Report: Warming may double Australia deaths

Reuters/Clinton News Network ^ | 3/14/3

[Carpet Kitten]

Global warming may increase deaths and injuries due to flooding in Australia by as much as 240 percent by 2020, and cause a huge jump in the number of Pacific islanders whose homes could be washed away, a new report said.

[wideawake]

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

[Numbers Guy]

Lesson one: Mortality is 1.0000000000000000000000

Lesson two: The fact that mortality is 1.0000000000000000000000 means WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! Deal with it.

Lesson three: A doubling of a low death risk is not significant.

[LiteKeeper]

"JUNKSCIENCE ALERT"!!!!!!!!!!

[JudgemAll]

Whether the Earth is hot or cold, weather will kill, any kind of weather. It is the relative exchange rate of heat, and not sheer warmth, that causes violent weather.

Maybe Eco nuts need to go to their beloved frigid Uranus to find out that there winds go to up to 3000 mph (no pun intended).

[Lil'freeper]

This just in: Statistics show that 100% of people will die of something.

[Democrap]

Gee only it the European union had met their KYOTO treaty obligations.

[Always Right]

Even if this BS study was meaningful, Kyoto will do nothing to stop it.

[wayoverontheright]

Australia, which ranks as the world's top per capita emitter of greenhouse gases due to huge coal exports and its small population, has infuriated environmentalists by joining the United States in rejecting the Kyoto pact.

Apparently we can include the authors of this study among the "infuriated environmentalists".

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Source of the report are:
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre
and The Australian National University

Doom and gloomers all.

[BikerTrash]

Global warming may increase deaths and injuries...

And it might not.

There. Do I get some money from the Aussie gubmint now too? Oh goodie!

[c-b 1]

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

That was my first thought.

[Pilsner]

Actually it is far worse than this article says. Global warming means higher temperatures for everything, which includes beer. Just think of how many Aussies will die in automobile accidents when that can of Fosters that a driver plopped between his legs and opened sprays warm, foamy beer all over his crotch.

[Luna]

Doomengloomers everywhere
In the news and in my hair
The idiots just won't go away
They think the world is headed for catastrophay
Humans are the culprits you rant and rave
Human activity causes tidal waves
Shut up or you will most certainly cause
More global warming than breaking silly environmental laws

[KarlInOhio]

Report: Cooling may double Alaskan deaths

Huge increase in polar bear attacks in the Dakotas also expected. Armies of penguins marching through Patagonia will decimate Argentine agriculture.

[randog]

If sea levels rise by 80 cm by 2085 as some scientific models predict...

I see it's time to trot out the bogus global warming "models" again. Just last week I was thinking "whatever happened to the 'global warming' scam?" and now this.

For those of you that didn't catch this the first time around, the "model" works like this:

The average temperature in my hometown last week was 65 degrees F. This week the average is 75 degrees F--a difference of +10 degrees F in one week. Based on this data, what will the average temperature be next week? A global warming conspiro-theorist will posit that the temperature will be 85 degrees next week, 95 degrees the week after, 105 after that and so on until the year 2085 when the temperature reaches ~43,000 degrees F.

[ancient_geezer]

Global warming may increase deaths and injuries due to flooding in Australia by as much as 240 percent by 2020, and cause a huge jump in the number of Pacific islanders whose homes could be washed away, a new report said.

If sea levels rise by 80 cm by 2085 as some scientific models predict, 170,000 people across the South Pacific could be exposed annually to flooding compared with around 5,000 now.

Time for reality checks:

 

The Sky Isn't Falling and the Sea Isn't Rising
Argument: The Wall Street Journal (US)
Monday, November 10, 1997
Dr. Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia

***

"In any case, data from the warming of 1900-1940 shows a drop in sea levels, while the subsequent cooler period shows a sea-level rise. This effect is even more pronounced in comparisons of sea-level changes with sea-surface temperatures in the tropics, where most of the oceans' evaporation occurs.

These findings support the hypothesis that ice accumulation in the polar regions may have a greater impact on sea levels than do the melting of glaciers and the thermal expansion of ocean water. Support for this view also comes from concurrent but as yet incomplete measurements of ice accumulation at certain locations in Greenland and the Antarctic.

Contrary to activists' claims, what's clear is that global warming--if it takes place--would slow any rise in sea levels. Although more study is needed, this striking result should at least give pause to the Association of Small Island States and other groups that are pressing industrialized nations to adopt drastic reductions in fossil fuel use in order to avoid the global warming "catastrophe" so dear to the environmentalist lobby."

Dr. Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and president of the Science & Environmental Policy Project in Fairfax, Va., is author of 'Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate' (Independent Institute, 1997).

 

http://www.co2andclimate.org/Articles/2001/vca42.htm

Tuvalu consists of a few scattered Pacific Ocean islands some 2,000 miles due east of Papua, New Guinea. The islanders have appealed to Australia and New Zealand for asylum. Apparently New Zealand has agreed to accept them if rising waters force their evacuation. According to The Guardian, the first group of environmental refugees is scheduled to depart for New Zealand, next year.

One would reasonably think things must be pretty bad in Tuvalu if the nation’s leaders are planning to completely relocate the population of 10,991 souls, forcing them to abandon their homeland and way of life. We’ll grant things are bad, but it’s not rising sea levels that cause the problem. In fact, sea level in Tuvalu has been falling – and precipitously so – for decades.

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Where does the Tuvaluans’ fear of inundation come from, then? The Washington Post offers a clue in its September 9th "Travel Section." An article entitled "The End Is Near" (see World Climate Report, Volume 7, Number 2 for details), describes how the islands’ tourism industry would be adversely affected by global warming. Mike Tidwell writes:

Perhaps the most surreal indication of what might be in store comes from the idyllic, tourist-friendly nations of Tuvalu and Kiribati, in the South Pacific. Tuvalu is developing concrete emigration plans to evacuate its islands – perhaps entirely – in this century, migrating en masse to "host countries" like New Zealand. This is because scientists say sea-level rise could inundate Tuvalu and other low-lying countries almost entirely as polar ice melts and ocean water expands. [emphasis added]

There you have it. Tuvaluans aren’t heading for New Zealand’s hills because the ocean is rising around them (in fact, it’s dropped about 4 inches in the last fifty years), but because some "scientists" tell them it could. Combining Cabanes’ results and observed changes in greenhouse gases suggests Tuvaluans won’t see sea levels back up to where there were in 1950 until sometime around 2050!

The reason Tuvalu’s population is relocating is the realization that theirs is a nation without rivers and sources of potable groundwater. It’s a place where beachheads erode because sand is removed for building material. Much of its vegetation has been cleared for fuel. Its soils are poor. There are no mineral deposits and not much to export. Modern Tuvalu is a place where a large percentage of its Gross Domestic Product comes from the licensing of its area code for "900" lines and from from the sale of its ".tv" internet domain.

[Brian Allen]

What a bogus bunch of otherwise deservedly unemployed australian feral gummint dole-bludger bullshit.

Increase our dole or die! Increase our dole or die! Increase our dole or die! Increase our dole or die! Increase our dole or die! Increase our dole or die!

[Yah bastards!]

Only the Reuted-Clinton News Network could possibly make up such crap.

[Maceman]

Global warming may increase deaths and injuries due to flooding in Australia by as much as 240 percent by 2020, and cause a huge jump in the number of Pacific islanders whose homes could be washed away, a new report said.

Then again it may not.