Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Hunger may be largest health impact of climate change - expert - AlertNet
LONDON (AlertNet) - Malnutrition is likely to be the most serious health threat linked to climate shifts in the coming decades, as farmers struggle to cope with more unpredictable weather, a top health expert has said.
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No one will ever die with a death certificate saying they died of climate change,” so assessing the number of climate-linked deaths will be difficult, epidemiologist Kris Ebi warned during a recent World Health Organization (WHO) briefing on adapting health systems to climate shifts.
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One major problem is that those likely to face the biggest health challenges from climate change also have the fewest resources to prepare, warned Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the [policy-neutral] IPCC.

“Where people are poor and don’t have the infrastructure by which they might be protected from increased heat waves or extreme weather events … we have to look at special measures for how we can protect life and property in those communities,” he urged.

In addition, preparedness efforts need to be integrated with development plans, or “the effectiveness of the actions we take will remain limited”, he said.
Flashback: Inconvenient truth for warmists: "Globally, USDA is still projecting the second-largest corn crop in history"

Indiana University study: Support for carbon capture is extensive but not strong: IU News Room: Indiana University
80 percent had not heard of carbon capture and storage before being contacted for the survey. And opinions tended to be lukewarm.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The baloney becomes ever more strident - predictions based on predictions based on models based on policies.

No, malnutrition as a COD has nothing whatsoever to do with axiomatic climate change. It can only be a consequence of the relentless extraction of Green taxes at all levels, eventually leading to economic ruin and industrial collapse, through compliance driven stagnation and overwhelming tax burden.

Malnutrition will arise from the resultant impoverishment. But remember, this is a stated Green goal - the reduction in global population.