Climate denier says solving global warming could cause Black Plague

BY JESS ZIMMERMAN
17 JUN 2011 11:01 AM

James Taylor (the Heartland Institute guy, not the folk singer, alas) has discovered humoral medicine. See, the Black Plague was caused by too much cold, after the Medieval Warm Period petered out. (God, why didn't those medieval physicians think to treat it with hot poultices and baths to reduce black bile? SO OBVIOUS.) Anyway, if we manage to stem the global warming tide, according to Taylor, we'll be setting the stage for a new outbreak of plague.


The Black Death’s gruesome, powerful hold on the human psyche is readily understandable. But why is it that so many people yearn for a return to the cold, miserable conditions that spawned the Black Death?

"Even today it is clear that cold, not heat, is deadlier to human condition," Taylor continues. (HOT POULTICES, PEOPLE. Do we have to tell you everything?) "Cold weather kills, as does cold climate. Yet global warming zealots tell us it is better to have a 'natural' climate that kills people than a benign climate that is partially caused by humans." (Just to recap: The "benign" climate is the one with the deadly floods, hurricanes, wildfires, food shortages, etc., but that is warm enough that your black bile and blood are in perfect balance, thus protecting you from plague.)

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Might work;)

Like a moderate climate and don't do well in extremes.

Who knows what evils will be released from melting polar ice caps!?

Hey, if he can get all weirdo about it, so can I.

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I've seen more articles the last couple years from anti-science/republicans/christians about why the climate changing (even if it's pretty sudden and because of exploding humans? :shrug:) is actually a good thing!

a certain kind of rat and was slowed down when it reached the northern climates in the winter. This guy must have read a different book than I did.

in most cases by fleas.

It's an arthropod-borne infectious disease and a zoonosis.

Ask me anything.

"You know, medicine is not an exact science, but we are learning all the time. Why, just fifty years ago, they thought a disease like your daughter's was caused by demonic possession or witchcraft. But nowadays we know that Isabelle is suffering from an imbalance of bodily humors, perhaps caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in her stomach."

I guess if things cool off a bit, we'll all forget normal hygiene, like washing hands and brushing teeth, to say nothing of the likelihood that all medications will cease to function. And we're not talking about a return to the ice age, just a slowing down of human-caused warming, the results of which are clear for all intelligent people to see.