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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Five million? More likely hundreds of millions if these guys have their way.
Starved to death because of ethanol scams and irrigation restrictions. Frozen to death because energy production is blocked. Condemned to death by death panels because too many peons damage the environment.
And aborted to death with our tax money before they ever see the light of day.
LOLz!
We need to stop posting crap about this hoax on FR...it’s a waste of bandwidth.
HUH?!!! I thought most deaths were going to be from cigarettes. Now I’m confused. Now I’m scared.... We’re ALL going to die from something. There’s no escaping this.
I say let them go first and have at it. Every globalists can jump off a tall building and take at least two dozen muslimes with them.
Abortion is still the greater threat.
Well, that should make them HAPPY. They’re the ones always going on about over-population.
These are the Countries where people drop like flies or are killed by muslims and it has nothing to do with the “climate” other than the politico-religious climate of islam: The 11 nations are Bangladesh, Barbados, Bhutan, Kiribati, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, Rwanda, Tanzania, Vietnam and Maldives.
BTW, Obama-Care will kill ten times this number during the same time period. /this part is sarcasm.
Dang!!! I thought it would be more like 1 billion!
Don’t we just take the assets of George soros and all the leftwing billionaires as well as confiscate the assets and wealth of all the leftwing companies, use it to buy and build desalinization plants and infrastructure in Africa and let the Africans grow crops and drink clean water?
The greening of Africa would scrub the carbon dioxide generated, which would lower the temperature while creating new economies.
And it would only cost 20 or 30 billionaires their wealth instead of 300 some odd million people.
Is that even statistically significant?
If I die in a traffic fatality today, worldwide traffic statistics will not change, significantly, but it will be significant to me. The deaths of five million people are nothing to dismiss, but this report is. It is risible on its face, like all the other hogwash flowing out of Cancun. (I admit I'm jealous and wish I could go.)
Statistical significance is a different concept. It addresses the question of whether or not trends seen in a collection of data indicate something real or can be explained away by chance variations. To a statistician "statistical significance" has a precise and limited meaning. To address your point, of a population of 6 billion people worldwide, about one in fifty (or so) die in any given year, producing about 120 million deaths a year or about 1.2 billion in the next ten years. Would it be possible, knowing what we know now to even detect an additional 5 million deaths among 1.2 billion? Let than a 0.5% increase? I do not believe that current demographic models are precise enough to allow such predictions. It's like jobs saved or created: It has nothing to do with statistics and everything to do with unvalidated models in the service of policy preferences.
Statistics, or regression theory can make statements about the likelihood of various outcomes given that a particular model is valid and can compare observations to models to rate the relative value or validity of models, but it cannot foretell the future or deliver epistemological certainty.
What a load of doggy poop, if there are disasters, it will be from a natural cycle of earth, I do think mankind has an affect on the planet, but making the sun burn hotter isn’t one of them...pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease..thats all they have left, the sky is falling, if it does, thank you Lord, those idiot scientist could not change anything anyway...bozo obomas idiotis
They will add up all who are dying everyday and say its because of climate change, never mind that people actually are not immortal..Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez...pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease...bozo obamas idiotus
or should I say obamma mamba jamma lenin Khomeini..
Good! Less pressure on the biosphere. Right?
Planned Parenthood; No greater racism....
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