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Quantifying the unquantifiable: global warming’s elusive death toll

Cross-posted from Nature’s The Great Beyond blog. The Global Humanitarian Forum certainly attracted some publicity last week when it published a report suggesting that global warming kills 315,000 people each year and seriously harms another 300,000. Total price tag: $125 billion annually. Such numbers are as appealing to journalists as they are to those who put them out, precisely because they are easy to understand and explain. They should also raise alarms, and for the very same reasons. It’s not that anybody really doubts that global warming is impacting ecosystems and communities and thus affecting lives, but these are complex 

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