If Global Warming doesn’t wipe out all life on this miserable little planet first, it might still bring down our great civilization, just like it did Rome:

Climate change seems a factor in the rise and fall of the Roman empire, according to a study of ancient tree growth that urges greater awareness of the risks of global warming in the 21st century.

…Periods of climate instability overlapped with political turmoil, such as during the decline of the Roman empire, and might even have made Europeans vulnerable to the Black Death or help explain migration to America during the chill 17th century.

If only the Romans had listened to Al Gore and abandoned their oil-based economy for a life of low carbon footprints.

According to two doom-mongering M.D.’s writing at HuffPo, we’re all going to die…of everything!

…[T]he urgency for solutions is rapidly increasing and leading medical and public health groups across the country agree: climate change is hazardous to our health.

…Heat waves can cause illness and death from heart disease, diabetes, stroke, respiratory disease and even accidents, homicide and suicide.

At the same time, increased evaporation arising from warming seas is generating heavier downpours. …  This year, sudden, heavy downpours — some lasting several days — caused lethal flashfloods in Rhode Island, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Rains two inches a day and above are associated with water-borne disease outbreaks, when flooding overwhelms sewer systems and contaminates drinking water.

…With warming, more winter precipitation is falling as rain rather than snow, increasing the chance of ice storms when temperatures do drop. …And such conditions — along with heavier, wetter snowstorms — can be treacherous for travel and ambulation.

…[W]armer winters favor insect migration. In the past decade case reports of tick-borne Lyme disease rose ten-fold in Maine and northern counties are experiencing Lyme for the first time. In Alaska, especially warm winters have ushered in swarms of allergy-inducing, stinging insects, along with mosquitoes and devastating pine bark beetle infestations. The spread of forest and crop pests — requiring chemicals for control — pose additional long term health and environmental risks.

There’s more….

More? MORE? How can there be more when everyone has clearly died already!

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