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Climate change may bring another mosquito-borne illness to US
Posted by Courier-Journal: None Given on January 7th, 2013
Courier-Journal: It's possible that a serious mosquito-borne virus — with no known vaccine or treatment — could migrate from Central Africa and Southeast Asia to the United States within a year, new research suggests.
The chances of a U.S. outbreak of the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) varies by season and geography, with those regions typified by longer stretches of warm weather facing longer periods of high risk, according to the researchers' new computer model.
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Causes aside, many believe Louisville area is already feeling impact of global warming
Posted by Courier-Journal: None Given on October 14th, 2012
Courier-Journal: Until a relentless heat baked Louisville with 10 days over 100 degrees this summer, Bellarmine University wellness teacher Chris Catt was skeptical about global warming.
But now, “I’m a believer,” he says — so much so that he is organizing a tree-planting campaign for his Dundee Estates neighborhood because he noticed that it was so much hotter there than just three blocks away, where towering shade trees line the roads.
“The lack of shade became really obvious,” he said. “It became unbearable...
Louisville starts efforts to adapt to harsher climes
Posted by Courier-Journal: None Given on October 14th, 2012
Courier-Journal: Deadly tornadoes, freak windstorms, crippling ice, torrential downpours, unrelenting heatwaves and flash flooding that swallows streets and homes — Louisville’s recent weather has become a roller coaster of extremes. In the past four years, four weather-related disasters have been declared for Louisville, two for Southern Indiana and 11 total for Kentucky, costing the Federal Emergency Management Agency more than $700 million in damage reimbursements and mitigation grants. Whether it’s an example...