This is an article about how climate change has made mold more likely. Not the water in the persons home from the hurricane. It is the warmer and more humid air in Florida driven by climate change. And get this mold is racist as well. It affects people of color more than white people. You just cant make this stuff up.
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Mold may be one of the most devastating, long-term and hidden costs of America’s increasingly humid, wet and stormy climate.
And while the extent of America’s mold problem is difficult to assess, there is consensus that climate change and more intense heat, rainfall and flooding — three key ingredients in a mold outbreak — are heightening the risk.
Climate change is contributing to an uptick in the intensity and range of wet weather events and higher humidity, exposing more people to conditions that introduce moisture into buildings, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The problem may be worse for low-income individuals and people of color.
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Fun quotes from the article:
Mold may be one of the most devastating, long-term and hidden costs of America’s increasingly humid, wet and stormy climate.
And while the extent of America’s mold problem is difficult to assess, there is consensus that climate change and more intense heat, rainfall and flooding — three key ingredients in a mold outbreak — are heightening the risk.
Climate change is contributing to an uptick in the intensity and range of wet weather events and higher humidity, exposing more people to conditions that introduce moisture into buildings, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The problem may be worse for low-income individuals and people of color.
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On Tuesday morning, six days after Hurricane Ian tore through southwestern Florida, Alvaro “Moe” Zuluaga and his team of mold remediators walked through a house in Naples. The walls were cheerfully painted in sunny yellows and palm greens, and beyond a suspiciously musty smell there was little...
