Melissa's Musings(My opinionated view of life)

Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote - Jewish Business News : The results of Foote's simple experiments were confirmed through hundreds of tests by scientists in the US and Europe. It happened more than a century ago.

Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health | NEJM

Intensity and frequency of extreme novel epidemics | PNAS : Together with recent estimates of increasing rates of disease emergence from animal reservoirs associated with environmental change, this finding suggests a high probability of observing pandemics similar to COVID-19 (probability of experiencing it in one’s lifetime currently about 38%), which may double in coming decades.