Thursday, May 25, 2023

Quantifying the human cost of global warming. Really!

Absolutely stunning that the once prestigious Nature journal publishes such propaganda and demagoguery nonsense!

Everybody should know that climate models forecasting up to 2100 are junk at best! We can not even forecast weather accurately for more than 48 hours!

"... Calls for climate justice highlight the vital need to address the social injustices driven by climate change ..."

At least these nutty scientists admit that warming is normal and supporting civilization after coming out of an ice age:
"... The 1960–1990 interval was globally ~0.3 °C warmer than the 1850–1900 ‘pre-industrial’ level, but closer to mean Holocene temperatures that supported civilizations as we know them (because 1850–1900 was at the end of the Little Ice Age)."

From the abstract:
"The costs of climate change are often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’—defined as the historically highly conserved distribution of relative human population density with respect to mean annual temperature. We show that climate change has already put ~9% of people (>600 million) outside this niche. By end-of-century (2080–2100), current policies leading to around 2.7 °C global warming could leave one-third (22–39%) of people outside the niche. Reducing global warming from 2.7 to 1.5 °C results in a ~5-fold decrease in the population exposed to unprecedented heat (mean annual temperature ≥29 °C). The lifetime emissions of ~3.5 global average citizens today (or ~1.2 average US citizens) expose one future person to unprecedented heat by end-of-century. That person comes from a place where emissions today are around half of the global average. These results highlight the need for more decisive policy action to limit the human costs and inequities of climate change."

Quantifying the human cost of global warming | Nature Sustainability (open access)

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