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Global Warming Will Eat Your Brain

Warmth-loving, waterborne bacteria enters through your nose, feeds on your brain.

Topics: science

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:16 am on Saturday, September 29, 2007

6 Responses to “Global Warming Will Eat Your Brain”

1. blogagog Says:
   September 29th, 2007 at 11:35 am

   Let me understand this. The amoeba was having trouble surviving in ancient-day Phoenix’ 100+ degree temps, but will thrive now that the temps have gone up a degree on average?

2. Robert Says:
   September 29th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

   Is that amoeba’s name Al Gore?

3. saltydog Says:
   September 29th, 2007 at 4:26 pm

   It’s a crisis, I tells ya.

   At least I have an excuse now. Having a brain-eating bacterium feasting away covers a lot.

4. RebeccaH Says:
   September 29th, 2007 at 5:35 pm

   Actually, I’d blame this kind of thing on algae blooms fed by nitrogen runoff from lawns (more and more, lakes are surrounded by vacation homes).

   When I was a child in Texas (lo, these many, many, many years ago), we waded, played, and swam in cattle tanks (ponds to you non-Texans), never thinking about the cattle effluvia (and against our mothers’ orders). Nobody I know died of a brain disease.

5. ewb Says:
   September 29th, 2007 at 6:40 pm

   Ditto RebeccaH, though in Missouri rather than Texas. Cattle ponds, nasty muddy rivers, you name it. No brain eating amoebae, but years later when I was 22 I had my eyes tested and the ophthalmologists said I had a hole in my retina. Without asking he guessed that I’d grown up in the Midwest and swam in some nasty holes. He said the eye holes were caused by an amoeba present in those conditions that generally infects boys. Go figure. I wonder if my eye amoeba and the brain eater are related? Seriously, though, the story above as related by the father is just heartbreaking. To lose a child - what a tragic and miserable thing.

6. blogagog Says:
   September 29th, 2007 at 6:49 pm

   But Rebecca and ewb, you don’t seem to realize what’s important. Those amoeba were always there, and just waiting for the temps to rise 1.8 degrees so they could pounce! They got together and decided that 1.8 was JUST ENOUGH of a temp increase to switch to brainfood.

   Even amoeba are delicate and sophisticated, in the global warming view at least.

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