Moreover, climate aid is one of the least effective ways of helping. The Kyoto Protocol’s carbon cuts could save 1,400 malaria deaths for about $180 billion a year. Just half a billion dollars on direct malaria policies like mosquito nets could save 300,000 lives. Investing directly in agricultural research and better farming technologies will help agriculture much, much more than any carbon cuts. Extreme weather mostly hurts the poor because they’re poor: the same level hurricane can claim many lives in Honduras yet leave somewhere like Florida relatively unscathed. Helping people out of poverty is thousands of times more effective than relying on carbon cuts.