Posted on 05/28/2009 4:54:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Climate change to claim 600,000 lives a year
From correspondents in London
Reuters
May 29, 2009 09:30am
CLIMATE change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030.
A study commissioned by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, estimates that climate change seriously affects 325 million people every year, a number that will more than double in 20 years to 10 per cent of the world's population (now about 6.7 billion).
Economic losses due to global warming amount to over $125 billion ($160 billion) annually - more than the flow of aid from rich to poor nations - and are expected to rise to $340 billion ($345 billion) each year by 2030, according to the report.
"Climate change is the greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time, causing suffering to hundreds of millions of people worldwide," Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general and GHF president, said.
"The first hit and worst affected are the world's poorest groups, and yet they have done least to cause the problem."
The report says developing countries bear more than nine-tenths of the human and economic burden of climate change, while the 50 poorest countries contribute less than one percent of the carbon emissions that are heating up the planet.
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What hysterics....
“A study commissioned by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, estimates that climate change seriously affects 325 million people every year...”
Living here in AZ, I can attest to the fact that EVERY SINGLE YEAR I and millions more in my area are adversely affected by climate change.
It gets hot every summer.
I wonder how much you get paid to pull numbers out of your @ss?
Give Al Gore mo money, mo money, mo money!
Shouldn’t the environmentalists be cheering?
Have you ever floated down the salt river in a inner tube ?
A study commissioned by keepitreal found that death claims millions of the earth’s inhabitants every year and that birth makes up the difference.
Sorry to sound crass, but 600k out of 6 billion is chump change. The American Abortion Industry does that number in about 6 months. Wake me when we start talking real numbers...
> Living here in AZ, I can attest to the fact that EVERY SINGLE YEAR I and millions more in my area are adversely affected by climate change.
It gets hot every summer.<
Not so fast. According to Al Gore’s statistics, a billion people will die in AZ alone.
a further study found that every living thing ever born on this earth has eventually died..
climate change..or...coincidence (cue twilight zone theme)...
;-)
I was listening to a radio talk show host here who said that the environmentalists would be most happy if man disappeared altogether so that the planet could be saved. But, said he, who would be around to care?
This is stupid. Crop yields are currently 20% higher than they would have been, if CO2 levels, and the global average temperature, were the same as they were 150 years ago. It’s a safe bet that this saves much more than 600,000 lives per year.
Floated down Salt River? Sure, when I was younger. The entry point is near the bottom of a dam and the water is COLD! I always had to talk myself into the tube.
A hundred thousand here, a hundred thousand there, the first thing you know you talking about real people.
IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!!
This latest scientific study was conducted with darts and a board with numbers on it.
It was fun once the wife wants to go back no thanks
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