Many of you have probably heard by now of the UN. Report saying that “global warming is killing 300,000 people a year”. There’s a Times Online Story (h/t to Gary Boden) about it today that has some startling admissions. Here are some excerpts:
Climate change is already killing 300,000 people a year in a “silent crisis” that is seriously affecting hundreds of millions more, an influential humanitarian group warned today.
A report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, led by Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary-General, says that the effects of climate change are growing in such a way that it will have a serious impact on 600 million people, almost ten per cent of the world’s population, within 20 years. Almost all of these will be in developing countries.
“Climate change is the greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time, causing suffering to hundreds of millions of people worldwide,” Mr Annan said.
“As this report shows, the first hit and worst affected are the world’s poorest groups, and yet they have done least to cause the problem.”
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The report claims that 90 per cent of the deaths are related to gradual environmental degradation caused by a warming climate, which exacerbates existing threats — mainly malnutrition, diarrhoea and malaria. The rest are said to be the result of weather disasters.
But here is the kicker (emphasis mine):
Mr Annan said the report could never be as rigorous as a scientific study, but said: “We feel it is the most plausible account of the current impact of climate change today.”
Translation: “close enough for government work” (click for definition)
Worse, the U.N. didn’t even do the report themselves. The farmed it out:
The research was carried out by Dalberg Global Advisers, a consultancy firm, who collated all existing statistics on the human impacts of climate change. The report acknowledges a “significant margin of error” in its estimates.
But it is good enough for the MSM to use to scare the crap out of everybody and guilt the gullible into “action”.
‘Bogus’, doesn’t even begin to describe this political ploy.
For a real report, using real data, reflecting the real world situation, please read these reports by WUWT contributor Indur Goklany:
Going Down: Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events
How the IPCC Portrayed a Net Positive Impact of Climate Change as a Negative
Wrong: World Health Organization claims that health goes down as carbon goes up
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Back in the 60´s the mosquito transmitting malaria and dengue was erradicated from Peru, South America, thanks to DDT, until…:
Malaria, which could have been conquered 20 years ago, is still the single most important tropical disease and a major obstacle to the economic and social development of vast areas of the world. Before the discovery of the pesticide DDT in the early 1940s, there were at least 300 million cases in the world annually, and more than 3 million of those who were stricken died each year. Thanks to the pesticide DI3T, millions of lives were saved from malaria’s grip in the years immediately following World War II. There was hope that DDT would bring an end to this mass killer, once and for all.
But it did not happen, because of an irrational campaign of fear against pesticides, launched in the United States by Rachel Carson and her book Silent Spring
http://www.mitosyfraudes.org/Ingles/Killer.html
Íf I say what I think of that UN bureaucrat…my post would be snipped, so you must interpret my thoughts…&%#&
Nice example of government work in the photo! Seems the same level of care was taken with this report-nicely stated.
Mr.Kofi (Coffee?, I beg your pardon) Annan: Why don´t you and all the UN bureaucrats quit, so we the free people of the earth can apply all those resources to fight hunger in the world?
Aron, I’d be very careful about accusing GG about having any link with Iraq’s oil for food programme.
He’s made some very robust defences against accusations of impropriety and frequently resorts to court action to defend his reputation.
If I were you I’d either cite some evidence or prepare for a knock on the door.
Perhaps the mods might want to think about this as well.
After all, George has been accused of many things but I’ve never seen him linked to global warming before.
300,000 less people to pollute, add them to the 50 million that never had a chance to.
Well, again I don’t believe this has anything to do with climate, gases, mileage requirements, and so on. It is that some people (aka democracy haters and by other names) believe certain countries have unfairly taken advantage of many billions of people and have prevented them from leading a better life. Climate change is the current perceived issue that will allow them to redistribute the wealth equitably. Cbullitt (13:36:51) makes the point bluntly that this will not work just as past wealth transfers have not worked. Only the issue changes. The solution is always the same and the non-results predictable. This is where one says, “When you keep doing something the same way and it never works, you should do something else.” Fat chance.
Have you noticed the series on the History Channel, life after man? It’s like these people want man to die out so the planet can be natural again? Or what exactly is the message?
UN Sec-Gen Kofi Annan presided over the murders of half a million people in Darfur. He said nice words, but did nothing but watch the bloodletting.
A Wall St. Journal editorial on the corrupt Kofi Annan, including Rwanda, Darfur and the UN’s Oil-for-Food corruption: click
Interesting but not surprising to see how New Scientist magazine reported this story : headline reads “Climate change could kill 500,000 a year by 2030” . Beat up of a beat up?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17218-climate-change-could-kill-500000-a-year-by-2030.html
OT: In case you all missed it: 3 nut-jobs are planning to kite ski across Greenland to, you guessed it, raise awarness of global warming. I suppose they will wear tee shirts since it will be so warm.
See: http://algorelied.com/?p=1957
Increased CO2 has raised crop yields 15 to 20%. I suggest that has saved far more than 300K lives.
Nothing increases life span and quality more than raising the standard of living, and nothing is more closely correlated with that than energy usage.
I wrote my first letter to The Times when I was sixteen – a couple of years ago 🙂
This time, I had a hard time remaining civil; ‘though I did.
Related.
“In the climate-change debate, the companies on the ‘environmental’ side have the most to gain.
First in a series.
