[MCN] Costs of carbon emissions: Tropical diseases as far north as .... Alaska

[Lance Olsen]

Climate change could push tropical diseases to Alaska, according to a new study <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://grist.org/article/climate-change-could-push-tropical-diseases-to-alaska-according-to-a-new-study/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTI2ODQ1NzMxMjY3NTMxMzM3NDEyGmVlMTZiNzlhYTNlZjA2ZGY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFD4gphXjPHu32oqOdeyRYgLI_99Q>
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Climate change could push tropical diseases to Alaska, according to a new study ... In the most extreme scenario of more than 4 degrees C (7.2 degrees F) warming by 2080, certain tropical disease-carrying species of mosquitoes …

Mosquito-borne diseases could reach extra 'one billion people' as climate warms <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.carbonbrief.org/mosquito-borne-diseases-could-reach-extra-one-billion-people-as-climate-warms&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTI2ODQ1NzMxMjY3NTMxMzM3NDEyGmVlMTZiNzlhYTNlZjA2ZGY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEIIViqsw5qBuQaiGbQpMBV5q09LQ> - Carbon Brief <>

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Mosquito-spread diseases may endanger millions in new places due to climate change <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/28/mosquito-spread-diseases-may-endanger-millions-in-new-places-due-to-climate-change&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTI2ODQ1NzMxMjY3NTMxMzM3NDEyGmVlMTZiNzlhYTNlZjA2ZGY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHTAn1jEw1CU8Y1djEaISxdtAB3hg> - The Guardian <>

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“We contend that traditional approaches to forest conservation and management will be inadequate ... in the 21st century. New approaches ... acknowledge that change is inevitable and sometimes irreversible, 
and that maintenance of ecosystem services depends in part on novel ecosystems, i.e., species combinations with no analog in the past.”

Forest Ecology and Management 360 (2016) 80–96 

Review and synthesis 

Achievable future conditions as a framework for guiding forest conservation and management 

S.W. Golladay a,, K.L. Martin b, J.M. Vose b, D.N. Wear b, A.P. Covich c, R.J. Hobbs d, K.D. Klepzig e, G.E. Likens f,g, R.J. Naiman h, A.W. Shearer i 

a J.W. Jones Ecological Research Center, 3988 Jones Center Dr, Newton, GA 39819, USA
b USDA Forest Service, Center for Integrated Forest Science and Synthesis, Research Triangle Park, Campus Box 8008, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA 

c Odum School of Ecology, 140 E Green Str, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
d School of Plant Biology, 35 Stirling Hwy, University of Western Australia (M090), Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
e USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 200 WT Weaver Blvd, Asheville, NC 28804, USA

f Cary Institute of Ecosystem Sciences, 2801 Sharon Turnpike, PO Box AB, Millbrook, NY 12545, USA
g Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
h School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington and CENRM, University of Western Australia, 133 Wilson Lane, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
i School of Architecture – Center for Sustainable Development, The University of Texas at Austin, 310 Inner Campus Drive, B7500, Austin, TX 78712, USA 






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