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[fazoolius]

Climate change may kill thousands in UK by 2017
Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:15pm EST

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL1283826220080212?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true


LONDON (Reuters) - There is a 25 percent chance that a severe heat wave will strike England and kill more than 6,000 people before 2017 if no action is taken to deal with the health effects of climate change, a report said on Tuesday.

The report for Britain's Department of Health estimated more than 3,000 people could die in an intense summer hot spell in southeast England, with just as many more dying from heat-related deaths over the summer.

Until 2012, when London stages the summer Olympic Games, the odds of thousands dying in summer heat each year will be 1 in 40, the report said, and thousands more could die each year as a result of other effects of global warming and air pollution.

"In terms of conventional thinking about risks to health, a risk of 1 in 40 is high," the report said.

Tens of thousands died across Europe in a heat wave during the summer of 2003, including over 14,000 people in France, but so far people living in Britain have coped with rising temperatures.


===> Isn't France a first world country? How in the world are 14,000 people dying of heat? The high temperatures there can't be any higher than a regular day in the middle east. Those people aren't dying in the tens of thousands are they?


Although more summer deaths are expected, fewer people will die in Britain as a result of cold winter weather, as the world warms up because of rising carbon emissions from human activity.

The report, an update of a 2002 study, was re-issued on the same day London's mayor said owners of the most polluting cars will have to pay 25 pounds ($48.77) a day to drive them in the city center in a measure to cut down on carbon emissions.


Oops...there is the taxing. Wish I could figure out who giving money to a government is going to stop global warming? Where does that tax money go to? And if anyone thinks that taxing people will make them stop driving, think again. 70%+ of the gasoline price is tax and the population is driving more than did when they instituted that tax to curb auto usage.

Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.

-faz