Dr. Ethan Sims spends many of his days and nights in the emergency rooms of St. Luke’s Health System. He also heads Idaho Clinicians for Climate and Health. Sad to say, he and his colleagues in Idaho and across the globe see too many links between climate change and health care crises.
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OK, I read it. Now let's look deeper;
Idaho wildfire history; From;
https://forest.moscowfsl.wsu.edu/sm.../habitat_types_N-ID/habitat_types_N-ID_01.php
The high productivities of Thuja-Tsuga forests reflect their mesic environments; however, every few years an extreme summer drought occurs. Drought, combined with drying winds, vastly increases the probability of large, stand-replacing fires. The destructive 56,000-acre (22,700-ha) Sundance Fire (Kaniksu NF) of 1967 (Anderson 1968) was the most recent example of the massive crown fires that collectively have burned millions of acres. Other extensive fires occurred in 1934, 1926, 1919, 1889, and most notably 1910 (990,000 acres.....
So wildfires in Idaho nothing new.
So why more people affected?
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st.../idaho-leads-the-country-in-population-growth
Well that would make sense, there's more people!
And this statement in your posted article;
We see wider expansion of infectious diseases that are transmitted by insect vectors, whose range is expanded by the changing climate - things like Lyme disease that didn't use to be in Minnesota, but now the tick vector has made its way to Minnesota.
IMO, This has NOTHING to do with Climate Change. It's bullshit!! Lyme disease was really discovered in 1975 even though its been around since.....
During the four years, 1980 to 1983, 83 Minnesota residents have been diagnosed with Lyme disease.
Minnesota made it a reportable disease in 1985. The tick that carries Lyme disease is the "blacklegged" DEER Tick. Oh look, Minnesota hunters harvested deer in the 70's at a rate of about 50,000 a year. Now it averages about 150,000 and had a peak of 270,000 in mid 2000's. Hmm, wonder why there's more Lyme disease, just because more deer mean more deer ticks???
It's not hard to see through bullshit, just open your eyes and your mind.
