Iceland, Mosquitoes, Climate Change, and Media Unibrows
Stupidity, ignorance, or a reckless disregard for the facts in the name of promoting alarm?
Posted on 25 Oct 25
by JitIn alarmism, BBC, Ecology, media, Uncategorized
Those who are today ignorant of natural history are not condemned to say stupid things tomorrow. They are able to avoid the risk of doing so by taking the trouble to educate themselves, just a bit. But why would they, when the only disapprobation for their effluvium comes from people who can be safely ignored, i.e. climate denialists?
A few days ago came the news that a mosquito had been found on Iceland for the first time. This factoid rather predictably instantly mutated into a story that we have heard before, in fact one that makes the internet a terribly dull place because of its ubiquity: “See! Something bad has happened, and it’s all your fault, scum who live in relative luxury in Western democracies!”
Naturally, the mosquito in question, or rather the team of three that abseiled into someone’s garden near Reykjavik (all right, they flew in), could only have come there because of the “climate crisis.” It was quite obvious that no mosquitoes had ever colonised a new place before the “climate crisis” got its start, and it was equally clear that Iceland was far too cold until last week for the happy little biters to thrive there. Or perhaps it didn’t matter. If blaming the “climate crisis” for this episode garnered a few clicks, then the reality was really neither here nor there.
The story as related by the BBC, and reported here by Mark:
https://cliscep.com/2025/10/25/iceland-mosquitoes-climate-change-and-media-unibrows/
