Archives of the
Global Climate Change Digest
A Guide to Information on Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depletion
Published July 1988 through June 1999

"Climatic Warming and Increased Malaria Incidence in Rwanda," M.E. Loevinsohn (Intl. Develop. Res. Ctr., 17 Jor Bagh, New Delhi 110 003, India), The Lancet, 343(8899), 714-718, Mar. 19, 1994.

Presents statistical evidence of climate-induced increases in the incidence of malaria. The patterns of future climatic warming between day and night will be critical to future incidence.

"Secular Changes in the Short-Term Preventive, Positive, and Temperature Checks to Population Growth in Europe, 1460 to 1909," P.R. Galloway (Dept. Demography, Univ. Calif., 2232 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley CA 94720), Clim. Change, 26(1), 3-63, Jan. 1994.

Explores the sensitivity of society to exogenous environmental shocks. Comparison of data for births, marriages, deaths, grain prices to quarterly temperatures supports the existence of short-term checks to population growth.