Are we going to die in 2030??!

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1st reason: !!!100 million to die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate!!!

Nina Chestney
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LONDON (Reuters) - More than 100 million people will die and global economic growth will be cut by 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030 if the world fails to tackle climate change, a report commissioned by 20 governments said on Wednesday.

As global average temperatures rise due to greenhouse gas emissions, the effects on the planet, such as melting ice caps, extreme weather, drought and rising sea levels, will threaten po[CENSORED]tions and livelihoods, said the report conducted by humanitarian organization DARA.

It calculated that five million deaths occur each year from air pollution, hunger and disease as a result of climate change and carbon-intensive economies, and that toll would likely rise to six million a year by 2030 if current patterns of fossil fuel use continue.

More than 90 percent of those deaths will occur in developing countries, said the report that calculated the human and economic impact of climate change on 184 countries in 2010 and 2030. It was commissioned by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a partnership of 20 developing countries threatened by climate change.

“A combined climate-carbon crisis is estimated to claim 100 million lives between now and the end of the next decade,” the report said.

It said the effects of climate change had lowered global output by 1.6 percent of world GDP, or by about $1.2 trillion a year, and losses could double to 3.2 percent of global GDP by 2030 if global temperatures are allowed to rise, surpassing 10 percent before 2100.

 

2nd reason:  Just so you know: an asteroid could hit Earth on 21 September 2030

For the first time ever, scientists are pinpointing the time of an impact that could unleash a force 100 times greater than Hiroshima, writes Robin McKie
Sunday 5 November 2000 01.11 GMT
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Scientists have put a date to Armageddon. It will occur on 21 September 2030, when earth is in danger of being hit by an asteroid.
The newly discovered threat to global civilisation is called 2000 SG344, and it could strike our planet with a force 100 times greater than that released by the atom bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, astronomers have calculated.

Their announcement, posted yesterday on the internet by the International Astronomical Union, is the first formal public prediction of a potential collision with a piece of cosmic debris and it arises from a scientific review process designed to eliminate premature predictions of celestial calamities.

Two years ago, asteroid watchers triggered worldwide alarm by announcing that a mile-wide asteroid called XF-11 might hit earth in 2028. A few days later they had to withdraw the forecast, after calculations showed the object posed no danger to our planet.

The new prediction is unlikely to be withdrawn, however - for it has been carefully duplicated by scientists at several research centres. The object was recently discovered trailing in Earth's orbit around the sun by astronomers using the 3.6-metre Canada-France-Hawaii telescope on the island of Hawaii.

However, the probability that it might hit Earth in 2030 was not realised until last week when Paul Chodas, at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, began studying its orbit. There was a small but definite risk, about one in 500, that its orbit, and Earth's, might coincide on 21 September 2030 - a danger that has been verified over the past 72 hours by a group of International Astronomical Union experts in Italy, Finland and the US.

'This is a first for us,' said space scientist David Morrison at Nasa's Ames Research Center, chairman of the Astronomical Union committee. 'We have never before had a prediction at this high level of probability. In the past we have talked about 1 in 10,000 or 1 in a million.'

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On a newly devised 10-point scale for grading potential impact hazards, known as the Torino scale, the object gets a rating of only 1 - mainly because of its relatively small size and uncertain chances of striking Earth. Any rating on the Torino scale means an object merits careful monitoring. This is the first astronomical object to be given full, formal designation on the Torino scale.

In revealing their concerns, astronomers are walking a delicate tightrope between prudent secrecy and disclosure, balancing possible ridicule against the demands of public responsibility. The danger of having to make an embarrassing withdrawal about their claim is low, however, thanks to the quick action of the the technical review panel which has confirmed Chodas's calculations, and by the careful conservative language used in their announcement.

It is quite possible, say the astronomers, that SG344 may prove to be nothing more than a discarded Saturn rocket booster, lost in space since the days of the Apollo moon programme. Nasa records show that nine Saturn V rockets were launched toward the moon in the Apollo programme. In each case, spent rocket boosters ended up in uncharted orbits around the sun. If SG344 was to turn out to be one of these, it would simply burn up on entering our atmosphere.

'It could be an old rocket we sent up to launch a satellite decades ago that has come back to haunt us,' said Brian Marsden, director of the Minor Planets Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge. 'At least, we can't exclude the possibility.'

However, most experts believe the SG344 is most probably an asteroid - with a diameter of between 100 and 230 feet, the size of an office block. If such an object were to hit Earth, the consequences would be severe, though not globally devastating.

If made of stone and iron, as are many asteroids and meteorites, SG344 would explode with an estimated energy of two megatons, But if it was a loose conglomeration of stones and gravel, as several experts believe may the case, it might easily disintegrate as it skims into the atmosphere.