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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Fear Mongering: Global Warming Will Give You AIDS

That’s right.  AIDS.

CLIMATE change is the latest threat to the world’s growing HIV epidemic, say Australian experts who warn of the “grim” outlook in the fight against the infectious disease.

A leading professor of health and human rights, Daniel Tarantola, has cautioned that global warming will indirectly make citizens of developing countries even more vulnerable to death and severe ill health from HIV/AIDS.

“It was clear soon after the emergence of the HIV epidemic that discrimination, gender inequality and lack of access to essential services have made some populations more vulnerable than others,’’ said Prof Tarantola, of the University of NSW.

The left is always accusing the right of fear mongering when it comes to national security and the war on terror, but what is telling people that climate change will give you AIDS?  As Ace notes:

The left is fond of screaming that the right fills the public with “fears,” but they’ve been fear-mongering for 50 (100?) years themselves. The difference? Al Qaeda really did blow up the WTC and Pentagon. But global warming is not going to give you AIDS.

What will give you AIDS is promiscuous sex, but the liberals say we have to hand out condoms instead of teaching abstinence.

Don’t even try to make sense of that one.

Comments

I would love to see a philanderer try that defense.

But honey, she meant nothing to me.  Besides global warming made me do it!

kbiel on April 29, 2008 at 10:46 am

Funny how this guy doesn’t acknowledge that cold weather is a greater stressor than warm weather.  All things being equal, we catch fewer diseases in the summer than the winter in temperate climates.

Carrick on April 29, 2008 at 11:08 am

I’m pretty sure those guys saying that global warming will cause BO are not completely off base.


The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.


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The Whistler on April 29, 2008 at 11:15 am

The village people like the heat.

Mickey on April 29, 2008 at 11:29 am

In a sense, the guy is right; technically no one ever dies of AIDS, but rather from the infectious diseases that ravage the body once the immune system is compromised.  If in fact the climate should change to be warmer, the microbes that thrive in the tropics would worsen and spread.

That said, global warming will also accelerate the failure of room air conditioners and make Aussie beer go stale more quickly, as well as make the leather/vinyl seats on his Holden unbearably hot.  Why does he claim the AIDS angle instead of this?  Political correctness, maybe?

Bike Bubba on April 29, 2008 at 12:03 pm

This shows how desperate these global warming believers are getting.  How will hot weather increase the spread of AIDS?  It’s too hot to have protected sex or to not share drug needles!  Damn global warming! (sarcasm)

These people are crazy



A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

dougee on April 29, 2008 at 12:26 pm
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