This story is just one more instance in which The Guardian is irresponsibly promoting a doomsday scenario based on unjustified extrapolations of trends based on extreme model projections, while ignoring real-world epidemiological…
Tag: Mosquito-borne disease
Claim: Climate Change Could Bring Mosquito Diseases to Britain
Malaria was the scourge of early 1600s Britain, during the Little Ice Age, but today’s scientists think insect borne diseases need a warm climate.
Genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida and Texas beginning this summer – silver bullet or jumping the gun?
Brian Allan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Chris Stone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Holly Tuten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer Kuzma, North Carolina State University, and Natalie Kofler,…
Another alarming climate myth bites the dust – mosquito borne malaria does NOT increase with temperature
Back in 2001, the University of Florida wrote one of those “science by press release” thingy’s in Eurekalert where they speculated that global warming would increase ranges, and thus the…
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