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Malaria fear as global warming increases 

Global warming could lead to a return of insect-borne diseases in Britain such as malaria, and increased incidence of skin cancer caused by exposure to the sun, a government report warns today.

With temperatures forecast to rise into the high 30s this summer, scientists fear Britain could be in line for at least one extreme heatwave before 2012. Tick-borne diseases are set to increase, along with the threat of other diseases associated with hotter climates.

The report by a group of scientists for the Department of Health updates earlier warnings that climate change could see heat-related deaths rise to more than 2,800 a year in Britain. Heatstroke claimed the lives of nearly 15,000 people in France in exceptional conditions in 2003, and today’s report by the Department of Health warns that could be a taste of things to come in Britain.

But Exxon and Faux News assure us that global warming is all a hoax cooked up by the U.N., Al Gore and a secret army of Chinese fighters hiding in the New York sewer system to bring about a totalitarian one world government. I’m not sure of the details, but if the fair and balanced network says it then it must be true.

Mexican Wrestler Goes to the Mat for Endangered Sea Turtles 

Marine turtles are imperiled and Mexico’s supreme wrestling star, El Hijo del Santo (”Son of the Saint”), is fighting on their behalf. A media magnet, he is using his influence to promote a campaign against eating sea turtles, a massive effort designed to persuade people in Mexico to protect rather than eat the turtles that visit their shores each year to spawn.

Is it ironic that the original link to this story at Scientific American doesn’t work. As a matter of fact I can’t get their site to load at all as I write this. Anyway kudos to El Hijo del Santo for fighting for the sea turtles.