The Lancet has another of those reports about how climate change is going to murder us all in our beds. There’re the usual mistakes - counting heat deaths but not lives saved from cold and so on - but this rather stands out for us:

Simultaneously, the changing climate is affecting the spread of infectious diseases, putting populations at higher risk of emerging diseases and co-epidemics. Coastal waters are becoming more suitable for the transmission of Vibrio pathogens; the number of months suitable for malaria transmission increased by 31·3% in the highland areas of the Americas and 13·8% in the highland areas of Africa from 1951–60 to 2012–21, and the likelihood of dengue transmission rose by 12% in the same period (indicator 1.3.1).

As we’ve said before this is all at the same time as official policy is to expand wetlands, so as to give mosquitoes more places to breed more often and for longer. Again as we’ve said before the Somerset Levels, the Fens, malaria was endemic in both of them. Something solved by draining them at least in part. Now, as the dangers rise we’re to flood them again.

Someone’s not thinking here and it’s not us.