By Steve Milloy ——Bio and Archives--August 31, 2011
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Climate change may increase the risk of some infectious diseases… algal blooms could occur more frequently as temperatures warm — particularly in areas with polluted waters — in which case diseases (such as cholera) that tend to accompany algal blooms could become more frequent.But using cholorphyll as a surrogate measure of phytoplankton over a large area, the study authors conclude,
Our results suggest that the observed positive correlation between [sea surface temperature] and chlorophyll in the Bay of Bengal is in fact not causal, and should not form the basis to infer or construct prediction models for cholera outbreaks.Another one bites the dust. Enjoy.
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Steve Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and GreenHellBlog.com and is the author of Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them