Climate change will affect the most who are least culpable - By: Priyanka Verma

Researchers at McGill University, confirmed the long-assumed studies that those nations which contribute least to the green house gases, on the basis of per-capita income, are indeed going to suffer the most from the climate change repercussions.
Jason Samson, a PhD fellow at McGill's department of Natural Resource Sciences, summarized the findings applying the research models previously used to study climate change effects on plants and animals.
Samson has thus brought the first global index to anticipate climate change effects on humans, say climate analysts.
Developing nations to suffer the most
Over a number of years, populace residing in warmer and low-latitudes would apparently be the most vulnerable to global warming, suggests the study published in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography, last week.
Amongst the most exposed to its risks are the regions of South America, Central America, the Arabian Peninsula, Southeast Asia and most parts of Africa.
Although northern U.S. and Canada, northern Europe and central Asia, would also feel the changes in the forthcoming years, the study forecasts the climate related changes in these regions to be less intense.
Samson said that lesser effect on Canada and other wealthy regions should not be taken for granted. The mere fact that these nations are well-resourced to tackle climate change atrocities doesn’t reduce their vulnerability to the threat. "They will still see impacts, for instance on agriculture," added Samson.
Third world countries which are hugely dependent on agriculture for their livelihood are feared to suffer the most.
Along with rising temperature, striking a balance between growing population and rising dearth of food would become almost impossible, in the countries like Somalia.
Samson’s new ecological model on Climate change
The research covers almost 97 percent of the world’s population in its study.
The sample data of the climate change and global census were collected and jointly studied to find out alteration in a nation’s local populace, by 2050.
The new ecological model would contribute, in major decision making process, to the current worldwide negotiations on climate change, asserted Samson.
"That disparity was discussed, but it was always in a qualitative manner because there was no such index of vulnerability," he said.

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