Posted on 03/06/2016 5:28:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Food scarcity and malnutrition, triggered by climate change, could lead to half a million extra deaths by 2050, grim new research indicates.
The deaths, say researchers in England and the United States, could occur as a result of changes in diets and bodyweight from decreased crop productivity.
Three-quarters of the projected extra deaths will be in China and India.
Unless action is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, climate change would cut the fruit and vegetables available to people in 2050 by 4 per cent, the calories available by 3 per cent and the red and processed meat by 0.7 per cent, the study found.
Meanwhile, experts warn that changes to diet beyond 2050 could be even greater.
"We did a serious amount of work (to model for 2050) … within the realms of what we could sensibly project," said Sherman Robinson, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington and one of the authors of this study.
"All the climate models, start to accelerate after that, unless you had serious mitigation."
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
hahahaha
About that many people die from malaria each year due to mindless environmentalism.
No where close to the abortion fatalities. Also, how many trees will die as a result of mean old paper products? We wouldn’t want to forget that stat!
Sherman Robinson
http://www.ifpri.org/profile/sherman-robinson
An impressive career of academic, policy wonk and government and foundation ‘consultant’ jobs. One wonders however if this man ever even grew tomatoes, or corn, cucumbers or the like - or even a dish of cat grass in the kitchen.
My bet is not.
Again, notice the timeline and use of the word “could”.
Thirty-five years from now who is going to remember this author much less what was written?. After all the first Earth Day back in 1970 said that there “could” be ice bergs in the Gulf of Mexico by the turn of the century some thirty years later. Still waiting to see my first berg.
And, as any writer/lawyer will tell you “could” is an easy way out if your prediction doesn’t come true. You didn’t say it would happen just that it might. So, what’s the odds of it happening? One in ten, one in a hundred, one in a thousand, ... Based on the first predictions some 45 years ago - I would say maybe one in a million.
Who bets their family’s life style on those odds?
Most of these will occur in the reeducation camps deniers are sent to for rehabilitation.
Of course overpopulation isn't part of the equation................
I just woke up...that’s a pic of Obama, right?
Yea,yea.An asteroid could wipe out the planet,WW3 could kill us all,muzzies could explode nukes in major cities,or aliens could invade earth.All these events could kill billions,but there’s a difference between and climate change.Climate change will make the right people a LOT of MONEY.
Stop trying to scam my money on fakery so you and your Bosses can get rich.Hugs and Kisses,
NOW.
OR ELSE.
Laz
Reducing the surplus population?
That should suit Bill and Melinda just fine...
In a previous incarnation.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
The world is "overpopulated" with people who must be extraneous because they don't look like Bill and Melinda.
“Save the trees?” How stupid is that? Trees are a cash crop.
Should we be saying, “Save the corn?”
I wonder if they want to know how many more will die by Muslim expansion?
Oh canada....................inflicted with the global scam
“The deaths, say researchers in England and the United States, could occur as a result of changes in diets and bodyweight from decreased crop productivity.”
Flies in the face of actual data:
Global crops yields continue to hit record highs year after year, decade after decade.
Maybe because crops like warmth and co2....?
Nahhhhhhh.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.