Could Public Health Benefits Make Combating Climate Change Free?: "Scientific" American

Already WHO research suggests that current warming of global average temperatures of just under one degree Celsius is responsible for an additional 150,000 deaths per year, largely due to agricultural failures and diarrheal disease in developing countries. "All the inputs are on the conservative side," says Campbell-Lendrum, who helped come up with the number.

..."Those things are with us now," says Dr. Hugh Montgomery of the U.K. Climate and Health Council, one of the groups calling for action to combat climate change—and to consider public health when doing so. "If we continue this script, we are writing a death certificate for humanity on our planet."

Taking public health into account would help in more ways than one. Climate change–fighting measures such as extending modern electricity to those who now burn wood, coal or dung indoors (thereby shortening their lives as well as contributing to global warming) would likely save as much money or more in public health costs as the price of implementing the new technologies. The alternative is to potentially see a reversal in the dramatic gains in the past century of public health of in some parts of the world. "Just as the HIV epidemic caused us to have a reversal in recent gains in public health in this country," notes Dr. Rajen Naidoo of the Nelson Mandela Medical School in Durban, "so too does climate change now."

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USPS sees climate change emissions increase in “challenging” year | Post & Parcel

fuel use has increased 8.3% from a 2005 baseline.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Kiribati gets so much EU climate aid that it can´t handle it

Knowing the dismal corruption records of Kiribati and several of the other Pacific island states, it comes as no surprise that there are demands for more "flexible" and "suitable" payment procedures. One way of dealing with this "problem" to the satisfaction of the Kiribati and other Pacific island governments could be for the EU to pay the climate "aid" millions directly to e.g. safe private Swiss bank accounts.