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Alert: 300,000 climate deaths?: 'Report is worse than fiction, it is a lie!' -- Climate expert rejects claim of 300,000 climate deaths as 'methodological embarrassment' – May 29, 2009

Roger Pielke Jr. Excerpt: The new report issued by the Global Humanitarian Forum which makes the absurd claim that 315,000 deaths a year can be attributed to the effects of rising greenhouse gas concentrations. Roger A. Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the forum’s report was “a methodological embarrassment” because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable regions. […]

It is a methodological embarrassment and poster child for how to lie with statistics. The report will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed. […]

The report is worse than fiction, it is a lie. These are strong words I know. […] Let me first start by noting that the same group that did the analysis for the UN, the Geo-Risks group in Munich Re, earlier this year published a peer-reviewed paper arguing that the signal of human-caused climate change could not presently be seen in the loss data on disasters.

 

Sampling of current Climate Depot Headlines:

 

NY Times: 'There are significant questions about robustness of numbers at heart of ' claim of 300,000 climate deaths

 

'Nearly impossible to isolate contribution from human-induced climate change to mortality from disasters'

 

Columnist on claim of 300,000 deaths: 'For $40 billion, even I might be tempted to peddle such despicable nonsense'

 

'There are simply no words to describe the lunacy'

 

300,000 death claim is 'poster child for how to lie with statistics'

 

Renowned Arctic Scientist Akasofu says 'cooler decades ahead' -- Rejects 'instant climatology'

 

'World temperatures have already stopped rising since 1998, which annoys the IPCC'

 

Journalist claims Climate Depot is 'divorced from scientific reality' -- Notes 'steep spike in page views' after Climate Depot Link

 

Morano: 'The evil leader of the climate denialist empire?'

 

'Climate change is not just an environmental issue, it's also profoundly spiritual'

 

Video: Aussie Geologist Plimer: 'Climate Change Religion is a load of hot air'

 

Report: Burger King Calls Global Warming 'Baloney'

 

Former UN Chief ramps up fear: Warming 'greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time, causing suffering to hundreds of millions'

 

Scientist: 'How long a period of no warming can be tolerated before forecasts of total warming by century's end have to be lowered?

 

'Global warming scare will be as dead as scares about Y2 bug or acid rain'

 

Ratcheting up Fear: Scientists Compare Climate Change to Thermonuclear Warfare

 

Hand out: African officials ask for $1 Billion per-year in climate change funding from rich nations

 

Claim: Refugees Join List of Climate-Change Issues

 

Australian scientists declare climate change 'a natural phenomenon'...warn of 'severe COOLING'

 

Report: Pelosi wants climate bill on House floor the last week in June

 

Does 'Hockey Stick' Creator Mann Admit 'Misrepresenting' Science?

 

'Use of the more technically 'correct' term is actually less likely to convey the key implications to a lay audience'

 

Michael Mann: 'Potential future climate changes, are, technically speaking, projections rather than predictions'

 

Claim: Climate Depot has 'splashy and hugely misleading headline' about Michael Mann

 

Study Finds Even Climate 'Alarmed' Americans Don't Want Cap-and-Trade

 

Gore's groups kick into campaign mode to push climate legislation...paid staff grows from 20 people to 120

 

Big Oil Fights Back: Chevron CEO tells eco-activists their report 'deserves the trash can'

 

Report: 'Inventory' of Pelosi's life: 437 times greater environmental impact than average family

 

Climate campaign targets kids age 6-14 to come up with 'solution'