Arctic Ice July 2010 - Update #1



Before I write another line about ice, I want to thank all of my readers.  Whether or not you leave comments, whether or not you link in other blogs, just knowing that I have so many readers gives me the encouragement to keep going: to keep up the standards I have set myself.

One of the standards I set for myself is to always remember just how much I don't know.  We have much still to learn about the Arctic.  Just when we think we know all there is to know, you can be sure that nature will remind us most harshly of our blind ignorance.


Arctic ice July update #1

UPDATE: if you came here to learn more details about the rumored Higgs signal, which media around the world are discussing and which Fermilab Today just dismiss-tweeted, please visit this other more recent post for more details. Below is the original post which apparently originated a lot of buzz.
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And for once, I feel totally free to speculate without the fear of being crucified. If you have followed my past blog adventures for long enough, you know that in at least a couple of occasions my posts have created some friction.

There are many predictions suggesting that climate change could create new permissive habitats for disease transmitting arthropod vectors. As a result of climate change, and associated global warming, permissive environments which provide conditions for enhanced breeding and extended life-spans of insects are predicted. With these environmental changes greater vector-borne disease spread and increases in disease transmission rates are projected in many parts of the world.