Global Warming And Vector-Borne Disease: Is Warmer Sicker?
June 30, 2009 by admin
Filed under Questions and Answers
One of the scarier claims made by supporters of an international climate treaty is that global warming will spawn epidemics of deadly "tropical diseases" – malaria, dengue fever, Yellow fever – not only in countries where such scourges are already entrenched but in North America and Western Europe as well. Many prominent individuals in government, academia, and media embrace the "warmer is sicker" hypothesis. Indeed, some claim the expansion of disease vectors due to global warming is already under way.
http://www.cei.org/gencon/014,01520.cfm
jim z on Tue, 30th Jun 2009 2:31 am
More nonsense coming from the alarmists IMO. Malaria has had horrible epidemics in the Artic and Siberia. It is not a heat related disease.
http://www.malaria.org/factpack.html (search for siberia or canada)
In fact, when considering deaths from cold related diseases, far more people die from those than heat related ones. Influenza and other diseases are more common in the winters due to the fact that our environments are more contained and we are indoors more. If it warms, it should decrease the number of dangerous diseases.