More, Mayewski talk to Harvard Gazette about impact of weather anomalies on deaths in 1918 pandemic, WWI
The Harvard Gazette interviewed Alexander More, University of Maine assistant research professor with the Climate Change Institute, and Paul Mayewski, professor and director of the institute, about research using an ice core taken from a glacier in the European Alps that links climate conditions to mortality from the flu pandemic and World War I. “The environment is a complex system. We can’t account for all variables of how climate affects the outbreak of disease, but we know for a fact that it does,” said More. Mayewski noted that environmental conditions revealed in the ice core are similar to conditions today as society faces climate change and a coronavirus pandemic.