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The real evidence for global warming is two long-term trends: The incidence of heavy downpours is increasing and the "frost-free" season is lengthening.
Long-term climate change affects seasonal patterns through the lengthening of the transmission season and the crossing of environmental and demographic thresholds that underlie seasonal outbreaks [2].
Making predictions about the world in 2100 is a very uncertain business, as you stressed on Tuesday, but it's fun, and you have at least a chance of being right (and if some of your predictions involve the lengthening of the human life span, and you hit the mark there, you may even still be around to see how you did on the others).
That's because his true focus isn't the end of the epidemic, but lengthening the lives of the already infected.
By lengthening the tests to include one or more complete life cycles and observing the more subtle effects of the toxicants, such as a reduction in growth and reproduction, more