Sure terrorism has much more visible effects. Some terrorists fly some planes into buildings and 2,750 people are killed - that's a very tangible result. Global warming makes a heat wave worse and leads to 1,000 extra deaths - that's not so tangible because it's hard to quantify how much worse the heat wave was due to global warming.
However, the World Health Organization has estimated that global warming is responsible for 150,000 deaths each year
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2003-12-11-climate-deaths_x.htm
While terrorism, although it has increased since the Iraq War, is only responsible for 15,000 worldwide deaths each year:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/28/AR2006042802181_pf.html
That's a factor of 10 difference! It doesn't even take into account that global warming is accelerating while terrorism doesn't vary that much from year to year.
How can anyone possibly argue that terrorism is a bigger threat than global warming?
2007-06-27
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