Apparently, malaria was super-isolated before fossil fueled vehicles. Just a few cases. No big deal. But, now, Doom!
How Climate Change Is Spreading Malaria in Africa
Warming temperatures are chasing animals and plants to new habitats, sometimes with devastating consequences to ecosystems. But there is little evidence regarding how far and how fast the invaders might be moving.
A new study offers a glimpse of the future by looking to the past. Mosquitoes that transmit malaria in sub-Saharan Africa have moved to higher elevations by about 6.5 meters (roughly 21 feet) per year and away from the Equator by 4.7 kilometers (about three miles) per year over the past century, according to the study.
You mean the early part of the 20th Century, when we are told that CO2 was below the safe level of 350ppm? And there hadn’t been that much warming? Say, can we compare what’s happening now with what happened during previous Holocene warm periods? And realize that mosquitos are found in most US states, found in Alaska, found in Canada, and have been for about as long as Mankind has been in North America?
That pace is consistent with climate change and may explain why malaria’s range has expanded over the past few decades, the authors said. The results have serious implications for countries that are unprepared to cope with the disease.
Well, now, if only 1st World nations hadn’t made it so 3rd world ones stopped using DDT.
“If this were random, and if it were unrelated to climate, it wouldn’t look as cleanly climate-linked,” said Colin Carlson, a biologist at Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science and Security and the paper’s lead author. The study was published on Tuesday in the journal Biology Letters.
Sounds more like climate activism than science, eh? All the other Credentialed Media Warmists got the message
- Climate Change Is Spreading Malaria Risk to New Parts of Africa
- House climate change may already help spread malaria
- Climate change portends wider malaria risk as mosquitoes spread south and to higher elevations in Africa
And many more. Africa can solve this by paying taxes and installing more dictators.
