Malaria study challenges warmer world predictions - environment - 24 October 2012 - New Scientist

Peter Gething of the Malaria Atlas Project, based at the University of Oxford, UK, agrees that the new model progresses the science and understanding of temperature and malaria transmission. He disputes its real-life relevance for predicting malaria, though.

"Temperature has theoretical links [to malaria transmission] but in practice they are drowned out," he says. "The effect of temperature is tiny when you look at everything else."

Factors like access to drugs and bed nets, the strength of a country's healthcare systems, and its wealth are orders of magnitude more important in predicting transmission, he says.

BBC News - Allt Duine wind farm public inquiry starts in Aviemore

The Mountaineering Council of Scotland has been campaigning against the development, warning that it would harm an unspoilt landscape.

Chief officer David Gibson said: "We support green energy generation but this scheme involves dumping 15,500 tonnes of concrete and miles of roads in mountain areas of national importance and beauty.

"Wind farms are supposed to have a lifetime of 25 years, we would therefore expect developers to include proposals for site restitution in their plans as evidence of good stewardship of the environment.

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