ABSTRACT
After the germ theory of disease was discovered in the late 1800s, the identification of the bacterium or virus responsible for most acute infectious diseases was relatively straightforward. The interrelated issues of climate change and global warming have become entangled in political discourse in the United States, and the scientific understanding of climate change and the medical consequences of it are sometimes lost in political posturing. The international scientific community overwhelmingly accepts the idea that climate change is occurring and that it is largely a consequence of particular human behaviors. By the early 2000s, city finances were a shambles, and debt was being accumulated. Contrary to the wishes of the people, the governor appointed an emergency town administrator to deal with the economic problems. Knowledge about the role of genetic transmission in disease and illness has increased substantially in the last several years with the successful mapping of the approximately 25,000 genes within each human.