By Lawrence Solomon
We all know that the financial stakes are enormous in the global warming debate — many oil, coal and power companies are at risk should carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases get regulated in a manner that harms their bottom line. The potential losses of an Exxon or a Shell are chump change, however, compared to the fortunes to be made from those very same regulations.
The climate-change industry — the scientists, lawyers, consultants, lobbyists and, most importantly, the multinationals that work behind the scenes to cash in on the riches at stake — has emerged as the world’s largest industry. Virtually every resident in the developed world feels the bite of this industry, often unknowingly, through the hidden surcharges on their food bills, their gas and electricity rates, their gasoline purchases, their automobiles, their garbage collection, their insurance, their computers purchases, their hotels, their purchases of just about every good and service, in fact, and finally, their taxes to governments at all levels.
These extractions do not happen by accident. Every penny that leaves the hands of consumers does so by design, the final step in elaborate and often brilliant orchestrations of public policy, all the more brilliant because the public, for the most part, does not know who is profiteering on climate change, or who is aiding and abetting the profiteers.
Some of the climate-change profiteers are relatively unknown corporations; others are household names with only their behind-the-scenes role in the climate-change industry unknown. Over the next few weeks, in an extended newspaper series, you will become familiar with some of the profiteers, and with their machinations. This series begins with Enron, a pioneer in the climate-change industry.”
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/30/lawrence-solomon-enron-s-other-secret.aspx
Mentioned above, also Linked from Benny Peiser’s CCNet:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/30/lawrence-solomon-enron-s-other-secret.aspx
And according to this article, this industry has been actively involved in suppressing and discrediting skeptical scientists.
Hence the zeal to get a ‘successor to Kyoto’, creating a world-wide cap-and-trade regime, and hence the flurry of pre-Copenhagen alarmist articles, like the bogus UN ‘study’ that claims 300K deaths each year caused by ‘climate change’.
This is a train that will not stop unless derailed. Complaints on obscure (to most people) Web sites are just pissin’ into the wind. We need a prominent voice to stand up and cry “Stop! It’s not true!” And then a way to undercut the flow of money to the ‘climate change’ industry.
/Mr Lynn
New Solar Cycle Prediction
May 29, 2009: An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/29may_noaaprediction.htm?list46030
Heh, the methedology is highly dodgy too. Basically they factored out the change in disasters from earthquakes in order to remove things like urbanisation, increase in population, from the change in disasters from storms and floods. Riiight….
More details including link to their “methodology” extract here:
http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/climate-change-kills-300000-a-year-at-a-guess/
which should give you plenty to get your teeth into, if you’re interested.
The thermodelusionists need perceived fear, disease, death, and destruction to advance their agenda. If they can’t base their fear mongering on real data, fabricated and indefensible data will do.
It seems fear is the “cover all bases” component of the AGW threat. It works like this… I would be much more willing to hand over my wallet to someone holding me at gun point than to someone who asks for my money politely. As to the case of the person holding the gun, I don’t believe I would ask if the gun is loaded. Neither would I ask if he can shoot straight in the event the gun is loaded. Giving up my money seems a small price to pay to not have to risk finding out. So it goes with the AGW bandalaros. It doesn’t matter if they have any real ammunition. Most won’t ask. They’ll just hand over their money and believe they made the safer, wiser choice.
Close enough for government work?
Not even good enough for “Pit Work”
Good work, as usual. Strange though, that the quotes from Pielke jump straight to points 2 and 3, skipping the preamble …
Let me say first that human-caused climate change is an important problem requiring our utmost attention. Second, the effects of disasters, particularly in poorer countries, is also an important problem that to some degree has been overlooked, as I have argued for many years.
So if the UN’s report lacks the rigour of a proper scientific study where can we turn for the truth? What we need is a report authored by academics at Professorial level at least, commissioned by a proper University and published in a top-flight journal, say The Lancet. I wonder if such a study exists? Well, lookee here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/13/climate-change-health-impact
Amazing really. I thought we were losing the battle against Malaria because the various parasites was becoming resistant to antimalerial drugs. So all we have to do is drive less. Brilliant!
But it’s printed on paper, so it must be true!
I used to think United Nations sponsored AGW was a scam, albeit the biggest scam the world has ever seen.
I now realize it’s primarily about the desperate need of secular liberals for an apocalyptic religion. The scam is just riding on back of the religous aspect.
Paul Reiter, renowned scientist of The Insects and Infectious Disease Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, doesn’t buy into the notion that global warming spreads malaria.
His abstract concludes: “Simplistic reasoning on the future prevalence of malaria is ill-founded; malaria is not limited by climate in most temperate regions, nor in the tropics, and in nearly all cases, “new” malaria at high altitudes is well below the maximum altitudinal limits for transmission. Future changes in climate may alter the prevalence and incidence of the disease, but obsessive emphasis on “global warming” as a dominant parameter is indefensible; the principal determinants are linked to ecological and societal change, politics and economics.”
http://climateresearchnews.com/2008/12/malaria-and-global-warming/
OT but here is NASA’s latest prediction on the solar cycles.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/29may_noaaprediction.htm
Kofi Annan is one of the most corrupt UN leaders ever:
His son was involved in the oil for food scandal in Iraq and now he is part of the pr machine with the objective to put us in green shackles.
When this guy opens his mouth, take a step back because all he produces is BS.
P.s He is good friend of Oama who is producing BS as well.