Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Annan's Global Warming Report: Worse Than Fiction

A couple of weeks ago Kofi Annan's think tank Global Humanitarian Forum issued an alarming new report predicting hundreds of thousands of deaths per year if global warming is not stopped.

"Global warming alarmists are fond of invoking the authority of experts against the skepticism of supposedly amateur detractors -- a.k.a. "deniers." So when one of those experts says that [Annan's] recent report on the effects of climate change is "worse than fiction, it is a lie," the alarmists should, well, be alarmed.

Roger Pielke, Jr., an expert in disaster trends at the University of Colorado calls the report a "methodological embarrassment" and a "poster child for how to lie with statistics" that "does a disservice" to those who take climate change issues seriously."


The Wall Street Journal asks: "If the case for global warming is so open and shut, why the need for a report as disingenuous as Mr. Annan's?"