Horror Story #241: Rat Plagues coming
How biblical can it get?
If you aren’t scared of a 2 degree rise (really, who is?) then be afraid, plagues of rats shall explode upon your house!
Climate Change Is Scary; ‘Rat Explosion’ Is Scarier
Faye Flam, Bloomberg Opinion
What’s so scary about climate change?
The term is not scary — at last not in a visceral, skin-crawling sense. Scientists have shown that the likely 2 degrees of global warming to come this century will be extremely dangerous, but, you know, “2 degrees” is hardly a phrase from nightmares and horror films.
How about “rat explosion”?
As the climate warms, rats in New York, Philadelphia and Boston are breeding faster — and experts warn of a population explosion.
Climate change only makes bad things live and grow stronger:
The physics of climate change doesn’t have the same fear factor as the biology. … so populations will crash or explode as anthropogenic climate change continues to make wet areas more sodden and dry areas, more parched.
What genius research is this:
… rats have a gestation period of […]
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