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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It's not a statistic, it's a prediction. A statistic is a fact. The number of people out of work is a statistic. Predictions about the effects public policy (interest rate, stimulus, whathaveyou) on unemployment are predictions. Adding error bars to predictions does not make them statistics, or in anyway enhance their reliability.
They are in all cases, a result of a whole bunch of numbers.
You're making up an answer to fit your mindset.
“”Being new here I was under the impression it is a rule here to post before reading...””
THAT will get you in trouble every time - posting before reading! You can bet someone will jump down your throat. I made a vow at the beginning of the year to READ before POSTING but seems I can’t keep my vow! I’ll try to do better.
By the way - WELCOME! It’s not always this nuts but election time scrambles the brains here!
And Iran with nuclear weapons could cause 10 million deaths bt 2030.
No. 250,000 will die of natural causes.
The Warmists will simply count them twice.
The number of people who "died of" cancer in the United States is unknowable, and the concept is probably at best epistemologically dubious, but the number of people who are reported to have died of cancer, based on death certificates is a neat little number. A statistic. A fact.
For gods sake, make it stop!
ice bergs in the Gulf of Mexico by the turn of the century some thirty years later. Still waiting to see my first berg.
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Oh yes, they are there! who you gonna believe, the leftists or your lying eyes?
Most ridiculous bs I've ever heard of!
By 2050, how many more deaths could Islam cause?
Mullah Obama, ship your 170,000 islamic muslim towelheads to Château de Lacoste Castle
Is there any link there that allows you to offer comments? I couldn’t find one......
CLI-FI and that picture could fill Classrooms
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