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>>15530217
>malaria spreading goes hand-in-hand with global warming.
That turns out not to be the case.
Look at the historical range of malaria -- this is what it was with the good old climate we used to have -- malaria in the US up to the Great Lakes and Maine, malaria in most of Europe, malaria in fucking Siberia...
Today we think of malaria as a tropical disease because the poor countries who never successfully wiped out Anopheles are mostly (but not entirely) tropical.
Whatever the climate does, malaria will spread to any region where people exist and efforts to control Anopheles mosquitos are abandoned or cut back. Anopheles will re-expand into its old range if we let it, and malaria will as well.
Nothing at all to do with climate change -- startlingly, some bad things happen that are not caused by climate change.