Charting a Course to Shrink the Heat Gap Between New York City Neighborhoods insideclimatenews.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from insideclimatenews.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Sharon Furlong
Even though Bjorn Lomborg indicates towards the end of his article (Dire climate change warnings overlook facts, Viewpoint, July 9) that climate change has other variables that are destructive and must be examined, your overall commentary, and especially the sentence toward the end stating global warming has probably saved more lives, maybe even 100,000 lives, leaves this reader in little doubt about his overall position. Allow me to counter with this:
“A study led by Monash University scientists published last Wednesday in The Lancet Planetary Health gives a comprehensive evaluation of heat deaths around the world from 2000 to 2019, a period when the global average temperature rose by nearly a full degree Fahrenheit. It attributes about 637,550 deaths during each of those years to high heat, including about 224,000 deaths per year in Asia, 78,000 in Europe and 19,000 in the United States.”
A New Book Feeds Climate Doubters, but Scientists Say the Conclusions are Misleading and Out of Date
Steven Koonin, who during Trump’s presidency proposed having a “red team, blue team” climate debate, argues that climate action’s “certain downsides” outweigh the “uncertain” benefits.
May 4, 2021
Steven Koonin, then-under secretary for science at the U.S. Department of Energy, speaks at the 2011 CERAWEEK conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Friday, March 11, 2011. Credit: Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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The most ardent foes of climate policy in the Trump administration dreamed of staging a grand climate science debate. They called it a “red team/blue team” exercise, a term borrowed from military strategy games, and it was designed to test the proposition that fossil fuel pollution put the planet at risk.
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Biden’s Climate Credibility May Hinge on Whether He Makes Good on U.S. Financial Commitments to Developing Nations
World governments have spent $12 trillion addressing the Covid-19 pandemic. But a $100 billion climate fund for less wealthy countries has run sizable deficits.
April 21, 2021
President Joe Biden speaks in the Oval Office at the White House April 19, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images
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For poor nations that contributed little to greenhouse gas emissions but are bearing some of the worst impacts of climate change, the most important pledges at this week’s White House summit will be about money.