As expected Leftist policies kill. In this case they are killing people in Africa because some wine sipping, pot smoking yahoo in California thinks that malaria in poverty stricken countries is OK. They believe the death of Africans is the price to be paid to end DDT use, based on junk science. Sick people.
““Mosquito populations have increased as much as tenfold, and mosquito communities have become two- to fourfold richer over the last five decades,” the paper said. “These increases are correlated with the decay in residual environmental DDT concentrations and growing human populations, but not with temperature.”
The analysis, conducted by researchers from Rutgers, the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Santa Cruz, flies in the face of statements by environmental groups linking warmer temperatures to mosquito-borne ailments like the West Nile and Zika viruses.
While Al Gore makes millions by scaring people about climate change. Gore is one of those with blood on his hands in Africa. He supported the banning of DDT and thus supported the killing of Africans, on the altar of the Left religion of Global Warming.
Study blames DDT ban — not global warming — for U.S. mosquito eruption
By Valerie Richardson, The Washington Times, 12/8/16
The U.S. mosquito population is on the rise, but don’t blame climate change. Blame the ban on the insecticide DDT.
A study published this week in Nature Communications attributed the decay of DDT concentrations as well as urbanization to an increase in mosquitoes over the past 50 years.
“Mosquito populations have increased as much as tenfold, and mosquito communities have become two- to fourfold richer over the last five decades,” the paper said. “These increases are correlated with the decay in residual environmental DDT concentrations and growing human populations, but not with temperature.”
The analysis, conducted by researchers from Rutgers, the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Santa Cruz, flies in the face of statements by environmental groups linking warmer temperatures to mosquito-borne ailments like the West Nile and Zika viruses.
“Surprisingly, despite increases during the last five decades, annual average temperature was non-significant in most analyses for all three regions, and very weak in the single analysis in which it was significant, and temperature was never significant without DDT in the model,” said the study.
The research examined mosquito data going back eight decades in California, which saw a tenfold mosquito surge, and six decades in New Jersey and New York.
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