"Sonny Whitelaw - Rgesus Factor" - читать интересную книгу автора (Whitelaw Sonny)

'How soon before you have a cure?'

'Sir, no one has ever developed a cure for a virus,тАЩ Obermann said.

Blake frowned. тАШWhat do you mean? Of course they have!'

Obermann shook his head. тАШVaccinations to prevent catching some viruses, and anti-virals that inhibit the
reproduction of others, yes, but no silver bullet.'

'Besides, Rhesus is endogenous,тАЩ said Clem. тАШIt's already in every cell of the body, and there's been next
to no research on it. When we first learned about AIDS we thought we'd have it licked within five years.
Forty years onтАФ'

Blake stopped him with a raised hand. тАШSo unless you prevent it spreading, ninety-two percent of the
population will be sterile in ... How long do you estimate?'

Obermann stared upwards. тАШNo reliable estimates, sir, but based on the CDC's figuresтАФwhich are yet to
be verifiedтАФand given whatever triggered it will probably circulate the planet in a number of wavesтАФ'

'Get on with it!тАЩ the President snapped.

Silencing Obermann with a look, Clem said, тАШIt's not ninety-two percent. That's just Europe and the US.
Factoring in Asia and Africa, over ninety-nine point nine percent of mankind will be sterile within ten
years.'
 Chapter 2
'Climate doesn't change smoothly. It happens in jumps and jolts,тАЩ says Stefan Rahmstorf of the
Polsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research in Germany. In Buenos Aires, he revealed ...
that northwest Europe could cool by several degrees as global warming shuts down the Gulf
Stream. The current has already been weakened by increased flows of freshwater into the
North Atlantic. While Europe faces a sudden chill, most of the planet could face equally rapid
heating.'

'Abrupt climate change is the historical norm,тАЩ says Jeff Severinghaus of the Scripps Institute of
Oceanography.

тАФNew Scientist: 14th November 1998

'Until three weeks ago I would have had to admit that (predictions were) a purely theoretical calculation,тАЩ
Rahmstorf says. тАШBut now we have received data showing that the (Gulf Stream) has decreased by 20
percent since 1950.'

тАФNew Scientist: 21st July 2001

Commander Nicholas Page, USN, picked up the popular science magazine. The bold cover text
announced that the entire issue was тАШdedicated to understanding The Kamchatka Statement'. Page
flicked through the magazine until he found the article by Dr. Kristin Baker. The intelligence report that
Jean Simmons had emailed him said that Baker was a thirty-two year old Australian marine engineer. The
article revealed somewhat more.

'Throughout Earth's long history the climate has changed often and rapidly,тАЩ Baker wrote. тАШThe evidence