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> Can you elaborate on how climate change caused this as opposed to it having very obviously been inevitably sourced from typical travel and immigration across
by derstander 3y ago
> Can you elaborate on how climate change caused this as opposed to it having very obviously been inevitably sourced from typical travel and immigration across decades?
This quote is directly from the article:
“ One factor driving the disease’s northward creep may be climate change. “It’s increasing the likelihood sand flies can move further north,” Molyneux says. “They thrive in warm conditions.” Climate modeling suggests this trend will continue.”
- bell-cot 3y ago"One factor ... may be" - when the article doesn't even have good data on a "northward creep" existing - sounds like "rule of cool" speculation to me.
- derstander 3y agoI found a related journal article about sandfly distribution but I am in no position to evaluate it (I’m neither a climatologist nor an entomologist — and I have no desire to play one on the internet). https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0002421 https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journa...