Half the wetlands in Europe lost in past 300 years, researchers calculate
Climate change means malaria – and dengue and all the rest – will migrate north. So, cutting the number of potentially disease ridden swamps is just great.
Of course the idiots are arguing the other way but that’s to be expected. They seem to want Taunton to Pilton to return to an ague and fever ridden wilderness. The rest of us would probably prefer that dry land we call Somerset.
I find it quite interesting how much the HRE and the fate of the emperors was shaped by the need to avoid German armies being in Italy during the malaria season.
When we lived in the Chilterns one of my neighbours’ sons contracted malaria, it really is a horrible disease. As well as various debilitating physical problems, it was thought to have brought on serious schizophrenia and he was confined to a mental hospital for some time.
And as a bonus, wetlands emit plenty of methane.
I’d never heard that one about the HRE, BiND. I must look it up sometime.
I was entertained to see that most Aussie swamps are in the middle of the country. I suppose you can have floods there sometime, but I wouldn’t have called them wetlands.
Needless to say, having been bitten by mossies, I am a firm believer in a total extermination policy. Of course, the Greenatics are pushing for the exact opposite.
Climate change means malaria – and dengue and all the rest – will migrate north
or possibly south.
IIRC there’s a Dickens novel where it’s mentioned that a clergyman refused to go there because of the disease. So equally probably that the loss of wetlands was what wiped it out.
See this: https://bjgp.org/content/70/693/182
Which is a good job that there is no climate change to speak of (other than fraudulent statistics), so any change will be marginal and could go either way.
Wasn’t there an outbreak of malaria in Alaska in the dim and distant past? and isn’t it endemic in Russian occupied Karelia which is an icecube for 9 months of the year? Not so much about Warble Gloaming then.
So >85% of the loss is not global warming, but the ‘climate crisis’ is still to blame and we need to all do our bit in the race to be zero…
But, hey they could be wrong.
Study finds global wetlands losses overestimated despite high losses in many regions
Of course you have to worship Gaia scientifically.
Living in relationship with the Ocean to transform governance in the UN Ocean Decade
Boganboy,
It crops up often in the History of the Germans podcast.
300 years? Naughty Mankind is only in the frame since the late 1970s, so what caused that climate change in the previous 250 years?
Thanks BiND.
I thought that we got rid of wetlands on purpose by draining them and therefore making them useful as places to live and grow crops.
Having been in the Yukon in the summer on a few occasions I’m all for exterminating them en masse as well, not heard of malaria there though blood loss I’d believe
Jimmers @ 11.54 – 95%+ of all the CO2 emitted is natural, but it’s only the stuff man puts up that is dangerous and causing the climate crisis.
John B @ 1.56 – They never mention that approximately 1 degree of the 1.5 degrees ‘limit’ has already occured, much of it before 1950.
It’s a scam. They know it’s a scam, we know it’s a scam, and they know we know it’s a scam, but they also know there are enough morons out there who believe everything they are told. See also, covid.
Time to remember the large outbreak in the Yamal peninsula of Siberia during the 1920s. One of the highest fatality rates recorded. Obviously global warming
A pal of mine who was Venezuelan nearly had a meltdown the first time he saw a Daddy-long-legs (crane fly) on the wall, because he mistook it for a giant malaria mosquito. It was something about its posture. He (the bloke) took a lot of calming down.
In Spanish the suffix ‘-ito’ means small, which hints at something bigger and greater than ‘mosquito’, the legendary “EL MOSCO!”.
I remember reading a report a few years ago from the world’s most malaria-stricken city, somewhere in Africa
A couple of KM down the road, swamps were being preserved, as part of a Wetlands Conservation Project funded by the EU.