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Lomborg: "The UNs new report is incompetent and wrong on all major accounts Not okay to scare people witless with bad analysis The report should be withdrawn." 

"Not only has *actual* death data halved. [But] because population increased by 73% over 1980-2019, death risk has dropped by almost two-thirds."

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Also see: In ‘blatantly political’ report, UN claims ‘staggering rise In climate emergencies Since 2000’ – But UN report debunks itself

New UN Climate Row: Alarming ‘Climate Disasters’ Report Contradicts Its Own Data

The row was triggered by the new report on “Human Cost of Disasters”. The report announced a “staggering rise in climate-related disasters over the last twenty years”. However, the same report contains a graph showing that the number of climate-related disasters has actually decreased by 15 percent since 2000.
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“This is a huge, embarrassing blunder,” said Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Forum, a British think tank. “The United Nations must immediately withdraw this report and apologise for misleading the public.”
 
Roger Pielke Jr, a renowned American scientist in the field of natural disasters – and anything but climate denier – also regrets the sharp position by the UNDRR. In an e-mail to De Telegraaf he says that the authors have drawn “flawed conclusions”

Passage from each book...the section covering the “Climategate” scandal (in which hacked emails showed the scientists involved massaged data to prove global warming was occurring) that was broken by Marc Morano on his ClimateDepot.com website.

"The Climategate story broke just before the president headed to Copenhagen, there to pledge major cuts in the U.S. carbon emissions and to persuade other nations to follow suit. Nothing the major media said could undo the reporting done by citizen journalists such as [James] Delingpole and Morano. Armed only with the truth and their frequently crashing websites, they reversed whatever climate momentum the Obama administration had seized."