This story was all over the national media today including, BBC, Sky News and the Telegraph.
Quite apart from the fact that their predictions are based on an increase in temperature which isn’t being suggested by the current global temperature trend and is all based on Climate models that have so far proved completely ineffective, the statements on Malaria increases are disturbing coming from medial professionals:
“However, a study by the University College London, published in the Lancet, concluded that the problems caused by climate change such as food shortages, heat waves and increased threat of tropical diseases such as malaria will kill billions of people“
If these members of University College have got through their medical exams and undertaken this whole study without having learned or realised that Malaria isn’t a tropical disease and isn’t governed by temperature in the way they are suggesting then my otherwise completely irrational phobia of doctors may actually be well founded!
Perhaps instead they should have studied History! The largest Malaria outbreak of recent times was in Siberia in the 1920′s – 13 million cases per year and 600,000 deaths at its peak. I would suggest visiting Siberia in shorts and a t-shirt to see just how tropical it is!!! Holland only declared itself Malaria free in 1970, I thought it had been getting warmer since then?
