What will cause the higher death toll due to global warming?

[gwens18a]

In 2003 the World Health Organization issued the report "Climate Change and Human Health - Risks and Responses" which claimed in 2000 there were 150,000 deaths attributable to global warming and that the death toll was likely to grow to 300,000 annually by 2030.

Deaths directly associated to global warming will be from
-Direct impacts of heat and cold
-Food and water-borne disease
-Increases in vector-borne disease malaria cases
-Food shortage and famine.
-Water shortages
-Increased incidence of extreme weather events

What the W.H.O. does not mention is the loss of life due to conflict. As the natural forces take their toll on human life, many governments will be forced reach beyond their own borders to relieve the difficulties their own population due to the natural responses of global warming. If these governments can not obtain what they need peacefully they will attempt to obtain it by force. Wars will break out and human beings will die. It is thought by some that Darfur is the first global warming conflict “partly caused by land degradation” and to date has caused the loss of up to 300,000 people http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/16/552 .
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/04/22/darfur-un.html

So the question tonight is what will cause the higher death toll, deaths directly related to a global warming such as warned by the W.H.O., or by human conflict?


http://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/en/ccSCREEN.pdf
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg2.htm
http://securityandclimate.cna.org/report/National%20Security%20and%20the%20Threat%20of%20Climate%20Change.pdf
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0419/p02s01-usgn.html

 

[Common Sense]

Earth's normal climate changes have always caused
upheaval and stress amongst all living organisms.
The Sahara desert used to be a green grassy plain and when
the area dried up and turned to a desert, lots of species died
or moved..

 

[James H]

Coastal flooding will drown tens of millions.

 

[Smudgeward]

Neither, my money is on global cooling, it was a 'known fact' in the 70's and you will get better odds on it than warming now. The only problem is that you will need to live to half a million to collect after going through several cycles proving both occur due entirely to the sun's output cycles.
There are quite enough real things to worry about that we could do real things about if the government stopped funding/encouraging red herrings to make fools of and tax us.