THE POOR ARE CARRYING THE COST OF TODAY'S CLIMATE POLICIES

global warming does far more damage to poor countries than they do to the climate. In a report in 2006 Nicholas (now Lord) Stern calculated that a 2°C rise in global temperature cost about 1% of world GDP. But the World Bank, in its new World Development Report*, now says the cost to Africa will be more like 4% of GDP and to India, 5%. Even if environmental costs were distributed equally to every person on earth, developing countries would still bear 80% of the burden (because they account for 80% of world population). As it is, they bear an even greater share, though their citizens' carbon footprints are much smaller (see chart 2).

The economist


http://www.economist.com/node/14447171
 
"In all, reckons the World Health Organisation, climate change caused a loss of 5.5m disability-adjusted life years (a measure of harm to human health) in 2000, most of it in Africa and Asia. Estimates by the Global Humanitarian Forum, a Swiss think-tank, and in a study in Comparative Quantification of Health Risks, a scientific journal, put the number of additional deaths attributable to climate change every year at 150,000. The indirect harm, through its impact on water supplies, crop yields and disease is hugely greater.


The poor are more vulnerable than the rich for several reasons. Flimsy housing, poor health and inadequate health care mean that natural disasters of all kinds hurt them more. When Hurricane Mitch swept through Honduras in 1998, for example, poor households lost 15-20% of their assets but the rich lost only 3%.

Global warming aggravates that. It also increases the chances of catching the life-threatening diseases that are more prevalent in poorer countries. In many places cities have been built just above a so-called “malaria line”, above which malaria-bearing mosquitoes cannot survive (Nairobi is one example). Warmer weather allows the bugs to move into previously unaffected altitudes, spreading a disease that is already the biggest killer in Africa. By 2030 climate change may expose 90m more people to malaria in Africa alone. Similarly, meningitis outbreaks in Africa are strongly correlated with drought. Both are likely to increase. Diarrhoea is forecast to rise 5% by 2020 in poor countries because of climate change. Dengue fever has been expanding its range: its incidence doubled in parts of the Americas between 1995-97 and 2005-07. On one estimate, 60% of the world's population will be exposed to the disease by 2070.

Next, as Mr Rokonuzzaman's story showed, poor countries are particularly prone to flooding. Ten of the developing world's 15 largest cities are in low-lying coastal areas vulnerable to rising sea levels or coastal surges. They include Shanghai, Mumbai and Cairo. In South and East Asia the floodplains of great rivers have always been home to vast numbers of people and much economic activity. Climate change is overwhelming the social and other arrangements that in the past allowed countries and people to cope with floods. National budgets can ill afford the cost of improving defences. The Netherlands is also affected and is spending $100 per person a year on flood defences. In Bangladesh that sum is a quarter of the average person's annual income.

The biggest vulnerability is that the weather gravely affects developing countries' main economic activities—such as farming and tourism. Global warming dries out farmland. Since two-thirds of Africa is desert or arid, the continent is heavily exposed. One study predicts that by 2080 as much as a fifth of Africa's farmland will be severely stressed. And that is only one part of the problem."
 
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LOL not so much that I can't spell spatial, it's that I forgot how to. Of course I've already forgotten much more than you'll ever know.
Plus, it's you chosen lot here to be a liar. That sux. Sucks for you. I'd rather put a gun to my own head than sit around all day coming to
an anonymous message board for the sole purpose of spewing lies. And don't deny it. That's exactly what you do and therefore
exactly who you are. Yuck. Better to misspell every single word than for that to be one's raison detri. You just lie about science all the time.
Don't you fucking hate yourself? Doesn't it feel icky? Ewwww. yuck.
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Sailor thinks you're an arsehole, can't help but agree with him. I'll not listen to a smug sanctimonious sod like you, living in California. Over a billion people in the third world are without electricity whilst arrogant shites like you worry about what flavour latte you'll order in Starbucks.

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“Primitive people once killed goats to appease the volcano gods. We’re more sophisticated now but are still sacrificing our industries and our living standards to the climate gods to little more effect.”

– Tony Abbott, former PM of Australia.

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Sailor thinks you're an arsehole, can't help but agree with him. I'll not listen to a smug sanctimonious sod like you, living in California. Over a billion people in the third world are without electricity whilst arrogant shites like you worry about what flavour latte you'll order in Starbucks.

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Hey idgit, in case you weren't aware, it is Democrats who support foreign aid and grants for problems such as those and Republican climate change denier types who oppose it. Oops!

Doesn't change the fact that you spend all your time in a quest to defame science with pure lies.
 
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“Primitive people once killed goats to appease the volcano gods. We’re more sophisticated now but are still sacrificing our industries and our living standards to the climate gods to little more effect.”

– Tony Abbott, former PM of Australia.

