Posted on 12/04/2010 9:32:36 AM PST by Williams
Written by Karl Burkart There’s no doubt United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change delegates are feeling a great deal of pressure to make some tangible progress here at the COP16 climate conference in Cancun.
But that pressure may be ratcheted up a notch after the Dec. 3 release of the Climate Vulnerability Monitor, the first definitive study of the impacts of climate change on human health. The report was prepared by DARA, a leading humanitarian research organization in conjunction with the CVF (Climate Vulnerable Forum) an alliance of 11 nations* that are experiencing the most direct impacts of climate change.....
Not surprisingly, most of those impacted will be children and women in the poorest parts of the world. The data charts provided in the report reveal a tragic irony — the countries that pollute the most are affected the least....
Africa starts out worse, and gets far worse with mortality doubling while habitat and economic losses quadruple. DARA director Ross Mountain tries to put these findings in perspective: If we let pressures more than triple, or worse, no amount of humanitarian assistance or development aid is going to stem the suffering and devastation. Highly fragile countries will become graveyards over which we pour billions of dollars....
The report, though sobering, does end on a brighter note with 50 measures that governments can begin implementing right now to stave off the worst impacts predicted by the Climate Vulnerability Monitor.
The 11 nations are Bangladesh, Barbados, Bhutan, Kiribati, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, Rwanda, Tanzania, Vietnam and Maldives. Karl Burkart blogs for the Mother Nature Network.
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How many US abortions by 2020?? How many worldwide?
Well they want humans dead so they don’t pollute.
I guess this works for them.
Oh, wow. A whopping 5 million on a planet of more than 6 billion??? Over the next ten years?
Is that even statistically significant?
When will this snake oil peddling end?
One of those 11 countries is Kenya. Imagine that.... Follow the money.
If it really warmed, wouldn’t Canada be able to feed the world? They missed little details like that.
I GUARANTEE this report is met with oohs and ahhs at that ridiculous “summit”.
Ten years ago it was AIDs.
More figures pulled out of someone’s a**.
If you’re going to lie, make it a BIG lie:
“500 million sure to die because of climate change.”
Do you think these fools ever bothered to run the numbers of how many more might live given the additional crops that might be grown on a warmer earth? Not a chance.
They may blame it on Climate Change, but it is a convenient explanation for killing people.
Oh yeah, it was climate change.
Five million deaths from ‘’climate change’’? Would these folks feel any better if these five million people fell out of windows?
IMO, a better title would be “5 Million Deaths From Enviromentalism Predicted by 2020”.
They should be happy. 20 years from now, the Global Warming Apocalypse is coming and everyone will die a horrible death. These 5 million have it good.
Yeah, but how many deaths will be human sacrifice to that Aztec god they were all worshipping?
The whole report reads like a satire. I wouldn’t rely on those 11 countries to produce a report on the effects of ass pimples. It’s completely ludicrous.
Ghana has figured this all out? And none of it is their fault it’s actually mine???
Obama’s wet dream.....he is just hoping they are all Christian Caucasians.
Moreover, due to the limitations of available data, not all indicators used in the index have the same baseline years.
In other words, "What little actual data we did use, we cherry picked..."
Utter BS.
We’ve enjoyed global warming since the last ice age 10,000 years ago.
This looks a lot more like a list of 11 nations no one wants to move to.
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