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."
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“Food scarcity and malnutrition, triggered by climate change, could lead to half a million extra deaths by 2050, grim new research indicates.”
Or extra carbon dioxide could green the entire planet.
In a population of 7+ billion, that number is lost in rounding.
As long as we're making up numbers, let's get REAL SERIOUS and make it an even 1.000,000
Boom...said it and not sorry for putting it out there.
Wouldn’t that be good news to the libs? Maybe 5 million, even better.
Aren’t they always crowing about overpopulation?
Get your act together, libs/dims.
Or maybe not.
That is true if the climate changes to the min-ice age of the 1600's.
Well, shouldn’t the population control crowd be demanding more global warming?
HORSES#!T!!!
Climate change could cause 500,000 more deaths by 2050
Many times that will die in bathtubs, abortions and drunk driving accidents.
Besides, collectivists love death. Why should a mere half million be a concern?
That’s what Soylent Green is for...
Sorry - I should have read all the posts FIRST before posting. Great minds blah blah blah....
could, maybe, there’s a chance....
It is possible that a comet will extinguish life on this planet during this period of time too.
So the earth gets warmer by some fraction of a degree, which extends the growing season in productive regions and makes some ice-bound deserts into fertile crop producers, and that is supposed to CAUSE famine?
Just like too much rain causes drought and darkness causes sunburn.
Only in the looking-glass world of liberal “logic”.
....so has Al come up with the seal guts he promised?
It was mentioned before I posted. I just thought it needed a pic.
Being new here I was under the impression it is a rule here to post before reading...
HAHAHAHAHA
most americans ahve enough FAT to last 2-3 years
what grain shortage...
looney tunes always worried the sky is falling
my friend went to the ukraine and generated 5 times the previous years output ...
climate freaks are delusional and dont know what they are talking about...
political liars and hoaxters are in it for the taxpayer $$$$$..
how many hundreds of millions have already been squandered...???
Stopped reading, right there.
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