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Posted on May 29, 2009
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Authors of the report say that tens of millions of people will be displaced by the effects of global warming over the next 20 years.

Researchers have issued a report declaring that climate change is already killing 300,000 people a year and that the number will only increase as heat, flood, storm and fire combine to create “the greatest humanitarian challenge the world faces.”

The Guardian:

Climate change is already responsible for 300,000 deaths a year and is affecting 300m people, according to the first comprehensive study of the human impact of global warming.

It projects that increasingly severe heatwaves, floods, storms and forest fires will be responsible for as many as 500,000 deaths a year by 2030, making it the greatest humanitarian challenge the world faces.

Economic losses due to climate change today amount to more than $125bn a year — more than the all present world aid. The report comes from former UN secretary general Kofi Annan’s thinktank, the Global Humanitarian Forum. By 2030, the report says, climate change could cost $600bn a year.

Civil unrest may also increase because of weather-related events, the report says: “Four billion people are vulnerable now and 500m are now at extreme risk. Weather-related disasters ... bring hunger, disease, poverty and lost livelihoods. They pose a threat to social and political stability”

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By Night-Gaunt, June 30, 2009 at 7:19 am Link to this comment

The most recent bird/swine/human flu has been spread to the richer areas by airplane. The most important vector of disease today.Some speculate that is was manufactured because of its complexity. It has infected 1 million in 47 countries at last count by me. It is mild this year but next year it could be a killer. [See the 1918-1919 influenza outbreak which did the same thing.]

With higher concentrations of CO2 and hotter summers an milder winters crops will be stunted and of lower yield. So starvation is on the horizon for even more people than today. However allergenic plants will flourish so keep that antihistamine handy. Despite the heavy levels of CO2 there has been a slight cooling caused by the sun because of decreased output. That will end soon as more sunspots will appear and the heating will continue. Once the methane hydride thaws and bubbles out of the oceans and the methane being released from melting permafrost the heating will accelerate. [CH2 is 20-25 times the potency of CO2 in effects.]

There are other industrial chemicals of even greater GHG effects than CO2 which include;

Nitrous Oxide (ICE engines) 269X
Hexafloride gas (atomic power/weapons) 10,000X
Nitrogen Floride 17,000X (LCD screens)

There are many others but also the very common water vapor too. Until it becomes clouds then it reflects sunlight back into space.

We have the capacity now, if utilized, to generate all the electricity for the USA twice over just from solar and wind alone. We should be doing that first before most anything else in the energy realm. That and ending coal and natural gas power plants as soon as possible.

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By DAveKnTux, June 30, 2009 at 3:46 am Link to this comment

The majority of deaths caused by global warming and global climate change are dude to poverty and disease. The more our climate changes the worse it will get, diseases will run rampant in the poorer areas. It’s important that we start trying to tackle this issue today.

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By Night-Gaunt, June 9, 2009 at 8:26 am Link to this comment

The poor will pay first for the excesses of the richer countries. They will be struck down and those who are not will carry disease and hope to where ever they migrate to.

ABC ran a special “2100” about a possible bad case scenario and a way not to get to that if we do nothing. Right now too little too late is the order of the game and the oligarchs are winning. NASA recently said that it is the solar cycles that are warming the earth not human action. When did that change? It was the lower atmosphere that was heating not the upper so who is running this Inhoff?

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By beeline, June 9, 2009 at 7:36 am Link to this comment

The vast majority of climate change related deaths are occurring right now in the developing world, for the time being.

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By Night-Gaunt, May 30, 2009 at 11:29 am Link to this comment

Yes Samosamo climate kills people all of the time from droughts and fires to floods and sickness. Starvation and contamination and infestations all go hand-in-hand.

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By samosamo, May 30, 2009 at 7:25 am Link to this comment

Gee, I never knew that the climate ever killed anybody.
Is that like guns kill millions every year?
Or is that like governments kill millions every year?
Or is it like religions kill millions every year?
Maybe like the ‘elite’ kill millions every year from deprivation?

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By voice of truth, May 29, 2009 at 7:01 pm Link to this comment

HAHAHAHAHAHA

What a joke.

300,000 US children’s futures are being wiped out every day when Olama prints mo money, mo money!

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By Cecil, May 29, 2009 at 1:26 pm Link to this comment
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OMG, I’m so scared. We’re all gonna die!!! Look at the scary stock photo!

Here, take my wallet, fix the planet-stix.

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By Night-Gaunt, May 29, 2009 at 11:43 am Link to this comment

Yes one of the largest and greatest threat to Human kind since human kind started wars. We need all of our resources to mitigate and survive the changes but it isn’t happening. The USA is leader in war and weapons and only recently been surpassed by China in CO2 production.

If you think it is bad now, in 10 years, 5 even it could be much worse and most of it will be our collective fault.

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By CaptainAldo, May 29, 2009 at 10:30 am Link to this comment

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