When climate models used for up to 100 year forecasts are garbage, then any model based projections of malaria or dengue based on such climate model projections are garbage as well!
Actually, this article by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in combination with the underlying Lancet article are not only pseudoscience, they are rather junk science! This pure scaremongering and hysteria!
Second, both diseases will be eradicated within the next 10-30 years! Do you have any doubts? And why don't we eradicate blood suckers like mosquitos or does this cause serious harm to biodiversity or life on earth etc.?
Why did the "UK Space Agency, Royal Society, UK National Institute for Health Research, and Swedish Research Council." fund such junk science you wonder!
"... Climate change will extend the threat of mosquito-borne diseases malaria and dengue to a total of 8.4 billion people by 2080—unless significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are made, according to a new Lancet Planetary Health study by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine researchers and colleagues. ..."
"... The epidemic belt for both diseases will expand towards temperate areas. The population at risk of both diseases might increase by up to 4·7 additional billion people by 2070 relative to 1970–99, particularly in lowlands and urban areas. ..."
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