Mosquitos Thrive In Cold Climates, NOT Hot Ones
The New York Times is spreading the story that mosquito-borne diseases are increasing as global temperatures rise. This is, to quote Facebook; False Information
Their recent article entitled Cases of Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya Virus Are Surging Globally: What to Know claims that as the world warms, mosquitos will have more breeding grounds, and therefore be able to spread the diseases they carry to more people.
The world is warming, almost no-one disputes that, but it has bugger all to do with the burning of hydrocarbons or so-called ‘greenhouse gases’.
It is because the planet is still recovering from the last ice age, so what should we expect other than a warming trend?
What we should NOT expect is an increase in mosquito breeding grounds and an associated increase in diseases such as Zika, chikungunya and dengue.
In fact, as I stated in this recent article, quoting Paul Reiter from the 2007 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, mosquitos thrive in COLD temperatures, NOT warm ones:
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.
“…being 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.”
So you don’t need to go out and buy a giant fly-swatter, nor stock up on anti-mozzy spray, because there ain’t gonna be an influx of winged death anytime soon, unless the planet gets appreciably colder, which is far more likely than the ‘boiling’ we’re been is already happening, but without any evidence to support the claim of course.
We are in fact nearing the end of our current interglacial, and at some point the world will enter another ice age which, going by the last ten recorded ice ages, will last around 150,000 years.
Then, and only then, will we see a big increase in the mosquito population, and the diseases they carry.
Header image: James Gathany / CDC / Associated Press
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‘
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Alan
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A lot of people I knew in the military and stationed in Alaska said that squeeters were really bad. One guy said the biggest squeeters he’d ever seen were in Alaska.
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Andy Rowlands
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That’s a very useful bit of info, thanks for sharing Alan.
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len Winokur
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‘Chickengunge virus’ sounds like something one’s Kentucky Fried might transmit. Except that even in cold climates, mosquitoes can’t transmit entities that don’t even exist.
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