Gore Says That Mosquitos Need Hot Weather

15 Responses to Gore Says That Mosquitos Need Hot Weather

1. slp says:

   April 18, 2011 at 1:35 am

   He must have never visited Alaska; the mosquito is the unofficial state bird.

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   • stevengoddard says:

     April 18, 2011 at 1:41 am

     I have been ravaged by Mosquitoes at 10,000 feet in the Colorado mountains.

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     • Dave N says:

       April 18, 2011 at 2:23 am

       One doesn’t have to wonder too long as to how Mosquito Pass (elevation over 13,000 ft) or the Mosquito Range got their names.

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   • suyts says:

     April 18, 2011 at 4:14 am

     The only place I’ve been where you can see the damned things swarm.

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   • Jimbo says:

     April 18, 2011 at 10:18 am

     One of the worst outbreaks of Malaria ever recorded occured in the tropical Soviet Union.

     “…..sometimes common throughout Europe as far north as the Baltic and northern Russia….
     In fact, the most catastrophic epidemic on record anywhere in the world occurred in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, with a peak incidence of 13 million cases per year, and 600,000 deaths. Transmission was high in many parts of Siberia, and there were 30,000 cases and 10,000 deaths due to falciparum infection (the most deadly malaria parasite) in Archangel, close to the Arctic circle. Malaria persisted in many parts of Europe until the advent of DDT.”
     Professor Paul Reiter, Institut Pasteur

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     • Jimbo says:

       April 18, 2011 at 10:19 am

       Malaria epidemics in USSR and Siberia – 1800s – 1900s

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     • Jimbo says:

       April 18, 2011 at 10:25 am

       Global Malaria may continue decreasing as it has done for some time now. How utterly inconvenient.

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2. Lance says:

   April 18, 2011 at 2:17 am

   I lived in Eureka, NWT 1979,80 (that’s the 80th parallel) and they were just wonderful in the summer! If you had small children, they were carried away….

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   • Lance says:

     April 18, 2011 at 2:18 am

     but they were a warmcold wetdry mosi…

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     • Russ says:

       April 18, 2011 at 2:35 am

       I hear ya, Been there and seen it! Clouds of them. To the cloud as the Mirosoft fad commercials would say! HAHAHA!

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3. Red Jeff says:

   April 18, 2011 at 3:01 am

   I have killed a mosquito a day for the last 8 days (Guelph Ont. Cda). They are already out as long as the sun warms the areas they shelter in.

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4. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   April 18, 2011 at 3:34 am

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBHkByx_T4&feature=player_embedded#at=93

   LOL

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5. Amino Acids in Meteorites says:

   April 18, 2011 at 4:54 am

   Gore Says That Mosquitos Need Hot Weather……

   He says the core of the earth is at “several million degrees” so there must be lots of them there.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMrxC-qEHb8

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6. Jimbo says:

   April 18, 2011 at 10:42 am

   Siberia in summertime. Hehehe!
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/misspudding/3217419336/

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7. Squidly says:

   April 19, 2011 at 4:06 am

   25 years living in Fargo, North Dakota will show you ALL you need to know about mosquito’s. I have lived in almost every part of the US during my life, including Hawaii, and I have NEVER, EVER, been anywhere with mosquito’s as bad as North Dakota and Minnesota. Mosquito population has very little to do with temperature, and EVERYTHING to do with geography. Notice how ALL places in the world that have high concentrations of mosquito populations also have the longest seasonal duration of large volumes of standing, stagnant water? … ie: Minnesota (land of 10,000 lakes), and North Dakota, specifically the Red River Valley, which also happens to be the heart of the ancient lake bed of Lake Agassiz (very flat, floods every year, very vast areas of standing, stagnant water).

   Worlds worst malaria outbreak was in Northern Siberia!!!

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