http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44502602/ns/health-infectious_diseases/
It's been found that warming oceans are beginning to harvest bacteria, and a deadly one at that. It helps support a Vibrio genus of bacteria, this may cause "food poisoning, serious gastroenteritis, septicemia, and cholera." The study was performed by Project CLAMER, and funded by the European Union. Not only does this endanger people in the water, but it may contaminate seafood which has the potential to eventually be eaten by much of the population. A researcher explained that "things are changing in the ocean much more rapidly than we thought was possible," and at this pace we may be slowly killing ourselves and the wildlife around us. In fact it already has, since fish populations have decreased "with larger species moving towards the arctic and smaller ones taking their place." Now that temperature in the ocean is increasing the Vibrios is increasing, and one of its dangers is that it contains cholera. Also by killing algae, we'll have a larger amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, indirectly causing one another in a constant cycle.
I think that this story is a wake up call for all, since those who don't believe in global warming must realize that there is something going wrong, and it must be stopped before it harmfully effects people. And those who just believe it and don't do anything about it, must start to realize that it's not just harmful for our future generations, which some people, unfortunately, don't care about, and they just may realize that people nowadays may be affected by this. Hopefully these problems can be solved soon enough to help make all people safe and all organisms on the earth safe as well.
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