exact reason that nobody has wanted to release Epstein’s files, which is it’s tied to too many people and massively destabilizing to governments. We want that, they don’t.

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Epstein’s very existence was a crime and all those that were even remotely associated with him should be treated as vile scum that should never see the light of day, also why the FUCK does child rape not “meet the legal threshold” for crimes against humanity?

  • rushmonke@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    36·
    7 hours ago

    “global criminal enterprise”

    This is the kind of stuff that causes people to believe Qanon.

    In this post, I’m not blaming Q or the people who believed it. I’m blaming the actual cabal of pedophiles because their actual existence is enough to make conspiracy theories like Q seem credible.

    It turns out the hippies were right; people really are being herded like animals.

    • redsand@infosec.pubEnglish
      27·
      6 hours ago

      Epstein met Moot(4chan owner) and drove him home, he created the /pol/ board on 4 chan the same day. A couple years later Q anon would be created on that board.

      It’s the strategy the UFO guys use of mixing ridiculous bullshit with the truth so if anything leaks it sounds like that half ridiculous load of shit you proved was fake to the public.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        It’s funny, I think you’re very wrong about aliens, but you’ve actually picked a perfect example. The US government encouraged alien beliefs to ensure that anyone who saw secret tests would assume aliens and not experimental aircraft or radio experiments. And then even if someone didn’t say such things they’d be lumped in with those beliefs. It created a lot of noise and created an environment where they could deny something completely different from what they were doing.

        The elites harvesting adrenochrome from children in a massive shadow world government as a part of pagan rituals is ridiculous and easy to dismiss in a way that "a wealthy power broker connected a lot of the worst and most powerful people in the world by acting as a drug hookup and pimp specializing in children and the ability to engage in violence. And even better they couod mske it partisan, and claim that one of the most involved people was the solution if given the power of a fascist dictator.

      • lemming@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        It’s the strategy the UFO guys use of mixing ridiculous bullshit with the truth so if anything leaks it sounds like that half ridiculous load of shit you proved was fake to the public.

        Hmmmm… 🤔

        • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 hours ago

          I’ll take the opposite tack from the other guy, Bob Lazar comes off as a skilled liar, and aliens and time travelers require actual evidence.

          The US government did fake 90% of the UFO movement.

          Most of the fucked up story is told here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8F1HnpeQTo

          That’s a Behind the Bastards episode, Part One: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man’s Mind.

          The actual truth is more fucked up than the made up conspiracies, but also more boring. Weapons and Weapon Systems. That’s it. Bad ideas and worse coverups.

            • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 hours ago

              Yeah, the story is wild, but also it’s always tied back to nukes.

              An example is cattle mutilation. See, there was a project called “Plowshare” where some people, wanting to have more nukes, tried to find “peaceful” uses for nukes. So, the detonated a nuke, deep underground in the South West, in an effort to fracture the rock and release natural gas.

              This worked, except for the little fact that all the gas was contaminated with radioactive isotopes and was rendered unusable.

              But this gas was leaky, because the ground was nuked, so in order to track the cancers caused, government agents secretly vivisected cattle, mostly to remove lymph nodes to track a common radiation linked cancer. As always, they didn’t tell anyone local that they were doing this, which prompted local authorities and farmers to investigate.

              With some careful prodding, a few hints, and a placed agent or two, the guy investigating was convinced that it was aliens doing experiments.

        • redsand@infosec.pubEnglish
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          4 hours ago

          Aliens(or time travelers) are probably real. Obama even said so in an interview just the other day. There’s a DEFCON talk on commonalities and national security implications of UFOs from a few years ago for more information. Also Bob Lazar who’s life makes no sense unless he’s real or the most complex and well done psyop in history.

          Probably doesn’t change your day to day life any in the face of fascism 🫤