Climate change effects vary widely between rich and poor countries

Contra Costa Times ^ | 12/27/10 | Suzanne Bohan

[Libloather]

Climate change effects vary widely between rich and poor countries
By Suzanne Bohan
Contra Costa Times
Updated: 12/27/2010 08:25:18 AM PST

CANCUN, Mexico -- When Ulamila Kurai Wragg visited New York in 2009 to speak about the frightening climatic changes taking place in the Cook Islands, some audience members stunned her.

"I was hearing, 'There's no such thing as climate change. What proof have you got?' " Wragg recalled.

**SNIP**

The report, online at www.daraint.org, builds its findings on United Nations and World Health Organization reports, research by government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and peer-reviewed studies.

Changing climate conditions are responsible for 350,000 deaths annually, the report asserted. By 2030, deaths could rise to 1 million annually if other nations don't help vulnerable countries. Children in Africa and Asia succumbing to malnutrition and diseases account for nearly 80 percent of the death toll from climate change effects. Floods will cause most of the deaths from extreme weather.

In contrast, by 2030 extreme weather will only moderately affect the United States and Canada, and most of Europe, the report stated. Nor are rising temperatures in these regions expected to bring a return of diseases like malaria, which is carried by warmth-loving mosquitoes, given the sophisticated public health systems in these countries.

[Libloather]

...a return of diseases like malaria, which is carried by warmth-loving mosquitoes...

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[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

This is an old Lib meme: climate changes affects women and minorities more.

[MurrietaMadman]

By 2030, deaths could rise to 1 million annually if other nations don't help vulnerable countries

That's yesterday in Wragg time.

[StACase]

...a return of diseases like malaria, which is carried by warmth-loving mosquitoes...

Until 1900 or so malaria was as far north as Canada, Sweden and Siberia.
The notion that it is a tropical disease dependent on warm weather is a load of crap.

[Mike Darancette]

People in Sub-Saharan Africa are praying for climate change.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Better yet...

[Calvin Locke]

Reading the article, she has plenty of stories, without the historical
change behind them.

That is, hurricanes are more "destructive" than they were fifty years
ago because there has been a growth of population, buildings,
and infrastructure in hurricane-prone areas in the last fifty years.

There's more to destroy...

So, water rationing? Less rainfall, or more people and
consumption?

The beach-front homes that see waves breaking on the door step -
were they there fifty years ago, or were the beach-bum shacks
just washed away and rebuilt with the what the next tide
brought in?

&c., &c., &c.

[meadsjn]

Climate change effects vary widely between rich and poor countries

Well obviously, there is more money to extort from rich countries.

[IbJensen]

Too many hurricanes? Climate Change (Gorebal Warming)

Very few hurricanes? Climate Change (Gorebal Warming)

[denydenydeny]

Look how insidious that Global Warming is. It deliberately picks on poor countries.

[piytar]

Of COURSE there’s climate change. The climate changes, just as it has for MILLIONS of years! And man affects LOCAL climate all the time, again as man has for THOUSANDS of years, at LEAST.

However, there is no such thing as man-made global climate change! PERIOD! And even if there was, no amount of taxes, regulation, and marxist wealth redistribution would change that! PERIOD again!

[preacher]

Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” led to the banning of DDT. Since then millions have died from malaria, much more than from any AGW.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/05/rachel_carson_and_the_deaths_o.html

[Michael Barnes]

Heard on Quinn's show this morning that the guy who invented DDT used to periodically ingest a spoon full of un-diluted DDT; did it for many years.
Still trying to find a source on this (hoping Quinn lurks, maybe he can add to this..)

[palmer]

Changing climate conditions are responsible for 350,000 deaths annually, the report asserted. By 2030, deaths could rise to 1 million annually if other nations don't help vulnerable countries. Children in Africa and Asia succumbing to malnutrition and diseases account for nearly 80 percent of the death toll from climate change effects.

I'm sure the thugs that run those countries while padding their Swiss bank accounts have nothing to do with that.

[Baynative]

Global Warming seeks poor countries like twisters seek trailer parks.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***...a return of diseases like malaria, which is carried by warmth-loving mosquitoes...***

BUNK! According to a recent TV show about King Henry VIII of England, he had a bad case of malaria.

Malaria was also a killer of US army troops at Camp Verde in central Arizona in the 1800s.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Heard on Quinn’s show this morning that the guy who invented DDT used to periodically ingest a spoon full of un-diluted DDT;***

I remember reading about this in PROGRESSIVE FARMER magazine back in the late 1960s or early ‘70s.

[oh8eleven]

Hmmm, maybe it wasn't the lead paint after all.

[Wuli]

“Changing climate conditions are responsible for 350,000 deaths annually, the report asserted.”

This can ONLY be “asserted” by claiming every major adverse climate event in the world, from storms, floods, etc. ONLY occur TODAY due to “climate change” and not due to the normal conditions and cycles by which they have always occurred, and always occurred to various degrees at different times.

[BenLurkin]

“Climate change effects vary widely between rich and poor countries”

We’re not supposed to post from The Onion.