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Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes as climate warms

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121 points sans_souse | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 22:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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andriamanitra ◴[23 Oct 25 01:13 UTC] No.45677106[source]▶
Climate has absolutely nothing to do with this discovery. All of the other Northern countries, many of which are colder than Iceland, already have mosquitoes (Greenland has lots of them!). Culiseta annulata is well adapted to cold climate. And it's not even particularly cold in Iceland at this time of year – the mosquitoes may not even have needed to survive a winter yet!
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JumpCrisscross ◴[23 Oct 25 02:47 UTC] No.45677648[source]▶
> Climate has absolutely nothing to do with this discovery

That’s difficult to conclude. It could have everything to do with warming North Atlantic ocean winds. Where they were previously deadly to mosquitoes, now they might not be.

We have insufficient evidence either way. The article is wrong conclude as it did. But it’s equally wrong to conclude based on their mistake that the opposite is true.

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1. johnnienaked ◴[23 Oct 25 03:57 UTC] No.45678034[source]▶
No it's really not. Northern Canada is infested with mosquitos and it's one of the coldest climates on earth. This has nothing to do with global warming.