Monday, July 23, 2007

Global warming hysteria

Malaria comes to the highlands of Kenya.

It's global warming stupid...or maybe not.

You see, malaria was once common in England and New York City...it has to do with population density, and the availability of stagnant water or ponds in which to breed. Make people richer, clean up the swamps and breeding areas, and spray breeding areas with stuff that kills the wigglers (DDT is nice but oil worked in the old days) and voila, malaria is gone.

I suspect the increase is due to Africa's population explosion, allowing the parasite to spread...100 years ago, you only had scattered villages in the highlands, which were populated mainly with herders not farmers.

But never let truth in the way of global warming hysteria.

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