Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 9
th, 2022 at 1:58pm:
Climate change is costing trillions
— and low-income countries are paying the price
Analysis of the effects of extreme heat shows that low-income, tropical countries have suffered the greatest financial losses.
Climate change has so far cost the global economy trillions of dollars, but low-income countries in tropical regions have borne the brunt of these losses, finds a study that analysed the economic consequences of heatwaves worldwide over a 20-year period.
The research, published on 28 October in Science Advances1, estimates that the global economy lost between US$5 trillion and $29 trillion from 1992 to 2013, as a result of human-driven global warming. But the effect was worst in low-income tropical nations, leading to a 6.7% reduction in their national income on average, whereas high-income countries experienced only a 1.5% average decrease.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-0357"To estimate the extreme heat that was caused by greenhouse-gas emissions, the researchers combined data on countries’ average annual temperatures and the five hottest days of each year from 1992 to 2013 with computational
climate models. "
"Their
models found that low-income regions that tend to have warm weather suffer the most from increased temperatures, despite their emissions often being much lower than those of wealthier regions (see ‘Unequal burden’). Countries such as Brazil, Venezuela and Mali were among the worst hit, with per capita gross domestic product (GDP) reduced by around 5% annually compared with what it would have been without human-driven heatwaves. By contrast, the GDP reduction in countries such as Canada and Finland is only around 1%."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03573-zOf course nothing there about internal politics, using the military to run energy supplies etc. And models all the way down.
Mali's crisis hits 10-year mark
https://www.dw.com/en/malis-crisis-hits-10-year-mark/a-61302175We Will All Be Judged By History: Political Upheaval in Brazil
https://nacla.org/news/2019/08/27/bolsonaro-brazil-political-upheaval-documentar...In Venezuela, the government of President Nicolás Maduro and the opposition are engaged in a bitter power struggle.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36319877"Joe Biden‘s climate change envoy John Kerry had an uncomfortable encounter with Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday – a man with a $15million Justice Department bounty on his head."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11405869/Awkward-moment-John-Kerry-shak...See what happens when you only look through the lens of AGW?