Climate change is bringing with it all sorts of dangers, from extreme heat, to drought, to rising sea levels and water scarcity. However now, according to researchers from Emory University in Georgia, global warming is also making our planet’s venomous snakes even more dangerous.
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00:00Climate change is bringing with it all sorts of dangers from extreme heat to drought to rising
00:09sea levels and water scarcity however now according to researchers from Emory University
00:13in Georgia global warming is also making our planet's venomous snakes even more dangerous
00:19it's long been known that snake behavior changes with the seasons however now the researchers have
00:23found a direct link between the temperature rising and your chances of being bitten they
00:27came to this conclusion by looking at three thousand nine hundred and eight venomous snake
00:31related hospital visits between the years 2014 and 2020 finding that for every single degree
00:37Celsius of temperature increase there was a six percent increased chance of being bitten by one
00:41of these snakes they add that while they can't provide a direct reason for why this occurs it's
00:45likely due to multiple factors one of those is that snakes and humans are more active when the weather is
00:50warmer meaning people are likely treading in snake territory while those snakes are also moving around
00:54in alert however there seems to be a threshold as well as spring actually had the highest association
00:59between higher temperatures and snake bites according to the World Health Organization there are over 5
01:04million venomous snake bites reported every year resulting in upwards of 138,000 deaths