DDT And Global Swarming

IBD ^ | July 23, 2007

[Kaslin]

Disease Control:The Los Angeles Times hypes an alleged link between global warming and a rise in malaria in parts of Africa. It so happens those areas don't use a cure that the Times doesn't mention — DDT.

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Last time we checked, mosquitoes — not sports utility vehicles — spread malaria. But Times staff writer Edmund Sanders made that linkage last Saturday, when rising malaria rates in parts of Kenya were attributed to higher temperatures and those temperatures to the carbon emissions of the U.S., among other countries.

In Kenya's western highlands, Sanders wrote, "maximum annual temperatures over the last 20 years are up about 1.8 degrees." This has caused the "emergence of malaria" in towns like Thangathi, which Sanders calls "one of the new fronts in the global struggle with a changing climate."

Industrialized nations, "including the United States," account for "the vast majority of carbon emissions," we are told, while "poorer countries, particularly in Africa, are the most vulnerable to its effects."

Get it? Every time you drive your SUV to Wal-Mart, you're spreading malaria in Kenya.

[infowarrior]

Talk about yer "junk science"...

the infowarrior

[Right Wing Assault]

...attributed to higher temperatures and those temperatures to the carbon emissions of the U.S., among other countries...

Don't they know how to spell China?

[Cruising Speed]

What does temperature have to do with malaria? There are plenty of mosquitoes in cold countries. One of the worst outbreaks of malaria in modern times occured in Siberia.

[infowarrior]

What does temperature have to do with malaria? There are plenty of mosquitoes in cold countries. One of the worst outbreaks of malaria in modern times occured in Siberia.

Ergo, the "junk science" comment...

the infowarrior