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100 mln will die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate - report
Reuters ^ | Sept. 25, 2012 | Nina Chestney

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatebrainfarts; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; manbearpig
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1 posted on 09/25/2012 9:10:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Good deal.


2 posted on 09/25/2012 9:13:30 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Haven't used this in a while:

Al Gore
3 posted on 09/25/2012 9:15:30 PM PDT by Tawiskaro
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To: Free ThinkerNY

100 million will die?

Really?

Based on what, leftist fantasies?

The Left used to use smaller numbers, like in 100,000 women will die if abortion on demand is not passed.

When the sheep aren’t scared enough, simply inflate the number.


4 posted on 09/25/2012 9:15:54 PM PDT by exit82 (Pass the word: Obama is a FAILURE!! Democrats are the enemies of freedom!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

lol

I predict that in 2030 they will have some lame excuse for why this didn’t happen, or claim that they never said such a ridiculous thing, and will then be predicting that is WILL still happen... just in to 2060 :)

These idiots are like the morons that predict the end of the world every decade or so based on a secret bible code or something nutty like that.


5 posted on 09/25/2012 9:17:39 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is a watermelon’s wishful thinking. They so want the power to kill off millions/billions of people. They will do it in the name of saving the world from human life.


6 posted on 09/25/2012 9:19:07 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Free ThinkerNY

These people should be drawn and quartered.


7 posted on 09/25/2012 9:20:06 PM PDT by RingerSIX (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Too late. Everybody is dead already. Bird flu.


8 posted on 09/25/2012 9:20:36 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So what are they going to do about the sun, tell us we fix it by paying more taxes and driving death mobiles?


9 posted on 09/25/2012 9:20:52 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Can we pick the 100 million? In that case, I move that the first few million consist of those who wrote the report, and those who believe its contents. Thanks Free ThinkerNY.


10 posted on 09/25/2012 9:21:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Cool! Can I pick the 100 million?


11 posted on 09/25/2012 9:22:27 PM PDT by CodeToad (Be Prepared...They Are.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

OK....where’s the chicken little picture...these people are crazeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


12 posted on 09/25/2012 9:24:05 PM PDT by goodnesswins (What has happened to America?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I did a search and found over 50 million a year die worldwide each year now. So if we don’t act on climate change only 100 million will die in 18 years. So climate change saves lives?


13 posted on 09/25/2012 9:24:37 PM PDT by paintriot (I've seen too much.....)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The alarmists are good at predictions that never come true.

In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme predicted that climate change would create 50 million climate refugees by 2010. These people, it was said, would flee a range of disasters including sea level rise, increases in the numbers and severity of hurricanes, and disruption to food production.

14 posted on 09/25/2012 9:25:06 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Gee, are those guys taking into account the “nuclear winter” that their islamonutjob friends pretty much guaranteed at the UN?


15 posted on 09/25/2012 9:25:50 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How many children in the womb have died in this country as a result of failure to act on abortion since 1973?

54,559,615 and counting.


16 posted on 09/25/2012 9:26:04 PM PDT by JediJones (KARL ROVE: "And remember, this year, no one is seriously talking about ending abortion.")
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To: goodnesswins
OK....where’s the chicken little picture... You know what's funny? I thought the same thing;)
17 posted on 09/25/2012 9:29:06 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And the a hundred million will be born.


18 posted on 09/25/2012 9:29:58 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (God Bless America!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And those relunctasnt to go may need a little nudge.


19 posted on 09/25/2012 9:30:03 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What are they crying about? That will solve the world’s financial problems. We’ll have another rennaisance:)!!


20 posted on 09/25/2012 9:31:04 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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