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#NewWorldReport: Dengue, drought and climate change. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

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#NewWorldReport: Dengue, drought and climate change. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-dengue-deaths-triple-climate-change-swells-mosquito-population-2024-04-12/

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0:00.0

I'm John Dachts, a new world report with Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College,

0:09.5

Climate Change anecdote.

0:12.2

Heruse Dengueue deaths triple as climate change swells mosquitoes population.

0:17.0

Reuters showing a video of a man moving through with what looks to be quite a leaf blower except for it's putting smoke in the

0:25.4

room. I'm presuming this is to fumigate for mosquitoes. This connects professor not only to a

0:32.2

swelling population because of climate change that would

0:35.1

be moist conditions for the mosquitoes to breed but also the water rising in the

0:42.1

rivers in in Peru and then we have pictures of

0:46.0

drought vast drought in the Amazon over these last weeks. Climate change looks to be

0:51.3

hitting the Americas south of the border very hard.

0:55.0

Is that generally understood?

0:56.6

I understand you have a story from Colombia.

0:59.6

It is, John.

1:02.2

And one of the things that you see is climate change isn't just about heating it's about basically adding energy to the

1:08.3

atmosphere that that exaggerates all of the patterns. And one of the patterns is the El Nino and the

1:14.0

Aminia phenomenon in which currents bring

1:17.7

more moisture and more storms to some places

1:20.4

and less to others.

1:21.3

And so what we've seen again with these climate change

1:24.0

phenomenon is that over the past two or so years,

1:27.1

especially just pronounced in some areas a lot of droughts.

1:30.8

You know, Argentina previously had a horrible drought that impacted its agricultural

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