Researchers from Canada and Australia have published a study predicting a remarkable one billion deaths from climate change over the next 100 years.
Citing a “scientific consensus,” the authors analyzed 180 studies on climate change and mortality, converging on a “1000-ton rule,” which means for every 1,000 tons of fossil fuel burned, a person dies. [emphasis, links added]
The article, published in the journal Energies, contends that “a future person is killed every time humanity burns 1,000 tons of fossil carbon,” based on a calculation that “burning a trillion tons of fossil carbon will cause 2°C of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), which in turn will cause roughly a billion future premature deaths spread over a period of very roughly one century.”
Estimates of world population growth suggest that by 2100, there will be just over 10 billion humans on the planet, meaning that 10 percent of humanity will die from climate change if the study’s authors are to be believed.
The paper also makes the stunning claim that if humanity collectively burned the five trillion tons of fossil carbon available in the Earth’s crust, “global mean surface temperature would increase by up to 10°C relative to the preindustrial era and could threaten human extinction.”
“If you take the scientific consensus of the 1,000-ton rule seriously, and run the numbers, anthropogenic global warming (AGW) equates to a billion premature dead bodies over the next century,” said Western University’s Joshua Pearce, one of the authors. “Obviously, we have to act. And we have to act fast.”
The study also claims that it has been “clear for a decade or more that the final death toll due to AGW will be much greater than 100 million, or one million per year for a century — an extreme best case if current death rates from AGW miraculously remained constant at about one million per year (a level that may have already have reached).”
Since there has never been a single death convincingly attributed to climate change, one wonders where the authors of the study draw their assurance that nearly 3,000 people are dying every single day from global warming.
Moreover, since total weather-related deaths have been steadily decreasing by the year to a mere fraction of what they were 100 years ago, prognosticating a sudden reversal in the trend would seem to require a more scientific explanation than the clever-sounding but ultimately untenable “1,000-ton rule.”
Finally, the authors of the study fail to address the disconcerting fact that nearly ten times as many people die from cold temperatures than from heat every year, which would seem to imply that slightly warmer temperatures would result in fewer — not more — weather-related deaths.
But not letting facts get in the way of a good story is a tried and true strategy, one that has proven especially effective for climate change alarmists.
h/t RO
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One thing not considered is the loss of life in undeveloped nations due to the absence modern medicine. It is estimated that in the US alone two million people had their lives saved by heart stents in 2022. This is just one illness. My life was saved from a blood infection that certainly would have been fatal without modern medicine. In undeveloped nations people with such conditions just die. Modern medicine is developed along with developing a modern industrial society. This requires the use of fossil fuels. In inhibiting the use of fossil fuels, the climate change movement is preventing lives from being saved in undeveloped nations.
The climate crack pottery is simply stunning.
Their starting to sound like Paul Ehrlich and his wrong ideas about Starvation Deaths but the Eco-Freaks want fewer People on Earth anyway
By 2030, gates, soros and schwab want 6-7 billion scrubbed from the planet. So which is it? In 100 years, under normal circumstances, the population of earth could be 12-15 billion or more. Losing 1 billion to fake climate change won’t matter…but truthfully it won’t happen unless we continue into the next cooling period. These clowns are totally insane and illogical.
Isn’t it funny how these leftist elites always want the population to drop but they never include themselves? And for those of us left on the planet our lives will be made worse with all the restrictions they want to force on us while they still live their lives unchanged, jetting around the world on private jets, owning multiple homes, many on the coast that they swear will soon be underwater. What total hypocrites.
My models show that the “Climate Crisis” would disappear if all climate alarmists died today.