*** Doom-mongering is not designed to solve problems – it is to create them and terrify us into submission.

*** It’s easier to fool someone than to convince them that they are being fooled.

The Guardian Is Lying About Mosquito-Borne Diseases in the UK

By Anthony Watts May 27, 2025


Climate at a Glance: Malaria concisely rebuts the claim that climate change is driving mosquito-borne disease outbreaks. Data, in fact, shows that during the recent period of slight global warming over the past century, Malaria has sharply declined, and it is projected to possibly be entirely wiped out sometime after the year 2040. See the map below from an article in The Economist titled “The shrinking malaria map.”

This story is just one more instance in which The Guardian is irresponsibly promoting a doomsday scenario based on unjustified extrapolations of trends based on extreme model projections, while ignoring real-world epidemiological evidence and historical context. The suggestion that “long-term net zero policies” are somehow our best protection against mosquito-borne disease is false. Direct interventions like removing stagnant pools of water, the judicious use of pesticides and prophylactic medicines, and the possible release of genetically modified sterile mosquitos, are far more effective interventions to prevent present and future mosquito-borne diseases than indirect efforts like cutting fossil fuel use in the hopes of impacting future temperatures. Tropical diseases are not lurking outside British windows waiting for a warmer day—they are controlled through policy, infrastructure, and targeted disease vector management.

For a publication that purports to value science, The Guardian continues to betray that trust with activist journalism masked as evidence-based reporting. If they want to inform rather than incite, they’d do well to start with the facts and drop the fear-mongering.

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