In other words, the AGW fearmongerers know journalists are lazy, stupid and pliable and use them to push the con.

Imagine, moden journalists being used to fleece the rubes.

Believe it or not, this was the first thing I thought of:

"4Have you considered comparing the % of deaths in 2010 with global population of 7 billion with the % of deaths in 2030 when global population is 8.5 billion?
2010 4,975,000 / 7,000,000,000 = .0711%
2030 5,957,000 / 8,500,000,000 = .0701%
Why is it not good news that fewer people, as a % of total population, will die in 2030 compared to 2010?"-Space Funk

As the author says, fewer people in developing countries would die if they were richer: reliable energy with particulate control(outdoor air pollution, heat and cold deaths), safe water (diarrhea), basic healthcare (malaria, meningitis) and modern appliances (indoor air pollution). The main problem is kleptocracy, theocracy and poverty not CO2.

Cap and Trade/Carbon Taxes used to fund entitlement spending in rich countries does less than nothing for developing nations. In fact, the Clean Development Mechanism has resulted in peasants been thrown off their land and even killed to make way for tree plantations grown for European CO2 offsets (see Honduras).

LC

ignorance and ego account for a large part of the problem in any country. Here in toronto, when I was recieving cancer treatments, there was this husband of a patient who refused to disinfect his hands before entering the cafateria, his excuse was that they were not dirty and didn't need "cleaning", it was then pointed out to him that he had handled door knobs that may carry germs. This whole thing caused him to disinfect his hands on that day only, next day he again refused to do so.

Well here's something Sun News could do if it wants to be good for something. Critical and accurate science reporting is sorely needed.

I hope your treatments were successful. My foreman's wife had chemo and I heard how nasty it can be but it worked for her.

There's a line from Coal Miners Daughter where Loretta says : "I may be ignorant, but I ain't stupid!"
And, she's right, there is a difference. The ignorant don't know but can learn. The stupid refuse to learn. Someone who refuses to wash their hands after being told why they need to is plain old stupid. I guess it's debatable if journalists repeating press releases from scientists without seeking to understand the study and refusing to learn about the failure of cap and trade are ignorant or stupid.

According to the CIA fact book, there are presently 107 deaths every minute. Until Jan 1 2030 at midnight there are approximately 9079362 minutes, so at present death rate of 107/min there will be 971,491,734 deaths in that time regardless. An extra 100,000 is nothing.

More than 60 percent of those deaths in 2010, and a majority in 2030, are due to “indoor smoke,” which means deaths due to “indoor smoke from burning wood and coal for cooking and heating.”

Almost all of which deaths would be eliminated by cooking and heating using electricity from nuclear power ......

The left thrives on the ignorant believing their lies. Always have, and always will.

I believe that the Gates foundation is funding an initiative to supply cheap electric hot plates to the third world. Many poor people in undeveloped countries cook their meals indoors over an open fire burning wood, coal or animal dung with no chimney or other ventilation. A simple metal hood with a stove pipe and chimney cap to vent the smoke outside would cause a major improvement in their health. Unfortunately, metal is very expensive when the per capita daily income is a few dollars. The temperature outdoors has nothing to do with this problem.

Almost all of which deaths would be eliminated by cooking and heating using electricity from nuclear power ......

Natural gas is a better bet.

“indoor smoke from burning wood and coal for cooking and heating.”

Coal? Not likely. Much more likely dung.

" This has caused otherwise-reputable media outlets",

Not so in every case;

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/09/developing-nations-warn-climate-death-toll-could-reach-100-m.html

Its no surprise. Most of these journotards are dis-educated to the point where they -can't- read the study. How many English majors have y'all met who don't know the difference between accuracy and precision, and for whom the term "relative risk" might have something to do with mothers-in-law?

Plus the studies themselves are for the most part unscientific garbage. Bad design, unscrupulous data gathering, conclusions unsupported by evidence, this is the usual thing.

Of course there is no mention of the "invisible" death due to poverty and malnutrition as a result of cutting back on carbon emissions. And they fret a decline in GDP as a consequence of global warming but ignore the larger decline in GDP from taking measures against global warming. Even if you concede to their facts, they still lose the argument.

Not to worry we will have fricken Justin Turdeau on the job soon enough! When the world calls the best step up.

"I’ve seen a number of otherwise-reputable media outlets..."

I find that hard to believe.

"I’ve seen a number of otherwise-reputable media outlets..."

I find that hard to believe.

Lord of the Fleas at September 27, 2012 12:37 AM

"Almost all of which deaths would be eliminated by cooking and heating using electricity from nuclear power ......"

Yeah pretty much but as Al in Ottawa posted....

"Many poor people in undeveloped countries cook their meals indoors over an open fire burning wood, coal or animal dung with no chimney or other ventilation. A simple metal hood with a stove pipe and chimney cap to vent the smoke outside would cause a major improvement in their health. Unfortunately, metal is very expensive when the per capita daily income is a few dollars."

Stove pipes....have no political power to eliminate western society...enrich no NGOs.....or UN bureaucrats...