Climate Scepticism in Six Charts
By Ramesh Thakur
5 August 2026 1:30 PM
Geological records show that warming and cooling periods go through extended cycles with no clear pattern to the intensity, severity and timing of the cycles. Natural disasters have always been with us and climate change is another constant. The relationship between climate and natural disasters is anything but clear. An IPCC assessment found only weak links between human-induced climate change and droughts, wildfires, floods and hurricanes.
Notwithstanding this, legacy media just cannot seem to help themselves when it comes to shoehorning climate alarmism into current events. On July 23rd, writing about the worst dengue fever outbreak in a decade in Sri Lanka, a BBC report commented that “as temperatures rise worldwide, these disease-carrying mosquitos are now moving into new areas, including Europe and the Mediterranean”. They cited a WHO report that the number of cases had surged globally from around 500,000 in 2000 to 14.4 million in 2024.
The global number of dengue fever infections (not cases) fell from 10 million in 1998 to 3.7 million in 2000 and stood at 37.5 million in 2023. But the slope of the global rise almost precisely parallels the rise in Latin America and the Caribbean, from two million in 2000 to 27.5 million in 2023 (Figure 1). The Asian situation is nowhere near as dramatic. Unless the BBC is prepared to inform us ignorant folks just why the temperature rise is global but the fast-spreading dengue infections are restricted mainly to this one region, BBC Verify should call it out on this. But don’t hold your breath. Climate change is the narrative that must not be challenged.
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/08/05/climate-scepticism-in-six-charts/
