UN Disaster Report Is A Huge Blunder And Embarrassment
A new United Nations report on the Human Cost of Disasters has been described as “an embarrassment” and “a catalog of errors” after it emerged its headline claim of a “staggering rise in climate-related disasters” was refuted by its own data.
Within hours of its publication by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the report was being slammed for its misleading headlines and misuse of data.
“The report’s claim of an increase in climate-related disasters is an embarrassment,” said GWPF director Dr. Benny Peiser.
“The UNDRR’s own data shows that climate-related disasters have actually been declining for 20 years.”
Fig 5 of the UN report ‘Human Cost of Disasters,’ p. 10
UNDRR data shows that “climate-related” disasters have declined over the past 20 years (2000-2019)
And Professor Roger Pielke Jr, a US-based expert in natural disasters, also pointed out on Twitter that the UN was misusing the source data, which measures human impacts of natural disasters rather than natural disasters themselves.
“It’s a shambles; a catalog of errors,” said Dr. Peiser.
“The UN should withdraw the report immediately and apologize for misleading the public in this way.”
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Let’s take a look at another disaster that quietly vanished from the radar screens after I inundated Disqus comment threads with the following:
The Zika Virus Scare: An Anatomy Of How Diseases Are Manufactured For Political Objectives
Abstract
In 2014, under a non-reporting requirement regime, Brazilian physicians reported a fraction of microcephaly cases for that year; 147 cases to be exact. Under the new reporting regime that took over for 2015, the number of cases naturally increased massively, the numbers representing what would be expected under a reporting regime. Then using the artificially low 2014 numbers as the baseline, Brazil and the global political/medical community (though not all within the medical community) declared an epidemic of microcephaly in Brazil based on the higher, though expected, numbers under the new reporting requirement regime.
“It’s a global scandal. Brazil has created a worldwide panic.” – Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto Filho, professor of epidemiology at the University of Sao Paulo.
“In 2014, only about 150 cases [of microcephaly] were reported in Brazil1 in a year — a surprisingly small amount for a large country with nearly 3 million births a year. The United States, with about 4 million births a year, has an estimated 2,500 cases of microcephaly a year, said Margaret Honein, a CDC epidemiologist.”
The small number of microcephaly cases reported in Brazil before 2015 is being used to set the stage for a blatantly orchestrated ‘epidemic’ not only in Brazil but around the globe. Pre-2015, cases of microcephaly in Brazil were massively undercounted, as inadvertently confirmed by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) statistics…
“Microcephaly is a rare condition. One baby in several thousand is born with microcephaly.”
This undercounting in Brazil has been observed by experts in the medical community, and termed a scandal, “It’s a global scandal. Brazil has created a worldwide panic,” said Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto Filho, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Sao Paulo, one of the most-respected universities in Latin America. “I’m not saying that Zika is not causing microcephaly, but I am saying that the ministry has yet to present any scientifically credible evidence to support that conclusion.” Ganeshwaran H. Mochida, a pediatric neurologist and researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital, also sounds the alarm, “It is possible that the baseline number in Brazil includes a lot of underreporting.”
Firstly, it’s the global community, not just Brazil, that’s playing fast and loose with the fake Zika virus epidemic, and secondly, there never was a reason to believe that Brazil was suffering an epidemic of microcephaly in the first place, since it was well known that pre-2015 Brazilian doctors only reported a small fraction of such cases to the central government; pre-2015 there existed no reporting requirement for microcephaly in Brazil. The sudden emergence in 2015 of an ‘epidemic’ of microcephaly in Brazil actually represents numbers that would be expected given a comprehensive reporting requirement.
So why the scare, you ask? To create public pressure to scale back restrictive abortion laws in central and south America, and undo state restrictions on abortion in the United States, as inadvertently admitted to by Georgetown University professors and Planned Parenthood and Newsweek.
This news item illustrates the extent of the lies the Marxist co-opted media regurgitates each and every week, if not every day. How numerous are fraudulent news items when compared against truthful news items? My blog has proven that until one has verified the news for oneself, one must assume all news to be lies. Of course most persons have actual lives to live, where the demands of family and employment preclude close examination of the news. For those too pressed for independent research, this blog fills the gap.
Notice too the ‘alternative’ media’s spin on the news item. Every imaginable conspiracy theory is offered, leaving unmentioned the easily discernible conspiracy facts. This false opposition tactic is what Marxists call the ‘Scissors Strategy’ in which the blades represent the two falsely opposed sides that converge on the confused victims, neutralizing true opposition to socialism, thereby allowing the advancement of socialism to the bewilderment of the true opposition.
The Abortion Agenda’s Purpose
Thanks to the blatant lies the CDC has advanced regarding the Zika virus and microcephaly, we now have further empirical proof for the Marxist co-option of the West (globe actually, the West leaving behind Marxist regimes in their former colonies), where abortion is used to destroy the Christian underpinnings of Western Civilization. As Marx said in the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right(1843)…
“The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.”
The West cannot remain Christian for long when abortion is tolerated, since Christian dogma teaches us that human life is but a continuation of a previous non-corporeal existence…
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you…”
To destroy what’s in the womb is a must for Marxists, since with abortion on demand no one can long continue to believe in a God who knew us before we were born into the physical realm.
At my blog, read the articles…
‘The Marxist ‘Gender Pay Gap’ – Class Struggle Meets Gender Struggle: Females Earn More Than Their Equally Matched Male Counterparts’
‘House of Cards: The Collapse of the ‘Collapse’ of the USSR’
‘Playing Hide And Seek In Yugoslavia’
Then read the article, ‘The Marxist Co-Option Of History And The Use Of The Scissors Strategy To Manipulate History Towards The Goal Of Marxist Liberation’
Solution
The West will form new political parties where candidates are vetted for Marxist ideology/blackmail, the use of the polygraph to be an important tool for such vetting. Then the West can finally liberate the globe of vanguard Communism.
https://djdnotice.blogspot.com/2018/09/d-notice-articles-article-55-7418.html
My blog…
https://djdnotice.blogspot.com/2018/09/d-notice-articles-article-55-7418.html
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