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World population could surpass THIRTEEN billion by the end of century
2014-09-19 00:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: By 2100, over 13 billion people could be walking the planet. That's the conclusion of a new study published today in Science, which employed UN data to explore the probability of various population scenarios. The new study further demolishes the long-held theory that human population growth will quit growing by mid-century and then fall. "Analysis of these data reveals that, contrary to previous literature, world population is unlikely to stop growing this century," reads the paper. It's worth...
A World With 11 Billion People? New Population Projections Shatter Ear
2014-09-18 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Warning: The 21st century may get a lot more crowded than previously thought. In a paper published Thursday in Science, demographers from several universities and the United Nations Population Division conclude that instead of leveling off in the second half of the 21st century, as the UN predicted less than a decade ago, the world's population will continue to grow beyond 2100. (Read "Population Seven Billion" in National Geographic magazine.) And for the first time, through the use of a "probabilistic"...
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Deep Inside the Wild World of Chinas Fracking Boom
2014-09-18 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: ON A HAZY MORNING LAST SEPTEMBER, 144 American and Chinese government officials and high-ranking oil executives filed into a vaulted meeting room in a cloistered campus in south Xian, a city famous for its terra-cotta warriors and lethal smog. The Communist Party built this compound, called the Shaanxi Guesthouse, in 1958. It was part of the lead-up to Chairman Maos Great Leap Forward, in which, to surpass the industrial achievements of the West, the government built steelworks, coal mines, power...
World population to hit 11bn in 2100 w/ 70% chance of continuous rise
2014-09-18 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The worlds population is now odds-on to swell ever-higher for the rest of the century, posing grave challenges for food supplies, healthcare and social cohesion. A ground-breaking analysis released on Thursday shows there is a 70% chance that the number of people on the planet will rise continuously from 7bn today to 11bn in 2100. The work overturns 20 years of consensus that global population, and the stresses it brings, will peak by 2050 at about 9bn people. The previous projections said this...
World population may hit 11 billion by 2100: study
2014-09-18 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The world population may grow larger than previously estimated, reaching 11 billion people by century's end, according to a UN-led analysis published Thursday. That would mean two billion more people on Earth than expected by 2100, largely due to high birth rates in Africa, said the report in the US journal Science. "The consensus over the past 20 years or so was that world population, which is currently around seven billion, would go up to nine billion and level off or probably decline," said...
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