Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country (grist.org)
from tonytins@pawb.social to world@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 22:57
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ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com on 26 Oct 00:04 next collapse

Ah fuck, y’all ruined it before I even got the chance to move there. Damn Eartheans.

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca on 26 Oct 04:26 collapse

Don’t worry. We won’t be here for much longer. :(

PunnyName@lemmy.world on 26 Oct 00:53 next collapse

Damnit. I was hoping to get there for the eclipse BEFORE the mosquitos.

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world on 26 Oct 04:44 next collapse

It really is a slap in the dick that climate collapse according to the livable ranges for human life, seems to equate to a climate utopia for some of this planet’s worst creatures.

Like… If we’re gonna create an apocalypse anyway, is it really too much to ask to fuck the planet in a way that makes mosquitoes extinct before humans??

FosterMolasses@leminal.space on 26 Oct 14:12 collapse

Exactly. What happened to the classic collapse of the ecosystem by first eradicating all the bees, fish and insects? Let me get at least a few perks of environmental collapse before we all sink into the tarpits lol

affenlehrer@feddit.org on 26 Oct 05:12 next collapse

Wasn’t Iceland where all the super rich built their emergency bunkers?

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 26 Oct 06:51 collapse

those are seed vaults, they are building it in NZ.

affenlehrer@feddit.org on 26 Oct 12:32 collapse

Close enough…

FosterMolasses@leminal.space on 26 Oct 14:11 next collapse

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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca on 26 Oct 15:01 next collapse

I really dislike that they keep attributing this to climate change.

Northern Canada has a fuckton of mosquitos, it wasn’t the cold weather keeping them away. Greenland also has mosquitos and it’s north of Iceland.

edit: downvotes why? I literally work in a field directly dealing with mosquitos and have been to the Arctic circle and caught mosquitos to be identified (Culiseta alaskaensis by the way)

I’m not denying climate change is a thing. I just dislike that people attribute this to a warming climate with absolutely no evidence when it is easily countered.

Dasus@lemmy.world on 26 Oct 15:03 collapse

The whole “Iceland doesn’t have mosquitoes [as in annoying tiny flying biting insects]” is a bit misleading.

They don’t have mosquitoes, no, but biting midges.

grapevine.is/mag/…/animal-of-iceland-the-midge/