How do you spell H-Y-P-E?

Fever claim on global warming | Herald Sun:
"The University of Sydney research is the first to make a solid link between climate changes and childhood illness."

Amazing how easy it is to make a big splash with the MSM when you re-inforce its prejudices. "The two-year study ... [which involved only a single facility - The Children's Hospital at Westmead] showed that for every five-degree rise in temperature two more children under six years old were admitted with fever to that hospital."

According to the article, the research showed the temperature effect only with regard to fever and gastro-intestinal complaints, but not respiratory conditions. Curiously, higher UV levels - another consequence of AGW according to the alarmists - were negatively associated with gastroenteritis. But, nothing was said about what this might mean for the net effect of a warming climate.

Let's face it. If this had been a study that showed second-hand tobacco smoke to be good for you (and such studies do exist, by the way), it would not make headlines and rocket around the world.

All the University of Sydney researchers really have is a good argument for funding a much larger study. Let's wait to see what develops.