ABC - Old scare rehashed yet again

The ABC exhumes a tedious old cliché from the alarmists' handbook - the threat of increasing disease.

The head of the Public Health Association, Michael Moore, says emissions must by reduced by at least 20 per cent by 2020 to minimise disease, depression and health costs.

"What we're really concerned about is if the Government doesn't go for those bold emissions targets, we will see a significant spread of vector borne diseases like malaria, dengue fever, like ross river fever - we're already seeing some of it," Mr Moore said.

Well, the increase you speak of can't be caused by global warming, because there hasn't been any for nearly a decade... yawn.

Read it here.