Meteorologist: Iceland’s Mosquitoes A Byproduct Of Global Shipping, Not Global Warming
NPR is wrong—Iceland’s mosquitoes are imports, not climate refugees.
by Anthony Watts October 28, 2025, 9:22 AM i
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In NPR’s article, “Mosquitoes appear in Iceland for the first time, as climate warms,” reporter Joe Hernandez claims that climate change is bringing mosquitoes to Iceland for the first time in recorded history. [emphasis, links added]
Hernandez describes how three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes were discovered near Reykjavík, suggesting that global warming is making Iceland less frigid and thus newly hospitable to these insects.
This is false.
Mosquitoes don’t naturally occur in Iceland, and the ones that were recently found there were transported via global shipping. So, trade, not climate change, is responsible for Iceland’s recently arrived mosquitoes.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/iceland-mosquitoes-global-shipping-not-global-warming/
