“Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming,”
environmental activist Bill McKibben wrote Thursday night in The
Daily Beast. He argued that this year’s hot Atlantic Ocean
temperatures and active spree of hurricanes — coupled with
droughts, floods and melting sea ice elsewhere on the globe —
are “what climate change looks like in its early stages.”But
what if it's doing something fabulously good? Patterns of
rainfall in these years were more chaotic in these regions of
Tanzania and often fell outside the rainy season. The scientists
say this may have disturbed the natural cycle of mosquito
development.Global warming — or, as they say, "climate change"
(for maximum coverage of any possible condition) — is probably
not the cause of the hurricane or the big mosquito drop-off, but
those who like to wring their hands about the connection between
But the lead author of the study, Professor Dan Meyrowitsch from
the University of Copenhagen, says that he is not convinced that
it is just the changing climate. "I