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150,000 deaths blamed on climate change

U.N. calls toll conservative

 

Study 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).

 

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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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