A top mosquito expert has blasted Professor Dame Jenny Harries’s claim that climate change will make dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases common in the U.K. within 20 years, branding it “entirely fictional” and “shameless”.
Professor Harries, who heads the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), recently said that rising temperatures will make such diseases common in the U.K. by 2040 because the Asian Tiger Mosquito – which can transmit dengue, chikungunya, zika, yellow fever and other viral diseases – will become established throughout Britain. Dengue will become endemic in London, she claimed.
But Professor Paul Reiter, retired Professor of Insects and Infectious Diseases at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and a leading expert in mosquito-borne diseases, has ridiculed her claims. He told Net Zero Watch:
The natural range of the Tiger mosquito, an Asian species, extends from the tropics to regions where mean January temperatures are around –10°C. Northern strains are able to survive because in late summer, as days grow shorter, the eggs they lay are dormant and remain unhatched until spring arrives.
It is true that since the late 1970s, there has been rapid global spread of the Tiger mosquito to the United States, Latin America, Europe and across Africa, probably mainly via the global trade in used tyres. Professor Reiter says that it is beyond doubt that this has nothing at all to do with temperature.
Professor Reiter has also lambasted fearmongering about the return of malaria, noting that this was once a major cause of death in many parts of England, even during the Little Ice Age from the 1300s to the 1800s, and its disappearance was, once again, nothing to do with temperature:
Shakespeare mentions malaria – “the ague” – 13 times, so it was clearly once common here. The disease began to decline – for a multitude of reasons – in the mid-19th century, despite the upward trend in global temperatures.
Net Zero Watch Director Andrew Montford said:
This is not the first time we have seen the Civil Service misleading the public in this way. Science is being misused to generate fear and to ‘nudge’ us in a desired direction. This kind of shameful disinformation brings the Civil Service into disrepute.
But it seems our public officials won’t miss an opportunity to bang the climate alarmist drum as they attempt to cajole and coerce the public into accepting radical cuts in living standards to ward off threats based solely on the perennially wrong outputs of biased computer models.
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That is refreshing, a scientist who’s actually willing to stand up to this nonsense. Unfortunately several of the scientists I work with concluded that it’s OK to lie to the public, providing it serves a greater good (this was during Covid, but as everyone points out, there are pretty clear links).
Not that refreshing, he’s retired. There was an abundance of “retired” and “former” this and that expressing concerns during COVID but if these people are not active in their field, they are less likely to influence research. I suspect many have financial security which makes being vocal much easier.
If you know of scientists who may be lying or consider it acceptable, it could be raised as a research integrity matter.
Reiter was expressing those views 20 years ago long before he was retired. ————-If it is lies and deception you are looking for then read the thousands of Climategate emails. If it is misinformation about storms floods droughts and wildfires you are looking for then look at real world data that reveal there is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any of that. If you want lies about a “climate crisis” which is totally manufactured then look no further than speculative models full of assumptions that have all been totally wrong so far and keep getting referred to as “science”. ————————- If you think that lying is not rife then you are sadly mistaken. Almost everything claimed is either a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency or a total pack of lies.
Why on earth anyone would pay any attention to the dangeous ramblings of a eugenecist such as Jenny Harries after all she has done to harm people these last three plus years is beyond me.
We might not believe her but her newly-created position gives her considerable power to do harm. That’s why we should pay attention!
C’mon, you know she’s got some vaccines to sell, ‘course she’s going to big up the mozzie scam, it’s a nice little earner.
https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/takeda-uk-ltd-announces-mhra-approval-for-dengue-virus-vaccine-candidate-qdenga-301739438.html
From the above P R Newswire
“The decision from the MHRA will enable eligible individuals from the UK, who are travelling to dengue endemic regions, to benefit from a vaccine that has the potential to offer protection against dengue illness and hospitalisation, regardless of an individual’s previous dengue exposure.[ii]”
The blurb sounds strangely familiar.
