[quote=@POOHEAD189] Hell, I just found this [url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/why-did-two-thirds-of-this-weird-antelope-suddenly-drop-dead/550676/]article[/url] about how, due to the sudden change in humidity, a normally harmless bacteria has now killed off two thirds of the world's Saiga, because of climate change. Literally 200,000 animals dropped dead over the course of a few days back in 2015, as the world grows hotter.[/quote]

I remember when that happened. BBC was following that herd for one of their Planet Earth series, don't remember which variant (or if it made the cut, I mean, that's sad shit).

It's absolute horseshit to link that to climate change. Genetic diversity in a global population of 600k is very homogenized (am I using that word right? It's an inbred species). They're vulnerable to pathogens and they caught one. Shit happens. To their credit, the real actual scientists who were on the scene said as much at the time. Apparently, now, someone's throwing that whole mass-death onto the altar of climate change, and [i]the people who are pulling that BS are the reason why I'm skeptical of every climate-change headline ever.[/i] Because they're lying.