The results of climate on human life is massive, and the effects of radical global warming on human health is probably going to be terrible. Infectious illnesses may spread as the tropics dilate, sicknesses migrate from a ways off, and pathogen-killing winters shorten and warm. Extraordinary weather will interrupt public sanitation, on top of killing without delay. The air will be contaminated by smoke, and the water by blooms of pathogenic organisms. These are dark prophecies, and they may not happen. Projections may be wrong, as so often before. Continue reading →