Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, December 2, 2024

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David Ignatius at Conversations Before Midnight

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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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“Understanding how much of the increase in disease can be attributed to climate can give us more confidence in our predictions for how infections are going to respond to future climate changes. And this can help us do better long-term planning for how we allocate different public health resources.”

— Marta Shocket, disease ecologist at Lancaster University in the U.K., “Climate change plays a role in global rise of dengue fever,” NPR

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