To mark World Health Day today, Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, issued a statement saying unequivocally that "climate change endangers human health."

Among the many problems with her declaration are these: 1. She provided no source material for her alarmist predictions; 2. She failed to mention the many beneficial effects that a slightly warmer earth might bring; 3. She ignored evidence that, over the past decade, the earth has not actually warmed.

Typical of her alarmist rhetoric and facts-obscuring conclusions is a section of the release in which, to support her assertion that climate change will take a terrible toll on humanity, she lists "Examples" which "already provide us with images of the future." Thereafter, she describes five events, such as outbreaks of cholera and Hurricane Katrina.

However, after trotting out these familiar monsters, she then concedes, "These trends and events cannot be attributed solely to climate change," but only illustrate the kind of adverse impacts global warming might have. What a joke.

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