Study Claiming Only Developing Nations Will Be Hurt By Climate Change Gets It Wrong

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Tue, 02/09/2016 - 2:16pm

Joe Romm at Climate Progress points out that a new study rightly reiterates what we already know—that people in poorer, developing countries will suffer disproportionately from global warming even though they have contributed little or nothing to the crisis because they have historically been low-level emitters of greenhouse gases. But the study commissioned by the University of Queensland and Wildlife Conservation Society takes that disproportionality argument too far, Romm writes, when it concludes the world’s biggest carbon polluters (now and historically) will suffer little from the ill effects of climate change: The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, asserts: Some countries, such as China and the United States of America, are in a win-win position of achieving economic growth through fossil fuel use with few consequences from the resulting climate change, while many other, mostly Island and African, countries suffer low economic growth and severe, negative climate change impacts. While the second half of that assertion is true, the first half is, quite frankly, absurd.

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