1,50,000 deaths blamed on climate change : Science Reporter.

December 10, 2005

150,000 deaths blamed on climate change U.N. calls toll conservativeStudy finds poor nations hit hardest Dec. 9, 2005. 01:00 AM PETER CALAMAI SCIENCE REPORTER, THE STAR. MONTREAL—The numbers are no longer theoretical computer projections of the toll of climate change on human health at some far-off time in the future. Instead they're real victims, estimates of the people who died around the world in 2000 because global warming triggered heat waves, floods or droughts, or made worse some infectious disease. That number is conservatively put at 150,000 in a detailed study carried out

for the World Health Organization (WHO). http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1 & c=Article & cid=1134082211022 & call_pageid=968867505381 & col=969048872038 We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. -- General Omar Bradley

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