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

https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/10/14/new-un-climate-row-alarming-climate-disasters-report-contradicts-its-own-data/?mc_cid=97a56533c1&mc_eid=b18340ced6

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”