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From CTInsider, the Hearst publication that -provides 95% of the Greenwich Time’s content:

Temperatures are at an all-time high in Connecticut. It has health experts worried

Wow, scary — can we have a couple of examples? Sure! let’s get some from a disinterested expert, like “Kirsten Ek, assistant professor of medicine at UConn Health and a steering committee member for the Connecticut Coalition for Climate Action and  Connecticut Health Professionals for Climate Action.:”

As she explains it, It rains, see, and you house has poor drainage, so the water comes in, mold grows, you go down there to clean it up and end up with mold in your lungs, so yeah, that’s Global Warming!

[R]ising temperatures can also lead to [to what?]other unexpected ways. Ek said one patient at UConn recently came into the hospital with mold in his lungs. She said the patient had been trying to clean out his basement after extreme weather events caused by rising global temperatures kept flooding it, helping mold grow, since paying for a cleaning crew was getting too expensive. 

That not enough for you? Okay, try this: you go swimming, ‘cause it’s summertime, but the water’s warm, see, ‘cause it’s summertime, like I told you, and these like, bugs are all like living in it, which, like, they wouldn’t be doing if that water was ice, you know what I mean? But anyway, it’s not ice, its like all yucky stuff, and these bugs what I told you about crawl up your legs and then you die. But at least your state attorney general will sue Exxon for you and your cat will get a nice chunk of cash to make her feel all better.

Another patient, Ek said, came into the hospital with a "rapidly ascending infection going up both legs" and high fevers not too long after cooling off in brackish, shallow water at the beach. She explained that a bacteria that thrives in warm water entered his body through small wounds on his feet caused by diabetes. 

Ek said both patients ultimately survived their infections after lengthy hospital stays, but she anticipates seeing more of these infections in the future. 

Wow, how come we hadn’t heard about this before CT Insider disclosed it? Must be some kind of conspiracy going on, am I right? Am I right? Aha! I knew it!

"For neither of these people did their discharge summaries from the hospital make that connection to extreme weather and to a heating planet at all. It's silent," she said.