New York Magazine writer David Wallace-Wells is out with another alarmist warning about what a warmer future might hold for humanity — death from air pollution on the scale of 25 Holocausts.
Wallace-Wells’ article has made the rounds on the web for its pessimism about the Paris climate accord. The author said “Paris is very quickly starting to look like Kyoto,” a previous climate treaty he called “completely ineffective.”
Indeed, Wallace-Wells says the Paris accord looks “more and more like fantasy.” The International Energy Agency (IEA) just reported carbon dioxide emissions increased more than one percent in 2017, despite the Paris accord being in effect for more than on year.
But Wallace-Wells also warned that global warming of 2 degrees Celsius will exacerbate air pollution problems, killing 150 million more people than if warming were limited to 1.5 degrees.
“Numbers that large can be hard to grasp, but 150 million is the equivalent of 25 Holocausts,” Wallace-Wells wrote, referring to the Nazi campaign to exterminate Jews and other groups.
“It is five times the size of the death toll of the Great Leap Forward — the largest non-military death toll humanity has ever produced,” Wallace-Wells added. “It is three times the greatest death toll of any kind: World War II.”
Wallace-Wells derived his figures from a paper recently published in the journal Nature Climate Change to “quantify the suffering that would be avoided if the planet were kept below 1.5 degrees of warming, rather than two degrees,” he wrote.
While admitting the paper’s figures were “speculative,” Wallace-Wells argued “it is a virtual certainty that we will inflict, thanks to climate change, the equivalent of 25 Holocausts on the world” — due to the effects of global warming outside of just worse pollution.
“So 25 Holocausts is our absolute best-case outcome; the likely suffering will be considerably higher still,” Wallace-Wells wrote.
Lots of studies have claimed catastrophic results from future global warming, often by using a “worst case” scenario of warming that’s being increasingly panned by experts as increasingly unlikely.
The research Wallace-Wells cites, however, focuses on the costs of worse air pollution, but the epidemiological data underlying links between premature death and fine particulate matter and ozone are mixed.
Toxicologists have found that while surveys suggest a correlation between fine particulates and ozone in some parts of the country, there’s no correlation in many others. It only adds to the uncertainty surrounding air pollution and public health.
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Wallace-Wells must be a fan of the Mad Max movies.
I think you’re right. His article is a smokescreen to cover severe angst, he’s really upset that global warming will only dispose of 150 million people. At that rate earth’s population will never reach the ideal number of 100 million. More has to be done to accomplish his true goal……..
It should be noted that the same liberal rag TIME who was yammmering all about Global Warming back in the 1990’s was yammering all abiut Global Cooling back in the 1970’s a 20 year difference
It always amazes me how these dooms day profits ignore natural variability. Over time there is more than two degrees difference in temperature from one year to another. From one place to another there is even a larger difference. If a two degree increase can cause that much damage, shouldn’t we already be seeing holocaust effects in some areas or some years?
I suspect that the warmists started their campaign in the eighties, expecting, correctly, a natural warming trend. Mess around with historical data to exaggerate the trend and adjust today’s temperatures to ” hide the decline “. It will be fun to watch them explain away a cooling trend versus climbing CO2 concentration.
New York Magazine is getting as bad as TIME and its Global Warming poppycock like one showing the earth frying like a egg it the Polar Bear and the BE AFRAID BE VERY VERY AFRAID well when it comes to news TIME its the least trustworthy so is Newsweek and Rolling Stone these liberal news magazines are nothing but leftists Propeganda
Well he is right about one thing Kyoto and the Paris Pledge are both
‘completely ineffective ” . Thank fully !
More people in the USA die from illegal drugs per year (65,000) than all the American soldiers who lost their lives in the Vietnam war . Fuel poverty kills ten’s of thousands per year and not a peep .
The planet has always benefitted from being warmer no matter what the cause and one thing is for sure humans are not about to
set the temperature . Climate doomsayers are con men .
Who can believe such ludicrous claims? Humans do better with warmer temps as seen in the Medieval Warming and the Roman Warming from centuries ago. Cold weather always showed the opposite.
Apparently Wallace-Wells hasn’t read the new book “Inconvenient Facts” by Gregory Wrightstone that destroys the idea people will be dying in droves due to warmer temps.