Nearly 1,000 children a day are now dying because of climate change

[phantom power]

Nearly 1,000 children a day are now dying because of climate change, according to a path-breaking study published Wednesday (PDF), and the annual death toll stands at 400,000 people worldwide.

Climate change also is costing the world economy $1.2 trillion a year, the equivalent of 1.6 percent of economic output, reports the Climate Vulnerability Monitor, a study commissioned by 20 of the world’s governments whose nations are most threatened by climate change and released on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York.

Most of the 400,000 annual deaths are “due to hunger and communicable diseases that affect above all children in developing countries,” concludes the study, written by 50 scientists and policy experts from around the world.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/27/climate-change-kills-400-000-a-year-new-report-reveals.html

[daleanime]

1. kick, kick, kick....

[AuntPatsy]

2. n/ws

[polly7]

3. Horrible. nt.

[dumbcat]

4. That could be viewed as

Nature's corrective feedback loop in operation.

Yeah, I know, heartless, but still ..... that's the way nature regulates over population.

[sue4e3]

5. knew that was coming

[Nihil]

8. Maybe so but it is still valid.

[sue4e3]

9. Valid and sickening

Not wanting to have my children become a statistic for the better good, I would not wish it for any children. Not that any one here would ,it's just all I can think when I read it.

[OnlinePoker]

6. Why resurrect a story from 2012? n/t

[tk2kewl]

7. is it somehow less relevant now?

[LouisvilleDem]

10. Not a peer reviewed paper

It is also curious that no margin of error is given for that figure. Unlike more traditional metrics of cause of death, attributing a death to climate change is inevitably a difficult task. For example, if 100 children die every day from malaria, how many of them do you attribute to climate change? Some studies claim that malaria rates will rise as a result of global warming, but others dispute that claim. The same applies for deaths caused by extreme weather and other phenomena that are predicted to be impacted by AGW. Ultimately the idea that you can actually calculate an accurate number for this seems a bit far fetched.