Media Start To ‘Link’ Hantavirus With ‘Climate Change’
Last week, CNN and The Associated Press published articles claiming the Hantavirus ‘outbreak’ could have been made worse by ‘climate change’
They presented no evidence for this of course, but there is plenty of uninformed speculation and assumption.
Also, this ‘outbreak’ consists of 12 known cases, nine and two possibles on the cruise ship, and one possible case in Canada.
So the next media-driven ‘pandemic’ fearmongering is driven by just nine confirmed cases.
There is some sanity from the World Health Organisation here for a change though. They said Hanta will not be the next pandemic, which much of the media seems to be completely ignoring.
The media articles claimed that with this year likely to be the hottest on record, we will probably see the Hantavirus appear elsewhere, along with various other diseases, depending on which media outlet you use.
We get the ‘hottest year on record’ claim every year now of course, and if organisations continue to ‘adjust’ the data, that can be made to appear to be true.
This is often accompanied by claims that as the world warms, various insect-borne diseases will propagate to new countries. The favourite one is mosquitos, which carry Malaria, Dengue, Yellow Fever and Zika Virus.
We are told that mosquitos in particular will create new disease epidemics as they move to new countries warmed by ‘climate change’.
This is a complete fiction.
As we have reported before, mosquitos thrive best in cold climates, not hot ones.
This quote is from the 2007 Great Global Warming Swindle documentary:
The IPCC claims that “Mosquito species that transmit malaria do not usually survive where the mean winter temperature drops below 16-18C.”
Professor Paul Reiter, of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, is recognised as one of the world’s leading experts on malaria and other insect-borne diseases. He was a member of the World Health Organisation’s Expert Advisory Committee, was chairman of the American Committee of Medical Entomology at the American Society for Tropical Medicine, and lead author of the health section of the US National Assessment on the potential consequences of climate variability.
He points out that mosquitos thrive in very cold temperatures, NOT in warm temperatures, and are
“…extremely abundant in the Arctic. The most devastating incidence of malaria was in the Soviet Union in the 1920’s, there were something like 13 million cases a year, and something like 600,000 deaths.
Archangel in the Arctic had about 30,000 cases, and about 10,000 deaths. It is NOT a tropical disease, yet these people in the global warming fraternity invent the idea that malaria will move northwards”.
Just as so-called ‘extreme weather’ is decreasing as the world warms, so too will mosquito-borne outbreaks decrease, as they will be confined to smaller, colder climes.
This is good news, and not anything to be concerned about, so we get told the exact opposite.
The reader needs to decide who to believe; a credentialed professor, or journalists pushing an agenda.
I know where my vote goes.
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About the author: Andy Rowlands is a British university graduate in space science and Principia Scientific International researcher, writer and editor who co-edited the 2019 climate science book ‘The Sky Dragon Slayers: Victory Lap‘