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To: Stymee
Weinstein bases his claim that man made climate change “kills a lot of people” on a WHO page, which estimates that 150,000 people per annum are dying because of climate related extreme weather and other problems, such as crop failure.

Weinstein is a delusional moron, and a liar.

From the WHO web-site:

Climatic changes already are estimated to cause over 150,000 deaths annually.

That estimate includes deaths as a result of extreme weather conditions, which may be occurring with increased frequency. Changes in temperature and rainfall conditions also may influence transmission patterns for many diseases, including water-related diseases, such as diarrhoea, and vector-borne infections, including malaria. Finally, climate change may affect patterns of food production, which in turn can have health impacts in terms of rates of malnutrition.

The word "may" occurs quite frequently in that statement. Frequently enough that no rational, intelligent, honest person would leap to the conclusion that "man made climate change kills a lot of people".

PS - 150,000 people represents about 0.0021% of the world population; which on a world-wide statistical basis, it can be argued, is not even really "a lot of people".

19 posted on 04/08/2015 10:53:03 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: WayneS

I’d also ask, changes with respect to when...

The actual science behind it is boringly unalarming. Once satellites began to watch global temperatures, they became like the watched pot that never boils. Boringly stable.


25 posted on 04/08/2015 10:57:03 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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