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The aussies certainly do have an avid crew of climate science deniers. If you need to find some tailor made lies against climate science, you need look no further than to Austrailia or Big Oil funded think tanks. It wasn't evident the last time I visited
the great barrier reefs and Sydney and the Blue Mountains, etc.....:)
 
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Hey idgit, in case you weren't aware, it is Democrats who support foreign aid and grants for problems such as those and Republican climate change denier types who oppose it. Oops!

Doesn't change the fact that you spend all your time in a quest to defame science with pure lies.
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Which is why Obama wanted to open up the Arctic, Atlantic and Gulf to more drilling. You are a fraud.
 
Micawber said:
Hey idgit, in case you weren't aware, it is Democrats who support foreign aid and grants for problems such as those and Republican climate change denier types who oppose it. Oops!

Doesn't change the fact that you spend all your time in a quest to defame science with pure lies.
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You are truly misinformed and unwilling to see beyond your carefully constructed shelter from inconvenient facts. I doubt if you've even heard of the CLOUD experiment, Jasper Kirkby or CERN.

https://home.cern/about/updates/2016/10/cloud-experiment-sharpens-climate-predictions

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Corazón said:
You are truly misinformed and unwilling to see beyond your carefully constructed shelter from inconvenient facts. I doubt if you've even heard of the CLOUD experiment, Jasper Kirkby or CERN.

https://home.cern/about/updates/2016/10/cloud-experiment-sharpens-climate-predictions

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He deals with sound bytes, not facts. He enjoys hype, not the reality of it. If he actually bothered to read or comprehend what you are saying he would realize you are not denying it. Just putting it into the proper perspective and time frame.
And pointing out, clearly and accurately, that most of the hype has been based on unreliable and unrepeatable data, i.e, the most unscientific way of determining anything.
 
Sailor said:
He deals with sound bytes, not facts. He enjoys hype, not the reality of it. If he actually bothered to read or comprehend what you are saying he would realize you are not denying it. Just putting it into the proper perspective and time frame.
And pointing out, clearly and accurately, that most of the hype has been based on unreliable and unrepeatable data, i.e, the most unscientific way of determining anything.
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Yet he claims to be vastly superior to us mere mortals, not only that, his father is an actual rocket scientist! You are absolutely right, he never says anything of substance preferring to just indulge in spouting well worn shibboleths and cliches.

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"Extreme heat that would be considered unusual today could become a yearly occurrence there by mid-century, one new study suggests, and the trend will emerge earlier there—and in the rest of the tropics—before it does in more temperate areas, another finds.
The studies, both detailed this month in the journal Environmental Research Letters, emphasize the undue burden that some of the poorest populations on the planet—often those that have contributed least to global warming—will face from climate change, the authors say."

Scientific American.


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/africa-faces-hotter-future/

Hi Africa! Love and kisses from white Repuke America who want to put the kabash on climate science knowledge and accountability for fucking you in the ass. Enjoy!
 
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"Extreme heat that would be considered unusual today could become a yearly occurrence there by mid-century, one new study suggests, and the trend will emerge earlier there—and in the rest of the tropics—before it does in more temperate areas, another finds.
The studies, both detailed this month in the journal Environmental Research Letters, emphasize the undue burden that some of the poorest populations on the planet—often those that have contributed least to global warming—will face from climate change, the authors say."

Scientific American.


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/africa-faces-hotter-future/

Hi Africa! Love and kisses from white Repuke America who want to put the kabash on climate science knowledge and accountability for fucking you in the ass. Enjoy!
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Suggests, Could, ? That's some real science ya got going sport.
 
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LMAO! What a fucking pussy.
 
The scientific article??????....(wink, wink) offered as evidence and SUGGESTED by those pretending to be working with applied science (in the demonstrable fact as proof they use subjective language and proceed as if OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE has been presented by their opinionated conjectures)..... is a FALSE PREMISE, that premise being the suggestion that the POOR do not contribute as much as the wealthy to the supposed CARBON pollution emissions.

Reality? In Truth 48% of the world's poor developing nations contribute to the supposed evil that is CARBON emissions causing the supposed green house effect, soon that 48% will be 51% in overtaking the wealthy nations as the greatest threat to our LMAO climate. (in fact all biological life on earth depend upon carbon for its very continued existence as all life on earth is carbon based....its not poison as suggested by the tree hugging leftists) and Global Warming...my bad, the new buzz word is CLIMATE CHANGE ......is cyclical in nature just as are our SEASONS. And the greatest determiner of those Global seasons? THE SUN, not mankind. Its more than pompous to suggest that man has the power to effect the climate so much he can adjust it by adjusting his lifestyle.....its PAGANISTIC and EVIL...i.e., just another tool used by the left to usurp political power for personal gain....its who they are, its how they work, just ask Saul Alinsky.

Look at the article presented as SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE. How many lines of evidence are laced with conjectural and subjective language terms (anything but scientific).....words such as suggests, could, considered, etc., with the idiotic closing line by the one presenting it as SCIENCE claiming it to be proof as REAL SCIENCE. What this proves is the fact of this posters ignorance or dishonesty....or both.
 
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