Climate change and insect-borne disease

Paul Reiter, a medical entomologist from the Institut Pasteur in France, contests whether climate change is causing a rise in malaria at all. He sets out to dispel three common 'malaria myths': that climate change is spreading the disease to higher latitudes; letting it climb to higher altitudes; and spreading it at alarming speed across Sub-Saharan Africa. These myths, he says, have arisen through the alarmism of climate change activists, rather than from historical or scientific fact.

Richard A. Kerr - The sun also rises: research continues on solar variability and earth's climate Part II

Plenty of past changes in Earth's climate have been pinned on an inconstant sun. Ups and downs in solar output may have triggered the Little Ice Age that gripped Europe several centuries ago, as well as droughts that brought down Chinese dynasties. But how could the slight variations scientists measure be behind such large climate events? Researchers now say two different parts of the atmosphere might be colluding to amplify the effects of even minuscule solar fluctuations.

Good For Acid Rain, But Can It Slow Climate Change? : NPR

Republican congressman Charles Boustany of Louisiana said the bill "dramatically increases taxes and will kill American jobs."

Another Republican congressman, Devin Nunes of California, said, "I asked my Democratic friends, is that what you've really come to? Do you want to throw away the economic prosperity for nothing? Because that's what this bill does. And for what? To satisfy the twisted desires of radical environmentalists."

Boston Review — David G. Victor and Richard K. Morse: Living With Coal

Yet coal remains indispensable. No other fuel matches its promise of cheap and abundant energy for development. About half the electricity in the United States comes from burning coal. Germany, the anchor of old Europe’s economy, is a coal country. Poland, the heart of new Europe, gets 90 percent of its electricity from coal. The fast-growing economies of Asia, in particular China and India, are all coal-fired. Indeed, while the outlook for coal consumption in the industrialized world is flat, soaring Asian growth is expected nearly to double world consumption by 2030.

[Carbon dioxide fails to kill 17 bears]

According to Boothroyd, “The 17 bears I passed on the Alaska and B.C. highways raised the hair on my neck, but it isn't as scary as the run-away climate change effects that world experts predict if we don't take action right now".

Pedal for the Planet is a nation-wide cycling tour which began this summer at locations across the country - the Maritimes, BC, the Yukon, and Southern Ontario - and will converge on Ottawa on September 14th. The cyclists intend to encourage MPs to support strong climate action programs.

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