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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NASA’s tone on the prediction of the next solar cycle for 2013? They acknowledged it’s going to be lower than normal, but don’t want to give us the ‘wrong impression’. There’s still a possibility of ‘severe space weather’. No warning of potentially cooler weather coming from all of this. Reading between the lines: didn’t they unwittingly acknowledge space weather (or lack there-of) affects our weather?
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/29may_noaaprediction.htm
I’m no expert, but their prediction ends our Baby Grand this year. Is it possible that’s a little premature?
This year, the production of ethanol is UP 20%, and the price of corn has dropped by 50%.
The run-up in corn prices last year was “speculation,” and the worst floods in Decades that made it look like (to the uninitiated) yields would be Off, greatly.
There were huge droughts in Argentina, and Australia, and some governments got involved, passing export tariffs, and screwing things up in general.
In Egypt, the Bakers went on strike (yep, you heard it right,) and the Chinese farmers cut back on planting rice because of the gov. instituting large “export” tariffs.
It had, virtually, nothing to do with ethanol. Our corn exports held steady and our bean exports were UP.
Something like 70% of the Malnourished of the world are “subsistence” farmers. Their biggest problem when corn prices were extremely low (due to U.S. government subsidies to help cattle producers) was they didn’t have a CASH Crop.
Now, the U.S. taxpayer is not only Not subsidizing grain crops to the tune of $11 Billion/Yr, the subsistence farmers of the world have a chance to sell some corn, and buy some vegetables, and fruits to achieve a semi-healthy diet.
See: Malawi
“” Sean (14:11:32) : you can make a much more plausible case for climate mitigation stratagies resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. “”
If the U.N., Al Gore, et al, really did care about people and were as smart as the make themselves out to be they would have caught this observation already.
But this is sad, that they aren’t and don’t. People die as a result.
Well that just tells you all you need to know about the UN and the vast numbers of bureaucrats that rely on the funds that pour in.
IF they wanted to reduce deaths in the third world the the first place to start is sanitation and the second is medical services. One has to wonder why, given the billions flowing in, no visible progress is ever made. Perhaps we should ask how many lives in the third world could be saved if we cancelled the next 6000+ attended “climate” conference and spent those millions developing an actual sewerage system for [insert African city here] instead.
Don’t get me wrong here. I’m all for helping others around the globe to get to a point where fresh clean water and electricity becomes “so yesterday” but I don’t see the UN achieving that – ever. Too many career bureaucrats, too many “consultant reports”.
The “drift” of the UN has become far too clear of late. One World Government. One World taxes. Thirty years ago I may have thought that was a good idea along with the EU and a whole host of “One World” ideas. Not any more. Tolerating political corruption at the state level is one thing but at least I could vote them out. When was he last time YOU had any input to the UN (or the EU if you live this side) ? Billions pour in – nothing, of consequence, comes out. Meet the UN.
Revolutionary? No, we dissolved the League of Nations for exactly the same reasons. Are we any worse for the experience? Corruption of everything they ever stood for – Hotels in Bali, Prostitutes in Denmark, food for Oil, endless reports on the dangers of “global warming” same [s++t] different day for your average UN “employee”.
There is a good reason that we here in the UK get no “one man, one vote” on any major EU or UN business – our politicians (handing billions over) just don’t want to know the answer. Keep compressing the spring – Oliver Cromwell, after all, was just somebody who felt under represented (100 years before George Washington for our US viewers) – No taxation without representation.
I would like, after the dissolution of the UN, to see a new organisation grow that actually uses our taxes to do some good in developing countries. How much exactly does it cost to dig a sewerage system in [insert] city? saving [?] lives in [insert city] per year? 10 million? Plus, of course, $10 billion for the UN report into the sexistenvirocology implications of actually doing something practical.
Time to go UN.Kofi – time to get a real job. Just what have you done for the people you claim to represent with our billions? 300K dead from “Global Warming” – just how many people did you save during the last $1 billion tropical island “climate” talk shop?
