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Climate change weakening natural systems that keep epidemiologist focused on epidemiology

29 January 2008 | Joe Stella

An Australian National University epidemiologist has warned that climate change threatens human health through biodiversity loss, The Australian reports.

Read more background from The Australian.


Rising temperatures have progressively weakened Professor Tony McMichael’s natural systems for keeping him focussed on a topic he’s familiar with.

Increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere threaten to break down the barriers that keep different scientific disciplines separate from climatology.

“If we don’t act soon to curb carbon emissions,” one scientist told The Daily Grind, “we face the prospect of academics spouting any old crap about global warming just to get a headline.”

“You think I’m joking? I’m a radiologist.”

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