"World should not overlook benefits of climate change" - environmentalist.
Global warming could save lives, Bjorn Lomborg told an Environment summit on Thursday. The self-styled "Skeptical Environmentalist" informed the Reuters Environment summit the world should not overlook benefits of climate change such as the fall in the number of deaths from icy winters.
"You see a lot about deaths from heatwaves, much less on avoided deaths," Lomborg said.
He estimated that about 200,000 fewer people were dying every year worldwide because of global warming - many more people survive because winters are less chill than die from heatwaves and other effects.
However, the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO), targeted for criticism in a new book by Lomborg entitled "Cool It", stuck by a 2003 estimate that 150,000 people died overall from climate change in 2000.