Climate-change death toll put at 300,000 a year

[jimmy olsen]

Oh really, I wonder how they calculate that?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30998907/

Climate-change death toll put at 300,000 a year
Think-tank releases findings before talks to discuss global emissions treaty

AP
updated 25 minutes ago

LONDON - Climate-change disasters kill around 300,000 people a year and cause about $125 billion in economic losses, mainly from agriculture, a think-tank led by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan reported Friday.

The Global Humanitarian Forum also estimated that 325 million people are seriously affected by climate change — a number it says will double by 2030, as more people are hit by natural disasters or suffer environmental degradation caused by climate change.

"Climate change is a silent human crisis," Annan said in a statement. "Yet it is the greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time."

The report suggests that rising sea levels, desertification and changing rainfall patterns are reducing many people's access to safe drinking water and food. This in turn increases diarrhea, malaria and malnutrition.

The report said 99 percent of all people who die due to climate-change related causes live in developing countries, even though those countries generate less than 1 percent of total emissions of greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.

The report used existing data on weather-related disasters, population trends and economic forecasts to draw its conclusions. It was released ahead of climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, next week, that are to lead to a possible new global treaty on cutting greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen in December.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.

[Valmy]

Oh really, I wonder how they calculate that?

If you are interested find their report and find out.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Nonsense.

[derspiess]

 

[PDH]

I bet natural causes kills a lot more each year, and nobody worries too much about that...

[Siege]

Sure.

Lets commit mass suicide and leave Earth to the animals.

[Neil]

Since nothing can be done about it, who cares?

[Siege]

I bet natural causes kills a lot more each year, and nobody worries too much about that...

What's natural causes?
Old age?

[Darth Wagtaros]

Sure.

Lets commit mass suicide and leave Earth to the animals.

I've long suspected your PETA predilections.

[Siege]

Since nothing can be done about it, who cares?

There is something we can do.

We can send you to the South Pole without supplies.

[saskganesh]

Oh really, I wonder how they calculate that?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30998907/
Climate-change death toll put at 300,000 a year

actuarians. same way they calculate your insurance premiums.

The approach of comparing the trends in weather-related and geophysical disasters is based on an analysis of loss-generating events in the publication Journal of Flood Risk.416 The article states that by "Assuming the socio-economic driving factors behind loss-generating events to be the same for all causes, the difference is likely to be due to climate change". The validity of the approach has beenreviewed with a number of experts. While it is a rough approach, particularly on shorter time series,
it is seen as comparatively strong. Alternative analyses of number of affected, recorded losses ofproperty and insured losses are associated with greater uncertainty than the frequency of events.

http://assets.ghf-ge.org/downloads/methodology.pdf

[Hansmeister]

How can this be when the globe has in fact been cooling for the last decade?

[Faeelin]

How can this be when the globe has in fact been cooling for the last decade?

How can this be when so many of the last ten years have been the warmest on record?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2008/

[saskganesh]

clearly nasa works for the insurance agency conspiracy.

[Valmy]

How can this be when the globe has in fact been cooling for the last decade?

Well the report did just say 'climate change'.  Last I checked cooling was also a change in climate.