[sojournerc]

Goodness, who's triggered here?

I merely attempted to point out nuance, that mono-causal explanations are lazy and perhaps ignore other factors that might go into the increase of ticks. Ecosystems change for all kinds of reasons, climate change among them.

I didn't make any claims that temperature or moisture doesn't affect tick populations, but maybe there are some other factors at play. For instance, lack of predators for ruminants and rodents, also perhaps human caused, but unrelated to climate.

This thread proves one again that nuance is lost on the internet.

[matsemann]

No, I know for a fact the cause where I live is the climate, they can now survive where they earlier couldn't. Sure, there may be other reasons other places, but that wasn't what I wrote. I wrote about my town. Why that is so hard for you to grasp is honestly baffling, heh.