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2020-09-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Wuhan Bio Labs? No, CNN links COVID-19 to Climate Change

[CNN] Numerous scientists have studied how the 1918 flu spread to become the deadliest pandemic in history and which interventions worked, research that is becoming increasingly relevant during the current coronavirus crisis.

But little research has been done on how environmental conditions affected the 1918 pandemic -- until now.

The 1918 flu coincided with the final years of the World War I, and it's been well documented that heavy rain and cold temperatures impacted many battles. Now, a new study reveals that the cold, rainy weather was part of a once-in-a-century climate anomaly

...a once a century climate anomaly is not climate change, merely climate variation, it seems to me...

that occurred from 1914 to 1919 and added to the severity of the 1918 pandemic.

"We knew before, of course, from photos and eyewitness testimonies that the battlefields of Europe were really muddy and rainy and soldiers died of all sorts of exposure, even drowning in the mud and the trenches sometimes. What is news is that in fact it was a six-year anomaly and not just one or two instances," said lead researcher Alexander More, a research associate at Harvard University's history department and an assistant professor at the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute.

A team of more than a dozen scientists collected and analyzed an Alpine ice core to reconstruct the environmental conditions of Europe during the World War I. The process involves using a laser that melts a tiny bit from the ice surface and analyzing the chemicals released from each layer of water vapor. It's so precise they can pinpoint exact seasons from each layer of ice.

Researchers then compared that ice core data to historical records of deaths during that time period and records of precipitation and temperatures from each month.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-29 08:06|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 A team of more than a dozen scientists collected and analyzed an Alpine ice core to reconstruct the environmental conditions of Europe during the World War I.

An answer in search of a research grant ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-29 08:27|| 2020-09-29 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 This fits the globalist narrative to a tee...note the frequent calls about going green and using this "crisis" as a pretext. People weren't buying the climate change rubbish from Greta, eg al., so a change in strategy was required.

Posted by Clem 2020-09-29 08:37|| 2020-09-29 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 cold, rainy weather was part of a once-in-a-century climate anomaly

Then global warming (hotter, drier), if it were real, is a good thing.

Posted by Uloter Ebbomolet9368 2020-09-29 09:27|| 2020-09-29 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 the battlefields of Europe were really muddy and rainy

Global warming, or solar minimum?

Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-29 10:04|| 2020-09-29 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 The weather in the early-mid 1940'2 wasn't that sporty either.

Posted by Cesare 2020-09-29 11:17|| 2020-09-29 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 the battlefields of Europe were really muddy and rainy... in lowland France and Belgium. Do you know how they drained lowland swamps: dig multiple canals across them to drain off groundwater. You can turn low ground by obliterating any streams and churning the ground into soup with thousands of high explosive shells. Like, D'Oh!

Posted by magpie 2020-09-29 15:39|| 2020-09-29 15:39|| Front Page Top

#7 ^You can turn low ground to swamps by...

Posted by magpie 2020-09-29 15:43|| 2020-09-29 15:43|| Front Page Top

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