Note: Yes, you read that right. The headline is not mine, but from the original masters of newspaper propaganda, Pravda. See the URL. Gotta love the classic photo they chose. But then, look at some of the other news stories they have. See the end of the article for some other views that have been published here based on factual data. – Anthony
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04.07.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru
At least 2.5 million people have been killed in natural disasters over the recent 48 years. The number of casualties over the recent 20 years made up 1.6 million people, the UN said.
Rob Vos, the director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), said that the number of natural disasters taking place in the world nowadays has quadrupled in comparison with the 1970s. The disaster-related economic damage has increased at least seven times.
The authors of the report delivered at the UN headquarters in New York at the session of the UN Economic and Social Council did not specify the reason why natural disasters started happening more frequently in the world today. They said, however, that the frequency of catastrophes could be linked with the global climate change. It was also said that the death toll in developing states exceeds the number of casualties in developed states 20-30 times.
“The consequences of disasters become more and more destructive, whereas the countries are unable to overcome them effectively without the assistance from the international community. We believe it is necessary to set up a foundation to help the victims of natural disasters with the budget of 4 or 5 billion dollars,” Vos said.
The official added that all existent humanitarian projects including those conducted under the UN aegis are mostly aimed at overcoming consequences rather than preventing them.
Source: agencies
NOTE: Some other views on the “frequency of natural disasters linked to climate change” are below, follow the links.
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/hurricanes-to-global-warming-link-blown-away/
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/midwest-floods-and-unjustified-climate-change-fears/
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More evidence that environmentalism is a religion with little to no adherence to scientific approach.
A perfect example in how the politicians and media are furiously trying to keep this worn-out hoax up, and how the presence of scientific evidence debunking it is only making them more desperate and shrill. It is making them more powerful in their juggernaut of deceit that keeps finding ways to add another bullet-proof shield. You think this is bad? Just wait till November…
The 2.5 million people killed by natural disasters since the 70’s that would have happened regardless of AGW still pales in comparrison to the 3 million people that starved or froze to death last year because the worlds leading climate scientists couldn’t predict a cold year.
I think that the message is just a reminder to the UN, that they have a good “cause” to spend all this “Carbon Money” that will surely come in a year or so !
K.
Hmmm, disasters could include earthquakes and (possibly) related tsunamis. I know there’s an Aussie who links such events to global warming, but didn’t think the Russians subscribed to that idea.
Could it possibly be an ever-increasing population situated in areas prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, and seismic activity?
Nah … it HAS to be climate change.
Sigh …
I don’t suppose it occurred to anyone that world population was under 3.2 billion in 1962. I.e., less than half that of today. Nor that such deaths are far more likely to go unrecorded the further back one goes.
In other words they are making the same (stupid, amateurish) error the press was making about equating $storm damage to storm activity over a 100-year period.
Demographic for Dummies, anyone? (Better make it the .001 remedial course.)
What are they teaching in these schools? — C.S. Lewis
Honestly speaking, I don’t feel one iota of guilt for these “climate-deaths”.
If you look at the number of deaths resulting from the DDT ban and UN mismanagement, they are the last who ought to be preaching about responsibility.
This is nothing more than junk-grade propoganda.
So there is 7 times as much damage today, huh?
Global GDP ( 1962 ) — $1.2 trillion
Global GDP ( 2005 ) — $44 trillion (no decimal point)
(Call it an Ayn Rand moment.)
Data are in current U.S. dollars.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_gdp-cap&date=1962
If you look at the number of deaths resulting from the DDT ban
Oh, that’d be around 40 million. Malaria was well on the way to being wiped out by 1962. The WHO has finally reversed course and strongly advocates the use of DDT. Not only does it wipe out mosquitoes, but it repels those it does not kill.
Anthony says “The headline is not mine, but from the original masters of newspaper propaganda, Pravda.”
Actually the the original masters of newspaper propaganda is the NY Times. Pravda started publication in 1912. The NY Times started publication in 1851.
I don’t think there are more natural disasters… our ability to communicate these events is much more rapid and thorough due to technology.
Actually the the original masters of newspaper propaganda is the NY Times. Pravda started publication in 1912. The NY Times started publication in 1851.
It goes back much further than that. (Anti-Federalist Weekly, anyone?) Probably back before Gutenberg. In the history biz we are advised never to use newspapers as source material, except in certain (limited) circumstances.
How ironic and sad that an entirely beneficial gas is now being blamed for catastrophe and death. It truly is madness on a global scale. How many millions will have to die due to this AGW madness?
Someone has noted that when you first start counting things the numbers trend to increase.
The very first sentence in the Pravda article:
At least 2.5 million people have been killed in natural disasters over the recent 48 years.
How about that? They arbitrarily picked 48 years? Why?
Because that avoids the unfortunate killing of tens of millions of people, both abetted by and caused by the Soviets and their puppets, in eastern Europe, especially Hungary, and in Korea, and WWII, and all the way back to 1918?
Or, maybe people only started getting killed in natural disasters beginning in 1960?
I’m always suspicious when someone picks a date like this, which is not easily explained.
[PS: “Pravda” means “truth” in Russian.]
“We believe it is necessary to set up a foundation to help the victims of natural disasters with the budget of 4 or 5 billion dollars”
And there you have the real reason.
The Pravda headline is clearly a bit of Russian ironic humor lampooning the crackpot UN report which is the subject matter of the story. The OMG introduction, which ends with “the UN said,” does not represent stupid editorial opinion on Pravda’s part. Any Russian reader of Pravda would get the joke and not draw the conclusion that Pravda is breathlessly endorsing the Gaia religion.
I think you’re giving them a bad rap. I mean, with scientific analysis like
“The world rotates round its axis. This fact does not seem to cause any fear or worry. However, the dangers are lurking about every bend. This rotation system is not mechanically stable as tones of snow fall on the continental platform of Greenland and Antarctica every year. This snow forms a so-called icy dumbbell the, which increases in size every year. This is where the danger is lurking”
they seem like they’re on the cutting edge.
“[A]ggregate mortality and mortality rates due to extreme weather events are generally lower today than they used to be. Globally, mortality and mortality rates have declined by 95 percent or more since the 1920s.”
See: Indur M. Goklany. 2007. “Death and Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events: Global and U.S. Trends, 1900-2006,” in The Civil Society Report on Climate Change, International Policy Press, London, November 2007, available at http://www.csccc.info/reports/report_23.pdf
Take a look at Figure 1 [with apologies for my inability to transmit figures].
I was surprised to see that article from Russia. I guess Pravda is no longer “in” with the Kremlin.
Anthony, this also demonstrates how influential this happy band is 🙂
How’s the weather station analysis going now? When complete, it will be a put Hansen to shame.
I found the story at the top of the Pravda page more interesting:
http://english.pravda.ru/news/society/04-07-2008/105692-penis-0
First the Sermon; and, then, the Collection Plate.
But, 4, or 5, Million? The Sermon wasn’t that good.
Diatribical idiot,
You see, the hysterics were right: The earth IS spinning out of control.
“they seem like they’re on the cutting edge”
And let us hope they get cut.
The picture is nice. Does it symbolize two menaces? I’ll take the one that sparkles.