From Worldometer (new COVID-19 deaths yesterday):
DAY USA WORLD Brazil India South Africa
June 9 1093 4732 1185 246 82
July 22 1205 7128 1293 1120 572
Aug 12 1504 6556 1242 835 130
Sept 9 1208 6222 1136 1168 82
Oct 21 1225 6849 571 703 85
Nov 25 2304 12025 620 518 118
Dec 30 3880 14748 1224 299 465
Jan 14 4142 15512 1151 189 712
Feb 3 4005 14265 1209 107 398
Mar 2 1989 9490 1726 110 194
April 6 906 11787 4211 631 37
May 4 853 13667 3025 3786 59
June 1 287 10637 2346 3205 95
July 7 251 8440 1595 817 411
Aug 4 656 10120 1118 532 423
Sept 22 2228 9326 839 279 124
29 2190 8859 643 309 108
Oct 6 2102 8255 543 315 59
19 2005 7528 401 160 80
27 1594 8671 433 734 62
Nov 3 1436 7830 186 458 23
24 1594 8270 176 396 22
Dec 1 1633 8475 266 477 28
8 1324 7894 231 159 36
17 1653 7359 126 289 35
22 1634 7686 137 434 99
23 1149 6942 100 374 75
Summary:
- A drop of new deaths yesterday, but we still lead the world, and let's see what this number looks like in a week. There is a good chance it could drop lower because the Omicron variant shows milder symptoms.
- #2 in new deaths was Russia with 1002, or 6.9/million. The U.S. was 3.4/million. Poland had 16.3 new deaths/million. South Africa? 1.24/million.
- However, Omicron is causing a problem, for we yesterday had 267,269 new cases, or a rate of 800/million population. New cases/million:
- World 125
- USA 800
- New York 1965
- New Jersey 2036
- DC 2720
- Hawaii 1079
- UK 1747
- Spain 1558
- South Korea 438
- South Africa 350
- Japan 2.1
From the New York Times this morning:
Worried about the U.S. versus Russia over the Ukraine? Peanuts! You might wonder why Vladimir Putin seems to show so much confidence. Perhaps the following is why, and it will shake you up.
The New York Times reports that Russia has the most to gain from global warming:
- Has the largest land mass by far of any any northern nation.
- By 2080 one-third of their land will begin to switch from being absolutely extreme in hospitality to fairly favorable, then hospitable.
- Two million more square miles will become available for farming. The total farming area for the U.S. today is 1.4 million.
- Crop production will be boosted by warmer temperatures, while those current major farming regions will decline in production.
- In southern Siberia this past year, crop production produced twice the yields as the year before...exactly what was predicted...for 2050.
- Food exportation will strengthen ties to Pakistan, India, Indonesia Middle East, Africa and other countries.
- Already wheat exports have jumped 100%, surpassing those of the U.S. and Europe, and have now become the largest, responsible for a quarter of the global market.
- Agricultural exports from 2000 to 2018 jumped sixteen-fold, and are in terms of dollars now more than weapons export.
- Russia also has a goal of keeping their farm commodities GMO-free.
- A major relocation plan has begun to provide free farm plots, with free college and trade training for citizens willing to move north. Unfortunately, so far those taking advantage of this program have been people already living there. Thus, the effort has expanded to foreigners, where inter-marriages are growing.
- Crop yields in the U.S. from Texas to Nebraska could fall by up to 90% as soon as 2040.
- The four years of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s saw crop yields in the U.S. drop by 60%.
- Melting Arctic sea ice will open a new shipping lane to cut transit times from Europe to Southeast Asia by 40%.
- Russia's prime cities are not vulnerable to sea level rise.
- The USA is seriously vulnerable to sea level rise, and trillions of dollars will need to be spent in the coming decades for this reason.
- Interestingly enough, one of the reasons why the Department of Defense is so into reducing climate warming is that 1700 of their military installations are vulnerable to sea and river level rise.
- The optimum climate for human productivity is an average annual temperature between 52 and 59 F.
- Draw a line around the planet at the latitude of the northern borders of the USA and China, and just about every place south stands to lose out.
- Marshall Burke of Stanford projects that by 2100 the national per capita income in the U.S. might be a third less, with a 92% drop for India.
- Get this, Burke predicts that the U.S, per capita GNP will drop by 36%, while Russia's will quadruple.
- Canada, Scandinavia, Iceland and Russia could see as much as a fivefold burst in per capita gross domestic products in that same time frame.
- For Russia, in-migration could become a powerful political tool, something the U.S. and much of Europe are fighting.
- Canada, too, is reported to be particularly positioned for success:
- has considerable timber, fossil fuels, hydropower
- 20% the world's freshwater
- stable democracy
- should be 2.5 times richer by 2100 in per capita GDP
- could smartly triple its population in this period
- Norway and Sweden already bring in 15,000 to 30,000 migrant workers each to pick fruits and berries.
- More than war politics, this matter of benefiting from global warming seems to have pushed the Chinese and Russian governments closer together. Some of this was spurred by the trade war the U.S. imposed on those countries.
Scare you a bit? Read the full article. This was part 3 of a partnership between ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center. Read Part 1 and Part 2.
There will be a part 2 to this issue: WHICH COMPANIES GAIN MOST FROM GLOBAL WARMING. This will be a surprise, but those progressive renewable energy firms are well position to take advantage of what is to come.
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