The World Health Organisation has exaggerated the number of deaths likely to be caused by global warming, according to a former US government adviser on climate change.
The United Nations health agency claimed in September that climate change would cause 250,000 deaths a year between 2030 and 2050.
These extra deaths would include 95,000 more people dying each year from malnutrition, 60,000 from malaria, and 48,000 from diarrhoea, plus 38,000 elderly people killed by heat exposure. Indur Goklany, a former US delegate to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says that the forecast is based on false assumptions which result in at least a 10-fold exaggeration in the number of extra deaths.
He argues that the health organisation wrongly assumed that people would not take