Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 09/25/2012 9:10:07 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
(Reuters) - More than 100 million people will die and global economic growth will be cut by 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030 if the world fails to tackle climate change, a report commissioned by 20 governments said on Wednesday.
As global average temperatures rise due to greenhouse gas emissions, the effects on the planet, such as melting ice caps, extreme weather, drought and rising sea levels, will threaten populations and livelihoods, said the report conducted by humanitarian organisation DARA.
It calculated that five million deaths occur each year from air pollution, hunger and disease as a result of climate change and carbon-intensive economies, and that toll would likely rise to six million a year by 2030 if current patterns of fossil fuel use continue.
More than 90 percent of those deaths will occur in developing countries, said the report that calculated the human and economic impact of climate change on 184 countries in 2010 and 2030. It was commissioned by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a partnership of 20 developing countries threatened by climate change.
"A combined climate-carbon crisis is estimated to claim 100 million lives between now and the end of the next decade," the report said.
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EGGSactly Batman!
CIA World Fact book tells us that on average 8.37 people out of 1000 die each year.
Current Population Claims are 6,850,000,000 x 0.837% Equals 57,334,500 will die this year.
So in two years over 100 Million people will die if the planet doesn't heat up!
Quick everyone go buy a case of Hairspray and do your duty to save all those people!
Global Warming on Free Republic
“More than 100 million people will die .... by 2030.”
“More than 90 percent of those deaths will occur in developing countries....”
They say that like it’s bad news. There will be more food, less traffic, available beachfront property, more jobs and more cool stuff to go around.
Besides, the world is scheduled to end on December 21, 2012 at 11:11 UTC.
I don’t even have to Christmas shop this year.
Someone should tell them that is a reduction in the death rate, I fully expect at least that many people to die by 2030. If they didn’t die, something wonderful would have happened.
Liberals have to keep upping the ‘death’ ante to get attention. Are they totally lame or what?
Predictions from Earth Day 1970
http://reason.com/archives/2000/05/01/earth-day-then-and-now
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” • Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….” • Life Magazine, January 1970
“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.” • Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University
Earth Day 1970 provoked a torrent of apocalyptic predictions. Three decades later, of course, the world hasn’t come to an end; if anything, the planet’s ecological future has never looked so promising. With half a billion people suiting up around the globe for Earth Day 2000, now is a good time to look back on the predictions made at the first Earth Day and see how they’ve held up and what we can learn from them. The short answer: The prophets of doom were not simply wrong, but spectacularly wrong.
No wonder we have global warming. There isn't enough air pollution.
Based on the 2009 mortality rate figure of 8.37/1000/yr (published by CIA), 954,180,000 will die by 2030 in the normal course of things.
So, in other words:
F U 
The more that die the less there are the more beer for me.
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