Thomas Gale Moore

According to Thomas Gale Moore in the following viewpoint, global warming will not lead to an increase in infectious disease and will improve human health by lowering the number of deaths due to weather-related cold. In the author’s opinion, the argument that global warming is responsible for the spread of mosquito-borne diseases from the tropics to temperate latitudes has little basis in reality. He claims that most new cases of malaria, cholera, and yellow and dengue fevers in the United States can be attributed to immigration. In fact, according to Moore, these diseases caused many more deaths in the United States during the statistically colder nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moore is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, an organization dedicated to limiting government intrusion into the lives of...