Posted on 01/06/2007 1:07:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Chilly northern Europe could reap big benefits from global warming, while the Mediterranean faces crippling shortages of both water and tourists by the middle of the century, according to the first comprehensive study of its effects on the continent.
Fewer in the north would die of cold, crops there would boom and the North Sea coast could become the new Riviera, an analysis to be approved by the European Commission next week shows. But the annual migration of rich northern Europeans to the south could stop – with dramatic consequences for the economies of Spain, Greece and Italy.
A sixth of the world’s tourists – 100m people annually – head south within Europe for their holidays, spreading €100bn ($130bn) of largesse with them. “The more tourists stay home or go to other destinations, the larger the distributional impact in Europe will be,” says the paper, a copy of which has been obtained by the Financial Times.
While fewer people will perish of cold in the north, tens of thousands more will die of heat in the south. As many as 87,000 extra deaths a year would occur annually by 2071, assuming a three degree centigrade temperature rise. If efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions limit the rise to 2.2 degrees, additional mortalities would be 36,000 a year.
These numbers are dwarfed by predicted deaths and economic chaos in the developing world.
The Commission’s environment directorate compiled the report with data from Brussels’ satellite monitoring service and a review of the latest evidence.
the Brits could raise grapes for wine like they did a thousand years ago.
The truth is all these supposed climate experts are not experts at all, just high priced, elitists who are guessing.
What will the rich socialists of Greece, Spain and Italy do???
"Warmer weather means more land can be farmed"
Surely that is dependent on how warm it is already? In many areas of the world, warmer weather and (especially) less water would mean drastically less land could be farmed.
The big winners in Global Warming (if it even existed) would be Russia and Canada.
Yes. Then that creates more problems for UN bureaucrats to "solve". Otherwise what would we need them for.
Geez... and in the Financial Times to boot.
Women and minorities to be hardest hit.
WOW I didn't know that ROFL
"Do the UN bureaucrats and other alarmists want people to starve?"
They could care less about the little people. They want control.
What a steaming pile of bullsh*t.
There is no doubt that global warming exists as Chicago used to be under a mile-thick sheet of ice 10,000 years ago. The question is whether or not mankind and our activities are responsible it.
"the Brits could raise grapes for wine like they did a thousand years ago"
A thousand years ago? There are a number of vineyards in Southern England currently, Nyetimber probably being the best known wine producer.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/20823.html
Here is something for your amusement.
for your amusement, see post 15.
A thermohaline circulation breakdown model would sugget that northern Europe would freeze. Crazy!
That funny ROFL
So in about 50 years UK be new Napa valley AGAINNNN
There's a method to the madness here. This kind of idiocy is not tongue-in-cheek.
Remember for a moment that the green movement is essentially socialism in disguise.
Then bare in mind that socialist policies have instituted 5-6 week paid vacations throughout France, Germany, etc.
Now put the two together. What better way to get traditional socialists to jump on the green wagon?
True. hungry people are easier to rape and pillage by U.N. relief workers.
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