In other words this so-called “vaccine” is completely untested and of less use than an aspirin, assuming it doesn’t maim or kill.
She looks like a bloke in drag!
”“This kind of shameful disinformation brings the Civil Service into disrepute.”” That particular ship has sailed, carrying the Civil Sevice, the entire Westminster establishment, the judiciary, the police, academia and the universities, the MSM and the sainted NHS.
Damn right.
Jeffrey Tucker on the climate racket:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/when-did-governments-become-so-ridiculous
„The whole scheme to phase out “fossil fuels” is really just a big ploy for a new class of capitalists to make money from a big industrial transition. Down with the old ruling class and up with the new one.
It’s an industrial racket, not really a plan to save the planet.
The COVID-19 experience exposed the climate racket for me. It’s the same model: Conjure up some impending disaster and buy out a gaggle of intellectuals and scientists at universities who are dependent on their government and foundation grants. Make it clear that all the money goes to one side, and make an example out of dissidents and drive them out of the profession. Then get the media on board with the prevailing line…
But 2023 is not 2013, when people were more naïve about this whole topic.
Now we are very aware of the utter impossibility of preserving anything approaching civilization without what they say we are to transition away from using.
What we can do to stop this is another matter. The mechanisms we have in place right now are things like lobbying and voting, but those seem more broken than ever. That said, it is just not believable that a global ruling class can get away with this grand scheme if most of the world’s population do not trust their governments and do not believe that propaganda. That seems to be the case.
Will they get away with this? I suspect not. The reputation of most governments in the world is utterly shot, probably for a generation or two.“
‘Twas ever thus….“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”Adam Smith
A retired professor, eh? Time to roll out the “too senile to be reliable” trope.
Old bloke in a wig.
In other news, a fire insurance salesman predicts an increase in fires
We seem to be afflicted with a plague of dames at the moment.
Extreme weather events caused by climate change!
If only she would wear a mask that would stop her speaking
This would certainly improve public health outcomes.
Sorry for the down tick, trying to get a hair off the screen.
If only she could wear a mask to improve on the grey slab she calls a face. A Frankenstein monster mask would be a huge improvement.
It’s just today’s nudge. They don’t care if it’s correct, or even if they are called out. Tomorrow there will be another nudge and the public’s focus will be on that. Shameless is correct.
is Harris really a man? looks like it is
I posted that above and then amended it! She is a horrible looking woman and certainly not with trustworthy face.
If dengue arrives in the UK it will be because an infected invader is bitten by an indigenous mosquito that then bites a person in the UK. And so on
I first saw Paul Reiter on the “Great Global Warming Swindle” a Channel Four film by Martin Durkin back in 2007. He left the IPCC because they were not prepared to listen to anything he had to say, when he pointed out that Malaria is not a disease of climate but a disease of poverty, that had previously existed in the UK , Netherlands and the USA, and that one of the worst outbreaks happened at the edge of the arctic circle and killed over 600,000 people. ——-These examples, (and they are abundant) should make it obvious that the UN IPCC is a political body and its pronouncements and cherry picking of reports and data are entirely political to create the excuses for public policy regarding energy use and how we all live our lives. To gain control over the world’s wealth and resources with a relentless use of misinformation masquerading as ultimate truths to convince the general public of the need for policies to save us all from a largely manufactured climate crisis.
What a horrible looking woman – a face like a sour lemon.
These climate cult people have been making catastrophic climate claims for over 50 years. First we were all going to freeze to death, then it switched to we are all going to burn up or boil, then they switched to climate change and using weather events which can be freezing or boiling. Not one single catastrophic prediction has come true. The great mystery is why any human being believes a word these grifters say? Why do governments continue to fund them with your tax money?
The solutions for freezing to death and boiling to death are remarkably the same. ——-More government control over every aspect of our lives. —Go figure.
when will WE, The People have ENOUGH of Garbage Like this. They Shove it when they know the taking is Good!