Environment Journal Wrong About Climate Change Increasing the Spread of Malaria
By
H. Sterling Burnett -
March 12, 2021 0
A Google News search today for the term “climate change†turns up an Environment Journal article which claims climate change could increase incidences of malaria. This is wrong. Copious research indicates climate change is unlikely to exacerbate the spread of malaria or other insect borne diseases.
In the Environment Journal article, titled “Climate change could increase the spread of malaria,†the authors write:
Climate change could impact malaria transmission in Africa …. [R]esearchers at the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal) used mathematical modelling to analyse the association between malaria cases, regional climate (local temperatures and rainfall) and global climate (in particular the effect of El Niño and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the Pacific Ocean) in Oromia, a densely populated highland area in Ethiopia. [They] found that the variation in malaria cases shows a strong correlation with changes in regional temperatures.
https://climaterealism.com/2021/03/environment-journal-wrong-about-climate-change-increasing-the-spread-of-malaria/