Frederick Michael (14:47:03) :
Not only do more people die from natural causes in cold climate than in warm but from superstition also. This video will explain better :
Mike MacMillan:Nothing increases life span and quality more than raising the standard of living, and nothing is more closely correlated with that than energy usage
They, the Caviar leftist, don´t want it because as long as there is poverty they can profit on it as parasites.
All this propaganda on global warming/climate change it is just unbelievable; what do they want from us?. Unless their Gaia Goddess retaliates and freeze them as the mammoths in the siberian tundra, this could lead to revolutions and/or wars with more deaths that those predicted by the UN secretary.
As I Said Before, “The Gang-Green will kill us all if isn’t amputated soon!”
Sean (14:11:32) :
As for that biofuel caused commodity shortage last year…
3 Princeton Economic profs. went out and checked on the silos in the Midwest.
Found them stuffed to the gills. Apparently, they had sold all the corn they could to the biofuel industry, feedlots, etc., and still the silos were crammed.
There was no shortage, it was hoarded quietly to drive up the price, and it was a huge embarassment.
Enron would have been proud of the speculative effort that went into that con job.
Keith (13:37:59) :
Michael Crichton on DDT
hunter (13:57:53) :
>Seriously- AGW propaganda has become as predictable and boring as:……………
That Utube helped me very much clean up my laptop PC screen. Thanx Hunter!
Just add to the list:
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
King of Cool (18:10:34) :
I saw cannibalism on the list :
I got such a good laugh out of this video!
Just Want Truth… (17:34:06) :
>Keith (13:37:59) :
>Michael Crichton on DDT
Very sadly Michael Crichton passed away last year, IIRC.
Could you teach me the date/year the video was taken?
I suppose it is easier to blame mankind in general and the United States in particular for the deaths of 300,000 people thru AGW rather than to admit that your failed political policies are actually killing those people and that you might actually have to do something sensible for a change. Insanity is clearly governing the world.
So, the solution to all this hullabaloo is apparently to arrest development. Umm, yah. Developing countries supposedly faring the worst, so stop development…
Tokyoboy, the video has a date stamp of 3/16/05.
There were huge droughts in … Australia (last year)
No there wasn’t. More than 80% of Australia had normal to above normal rainfall over the last 12 months (see rainfall anomaly map below). The only area significantly below normal was in the southeast corner and this area is primarily mountainous and forested with limited agriculture.
The recent Australian drought is a myth perpetuated by various vested interests, including climate alarmists. Enthuisiastically supported by the media.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/silo/rain_maps.cgi?map=contours&variable=anomaly&area=aus&period=12month®ion=aus&time=latest
Keith (19:25:16) :
>Tokyoboy, the video has a date stamp of 3/16/05.
Oh yea, thanks. My presbyopia is really worsening ………
“My first response to the claim in the title was to demand the name of just one person who has died from man-made global warming.”
Are you willing to count death from hyperbole? Because these bogus new stories are giving me an aneurysm.
Just a quick question for anyone.
Why did they position the global atmospheric CO2 monitor on top of an active volcano???
Philip Jones: 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
Is this the same The Lancet that published the very dubious Iraq casualty study? The one whose editor-in-chief, Richard Horton, says that while he once shied away from bridging potentially controversial topics in the pages of his journal, he now sees science as a way to find common ground and catalyze social change? Catalyzing social change is certainly what I think of as the proper goal of a “top-flight journal.”
The Lancet climate-change report, “Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change,” is online. Read it and cringe. This is what “top-flight journals” consider to be worthy of publication. It reads like a extra-credit report produced by a bright, well-indoctrinated high-school student.
Well, their wheat production was surely down.
All you have to do is type in “Australia wheat production.” Here’s one:
http://www.thebioenergysite.com/articles/139/world-agricultural-production-september-2008
Apparently I messed up the link to the Lancet report. It’s somewhat difficult to use HTML tags on a website without a preview feature for comments. The report is here.