Bill McKibben decided to devote his life to a meaningless fantasy, after getting malaria dengue fever and blaming it on global warming.
Global warming wilts malaria
Transmission of infectious parasites slows with rising temperatures, researchers find.A common assumption is that rising global temperatures will increase the spread of malaria — the deadly mosquito-borne disease that affects millions of people worldwide. But a study out today in Biology Letters finds that warmer temperatures seem to slow transmission of malaria-causing parasites, by reducing their infectiousness1.
The study was done with rodent malaria, but the researchers, at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, expect the pattern to apply to human malaria and possibly to other mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever and West Nile virus.
Bill should probably seek grief counseling, now that he knows his life’s work is a joke.
Wasn’t one of the most deadly outbreaks of malaria in Siberia years ago?
Yes, and in Canada as well. http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Canada/malaria_in_canada.htm
Alaska had one during the gold rush.
What about Mark Lynas? The guy visited the Andes glaciers with his dad when he young, and then again when he was older, saw they had ‘melted’, got pissed off, wrote a bestselling book about it, made truckloads of money, and…well, I don’t know what he’s done after that. Realising that Greenpeace is bollocks, perhaps?
You mustn’t believe the lies of the Green zealots. And I should know – I was one
By Mark Lynas
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010981/You-mustnt-believe-lies-Green-zealots-And-I-know–I-one.html#ixzz1R7Tu9FjG
As it turns out, I’ve never had malaria. I have had dengue, which I highly recommend avoiding. It’s as sick as I’ve ever been.
Thanks Bill. I corrected it in the article.
many thanks.
oh, and just one more small correction. i’d already spent most of my adult life working on what you characterize as a meaningless fantasy before i got dengue. i wrote The End of Nature way back in 1989 when I was 28. so, it’s a long-term ‘fantasy’ for me. thanks, bill
Well, you’re not the only one….. some of us would characterize it as mass delusional hysteria, working toward the detriment of humanity.
Bill
The environmental movement in recent decades has tried to do a lot of sensible things, that most people would agree with.
That makes it even more of a pity that much of the movement has been hijacked by an anti capitalist tendency that is using greenhouse gas fears to achieve political objectives.
Paul
Bill,
I’m in the process of putting together a collection of newspaper clippings which reported bad weather events that occurred below 350ppm. I hope you don’t mind if I E-mail it to you.
You might be surprised how much worse the weather was in the past.