{"id":24950,"date":"2024-02-23T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=24950"},"modified":"2024-02-28T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:43:25","slug":"how-many-people-will-die-from-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/02\/23\/how-many-people-will-die-from-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"How many people will die from climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Wallace-Wells asks in his New York Times column, \u201cHow deadly can climate change be?\u201d<!--more--> He begins by questioning an oft-repeated figure: \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s right to suggest that reaching 2\u00b0C of warming (which now looks very likely) will mean the deaths of a billion people.\u201d He continues: \u201cAny more rigorous estimates, while lower, are still quite shocking. Some calculations are easily in the tens of millions.\u201d He concludes: \u201cThere may also be catastrophic surprises in store \u2013 extreme catastrophes, underestimated impacts, and quickly passed tipping points. But today\u2019s science of climate mortality suggests a different experience, with even large-scale climate mortality softening into a kind of somber background noise, never quite deafening, no matter how loud.\u201d (<em>David Wallace-Wells, The New York Times, carbonbrief, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/22\/opinion\/environment\/climate-change-death-toll.html?utm_source=cbnewsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=2024-02-23&amp;utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+23+02+2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">nytimes.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Wallace-Wells asks in his New York Times column, \u201cHow deadly can climate change be?\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}